Ask Dr. Yo: why do my chronic dizziness symptoms keep going up and down? Am I doing something wrong? 

Hello yonith, how long, right? I prefer not to talk or look at anything about dizziness; but I think I owe it to you and if you want to leave the information in the community that I think will cure me completely; I had an up and down in August because my father died. .. but after 3 years of suffering I can say that I am cured; I no longer even use a cane for fear of falling; I hope that dizziness never returns to my life... a yonith hug and if I could, everyone can.

I stil have head pressure, brain fog and balance issues, but I'm super grateful I haven't had anymore violent episodes of vertigo. I pray those episodes never return 🙏

I wanted to let you know how much you have helped me. My symptoms started almost exactly one year ago with a nasty bout of BPPV. After about 6 weeks, my symptoms were improving when suddenly they took a turn for the worse. What I realized after I started watching your channel is that these renewed symptoms were most likely caused by the sudden loss of a very close family member. For the next 5 months I struggled with dizziness, brain fog, etc. After finding your videos and learning about the impact of unresolved emotional issues on my symptoms, I started to deal with the pent up grief that I had unconsciously been repressing. Once I recognized and began dealing with my loss, I started improving immediately. I went through the ups and downs just as you described in this video. I rarely experience any symptoms at this point, with the exception of minor issues when a major low pressure weather system moves through the area. It took about 10 months in total, but I consider myself 99% 'cured', and I cannot thank you enough!

This video has come at the perfect time for me. Had a few good days (still dizzy but not as noticeable). Today has been annoying with symptoms I haven't had for a while returning and I felt very disappointed for reacting with panic and anger towards myself.

I appreciate your content so much! I rationally know what you’re saying is true, but it’s so easy to get caught up in the stress of dizziness that we quickly spiral back into panic and danger mode. Dizziness is just SO horrible. Thank you for the great reminders in this video. You’re so knowledgeable, and frankly just awesome!

Just to express how grateful I am for giving me hope and understanding ..

Yes! I see my symptom flares as the lovely neural connection my brain has made when I am feeling stressed. Whereas I used to get stomach upset or have muscle tension when stressed, now my brain says, “Slow down! You are stressed! I’m going to make you dizzy to slow you down!” I’m grateful for this channel and all the great information. I’ve managed to reduce my fight/flight response significantly. I just tell myself, “This too shall pass.” When I’m focused on other things (life activities), my symptoms are hardly noticeable. Thank you! ❤

Is the light headedness same as dixxiness? What about the sensory issues that come with dysautonomia?

I love your message! I am in the most difficult place right now with PPPD, following a recent Ménière’s attack. I’ve had Ménière’s for 25 years, but only formally diagnosed in the last 2 1/2 yrs, after 4 wrong diagnoses. Constant dizziness, headaches, pressure, tinnitus and visual problems are 24/7. But your channel is really helping me to understand how I can look to the future to get better. Exercising everyday, going to physiotherapy and really starting to understand how my mind and body 0:17 need to better understand each other, is pointing me in the right direction. I’m fortunate that I am retired and can spend time on myself now, can’t imagine this if I was dealing with kids and a career! Keep it coming Dr Yo !

I put this in repeat 🙏🏽 so grateful for you ❤

You're the best! Thank you!

thank you soooo much for your holy work!!!! and you really do save people.

I am so greatful for all your effort and work. I am still on my way to recovery and I can say that your chanel is a real miracle to me. Thank you!

Thank you for this....I needed to hear this...I feel like I'm almost recovered but just little dizziness around still dealing with ❤

Thank you Dr. Yo! Great Timing ❤

This is so helpful thanks Dr Yo! ❤ I had cbt for ptsd mum died 4 years ago and I didn’t really process it. Since doing that my symptoms have dialled down a bit ❤

Excellent information! My feeling of moving is definitely less, but then some mornings it’s ramped up more, settles down. I’m not thinking about feeling that motion like getting off a cruise. Wasn’t on a cruise this motion came on after going chemo. In inner vibrations are less as well yes! I’ll take it! Thank you DocI

It’s going in a year and a half for me with the dizziness, the neurologist finally said that I have vestibular migraine. They put me in an antidepressant but it’s not working I’ve had severe dizziness for three weeks straight. I’m going back to neurologist on April 16. Thank you your videos have been so helpful I just want to be better just like everybody else. Thank you for all your support

Very very helpful thank you. I have had dizziness for several months, apparently set off by a long international flight. I had been improving over the last few weeks but had a dip last week, which seemed to be related to some stressful events. This video was so comforting to know that this is common, and to be expected, with chronic dizziness. Now I need to find ways of trying to better manage stress and its impacts in my dizziness

All i can continually say is thank you. You are spot on about the dips. They can really get you down by thinking I'm back to square one, but after a few years of dips, I'm coping better.

Thank you Dr Yo!

Thank you so much. ❤

Thank you Dr.Yo again your video help to reassure myself Im on right path. Its really hard but with your help I wanna believe recovery is out there. I couldn't be more grateful for your YT channel. Thank you so so much xx ☺☺

As usual, Dr. Yo, you clarified another confusing side of this difficult to manage process. It’s soooooooo hard to work thru this. Just when I get to another low point of discouragement you come out with another reassuring video. I’m sure you get tired of hearing how wonderful and appreciated you are. Mark

Wow, Dr. Yo, it's like you are reading my mind! I came here because I am in a dip. And before I could even search in your videos for something to help, this video pops up! I haven't even watched it all yet but I had to comment because I'm kind of gobstopped. You ROCK!!!

I appreciate the more detailed steps you mentioned at the end of the video, on how to resolve this. You have a lot of great and informative videos, but after completing your free course, I struggle to put this into practice because I don't seem to understand how to actually do it. It seems more complicated than it sounds.

OMG I feel like comming home and finally beeing understood! 5 months after massive car accident still struggling with diziness, vertigo and constant confusement. I feel like someone finally named it whats wrong with me and even has an explanation for it. I wonder how doctors might have NO IDEA about it and say we are all fine and simulating.

I just signed up for your courses after watching so many of your videos. I have suffered with dizziness for 4 years now and seen all the specialists. My neurologist is sending me to a pain management dr. since she thinks my migraines and dizziness may be from arthritis and stenosis seen from MRI. I think its a new rabbit hole for me to venture down and still find no relief. I am hoping your courses help!! thank you for all the information.

Thank you. I am always on high alert panic mode with my new hearing loss, tinnitus and imbalance brought on by Minere’s disease. Trying to stay positive. 😢

Amazingly helpful, thank you so much for this! I've been at this for so long and you helped me see that my biggest stressor is ME and how I relate to myself, my desires and life choices! Now can you please put out a video on how to reprogram that unkind self-treatment without resorting to a lobotomy 😅🌺

Thank you for this video. I really needed this. Is it normal to have symptoms go up and down throughout the day?

Thank you for this video. I have had vertigo for 3 years with breakthrough’s every 6-9 months. But dizziness was only an issue for 1-2 days after the vertigo attacks. More recently I have had dizziness that is more chronic, now lasting a week, and anxious that I met get an attack of vertigo. Help?

Hi Dr. Yo, thank you so much for this information! I discontinued my birth control over 2 years ago and this is when my dizzy symptoms and insomnia began. Could this have thown off my neural circuit? Also, I at that time, I was in school part-time and worked a very stressful full-time job. I can definitely identify when I am in threat mode because the symptoms appear. But there are also other times that I should not be in threat mode but have butterflies, sometimes with or without dizziness/lightheaded symptoms. Is it possible that I have this neural circuit problem?

Thank you Dr Yo, your explanations are always so interesting and so helpful! I have one question: do I have to keep practising the rehab exercices every day, as when I started almost 2 years ago, even on "good" days when I have no symptoms? I'm so fed up with those PPPD exercices !

Hello ! just wanted to know if u have in your contact a french doctor that cn help me like you do, english barrier is pretty big for me; Thank you for what you're doing

hi dr yo, what are your opinions on cbd oil? have you seen any improvements with symptoms and anxiety in people taking it? thanks

Mine started from BPPV. Seems like my dips occur from positional changes and visual changes. It’s changing so much, not sure what else I can do. Everything else in my life is pretty darn good rn. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Please suggest something for neck and head pain it increases my symptoms

Hi Yonit, I'm a 39 year old male suffering with PPPD. My symptoms seem to get worse when I sit down which makes me end up standing up all the time. Any suggestions on how to sit without constantly feel like I'm rocking?

Hi Dr Yo, you don't have to respond to this but if you did that'd be awesome. I was wondering if you've ever had patients that have neural circuit dizziness/vestibular migraine/post concussion syndrome related dizziness that are incredibly sensitive to bearing down/straining. (I'm also very sensitive to screens/tv/video games, it's best if I sleep only once per day, and laying down in bed is my most comfortable position.) I've had this for 8 years, I've had my full medical workup, all tests come back normal, no Superior Canal Dehiscence, no Perilymph Fistula, no CSF leak, diagnosis of MdDS/Vestibular Migraine after head injury, confirmed by Yale, Johns Hopkins, and University of Wisconsin Madison. but if I strain decently hard from lifting weights my dizziness gets INSANEly bad for like 3 weeks straight before calming back down to "normal" (regular bad). The only reason I mention this is because I'm going through your free course on neural circuit dizziness and when it comes to "common triggers" there is a warning about straining being a consistent trigger and that I should tell my doctor (and believe me I've told alllllll my doctors). So I wonder, are there others that also have straining, like lifting weights, be a big trigger for their dizziness? For example it recommends strength training over aerobic exercise because its a little more measurable and doesn't activate the sympathetic nervous system as much I suppose, but for me I find the opposite (not that aerobic exercise is great or anything) but I can very easily overdo lifting and then pay for it and make myself dizzy for days to weeks afterward. have you seen this before? If you see this or respond to this thanks so much, sorry for the really long message! also thanks for all the resources!!!

Do you recommend VNG testing? Will they be able to determine if my symptoms are coming from an ear problem or chronic fatigue? Thank you so much for your videos.

Hi Dr, this morning I went to the ER I had a vertigo attack, I started feeling the vertigo after I blew my nose,

greetings dr yonith I have a question I went to many doctors for dizziness, instability, feeling of disturbance and in the end they diagnosed me with generalized anxiety disorder, but when I listen to you I get the feeling that you think that danger mode and anxiety are two things that come from the hand but they are not the same, could you explain this to me?

Doc my symptoms flared up after being emotional and crying about a week, new symptoms involving head have added to my bucket of symptoms, the doctor here wants me to take cinnarinze. Im scared of it, what should I do. Please reply 😢

Hi dr yonit. I just watched your interview with Dan buglio. I think it confused me a little. I know it’s just his approach but he says you don’t have to dig into childhood/ past traumas and that you can just focus on what is stressing you out now. What if you feel that what is causing the feelings of danger and anxiety in your body are things that happened a long time ago? As in they feel unresolved or you still feel very upset and triggered when you think of them? Are those things that need to be worked through? Or are you causing yourself unnecessary pain and ‘retraumatising’ yourself as he says? Thank you!

I’ve had this 8 years now … PPPD😪

Hi doc . If I hv a true medical condition like unilateral hypofunction, will somatic tracking/ walking help me ? My brain hasn’t compensated after 2 months of PT.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me… I’ve been dizzy for ten months straight, 24/7! I’ve had an MRI scan, blood tests, VNG, Caloric testing, eye tests, and BPPV tests and everything is okay. Yet I’m still dizzy. My symptoms are: feeling like I’m rocking in a boat 24/7. Visual troubles such as seeing objects moving or shifting when they should be still. Words moving when reading, feeling like I can’t focus my eyes on an object for a long time. Rocking when I’m lying down or sitting still. Trampoline walking. Headache and head pressure. Sinuous pressure. Ear fullness. My right ear makes strange noises that aren’t tinnitus but like it’s trying to flush itself. I can feel it doing it too so it’s a physical sensation. Anxiety. Depression. But I will say I’m anxious because I have this, NOT that anxiety made me dizzy. I just don’t know what to do. My family just start arguing with me when I bring it up. I match no diagnosises beyond spontaneous MddS or Vestibular migraines yet my symptoms are 24/7 and not episodic. Can anyone, please, relate to this?

When I get stressed at work everyday the dizziness shows up and goes away when I’m done with my day. How can I get over this mild work stress affecting me in this way?!

My symptoms were getting better by just doing tracking, then I bought a grounding mat, hoping it would help me get some sleep, and all my symptoms came back. Now I can't use the mat

I had PPPD symptoms for 4 months with gradual improvement about 95 percent. Suddenly I got flu fever and my pppd symptoms gets worse again . I don’t know why my symptoms got worse again.any idea please

Does acupuncture work for chronic dizziness?

Dear Dr Yo, what if all my setbacks are hapenning after I move somehow badly and my back cracks? I go to this chiropracter/orthopedic doctor, who puts my vertebras on the place, cracking the vertebras into right position. After that I feel each time MUCH BETTER with my vertigo. But as soon as for example dog pulls me or kids hit into me and something cracks in my spine- BOOM VERTIGO, sometimes even for days lying in bed untill the doctor fixes me again. Might it be placebo/nocebo, meaning my brain thinks: oh now the doctor fixed my spine, lets feel good. And when the dog pulls me, than it thinks, oh sh....now we go into spiral of vertigo, lying in bed for days, all plans canceled and so on. OR is it possible something in the spine is really out of place and nerves pressing the spinal cord or something like that, which the doctor resolves..? It doesnt make sence and it repeats each time exactly same. So far noone ever helped me to resolve this.

I can hear a whooshing sound in my right ear. It comes and goes but it happens the majority of the day every day. When I extend my neck forward I can hear it whooshing. When I move my eyes, I can sometimes hear it making a whooshing sound. It’s accompanied by symptoms of brain fog, balance issues, and sometimes pain. Could this be from sinuses or neural circuit dizziness?

There's stress and there's distress...when you say stress do you mean distress or stress, or both?

There is something I do not understand I am in the kitchen without any dizziness. I walk to the living room and there it is from one second to the other second . The dizziness is back how can this be possible?

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Mine comes back each afternoon/evening😢

I need help Doctor Yo

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GUYS PPPD ONLY HAPPENS TO SMART PEOPLE WITH OCD LIKE SYMPTOMS AND HYPER-PERFORMANCE/HYPER-FOCUSSED INDIVIDUALS. DISCLAIMER : this might not always be true , but it is for me and most others I know in certain forums.