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I can’t tell any difference besides being able to see better. Things both up close and far away still are splitting vertically after a few moments of holding focus. I still feel slightly unsteady/swaying and foggy in my head. I’ll give them some time because I don’t have any other options but this is frustrating. I don’t want to get stuck in the loop of going back to the specialist every three weeks, then being without glasses for a while when they send them out to adjust stuff. I was afraid this would happen 😭

So I’m just starting to realize I may have some derealization but since I haven’t really experienced this before I don’t know. Can it make you feel weird when you walk? like you don’t physically walk differently but it just feels like you’re not all the way there? It is so hard to explain but I have been feeling this way for a few weeks now. Like I’m kind of walking on clouds.

I want to preface this by saying I am not interested in HRT due to extreme and unrelenting health anxiety-at least not at this moment. I might get desperate enough to try it. It is just helpful and comforting for me to know others feel the same or have experienced the same things.

Basically around this time last year I was fine. I was 43, I’d had one missed period in the last few years and some irritability, but nothing I thought was out of the ordinary. Then all hell seemed to break loose in my body. Suddenly I had the most extreme anxiety, especially about health, that I’ve ever experienced. Like irrational thoughts, ALL the time. Constant body checking. My sleep got horrible. Random tingles in my face or arm or leg, all over. I suddenly got lightheaded feeling/felt like my head was full of fuzz. I learned about brain fog real quick. I felt like I was floating when I walked. My eyes felt like they stopped working together, couldn’t focus, images separated . I was so scared by all of this as it went on for months every day that I went to ER. My brain was scanned and was perfectly healthy. They did labs. It went away a few weeks later, not sure why or how but thank God.

Then, I started getting muscle twitching, which is great when you have health anxiety I tell you. I also started having these lovely full body jerks every time I tried to close my eyes to sleep. They eventually dwindled to much smaller ones but I have NO idea what those were all about. Through all of this I had to get a breast biopsy, which 10/10 do not recommend. I legit feel like I’m going crazy. I don’t want to do things anymore. I’m mad and irritable all the time, my poor family. I get globus sensation in my throat a lot and my head will just itch for no reason.

I don’t trust doctors anymore because I don’t believe they know what they’re doing. I honestly don’t, especially when you don’t have anything obviously showing on imaging or labs, they don’t know how to diagnose or think outside the box! They just keep sending you to different doctors cause they don’t know, and it’s expensive damn it!

Oh, and on top of all this, I have a husband who says “you just need to change your diet” and it’ll all go away. I have thought about leaving him after twenty years because he is so unsupportive it’s very sad.

Anyway, thanks for listening and I pray it all gets better. I’m tired of being this way. 😭😭

I am learning a lot on my own here. I’ve been feeling something was up with my eyes for close to a year. I also experience weird floating/lightheaded sensations in my head and feel unsteady when walking. I actually learned from reading a fb comment about what BVD even is. I had told my eye dr multiple times my eyes just feel off and like they don’t work together. She said my eyes were fine. If I don’t have BVD I feel like I will have to head down the VM path. But I don’t get headaches except for the usual hormonal ones I’ve had monthly since I was a teenager. Can one have VM without the M? And constant for months at a time?

The internet is scaring me tonight as I can’t sleep. I didn’t have an injury or stroke, don’t have diabetes or thyroid issues. My eyes just started feeling noticeably worse last year. Eye dr. of course says everything is normal. Anyone on this sub know the cause of theirs? I definitely have had a huge uptick in anxiety over the same time frame but I don’t know what causes what.

I’m super grateful to not have to wait long, considering this has all been going on for almost a year. But now I’m having doubts and I’m afraid what’s been happening isn’t this condition at all. My score was 42 on the test. I don’t understand why the woozy/lightheaded/fuzzy feeling in my head would come and go if it’s BVD. Is our brain sometimes just better at adapting to the vision issues? The eyes not feeling like they work together has been pretty consistent though. I don’t know, I guess I’m just scared they won’t figure anything out. I hate feeling this way 😭😨 It’s really affecting my mood and emotions.

I’ve had recent eye exams and have told my eye dr i feel like my eyes don’t work together but I never specifIcally asked her to check for bvd. I’ve had lasik and also am in my mid 40s so I understand so changes to my up close vision are to be expected. But for the last year off and on I feel other weird things such as floaty/lightheaded and just like I’m not all there when I walk. Very hard to explain. I had a brain scan last year after a few month of experiencing this and was clear, but has come back a few times since and lasts for a few months usually!

What’s this feel like? I think I may be experiencing a mix of both lately. I feel foggy and as I move through life, especially walking amongst large crowds, I just feel light and like I’m not all the way there. It is awful and I want it to stop.

Hello everyone. I don’t know if I have PPPD, but here’s my backstory. I’m 44F. Last July I started getting a weird foggy/floaty/lightheaded feeling that would make me feel funny when I walked. it lasted so long I went to the ER after about 7 weeks and they did a CT of my head, which was negative. It caused so much anxiety as I have never felt this way before. My eyes would feel funny too, like they don’t work together properly the faster I move. My eye dr says my eyes are perfectly fine and move together. It then went away until about December. Then after a very stressful time it came back for a month or so, then went away. Now it’s back since April. I have no idea what it is but I hate it. I don’t know how to describe it to doctors and I don’t even know who to go see. I honestly think it’s from anxiety and/or hormonal due to my age and other things that have been going on that aren’t Neuro type things.

I’ve been having a lot of peri symptoms over the last year. I’m 44. My doctor ordered a estradiol lab and she told me to have it drawn on the third day of my cycle. Of course it came back perfectly normal. So are all my symptoms from something else??

Can peri cause nausea? If so, what is it from? For the past week now out of the blue I just feel nauseated probably half the day. It is more pronounced after I eat. No vomiting or pain or change in bowel habits. It kind of feels like how your stomach feels when it needs to growl but it doesn’t actually happen. Of course now I have a ton of anxiety about it as well.

Is this a peri thing,’too? The only other time I had heartburn was pretty badly when I was pregnant so I’m wondering if it’s hormones? It only has been in the night when I wake up and not terrible but not sure what’s causing it.