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Dr. Stoll,
I am 25 and have been having spells of dizziness that last from 10 - 45 minutes, for the last year and a half. I have had all sorts of tests done and my doctor can not figure out what is causing it. I fear that I am about to be told that there is no known cause and told to just deal with it. I experience headaches and nausea with the dizziness, my body wants to pull to the right and I have to lay down immediately or I will fall down. These have been occuring 2-3 times a week on average.
I have been referred to an ENT doctor and he is going to run an ENG test and an audiology test to see if it may be coming from my inner ear. I recently spoke with a woman who told me about TMJ (Tempero-Mandibular Joint Syndrome) and she suggested that I may be experiencing these dizzy spells related to it. I do grind my teeth at night when I am stressed out, I don't really hear a clicking sound when I open and close my jaw. Have you ever heard of TMJ causing dizziness like mine?
I would appreciate your insight!
In Reply to: extreme dizziness posted by Laurie Matthews on January 12, 2000 at 16:53:19:
Laurie,
It is almost certain that your problem is due to plagiocephaly (locked skull bones in the area) and this problem is certainly being aggravated by your TMJ (Which is guaranteed present.)
You need to see a good Cranial Osteopath and stop letting your teeth touch when you are relaxed. Clicking with opening your mouth is the terminal symptom of VERY far advanced TMJ. It is just silly for professionals to wait to make the diagnosis until it is terminal. ANY idiot can make the diagnosis then.
Call The Cranial Academy for the names of the closest Certified Cranial Osteopaths: (317) 594-0411. Go to the homepage of this 'site and start reading about TMJ. You can also get information by going to the glossary, search engine and archives about these subjects.
THEN, if you still have questions, write again.
As you get well, I hope you will share your experiences with the BB.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: extreme dizziness (Bracing, plagiocephaly and TMJ.) posted by Walt Stoll on January 13, 2000 at 18:43:05:
Dear Dr. Stoll,
Hi, my jaws have made a clicking sound when I open my mouth for at least 10 years. I know I have an bite problem...my teeth do not line up properly (most peoples top teeth fit over there lower teeth...mine do not...I can`t completely close my teeth and my jaws will get sore, but I do tend to keep my teeth from touching one another). Is this what you consider to be TMJ? If so, what did you mean by terminal (uncurable or deadly)? Thanks, just curious...Cindy
In Reply to: Re: extreme dizziness (Bracing, plagiocephaly and TMJ.) posted by Cindy on January 14, 2000 at 04:42:59:
Cindy,
TMJ does not kill anyone. It just, sometimes, makes people WISH they were dead.
By terminal I mean is is too late to return you to normal function even if you DO get rid of the causes. You can lay that at the feet of the conventional medical/dental paradigm, the Tolstoy Effect and professional intentional ignorance of those professions for financial/power reasons. The causes of TMJ have been known for more than 30 years and until the past 15 years dentists and physicians were routinely relieved of their licenses for helping people with that diagnosis.
Even now, the Dental schools are teaching information at least 30 years out of date and are actually doing more harm than good. Apparently they are too proud to go to those whom they have harassed for so many years and ask them what they know. It is always the patient that suffers.
Does this answer your questions?
Walt
In Reply to: Re: extreme dizziness (Bracing, plagiocephaly and TMJ.) posted by Walt Stoll on January 13, 2000 at 18:43:05:
hi--
i have a vestibular disorder and this kind of sounds like a thing called meneieres disease. typically, if you have this you have something gone askew in your middle ear-- you also may have some hearing loss, fullness of pressure in your ear, ear pain or crackling sounds. MM patients have bouts of veritgo- either rotational spinning or illsory things where the walls and floors seem to move. nausea is another symptom, resulting from the motion sickness feeling. go see a neurologist, particular one specializing in balance disorders, if this sounds like what you're experiencing. if you can't locate one, go to a good ENT and ask about balance disorders and vestiblar problems.
In Reply to: Re: extreme dizziness (Bracing, plagiocephaly and TMJ.) posted by Walt Stoll on January 13, 2000 at 18:43:05:
hi--
i have a vestibular disorder and this kind of sounds like a thing called meneieres disease. typically, if you have this you have something gone askew in your inner ear-- you also may have some hearing loss, fullness of pressure in your ear, ear pain or crackling sounds. MM patients have bouts of veritgo- either rotational spinning or illsory things where the walls and floors seem to move. nausea is another symptom, resulting from the motion sickness feeling. go see a neurologist, particular one specializing in balance disorders, if this sounds like what you're experiencing. if you can't locate one, go to a good ENT and ask about balance disorders and vestiblar problems.
In Reply to: Re: extreme dizziness (Bracing, plagiocephaly and TMJ.) posted by dawn on February 09, 2000 at 12:36:49:
Yes, Dawn.
This is what I learned in medical school 40 years ago. I never was able to influence the natural progression of this condition this way. The problems went away by themselves or they stayed.
Since I learned that there were other options, still not taught in medical school. I rarely have seen a patient with this that could not get rid of it. Since these comprehensive options are not dangerous, and will not get in the way of any purely conventional approach, I know if I had it what I would be doing.
This is a miserable condition; I have had it. Mine happened to be from TMJ. NONE of the things you listed as causes (which I tried since this was right about the time my eyes BEGAN to be opened) relieved it. Stopping my TMJ relieved it in 24 hours.
Walt
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