Yes, I do have problems with my balance since having FIBRO. I also have a nerve problem on my back and it goes to my right leg. I walk with a walking stick. I have a pitt bull and I take her for long walks. I've fallen several times before I got the walking stick. Take care - Gentle Hugs to you - Laura

Do you get the dizziness also at times?

I get the off balance sensation and also have dizzy spells. Seems to happen the most when my neck is really tense. Had one yesterday when I was leaving the pool with my son...had to stop and let it pass. From what I've read this is very common in fibro.

Hugs, Carrie

Yes, sometimes when I'm walking I have to hold on to the wall, or just stop and get my balance back. It's very frustrating! Last week I was very dizzy, and went to the chiropractor who told me the top vertebra, the atlas, was out of alignment. He adjsuted me and the dizziness went away.

I am always havving balance problems, good thing I have a skiinny hall from my bedroom to the bathroom. Talk ab out bouncing off the walls, seriously.

I will sometimes get the dizzy spell,doesn't last long; but sometimes I will get migraines and I get dizzy right before I get one.
Take care pegzo and it's nice to see you. Haven't seen you post for awhile :)
Gentle hugs...............MaryKathryn

I find myself doing many a household job differently then before hance after cleaning with Mr Clean and those scrubbing bubbles on my bathroom floor & toliet which I do more sittiing on my bum when I go to stand up it is like the 4th came early...I do the same when dusting less bending more sitting and I have to learn how to get back up with out the laser show....

Also the more hot and humid the more I am apt to get dizzy just walking into the other room...I am carefull on stairs something I never had to worry about before.

I don't get dizzy but my balance and coordination are definitely affected. I have staggered into things at times that I never did before getting fibro. It's especially weird because sometimes I'm fine and the next minute I'll feel off balance.

Balance is something that has to be practiced as we age, and with fibro, even more so. I try standing on one foot, holding on and then just a finger hold. Now I can stand on one foot long enough to put my pants on. This has taken me 5 years of constant practice. But now I feel safer about falling, or should I say, not FALLING, which is the real fear.

Dizziness might be caused by medication or moving too fast. Slow down when getting up from a seated position, or getting out of bed. Hoping this advice is helpful to you.

I have never had good balance, and it has gotten a bit worse as I got older. Tends to make me run into things .... I have had FM since my early/mid teens, so it could be they are connected. Just always thought I was clutzy lol

Dizziness comes and goes. What I do to keep it less of a problem is flex my big toes, and then all my toes. The more your big toe is prepared for movement, the easier it is for the big toe to balance.

Hope you feel better soon!

I had a post awhile back about balance issues. I would get out of bed and stagger into every wall until I made it to the kitchen. Couldn't put a pair of pants on standing up. I was at a convenience store and saw these bracelets that are called Power Balance. For $10.00, I thought, what the heck. Well, for me, it is actually working. Some people are skeptical about stuff like that, but for me, I can tell a world of difference. Even if it is just in my head, I know it has helped. I never go without wearing it.

I run into every wall in my house, I can't get down the stairs without help from my hubby. I use a cane to try tohelp with it. I feel down stairs the other day, I feel twice in the shower, I am like a bouncing ball in the morning with my walls! I am not sure if mine is med related or fibro, but I do know i just got DX with fibro a month ago, but have had it for at least the last 20 years and never had a balance problem till recently when I started my new meds

Th dizzieness is, I think the fibro. I have always had to get up slow from sitting or laying down, and stand there for a while holding onto my chair or whatever to catch my balance.

whatever is causing me to run into walls, fall down, have to hold onto my hubbys belt loop when walking just so I don't fall, I HATE IT!
Tomorrow I am going to my doc, will ask her about the balance issue and see what she says about it!
I will keep ya posted on it!