What could be going on with me?

[EthaParez]

I am desperate for answers. I am only 25. My doctor has been no help. Years ago this all started. I would get this odd feeling I can not describe for no apparent reason. I would just feel ill, and had this strange feeling that I should lay on the Cold floor. I felt like if I didn't I might fall over or pass out. I could be making dinner, or just doing every day things and it will happen. When I lie on the cold floor I start feeling better right away. For some reason I feel the floor must be a cool surface. This has been happening off, and on for about 4 years or maybe longer. This does not happen shortly after getting up. I eat regularly, and drink plenty of water. Has anyone else had this happen? Please help.

[Anonymous]

You might be suffering from hypotension. Your blood pressure drops and you feel ill and like your inside is empty. You might feel light headed as well. When you lie down blood rushes from your lower extremities to your head which raises your blood pressure and you feel better again.

[EthaParez]

I have had my blood pressure tested and it is normal.

[Opinion Owner]

Blood pressure doesn't stay the same. It changes every second. You need to measure it right at the time you feel ill in order to know if it's too low or not.

[GirlScout]

Nausea from low blood pressure? When I'm nauseous I need a cold surface to cool me down. Bathroom floor is always good.

[reptocarl]

It might be psychological

[EthaParez]

I do not think so. It is totally random. Not like something happens that causes it. It is not from anxiety. As I said I can be going about my daily bussiness.

[reptocarl]

I'm going to stick with my opinion. You don't want it to be psychological because you have a negative view of people with a mental illness. You don't want to be considered "crazy". It isn't like that anymore

[EthaParez]

No I have mental illness. I do not think badly about my mother. I love my mother. I have depression, and APD. However I know a anxiety attack. Before I went on meds I had them. However This feels nothing like that. I do not feel panicked. And as I said no trigger.

[reptocarl]

I'm totally disabled for major depression. It might be a type of OCD

[EthaParez]

But it only happens like once a month. Sometimes not even

[reptocarl]

Just talk to your psychiatrist about it. What can it hurt?

[EthaParez]

I am just sick of people assuming that it is psychological. I have had some times where I passed out, and doctors assume it is from anxiety. Even when I am doing fine emotionally that day.

[reptocarl]

I think you're being closed minded. Again what would it hurt? Why do you have a problem with it being psychological? You're asking our opinion and the majority are saying psychological but that's an instant knee jerk no. If you didn't want to know why'd you ask?

[EthaParez]

Because I am so sick of being on different meds. I also feel like my meds help me a lot. I see a counselor, and have improved. If it is a anxiety attack then how can it happen for no reason, and how come I feel so sick when it happens?

[reptocarl]

It could be a side effect of a med or a med combination. This isn't as big as you're making it out to be. Tell your psychiatrist. Once mine had changed one of my meds. I walked in his office and he said I didn't look well. I said "I've got a head splitting headache". He said " tell me more." I told him I'd been getting them frequently lately and I assumed it was sinus allergy's causing it. He said no that too much serotonin can cause headaches. He took me off that med and went with a different one and the headaches went away

[EthaParez]

I just switched medicine.

[reptocarl]

Bingo! Talk to your psychiatrist

[lumos]

This almost sounds like a type of OCD.

[EthaParez]

It is not obsessive, and I only feel like Laying on the ground will make me feel less sick. I do not think I would feel sick

[lumos]

Low blood sugar maybe?

[Krillanr]

Sounds like anxiety to me.

[EthaParez]

But it is so random, and I have nothing to trigger anxiety. My mother (not by blood) has anxiety that started after she quit drinking. She has triggers. I have nothing to cause a anxiety attack.

[Krillanr]

Anxiety is strange like that.

The brain having too little stimulus can cause it, so can a dissatisfaction with life in general.

But it might not be anxiety, just sounds like it might be to me.

[EthaParez]

I take medicine, and I know when I am having a panic attack. I just feel as if it is not related. I trust my gut instinct. Doctors told my grand mother she was fine. However I knew something was wrong with her. Took them 2 years to diagnose her with alzheimers. I had a feeling that was what was wrong.