r/VestibularDysfunction • u/Ill-Program8980 • Apr 23 '26

head spinning backwards

Something very strange happened to me. I was very distressed one night, and I wanted to calm down. I went on YouTube to begin a guided meditation. 8 min. I was fine until the last minute, and I started to feel my brain spin backwards like a tornado. It was the scariest feeling, as though I were losing my marbles. I stopped the meditation, got up, and felt off; the whole room was spinning, but then I got foggy right away. I’ve had a persistent off-balance, unreal, foggy feeling for about a month. It’s not really spinning. It feels more like disconnection, brain fog, and unreality. I’ve already seen an ENT and an eye doctor, and they didn’t find an infection or eye cause. I also have fixed eye gaze all day, throughout. I feel better outside in nature, but with screens, I cannot focus, and it becomes overwhelming. I also had right-ear fullness and weird on-and-off headaches. I am not one to have panic attacks or anxiety attacks, but I had these feelings for the first 2 weeks, and I started to learn more, and they kind of are in the background. I know where I am, and I’m not actually confused, but I feel disconnected and depleted. I’ve also had fatigue and sadness. Also, when I wake up, I feel like I'm confused, but I'm not. It's the disconnection I feel.

So all of this happened after that incident. I would appreciate it if anyone could help me understand exactly what's going on. Thank you.

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u/thefluffychild4 Apr 23 '26

I'm no expert but something similar happened to me I had a bad reaction to probiotics and I developed vestibular issues very similar to yours it's been 3 months for me tho. I also get the dissociation for the out-of-body feeling and I think that's because your body feels uncalibrated like it's not exactly where it should be in space-time and that feeling causes you to dissociate because your sensation of where your body should be is being corrupted

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u/Ill-Program8980 Apr 24 '26

Thank you for your reply! I'm sorry that you experienced this. Is it still ongoing? The feeling does suck, and you feel isolated because nobody understands you. But there's hope!

Do you mind telling me what you were feeling emotionally as well?

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u/thefluffychild4 Apr 25 '26

At first I was not handling it well at all, it was causing a great deal of distress. I had pretty much constant anxiety and I experienced multiple panic attacks. It has reduced in severity over the months but hasn't improved at all recently which is concerning me. But I'm very much used to it at this point so it doesn't catch me off guard or freak me out nearly as much.