I wanted to ask if any of you can relate to these new symptoms. Every day at about 5:30 pm out of no where I will start to notice a headache come on accompanied by nausea and a spinning sensation in my head (like the type when you get off a amusement park ride that goes round and round very fast, can;t remember what you call that ride). Or when you feel sea sick or car sick. This happens every day at about the same time 5:30pm. I could be sitting at home avoiding all triggers all day and it would happen. This sensation continues until I have dinner and after dinner it goes away. I can understand if it happens during days when I am out all day at work or out doing things on weekends (even if they are unstressful things) that make me tired. But this happens even if I am sitting down on my couch all day chilling out. Its wierd
If dinner makes it go away, could it be hunger that sets it off? Wonder if it’s been a long time since your last food? Or how about mild dehydration - do you go a long time without fluids, and is dinner the first time in a few hours that you drink anything?
I don’t know, but I do remember that during my worst years (of what I later self-diagnosed as MAV), there was a CLEAR “circadian rhythm” to my symptoms. It went like this:
–About 7:00 a.m.: Wake up a bit woozy at first, but not too bad.
–About 8:30 or 9:00 a.m.: WHAM! The fog hits–woozy and lightheaded.
–About 11:00 or 11:30 a.m.: It eases up and I can concentrate a little.
–1:30 p.m.: The second wave of woozy-fog hits. Not quite as bad as the first.
–4:00 p.m.: The fog lifts suddenly, within literally a minute or two, and I feel like a veil has been lifted and I can THINK. I feel great!
–About 5:30: The third wave of woozy-fog arrives, but slowly and not too bad.
–After about 9:00 p.m.: I feel fine, and stay feeling quite good and productive til late at night.
I never had spinning and nausea like you, just a full/light-headed, pressury, woozy, dizzy, foggy sensation. But that 4:00 p.m.“lifting of the veil” was so dramatic it was really amazing.
I don’t know why it happened, but with no answers from doctors, I attributed it to time-of-day spikes in hormones, probably cortisol. Stimulants have always made me feel better.
So–could your 5:30 pm symptoms be due to some sudden hormone spike in your “circadian rhythm”? I think it’s a great theory. Either that, or if you’ve noticed that eating makes it better, maybe it IS a blood-sugar issue, as Mary Alice suggests?
Circadian rhythm could be it. Or as Mary says, maybe its time for me to eat a snack. I dont think its dehydration because I drink ample amount of fluids daily.
Am gonna watch for a few days and try to work this out. Maybe I will buy a fresh juice around this time daily to see what happens. I am confident that will take care of the nausea but the spinning and headache not sure.I feel like crap by the time I get home until i have my dinner.
Have you looked up alarm clock head aches? Or cluster headaches?
What you describe is not unusual. My vertigo problems began everyday for two hours at 5pm … over time the duration lasted longer sadly…
Its really weird. I suffer from imbalance and disequilibrium 24/7 but at exactly between 5 and 5:30 pm the headache, nausea and spinning sensation gets worst. The once I have dinner, the dizziness, imbalance and disequilibrium remains.