I was about 16-17 years old, my brother 8 years younger, we were both in the countryside, on holiday, at our parents' house, alone - our parents only came on weekends because they were working, we were supervised by the grandparents who lived next door. One morning I couldn't get out of bed - I was dizzy, I saw black all around and I fell back down. I stayed like that for about an hour under the terrified eyes of my brother who didn't understand what was wrong with me. I could talk, but I couldn't get out of bed. I was trying to encourage him. At one point I managed to eat a piece of bread, black, I still remember, that he brought me. By evening I managed to have another cup of tea and that was it. I've had episodes like this before, but never this bad. The dizziness was there for about 60-90 minutes, maybe more until I managed to get out of bed.
I always explained these episodes on calcium deficiency - that's all I knew then and that's what my mother told me.
The real explanation - a few days previously I had done some "acrobatics" on roller skates in the yard, fell, sprained my hand and the fall itself caused the dizziness. The dizziness lessened in intensity and went away on its own when I got over the falling episode. The dizziness occurs with fear of falling - real (in this case) or imagined (fear of failing an exam for example) in the healing phase.
Thank you, Dr Hamer!
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