Hi Kiya,

I've been having a lot of trouble w/ dizziness, so much so that my boyfriend finally made me go to the doctor. I got referred to an ENT. I thought it might be sinuses since I would get headaches a lot too, but the CT scan turned up negative. My next option was to get another expensive test to look at my inner ear, but my primary doc had mentioned something about vesticular rehab. Since I didn't have a lot of faith in the ENT and not much money, I opted to go straight for the vesticular rehab. Am now going to a physical therapist who fortunately believes me and said it's coming from nerves in the back of my head and neck.

I had a head injury several years ago so that's part of it apparently and I am finally realizing that some of it is stemming from clenching my teeth really, really hard while I sleep (have terrible nightmares all the time so I'm stressed and anxious all night in my sleep). All this is shooting through muscles that run to the back of my head which presses on nerves there and in my neck which in turn causes pain to radiate from my head to my arm and shoulder. Not fun, but the physical therapist said most doctors don't know about this and he's even treated people who went to neurologists and were told that sort of thing can't be fixed. Apparently, there are also sensors back there at the base of your brain that relay to you where you are in time & space.

So just wanted to let you know in case you go through a bunch of expensive tests for nothing and they all turn up negative. This is also affecting my hearing by the way (making it super sensitive) in case you're having any problems with that as well. Good luck.