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@lakelifelady

I am like that after almost three years. I had two brain bleeds after a TBI during a car accident. Shopping brings it on, especially a store where one must scan items visually or be moving while looking around. First, my head feels like it is twice its size, tinnitus starts, my eyes feel blurry and I begin to feel completely overwhelmed with my shoulders tightening up. Often feeling sick to my stomach. I have a complication: my neck was also broken and a bony bridge never healed. Each day some part of it is given over to dizziness, although after this long the periods of not being dizzy are increasing somewhat.

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My Neurologist told me that my head and shoulders tighten because of Nystagmus in my eye - my head and shoulders are trying to hold my world in focus. I get a humming sound in my ears (sounds like the recycled air noise on an airplace) before the headache begins.

I have to shorten the amount of time I go out shopping and I used to love heading to outlet malls to shop-for-sport for a day. No longer!

it has improved from the early days after my stroke but I can maybe shop for a couple of hours at the mall but not during crazy busy times.