Depression and Vertigo?

Has anyone had Vertigo as a result of depression? Yesterday I lost two whole hours because my sister wanted me to try a game called "Sherlock." I downloaded the game, installed it, and when I ran it there was a brightly colored screen with bunches and bunches of multi-colored tiles, well something about that wiped me out completely.

One look at that and I felt like I wanted to throw-up, I was dizzy, my heart was pounding in my chest at like 300 miles per hour, I was light headed and I broke out in a cold sweat. Light or movement made the whole feeling much, much worse to the point where I locked up every muscle so tight that today my whole body hurts like I'd been hit by a truck and then run over three or four times. Just thinking about it to write this is making me feel like that again so I have to stop..

I've never really been significantly physically ill in my life, of course since my mind could be a superfund site, my body has always remained in more or less perfect health. I'd never had Vertigo but had it described to me often enough that I suspected that might be it. Honestly I was afraid I was going to die. Which is funny because last week I really wanted to when we found out I needed my meds dosage increased.

What I don't like is earlier that day I was talking to a rep from a company called Allsup, they help with Disability applications, though they won't help me. In any case as I was trying to explain my situation to the rep, and she kept interrupting me, not listening it seemed, which is a trigger for me, I started to get this really physically ill feeling and I had to hang up on her.

So when the game really set me off I started to get really frightened. What do I do if this happens while I'm driving somewhere? I managed to make it to my bedroom and lay down for two hours, in the dark, with everything in the room turned OFF. Laying on the bed clutching my bear (Jesse) for strength I could FEEL the ceiling fan turning above me which was just making me sicker. Has anyone else ever had something like this happen and how do I prevent it in the future. Two hours of agony, two hours of having to be utterly still, two hours I don't EVER want to go through again!!!

Or should I post this in the PTSD section? My sister said she's had it, and it seems to have something to do with being so depressed for so long that your system can only handle so much input, when it gets past that you get sick . . . Anyone else ever heard this? I don't usually like to duplicate posts, but I think I'll put this in PTSD too . . .

Help???

Vertigo is a severe drunk like feeling where your head cant even out and you must lay down and even then that doesnt help. My hubby has vertigo and he even get physically ill as well. He said its like being on a boat but 1000 x's worse. YIKES .

Do you suffer from panic attacks? I know that when I get them I can get dizzy and my eyes feel kinda fuzzy and small. It is really hard to explain. I also get the rapid heart beats and tingling and numbness everywhere.

I am sorry you experienced this. It sounds really scary. Perhaps you should put a call into your GP just to be sure.

Please take care and keep us posted.

Hugs,

Jen

I suffer from Vertigo. But the frequency is less as I get older.It makes me feel seasick...which is not a nice way to feel. Don't know if it is linked with depression tho. My mother had it during her life, however it got worse with age for her.

Very unpleasant!

~Dottie