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Experiencing heart flutters, dizziness, and vision impairment



    
Asked by Unregistered on Thu 01, May 2008 01:20am

This morning I experienced a moderate headache with some nausea. Then I began experiencing impaired vision where it started with two small dots in the middle of my vision. Within the matter of a few minutes, these dots became smears- similar to when you are driving and see what appears to be "water" on the road- and this was throughout my vision. Then it became large waves affecting my entire vision, then was "pinwheels", and then as I stood, I felt like I was going to pass out and almost did so. I sat with my head down and the nausea returned. My vision was very distorted and I could not see anything clearly. My hands began shaking as I tried to take a drink. I began having a panic attack as I was scared that I wasn't able to see. I took 1/2 a nerve pill and that seemed to help. I started eating some lunch, and with time, began feeling better, however felt very flighty and out of sorts. About 6 hours later as I was standing in line to get my food, I began to feel nausious again as though I was going to get sick if I didn't eat. I ate quickly. The same feelings of nausea, light headedness returned along with a new sensation- like I was on a roller coaster where your stomach "drops". A friend of mine was with me, a pharmacist, and she took my pulse- it was 94. When I got home, I went straight to bed. I am now wide awake with heart burn/indigestion, seem to be parched, and feel as though my heart is racing. Any ideas what I may be experiencing? The last few weeks I have been on the move and traveling a bit, haven't been getting as much sleep as I probably should, as well as have been overly hungry/thirsty lately.

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Answer by Dr Paul S, MD (doctor) on Fri 23, May 2008 03:11am:

Hi there. From what you have described, here are the conditions that I can think of as plausible. Your frequent feeling of thirst and hunger, as well as the other symptoms of nausea can point out to a metabolic problem such as diabetes mellitus. High blood sugar would usually present as increased thirst, weight loss, frequent need for food, and frequent urination especially at night. The visual symptoms and the high normal heart rate can also be explained by this condition. Stress and inadequate sleep can also cause these symptoms and make a person prone to experience visual and gastrointestinal upsets. Low blood hemoglobin, probably due to low dietary intake of iron can present with an increased pulse rate and an overall feeling of unease. Psychologic disturbances such as panic attacks or phobias can also present the same way. I suggest you have yourself evaluated formally by a doctor and possibly discuss some of the possibilities I mentioned. For now it will be very helpful if you can get adequate sleep and avoid stress as much as possible. Regards and God bless.
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Comment by Unregistered on Fri 07, May 2010 01:24am:
the problem for all this sintoms is call stress. stress trows out your balans and all the organs go cucu, they don't respond as when you are rilax and in pease take a vacation and you'll be cure.do not eat fast food and take some multy vitimins omegas vitimins and some lutain do not take drugs and do some walking dayly. and you'll be flying filling like new again remember no fast food.

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