What's causing you to feel unsteady or off-balance?

Many body systems — including your muscles, bones, joints, eyes, the balance organ in the inner ear, nerves, heart and blood vessels — must work normally for you to have normal balance. When these systems aren't functioning well, you can experience balance problems.

Many medical conditions can cause balance problems. However, most balance problems result from issues in your balance organ in the inner ear (vestibular system).

Signs and symptoms of balance problems include:

Sense of motion or spinning (vertigo)
Feeling of faintness or lightheadedness (presyncope)
Loss of balance or unsteadiness
Falling or feeling like you might fall
Feeling a floating sensation or dizziness
Vision changes, such as blurriness
Confusion

[josephtpg]

Long covid since March 2020. When it flares bad. I have right-side weakness and balance issues. I do lawn care and walk 5 miles a day doing that. When it does not flare only slight knee pain at end of day. I am still able to do all my work and not miss a day.

[vruutde]

I'm relieved to see I'm not alone however I'm. Sad to see so many people having difficult times. All I suggest is be strong n plz see a doctor to rule out brain or blood issues.

[thogusdonatus]

Whenever i am walking i get the feeling that my body is starting to Walk towards either the right or left side and i need to fight it and focus even more on the problem that makes it worse

[TinekeWilliams]

I had vertigo twice but my balance is still wonky! Don’t know what to do as I can’t bike anymore and have to hold on tight to the rail getting down. Dreadful!

[frankmiller]

I had a stroke while I was sleeping and my balance has been completely altered. 10 years now. So annoying. Can't go for walks, fishing with waders on in streams, nothing 😡.

[saifjymnast]

Dizziness, spinning, imbalance, temple pain, eye sensitivity, ?? 😕😕😕

[sidensvans]

I can´t feel my feet, my vision is poor and I have dreadful tinnitus . I lose my balance constantly .

[all-land]

I was walking downstairs and had to stop my cat which was running upto me to play. Suddenly for a split second i lost my balance but i managed to hold onto the railing and avoid injuries

[briang.]

Nerve pain and numbness of feet caused by lower back issues. There doesn't seen to be a cure sometimes B vitamins help.

[susangiffin]

2.5 ago I suffered a bowel leakage. They did an emergency colostomy I was in the hospital for 6 weeks, I had a really hard time recovering I started retaining fluid, i thought someone was in my room to harm me and I was fighting back but it was the nurses I was fighting. Then I caught Covid 19, and was transferred to another floor but still having bad episodes of things I thought were happening but weren’t A year later they were able to fix everything and removed the colostomy But I have never Regained my energy and I lose my balance easily I do have type 2 diabetes and COPD And if I sit on the floor or ground I can’t stand back up I can get one leg under me but not the other. If I can find something to pull myself up I can stand and walk wobbly. I’ve told several doctors about it and get no answers Before this I had no major problems

[roselinemathieu]

I felt 2 days after I walk like stroke people all my body shaking I cried everyday I really don't know what to do.please help me

[DavidRLentz]

All through my childhood, I had suffered various consequences of complications during a breech birth. Whilst my head yet remained in the birth canal, the delivering physician, Dr. Mulvania, dropped me, leaving me dangling by my neck for several seconds. My mother (now deceased), a registered nurse, years on had explained to me that I had favoured how I had held my head, for my neck hurting. During my infancy and early years, I developed scoliosis and kyphosis.
An anatomic consequence is that one eye and one ear is higher than the other.
I also was unusually small for my age, in a family of veritable giants. At age 12, I was just 23 cm (50 lbs). By contrast, a sister (recently deceased) had grown to 185 cm, 185 kg (6'1", 430 lbs).
I have a 93 cm inside leg (36" inseam) and size 14 feet. I am 180 cm, 72 kg (5'11", 156 lbs), making me slim for my height. I had been appreciably thinner: at university, I was just 60 kg (125 lbs).
I have an extraordinarily long stride that enables me to walk much faster than others; even athletes. (Well, for just 100 m or so!) I generally experience better balance at speed. I expect momentum is a mechanistic adaptation, one that does not address the underlying cause.
At slower gaits, I can experience problematic balance; this is not a regular occurrence, though it is an issue I must address.
I estimate that I have suffered thirty-three sprains from different ways of falling; chiefly, my ankles, knees, elbows, wrists. My left patella is hypertrophic 3 cm above the surrounding anatomy. My left kneecap is, too, though somewhat less so.
I occasionally feel brief bouts of vertigo. This in my judgement derives from organic cause. These events usually occur upon rising, especially if I still feel very sleepy. (I readily admit that my study sample has a population of one! 🙂 )

My best means to communicate with the world:
David R Lentz
1001 Schrock Road
Columbus, Ohio USA 43229

[ms.geraldineramel]

feeling dizzy and sees brighter white on the road