Strange health issues after cycle! Visual distubance, etc. PLEASE HELP!

[JuicedCobra]

General practitioners (i.e. normal doctors) can be pretty good when it comes to run-of-the-mill stuff like chest infections, but there's some things I always go to a specialist for.

Not many doctors know much at all about vertigo. I found a vertigo doctor in the physiotherapy department of a hospital, and he specialised in vertigo, he knew exactly what he was doing (yeah it's kind of funny but they're classified as physiotherapists).

What I first had vertigo I had a lot of what you describe, sort of like panic attacks, high blood pressure, sometimes feeling like I actually need to sit down and get away from everything. I found that caffeine made it worse. Everyone (including my family) just thought I was having psychological problems so they sent me to see a counselor, but a year later I decided I needed to go see a vertigo doctor and sure enough he diagnosed me pretty much straight away.

I'm not saying you have vertigo, I really can't tell from what you've written, but if you want to have it checked out then you really need to go to a specialist because a normal doctor won't know much at all about it.

Vertigo is complicated. Your brain uses 3 mechanisms in order to keep you balanced:
1) Your eyes (what you see)
2) The vestibular system in your ears
3) The feeling of rigidness in your knees

If any of these 3 get messed up, it throws everything off and you can end up with all sorts of symptoms, including anxiety, panic attacks, high blood pressure.

I remember my own vertigo doctor told me that he had one patient come to see him who had vertigo for 30 years, and all it took was a few sessions of rehab to sort it out.

Again, I'm not saying you have vertigo, I don't have enough information to give that diagnosis (and I'm not a doctor!), but I can tell you for one thing that a normal doctor won't know enough about it to be able to help you.

This site has some info:

www.vestibular.org

And they have a list of places you can find a specialist:

http://www.vestibular.org/find-medic...ofessional.php

Thanks. After reading symptoms on their site it sounds very much like what I'm experiencing.

Thanks again for the help. I'm going to try and be seen by one of these people.

[dec11]

Thanks. After reading symptoms on their site it sounds very much like what I'm experiencing.

Thanks again for the help. I'm going to try and be seen by one of these people.

i suffer from migraines, and sometimes i get the visual disturbance and no pain at all, this is intensified when cycling, just a thought