This has happened to me twice now. I wake up with EXTREME vertigo to the point that I can’t stand and bounce off the walls if I need to go to the bathroom to throw up, which I do a lot because it’s just unbearable vertigo. The anxiety of this then triggers full body paralysis. My limbs feel like they’re 100lb and I can barely move them and then idk how, but the vertigo gets even worse. My heart rate spiked to 160 bpm. I can think and speak clearly but if I open my eyes i feel them shifting in my head. The first time it happened it the vertigo lasted 3 days. The second time the vertigo lasted 14hrs. Paralysis is about an hour of each episode. 

Has this happened to anyone else? I’m 37 and healthy. I’ve been hospitalized and tested and nothing is actually wrong. Going to a neurologist this week. 

The first time this happened was 2 months after a miscarriage at 16 weeks so completely devastating. 

Aside from this, I cannot drive on the freeway. That spikes such bad anxiety that I feel like I’m going to have a seizure over it.

Second 2mo after rainbow baby was born. No stress, he’s perfect and a great sleeper. 


W T F. Ok so IS this all triggered by anxiety when I don’t feel like I have anxiety, in general beyond typical life stressors?


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