Constant dizziness/imbalance

My diagnosis was by the ENT doctor. The inner ear does two things. It allows you to hear and it helps you maintain balance, because mine doesn’t function properly my balance is off. The idea of the exercises is to retrain the brain and stimulate the inner ear, to improve the balance.
I have a post note with a big X on it on my kitchen cabinet that is eye level. I stare at the X and move my head from side to side to the beat of a metronome, which is going 120 beats a minute.
I repeat that moving my head up and down. I do this three times for a total of six minutes. I do the whole exercise again Two more times during the day. This for a total of three times a day, and I try to space it out equally. I saw improvement after about 10 - 14 days.
Hopefully this will be helpful for you. Keep me posted.

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This comment is soooo... after the fact, but I too have been battling inconsistent imbalance , weird spacey head feelings that medical personnel call "dizziness", tiredness sometimes not long into my day depending what I'm doing, where my coordination decreases to the point of dropping stuff , just being clumsy in ways that are unlike me. If I'm feeling that way I find if I take a nap of about an hour and a half , I'm better after. After going to neurologists , ENT's etc, I ended up with a PT who was trained in "Vestibular" issues, not your typical ones , but the more involved ones. I will share she treated me for Vestibular Migraine. It did help. But that was a few years ago and I actually came to this site to see if I could find out further information in that area, but feel like what I found is that maybe what I've discovered can be of benefit to others on this site. It is not easy to find a well trained PT in that area ,as I went to two others for that and they had learned some stuff at conferences and did'nt really understand the nature of effective treatment. I am a trained Occupational Therapist myself so I have a good basic understanding of the vestibular system,. Anyway, the long and short of this message is to tell you to go to youtube and punch in this dr's name -Dr. Shin Beh. Hopefully this will open a whole new world for you. Also, if you put in "optokinetic training" , those were some of the things I began doing far into my treatment. I wasn't ready for those exercises in the beginning . Treatment needs to be graded so you can handle it , but not overtaxing the system and making you feel worse!! hope something here helps someone, as I know how frustrating it has been for me, ie being told a few times what was going on was because of anxiety!! Good luck and hopefully I will hear back from someone, possibly with even more good information!!

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My experience is similar I was so dizzy and I would get shortness of breath , my left ear was plugged , I couldn't sleep due to my heart racing, after several doctors blamed it on anxiety found nothing wrong with all the tests and several emergencies.
I went back one more time because I knew something was really wrong. They admitted me after they finally did a full blood panel and my potassium was a 2 the doctor asked if I wanted to be resuscitated due to my heart stopping , so I spent four days in the hospital (I survived ), sense then my platelets were high Seen a hematologist I am on HU 5000 & blood thinners. I am looking into the vagus nerve which controls all of our systems {verry interesting!! I finally received an upright MRI looking at an old neck injury... I have CCI which is causing my whole body complications. I am finally finding the source after three decades. I hope they can help you. I just kept on asking the universe for help. I know am at the point now were I need to surrender to the fact that I am really sick at age 55 I am sick in tired of being sick and tired. I also know that through my experience there may be someone I can help.

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@carefor … I am so curious about your post!!! Even though I presented and stated I have Vestibular Migraine, cause treatment of that nature did help, there’s soo much more to this a feel. And wonder if the things you discussed could unravel more of my issue. What kind of dr came up with CCI?? I too have had trouble with potassium and B12 levels. I get so overcome sometimes with fatigue at seemingly not that taxing of tasks. Would love to hear more from you …. Anything you have to share to point me in a direction where I could go to find out more potential answers. Also , 11 years ago we had a horrible spin out in a vehicle but lived to tell the story… thank god. But when I put my story together I feel after that is where it began!!
Good luck to you and appreciate anything you can share!!!

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