Please help!!

[SaraJohn]

Dear all ... I no more know where to go or what to do ... I hope to find some support .. am 29 yrs old and gave birth to a beautiful son 9 months ago, 10 days after giving birth I ran to the emergency from an attack that turned to be my gallblader ... I needed surgery but had to wait a month and a half bcuz my body was weak from givin birth ... I had sth like 14 attacks before surgery ... was runnin to the emergency again and again ... had an endoscopy before surgery and after ... gallblader problem solved!!!


My real problem is : Constant dizziness for around 8 months now !!! .... its a weird feeling ... not like am having my surrondings move .... but sth is not stable in my head ... afraid to walk sometimes or cross streets ... sometimes my vision goes blurry and I have tinnitus...sometimes I am convinced I ll faint or have a stroke soon ... sometimes my head gets tight that even moving my eyes to the sides is not comfortable!
I went to many drs got my blood iron b12 thyroid ,eyes, ears checked ... had a ct and mri for my head ... nothing!!

I dont know what to do anymore, ppl around me are fed up of me complaining all the time ... am tired ...I no more care about myself ... but everytime I look at my baby i cry ... I dont feel the baby is safe with me when am dizzy...I love him to the moon and back ... I want to enjoy motherhood ... some days I decide that today am gonna be strong ... I will forget about my dizziness ... but I become weak again ... you know i wished the mri would reveal sth ... not that I want to be sick but bcuz there is no way what am feeling is only anxiety or depression ....just looks to me like a cycle I will never be able to leave ... please help me ... say anything ... tell me if anyone felt the same ... is there a way out ... should i run more tests .... am too tired 😢

[monica]

Welcome SaraJohn

I'm sorry that you've had and are having such a hard time with all the surgery plus the current physical symptoms. It is positive that you've been checked out throroughly and all tests have been fine.

I'm not a health care practitioner so can't give you any sort of diagnosis. However, I do know especially having suffered from odd physical symptoms like you that it is possible to present with dizziness, visual disturbances and other similar symptoms in the post partum period. In my case I got these odd physical symptoms 4 months after my son had been born - after an exhausting week they appeared. The longer they went on the worse my anxiety got and in a month I was a nervous wreck unable to function at all. All my tests were negative too. Anxiety certainly can bring on dizziness, headaches, numbness, tingling, visual disturbances, feel spaced out and various other horrible symtpoms which are incredibly debilitating and can hugely affect your quality of life.

As awful as things are now you will recover. given that all the tests have been ok perhaps try to tackle the anxiety. Your dr can refer you to talking therapies which help hugely. Also antidepressant medication can help hugely - there are pros and cons to this which I'm happy to share with you, but certainly in my case it changed my life around. Also try breathing techniques and other relaxation techniqyes (yoga, pilates, meditation) which can take a little time to master, but can help you alot. Exercise is also really good at combatting various symptoms - even brisk walks outside can lift your spirits. Try to take a little time just for yourself. Is there anything you particularly enjoyed before baby? Does this make sense?

Please keep talking . I too felt as if my nightmare would never end and everyone was getting sick of me, but you do recoverx