Oliveau
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- Indre et Loire, France
How strange that this topic has just come up
Went to get up from the armchair last night and everything started to spin so rapidly sat down again feeling quite unwell. If I leaned forward it got worse, but not too bad if I laid back in the chair. No other symptoms at all apart from slightly raised BP - probably due to anxiety.
After a while, still feeling very wobbly, I rang for an ambulance. Had to speak to a doctor who just checked that I wasn’t having a stroke, then told me to contact my GP in the morning. Eventually managed to stagger to bed without falling.
Still a bit wobbly this morning and Dr has just been and given me a prescription for the ear crystal thing.
Told her that I’d been having balance problems for a while coupled with ongoing lower back problems and that my back man in UK advised not only a lower back MRI but also MRI for neck problems. But she poo- pooed that.
So we’ll see what happens, but it put the fear of God into me last night as I’m normally not in bad nick for nearly 74.
Went to get up from the armchair last night and everything started to spin so rapidly sat down again feeling quite unwell. If I leaned forward it got worse, but not too bad if I laid back in the chair. No other symptoms at all apart from slightly raised BP - probably due to anxiety.
After a while, still feeling very wobbly, I rang for an ambulance. Had to speak to a doctor who just checked that I wasn’t having a stroke, then told me to contact my GP in the morning. Eventually managed to stagger to bed without falling.
Still a bit wobbly this morning and Dr has just been and given me a prescription for the ear crystal thing.
Told her that I’d been having balance problems for a while coupled with ongoing lower back problems and that my back man in UK advised not only a lower back MRI but also MRI for neck problems. But she poo- pooed that.
So we’ll see what happens, but it put the fear of God into me last night as I’m normally not in bad nick for nearly 74.