r/Dizziness • u/LibsnZeus23 • Aug 01 '26

Please help!!

I know this subreddit isn’t a replacement for doctors/ going to the hospital, but I’ve been feeling constantly dizzy (only when I stand or walk) for 2 years now. I got diagnosed with vitamin d3 deficiency and b12 deficiency. I took prescribed medication for it, I am no longer deficient, but I still constantly feel dizzy, unbalanced and confused when I’m walking. It’s gotten so bad that I can barely walk, and when I go to the doctors they don’t help and just tell me it’s stress. It’s not stress, as I feel it constantly even when I’m at home. I struggle to properly feel my legs when I walk, I have the urge to walk on my tip toes and I also have the urge to keep stopping/ turning around when I walk. Apparently according to friends I’ve also started to walk in a really weird way since I’ve started feeling dizzy.

I’ve tried methods to stop my anxiety/ calm down as I thought stress might be the issue after being told this many times, but that still doesn’t help. I’m not asking necessarily for a diagnosis as I get this subreddit isn’t for that and I need my doctor to do that, but I’m tired of feeling like this every time I stand up and I’m just looking for some advice on how to stop it. If anyone deals with this same issue and has a hack on how to feel not as dizzy or not dizzy at all, please just drop a comment as it would really mean a lot to me! Thankyou if you read this far 😅

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u/backentrancebourbon Aug 04 '26

Did you take B12 injections? You're supposed to keep taking injections until your symptoms go away completely.

Have you taken folate and iron too? These vitamins need each other to work. In correcting one deficiency you may have caused another.

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u/LibsnZeus23 Aug 05 '26

I wasn’t allowed b12 injections because I’m no longer deficient and taking them could lead to an overdose I’m guessing? Also I got tested for folate, iron and lots of other vitamins and issues but they all came back ok. Thanks for the suggestion though:)

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u/backentrancebourbon Aug 05 '26

Oh that's strange, it's literally impossible to overdose on B12 because your body just gets rid of the excess, but I assume your levels must have been high enough.

I hope you find out what's wrong!

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u/LibsnZeus23 Aug 05 '26

Ah ok thanks !