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I have cervical spondylitis and degenerative disc disease, lately upon getting out of bed I have gone extremely dizzy, followed by breaking out into a cold sweat and feeling nauseous. It lasts for about 30 minutes and then I'm fine for the rest of the day. Anyone else have these episodes?
I have a feeling that it's either bone spurs or discs pressing on my spinal cord, but I also know that seeing my GP will trigger a wait to see a musculoskeletal triage, followed by a wait to see a specialist!
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@A MySpondylitisTeam Member thanks for blocking DUBS, we don't need any of that going on
A specialists will help 😀❤️🙏take care and may God Bless Prayers and Hugs
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I don't have AS, I have Cervical Spondylitis, Degenerative Disc Disease and Osteoarthritis (although that's debatable seeing as I started with it age 27). But CS causes spurs, as does DDD (which I didn't know until recently having suffered since I was 21), so it could be any or all of them causing it I suppose. I had an MRI summer 2017, but obviously things could have changed since then. I already have nerve block injections in the left of my neck, every 6 months and they work brilliantly for me, stopping pain for almost the full 6 months and above that, I don't get the debilitating migraines I used to get before them. I was under the care of a neurosurgeon way, way back when I went numb all below the waist, he saved me from being a paraplegic, but I haven't seen one since 1999, or a specialist other than my pain specialist. I know from reading my medical notes that I won't ever be "better" it's degenerative and will only get worse, but I just want to enjoy what life I have until the day I drop!
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I had an MRI in summer 2017, which showed changes, but nothing to worry about he said. I have had nerve block injections since 2013, which help with pain, but this dizziness is new. Our health service has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, no matter whether you need to see a specialist or not, you have to see a triage musculoskeletal doctor who plays god and decides whether you need to see a specialist or not. You then have a wait of up to 3 months to see that specialist, unless they say it's urgent and then it can take 6 weeks 🙄🤪 It's mad!
Thanks for the prayers and blessing, but, no offence, I don't believe in any god, if there was one none of us would be put through all this c***.
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I have had periods of it, I can be doing anything, but mainly just starting to move and the world spins, and I have to stand still, drop my head and hope it passes. This is different, in that it isn't vertigo (where it happens if I move my head, I've had that, it's awful), it's something I've never experienced before and never want to again! 😆
Of course I Googled the symptoms and it told me that they were signs of a heart attack for a woman!🙄
@A MySpondylitisTeam Member I have osteoarthritis too (well, my GP at the time told me it was when my Rha levels were borderline...I was 27!) so very similar to you. DDD causes the discs to bulge and press on nerves, isn't life fun? 😆
I'm just being very careful about what position I sleep in and not having a full body stretch when I wake up! I'm going to see if I can get in to see my preferred GP (different surgery) to ask to be referred to a rheumatologist, in all my years of suffering I have never seen one!
As for the delightful DUBS I have reported their reply and blocked them. Horrible person.
@A MySpondylitisTeam Member Only that that line of mental thought will not show up on an MRI scan unless it is a brain scan !
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