Something’s not right… Even in my current state I can tell.
I woke up this morning to someone shouting “Get up! Get up! Get up!”. I got up fast and the whole room was spinning so fast, I couldn’t see a thing, and I felt like throwing up. I sat up and put my hand vertically on the bridge of my nose, between my eyes. (A little trick I learned in dance class to help dizziness, after a spin.)
Every time I tried to lie back down the room would start to spin out of control again. I started sweating and shaking. Everyone in my head was going crazy and I couldn’t understand their nonsense. Finally someone said to try to eat something. I ate an apple and sat on the couch for a while finally they died down. I went back to bed, but I couldn’t lie down without the room spinning again followed by shaking and sweating and nausea, then shaking cold and nausea. I managed to fall asleep with my head propped up, to someone singing and someone telling me to go to the hospital.
I finally woke up again at 11am, and the same thing. I almost threw up for real, this time.
Now I’m sitting in my fluffy house coat with coffee shaking and cold and trying to calm down. I feel incredibly dizzy and my head is so loud, they won’t shut up. My own voice is also narrating everything I type and it’s difficult to type this.
So I was thinking should I go to the hospital? Or do you think this will pass? I think it has to do with something I ate, or the microchip in my head. I’m afraid to go to the hospital, but I can’t feel like his anymore. Its hard to look at this screen from dizziness.
I also would have to pay a lot for a cab, to and from.
Last time this happened it passed and was not so bad.
Hi @Bunny, I think you should go to the hospital to get checked out. What you are going through sounds awful.
Do you have anyone who could give you a lift to save on the taxi fare?
I agree with @ turtle that you should go to the hospital for a consult. If you wait and things get worse, you may not be in a position to get help for yourself.
please let us know how things went!
@anon84763962 @Moonbeam @eyeofRa
Update: I took a cab to the hospital. The cab driver let me go with just the $10 bill I had, even though the fare was $13.
At the hospital I was so afraid and the voices kept telling me to leave, and I had to fight them so hard not to leave. I almost did, when the nurse called my name.
I explained everything to the nurse, and then again to the doctor. The doctor kept interrupting me and not listening to me. He checked my ears and then said I seemed fine, (despite my sweating shaking and inability to speak properly…) and just gave me a prescription for dizziness and sent me off. I feel like they didn’t listen to me at all. I still have no idea what’s happening and I walked out of there crying, and had to walk all the way to the store for my prescription like this, so dizzy and upset, with my music loud to drown out the voices.
Right now my head is a little better but physically I still I’m dizzy, nauseous, sweaty and shaky.
I’m just have to wait an hour till I can take my the prescription that will hopefully stop the spinning.
hope you feel better. but yeah, doctors are assholes. they don’t care about anyone but themselves and your money.
obviously not all, but most.
wow, I thought they would probably give you a cat scan? I’m so sorry you had to walk to the pharmacy. so sad. I hope you get better. are you eating still?
dang I’m so sorry @bunny that sounds like terrible treatment
i have to roll my eyes at the idea of checking your ears because you said you were hearing voices 
Well, I think he was checking for fluid, because ear imbalance can cause severe dizziness.
But yes, terrible treatment…
I don’t know what I was expecting, but I was definitely not expecting them to completely disregard the voices, especially the one that screamed at me to get up, repeatedly, till I woke up.
And yes, but probably not as much as I should be, to be honest.
Next time you go to the Hospital, tell the staff you are hearing voices which are telling you to harm yourself. It’s not far from the truth, and this will get their attention, and hopefully get you the proper care you deserve.
I would have thought they would do a scan too.
I’m sorry it wasn’t a good experience. I’m glad the cab fare was cheap though.
Gotta be firm with the Hospital staff…
Brought my 8 month old in back in the day because she was choking on her pablum. The Doctor gave me a prescription and was sending us back home.
Me: “My daughter is choking when she eats. She is staying at this Hospital until you solve the problem. She will not die in my arms at home.”
They had a bed for her within an hour. She stayed a week until they solved the problem.
Do your city have specific hospital for mental illness? Many city in China have this kind hospital.
You’re right. I have learned too, that sometimes a slight embellishment of the truth is what you need to do to get doctor’s attention. I have done this before with colds and such, never with mental health, though.
However, the voices have told me to harm myself, before. So, I wouldn’t be lying. More recently they try to convince me how purposeless my life is and that I shouldn’t be alive. Not a direct command to kill myself, but it’s obvious what they want me to do.
No, they have a small section on the top floor, and you need a referal from a doctor to get in with a therapist, and a referal from a therapist to get a pdoc.
I used to work with a therapist here, but they were uselss.
If you’re really in need of help, they send you to another city in an ambulance for hospitalization.
@bunny That’s really surprising that the hospital didn’t take your symptoms more seriously. You did the right thing, though, going to the hospital. Can you get a follow-up appointment with your GP or your pdoc?
Were you able to get home OK from the hospital & pharmacy? Do you have family or friends or roommates that can help you out until you feel better?
Having read you’re post, what’s you’re med situation? Because, although not exactly like this, it reminds me of when I’ve come off certain meds which can have discontinuation side effects some of which are severe. Have you stopped or started any medication lately is my question?
I don’t have a pdoc, anymore. I left him this winter, because he was not helping. He was confusing me and making me feel worse. Same with my therapist. She told me everything was “Just anxiety” and brushed it off like it was nothing.
I made it home, no worries. I’m home alone, right now. Except for my one roommate who barely speaks english and is hardly home.
I live with my brother and his girlfriend, but they’re currently on vacation.
Edit: Sorry. When I’m feeling sick or off mentally, I tend to get a wierd, scarcastic sense of humor, even about things that are upsetting. Sorry.