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Chronic Headaches and Dizziness

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Hello, has anyone had unexplained headaches and dizziness for a long time? It’s been 2 years and my mri’s and CT’s haven’t showed anything concerning. Yet everyday on the lower back part of my head (or back of head in general) I have a pulsating or pressure type pain with dizziness accompanying it. Sometimes it’s mild and occasionally it flares up. I’ve been referred to a neurologist but it’s been a long time with no exact cause or answer to this chronic problem. I figured it could be some pinched nerve problem or something since I do have stings and twitches, but can’t know for sure…

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My daughter has had dizziness and headaches for awhile now. I was researching this and read that these symptoms can be caused by low iron. Maybe you can get your iron levels checked and if your doctor recommends, start taking iron supplements. Best of luck to you!

Also, you might want to have your doctor check you for orthostatic hypotension. You can actually do this yourself if you have a blood pressure monitor.

Your doctor can diagnose orthostatic hypotension if your systolic blood pressure (the top number) drops by 20 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg)Trusted Source or your diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) drops by 10 mm Hg within 3 minutes of standing up.

3 years for me every day, all day. I haven't been able to drive. Had all kind of tests, MRIs, spinal blood patches, nerve blocks. I think it's 5G. ????????????????

Just trying to be helpful here but I had all day dizziness for a year and my ear, nose and throat doc diagnosed me with PPPD. It may go by different names where you are from but research this and see if it fits your symptoms. It last for a long time but does get better with eye exercises. Good Luck. I wish you well.

Luckily my local physical therapy had one therapist who had special training in Vestibular Therapy. I had about 8 exercises to do daily that only took about 10 minutes. It’s hard to describe. The purpose was to induce dizziness but not to overdue it. It retrains the brain to cope and not panic. I would look at colored balls about 4 ft. apart on my fireplace mantel. I would sit 4 ft. away. While looking at the red ball you look out your peripheral vision at the green ball and quickly turn your head to the green ball. Then look periphery to the red ball and turn to that one. I would only do 10 of these. You can see why you need a coach. I got some emotional support from some web sites that demonstrate similar exercises. One is The Steady Coach.com and the other I liked is a uni student in England that greatly explains this condition. Her site is EMJAY styles on You Tube. After about 10 months I noticed the dizziness was waning and the blurry vision as well. I still have some residual blurry vision but I can look from left to right now without dizziness. I stopped driving it was so bad but hope to be able to soon. This confounding condition seems to have a link to people who suffer from anxiety. My ENT said the messages from my brain, eyes and inner ear were misfiring. My eyes felt like they were dragging and my balance was struggling. The ground swayed. It’s been a horrible experience and I hope I don’t have a relapse which can happen. It affects all ages. I count myself lucky after reading other peoples experiences.

I pray a lot. I'm having a thyroid surgery. Maybe this will help the headache.

Hello @agis14. I am sorry to hear you are going through this. I see other members have since joined you in sharing their experiences.

You may notice that I have moved your post into an existing discussion on the same topic to keep everyone together, which you can find here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/chronic-headaches-and-dizziness/