Dizziness symptoms- medicalloe

Dizziness: symptoms

I want to talk to you today about light headedness, sometimes referred to as dizziness, and how this contributes to headaches, and fatigue, and some other symptoms.

One of the major things your autonomic nervous system has to do in the daytime is to drive blood pressure up to the top of your head, okay, and it's a big, big challenge. You're having to wrestle with gravity all day long because that gravity is trying to draw blood from your head to your feet, and this is one of the first, and most common, types of symptoms that you're going to see with autonomic dysfunction.
 A very common thing that people will notice is lightheadedness. They get out of bed, or they stand up out of a chair, and suddenly they feel this kind of woozy, dizzy kind of symptoms. And what happens is the autonomic system is not capable of adequately pushing up against gravity to get that proper pressure in your brain, so the oxygen can go from a red blood cell into your brain. Excuse me. You only have one second of extra oxygen in the brain, okay. So when you stand up and you feel those symptoms, what in fact is happening, is your blood pressure goes - FOOM - drops like that, alright.
Now it doesn't return to normal. You still have low pressure it's just not quite as noticeable. But now you're feeling symptoms such as, "I'm just tired, you know for no reason, I slept well, I'm really tired" Your blood work is fine. It's a very common cause of chronic fatigue in people. This is also the cause of ADD, where you can't generate enough oxygen in the brain, and you can't focus, you can't concentrate alright. Now not only the brain doesn't get oxygen, but these scalp and neck muscles don't get oxygen. Muscle without oxygen is very, very painful, alright. Ask anybody who's had trouble with their heart, when they've had a narrowed artery - it's called angina - it's a very painful problem. And in the neck, these triangular muscles here, we call it "coat hanger pain" from lack of oxygen in the muscle.
It tends to be worse when you're sitting still and better when you're active because when you move muscles it generates blood pressure up into your head and neck. And the majority of headaches are from this low blood pressure problem, an exception would be the headaches that are really kind, of more in the frontal area - those often tend to be sinus headaches. Also, these headaches tend to be better when somebody's laying down. So maybe you wake up first thing in the morning you don't have a headache, but after you get upright, for maybe 30 minutes or an hour or two, you can feel your headache coming on - it's from the low blood pressure. Now the brain doesn't like this, and instead of it being a nuisance actually, the brain thinks you're gonna die, okay. It is a very strong problem,
 very strong signals from the brain to deal with this. So this will make people crave salt and sugar. The brain knows, and learns, that salt and sugar intake will boost pressure up to your head, alright. You may get really thirsty, the brain learns that you drive - if you flood the body with water or some liquid - you'll boost blood pressure to your head. The brain will learn that fidgeting, tapping your feet - so these people are tap, tap tap, or they're wiggling constantly in their chair - that muscle movement will drive blood pressure to your head. That's why the neck pain gets better when you're active,
 okay. Nicotine drives blood pressure to your head. So the old-fashioned pack-a-day smoker, every cigarette - boosh, boosh, boosh - drives blood pressure to your head. That person doesn't have a nicotine problem, they actually have a gravity problem. Because when they go to bed, they lay flat - voila! - suddenly they don't need a cigarette for 8 -10 hours, until they wake up in the morning, got to have a cigarette, okay. And then finally, if you aren't eating, or drinking, or fidgeting, or using
 tobacco, or maybe even ADD meds - they drive blood pressure to your head - all these things are trying to fix this problem, your body releases a hormone called Noradrenaline. This is your "fight or flight" hormone. It can make you angry, it can make you grumpy, it can make you anxious, it can make you panicky. And it's being released not because you're in some life-threatening situations, for instance like somebody's trying to steal your money with a gun, okay, you'll release noradrenaline that's why you get all nervous. Noradrenaline is being released because noradrenaline
 boosts blood pressure to your head. But now you may be just sitting in an Italian restaurant, and you're just starting to freak out, and suddenly like, "we got to get out of here!", even though part of your brain says "everything's fine I must be a little crazy", it's because you don't have proper oxygen in your brain, and this is a very, very typical sign of autonomic dysfunction.