Q. I feel sudden dizziness with nausea and blurry vision. Kindly help.

Hello doctor,

Two months ago, when I stood up to let my dogs out, I felt incredibly nauseous and sat down. I then started to vomit. I also felt like I was going to lose control of my bowels. I laid on the bathroom floor, in and out of consciousness, so dizzy I could not see anything straight. I had this weird sensation like cold and tingling from the tip of my head down to my toes. My partner said that I was freezing to the touch, and he got me into the car to take me to the hospital. I convinced him just to let me lay still for a minute. He watched me all night, kept taking my blood pressure, and it was coming back up. I did notice that for about 24 hours before this happened, my right arm and right leg felt a dull sensation, like restless. I slept and drank water, and I still feel residually weird, groggy, nauseous, dizzy with an on and off headache. To me, that is frightening because it reminds me of similar stroke-like things I have read before.

About five months ago, something similar happened where I stood up to go to the bathroom, and I collapsed onto my bed. When I came back, my vision was blurry. I could not speak, and my tongue was moving rapidly back and forth, and I could not control it, and my feet were twitching uncontrollably as well. After a few minutes, I could finally see, and I was drenched in sweat. I felt weird and off for like a week after that.

I am a 27-year-old female with no major health history before these episodes, nonsmoker, healthy eater, and fairly active. Since then, I have had an MRI with contrast (showed nothing), routine bloodwork that looked normal, an EKG, and I am currently wearing a Holter monitor. I have a neurologist appointment this month.

I still feel so awful. I have on and off right-sided pain, headaches, dizziness, and nausea. I am looking for any recommendation or advice as I do not know what to do to bring in such physical discomfort.