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This for documentation for my girls someday.  I sure hope they don't have this same problem. 

We went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner on Thursday.  I felt fine.  I had a salad, baked potato, 3 rolls, and a few fried pickles.  And a diet coke.  I didn't think it was that bad.  (except for the fried pickles. They are sooooo good, but sooooo bad.)  Anyway, we came home and I sat down to check my email.  I was holding Maggie and all of a sudden I got the wave of warmth come over me and everything went black.  I sat upright and was able to see again, but it was spotty and I started getting really dizzy.  I went and found Eric and told him that this was happening again.  By that time, I could see fine, but then the nausea kicks in, and then the shakes and the chills.  And the heart palpitations.  Don't forget those.  My heart flip flopping like it was a gymnast. 

Anyway, I calmed down after a few minutes.  My body got really weak and I just couldn't do anything.  I tried to go to sleep, but I would fall asleep and then get startled awake and my heart would race and I would need to calm myself down again.  That went on and on all night.  I woke up the next morning and was exhausted.  I felt like I had run a marathon.  Just getting the girls their breakfast and I was winded.  I took Payton to school and was getting her out of the car and I got the dizziness again.  I thought I was going to fall over in the snow dropping her off.  Thankfully, I got home and I called the doc.  I got right in and saw a doc who thinks it is vertigo.  Something about having fluid in my ears and it makes me dizzy.  Hmmm.  Maybe for the dizziness today, but not for when I was sitting at the computer. 

It just doesn't make sense.  I will blame it on hormones and bad food at this point.  And then the anxiety comes from being nervous about passing out.  I am working on tackling that point.  I think it was a panic attack.  I had most of the signs.  But I am just confused at why?  I am trying to figure out what I could be stressed about and nothing out of the ordinary comes to mind.   It has been exactly two years since I had something similar.  I hope if I ever have one again, it waits two years to come again.