Post Covid Head Pressure/ Dizziness

Hi there...This is an old thread but hope maybe you check in, fellow New Yorker! My primary Covid symptom was dizziness, not respiratory, and it's persisted after bouts #2 and #3. This on top of chronic sinusitus, so it's hard to parse: Is it sinus stuff causing my symptoms, which include dizziness, hearing loss, tinnitus or is it post-Covid? Or can they even tell? I had an intake at NYU and would love to know if the program was helpful for you. My intake doc, Dr. Munger, was smart, kind, and thorough but had no suggestions or follow-up. I realize my symptoms haven't put me on disability, but they do affect QOL...always feeling shaky, like my head doesn't quite belong to me and, as the above poster perfectly described:..."...dizzy but not exactly, feels like dropping on a roller coaster but not exactly, feels like light headedness but not exactly, when I stand still I sense a rocking sensation. " Yup. Me too. Best wishes to you and to everyone on this board!!

Hello, I feel your pain…I had Covid in December of 2022 and lost my taste and smell. I’ve had 4 Stellate Ganglion Block injections for my loss of taste/smell. It’s helped slightly, where I can now smell my coffee grounds every morning and have a stronger sense of salty, sweet, sour/bitter on my tongue. What the SGB did do for me was help my anxiety. I don’t feel as shaky as I once did and that has helped me a lot. I’m not on any anxiety drugs or anything like that, so this was not expected, but I’m happy about it. Now if I could just get the taste and smell back, that would be so wonderful! I too was off balance and felt like I was on a boat, but that seems to have subsided as well.

I can not begin to tell you how sorry I am that you are going through this, all of us actually. Until I found this site and my LC doctor connected me to another LC support group (via zoom) I thought it was an anxiety disorder like sooo many doctors tried to tell me. Honestly I think I would have rather them say “ Mrs. Bryant we just can’t figure out what is wrong” instead of making me feel like it’s all in my head. Two years I spent in and out of hospitals and doctors offices, it wasn’t until a family member said I should look into Long Covid, and she’s heard several stories of people experiencing what I was. For two years not one single doctor suggested that Covid could be the root.
We are all so lost and hanging on by threads most of us, I can’t even remember what it feels like to NOT have symptoms, to feel like my pre Covid self. I don’t cry as much as I use too, I guess it’s just me accepting this is it…for now. But I also had to face I might be like this for a long time. I want so much for that not to be true.
I send out to you and everyone on here healing energy, prayers for better health, and days where all of this will be nothing more than a memory and we make it to the other side of a full recovery. ❤️