Any idea?

[Ruhiel]

Mmkay, I've got a bit of a problem here. For the past couple days, I've been having instances where I suddenly become light-headed, my vision blurs and things start to spin a bit. It doesn't hurt, but it's scaring the shit out of me. I don't do any drugs, I don't smoke, and I don't drink. I'm not even taking any medicine of any kind. It's completely inexplicable. The only possibility I've come up with is a result from stress and lack of sleep, but now's not any different from how things usually go with me, so I don't know why it would start now.

Anyone have any ideas what's causing this, what I should do, or if I'm just weird?

[Jewtastic]

Vertigo maybe?

[Ruhiel]

What's that caused by again? >.<

[Dantes]

i get really dizzy and blurred vision alot actually. i have no idea what it's from, but it always happens when i stand up real fast from sitting for a while. Only once did i actually pass out tho.

[Captain Silver]

Do you drink enough water? Because if you don't you get fatigue and stuff, whcih is basically dizzyness and blured vision. I used to get it all the time. If it's not that it's also lack of sleep, because once again.. I get that all the time..

[Whompt]

I get the same thing. It's a blood rush. Like the others said, if you're inactive for awhile then suddenly like stand up and stretch, it happens.

[Nori]

My friend was like that for awhile from playing WoW to much. Docter said it was to much stress on the eyes to sit in front of the computer screen for hours each day for months, so he had to take a month off.

[Ruhiel]

But it's not after standing up is the thing. It just happens randomly it seems. It was really bad last night, and this morning while I was eating breakfast it happened, and then about 5 more times during the school day.

It could be the water, I didn't think of that. Maybe that's what it is. xD

Or it could be the computer. But I don't have WoW, and I normally don't stay on all that long. Except... oh man. Akane's got to be right. I've been working on the computer for the past two days straight for projects almost all day. That's it. I think I'm going to sign off here in a second.

[Whompt]

Randomly? Hmm... I still think it's a blood rush. Like, nearly certain. You have to be at the point of dehydration for water to affect you so adversely. Though, I suppose it's entirely possible. I read something once about people who would be anemic during the winter months from lack of sunlight. Maybe that's it too. I dunno why it happens, but apparently it's a medically tested condition.

[Aqua]

Your blood sugar might be low. Combine that with not enough sleep and a lack of water intake and you get dizzy spells and light-headedness.

[Whompt]

Pfft! If he's like any other computer junkie, he's sustained on sugar foods.

[Ruhiel]

Originally posted by Spopovich
Pfft! If he's like any other computer junkie, he's sustained on sugar foods.

That I can say I'm not. I'm a swimmer, sugars=bad. =D

I'm thinking Akane must be right, that or Aqua. Not sure. I'm just gonna take a break now, and get some water. Hopefully it's one of the two.

[Captain Silver]

You're meant to drink about 7-9 glasses of water a day. O.o

[Dehan]

Originally posted by Murasaki
Vertigo maybe?

My sister is just getting over Vertigo and she had the exact same symptoms only worse. It was like she was drunk and couldn't walk without bumping into something or falling down.

It was kind of scary because she got it in the beginning of december and just got over it last week.

Or it may e that you need some rest.

[Nori]

Originally posted by Pui Pui
You're meant to drink about 7-9 glasses of water a day. O.o

Wrong. You drink when you are thirsty.

If you do nothing all day, you need little water. That is assuming if you don't drink anything with Caffein (Sp?).

However if you run all day you need much more then 7-9 glasses of water a day.

Everyone knows when you are thirsty, and that is when you drink. The 7-9 thing is a loose estimate as is the weight to height ratio that Docters use to see if you are fit.

Both are faulty. /Mr. Harlow my Biology Teacher.

^_~

[Captain Silver]

No, the recommended is 7-9. I checked.

=)

[Dehan]

Damn google...

[Nori]

And that is wrong. It doesn't matter if you went to the most reliable site ever.

You only need how much water your body needs, you don't need more, or less. You can't have a scale for how much water you need because only your body can *actually* know.

If you are thirtsy you drink water. If you drink 17 glasses of water a day are you going to die? No.

If you aren't thirsty because you haven't done much activity then you don't need 7 glasses, you are fine with 4. Your body isn't losing much water, and so you don't need a lot replaced.

Its like the weight to height ratio scale. At 5'4 it is unhealthy to weight 170 pounds. But what if you are a stocky football player who is built like a rock? Techinically you were overweight, although you are physically fit.

[Captain Silver]

I'm not arguing over water.

[Nori]

XD

Oh I see how this is. Your to good for water? Eh? Superiority complex!?!?