Does anyone else feel Dizzy from time to time?

I dont know if its the meds or stomach issues but there are times during the day I feel a bit dizzy - lightheaded - nothing serious but enough for me to take notice.

Anyone else feel lightheaded or dizzy? - for me it happens pretty frequently - I have a feeling that its med related, I am going to bring it up to my pdoc and family doctor when I see him

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u must talk to ur doc …???

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I do feel dizzy… from time to time… it could be a lot of things…

Just before a hit of feeling out of body… (depersonalization)
A drastic temperature change…
A cold or allergies giving me inner ear problems… that will knock me dizzy fast.

Swimmers ear… (probably not happening in your case)

I have a history of personal earthquakes… it feels like a small earthquake… only no one else feels it but me.

I get dizzy a lot actually…

I’m glad your going to talk to your doc… I hope this clears up soon.

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yeah i do
meds or low blood pressure,
I don’t get it all the time…

do talk to your doc.

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I have syncope. Used to pass out a lot. Get very dizzy it’s a neurological condition. I asked my doc since I’ve had it all my life if that means I was born with mental illness and he said no.

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I had some dizziness over the weekend sitting on my bed. I wasn’t doing anything; just sitting there. I have been off my meds. It may be related to sinuses, allergies, or an inner ear infection. I haven’t felt dizzy in the last day or two. My mother’ doctor told her once it had something to do with a piece of the inner ear breaking loose and that it was nothing serious. It just happens to people. I think, if it continues, you might want to speak to a doctor or pdoc, though. It could be from a medication or something. Take care. I am positive you will start feeling better soon. Most of our bad feelings, etc. disappear as quickly as they come.

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I’ve felt dizzy while starting up medications like Olanzapine and Ability, but after I got used to them the feeling passed. It usually took a couple of weeks to get past that point each time.

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it could be simple tiredness, lack of sleep. :stars:
lack of food.
i hope you are feeling better.
take care :alien:

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Yea I get dizzy sometimes but I think it’s the MS. When I was young I never felt that way so maybe age is involved too.

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While I was taking seroquel, ive gotten up and walked to my fridge and blacked out on the way. AP’s can do weird things with your heart.

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At doses above 3 mg Risperdal increased my heart rate.
Even at my current dose of 2.5 mg I still think that it is screwing with my heart in some way.
It was never like this in the past - I am going to bring it up with my pdoc

I used to get dizzy because of HBP medicine. HBP medicine can make you dizzy because of low blood pressure. My ear doctor said Meniers disease, a disease of the inner ear which I had, can make you dizzy.

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I had a doctor suggest that it was Menier’s disease for me, but it was never officially diagnosed. (My GP doctors aren’t that great.)

I had serious problems with getting dizzy when I worked in retail. I read somewhere that Sz has a nausea component sometimes.

I was dizzy Saturday. There are blooming bushes that cause problems for me.

I hope you get this under control. Dizziness is no fun.

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I’ve never heard that about Schizophrenia, but I know it’s true of Menier’s

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I take 2 different high blood pressure medications - I am now wondering if this could be the cause of my diziness
thanks @martinhersey

I found my dizziness coincided with imagining someone was yelling at me.

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Are you on Abilify and does it happen when you try to stand up suddenly?

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I am on Risperdal and it does sometimes happen when standing suddenly, yes.
Its called Orthostatic Hypotension - some of the antipsychotics do cause this.
But I will feel lightheaded other times also

Im dizzy also quite often. Drugs in general dont do much good for dizzyness, that is my personal experience.

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I never knew that, but explains why I kept throwing up for a year. I looked it up.

http://www.ehealthme.com/cs/schizophrenia/nausea

Summary: Nausea is found among people with Schizophrenia, especially people who are male, 10-19 old, also have Depression, and take medication Clozaril.

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