Vickers4, On your next walk, take a pen & paper with you. Are you having negative/anxious thoughts? What are you telling yourself as you walk? The symptoms you are describing could be related to anxiety. Keep working with your doctor to assure it is not a side effect from your medication and utilize the skills you've learned here to break the cycle. Let us know how you make out on your walk. Danielle, Bilingual Support Specialist

Hiya Vickers :) Well, I know I get dizzy when I am more anxious but if you don't fell well just talk with your doctor :) As for the walking, I think it is a great idea :) I find that starting small ( say 15 minutes a day) then working my way up really helps when I have been off of hit and am having trouble getting back into it :) Anyway, hang in there and let us know how you are :) -Diva

I have always had a problem with dizzy and lightheaded spells. It's always worse when the anxiety is more prevalent. Just now and again throughout the day and it will usually go away when I eat something or if I'm being anxious and am able to calm myself down. But, it seems like lately, it's always there. Whether I'm anxious or not. I've been trying to get back into exercising by walking almost every day for at least 30 minutes. I used to walk every day and felt really good. I had a medical problem a year ago and fell out of the routine. Remembering how good I felt and how it helped with the anxiety, I'm trying to get back into the routine. But, I'm having a hard time with it because it makes me so much dizzier than I already am. I don't know what my problem is and I am so frustrated about it!! I have a lot of social anxiety and I was thinking that maybe it's just being outside walking around the neighborhood with that thought in the back of my head that people are watching me exercise that it's kicking in the dizzy spells that come with the anxiety. I know that logically this not really the case because I'm out in the morning and most people are not outside at this time. Maybe it's just a subconcious thought. But, I also have to wonder if it's a medical thing because I just can't seem to shake that feeling. It's like I'm constantly exhausted and constantly dizzy. I've talked to my doctor about it and she says everything is fine. So, I keep thinking, well, it must be the anxiety then. I've been taking blood thinners for a year now and haven't felt he same since I started them. But, the doctors insist that the blood thinners wouldn't be making me feel like this. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow with a blood specialist to do my one year follow up on a blood clot I had gotten from taking birth control. I may be taken off the medicine and HOPEFULLY will start feeling my energy come back. I'm going to talk to him about this and see if he has a different opinion than my regular doctor. But, what if it isn't the medicine?! I can't seem to shake this dizziness and it's making me crazy!!!!! The anxiety keeps making me think, maybe it's cancer or maybe you have a brain tumor or something. I know that's stupid. I just can't seem to shake this symptom off. It's making me depressed. Does anyone else have this problem?