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Ugh, I had to go home early from work today because I was feeling so out of it. I could barely even stand up and it felt like I was somewhere completely different instead of the mall. Seriously, when I was getting a wheelchair for someone, I thought I was at a circus! Maybe all the recent dizziness is from me not feeling well? My temperature's normal and I still have my appetite, so I'm not really sure.

Gluten is poison for the body.

Read up on celiac disease.

Gaining weight may happen if you stop eating gluten(wheat, rye, barley, oat)

Anyone with aspergers/autism or similar stuff more than likely have it.

This is no joke either. Almost all crappy food has fillers of gluten in it. Read up on it, save your body.

good luck.

I get this. Although I call it 'faintness' rather than 'dizziness', because I get vertigo as well, which is different, and I use the term 'dizziness' to describe that. But what you describe - I get it a lot under fluorescent lighting. So I get it in supermarkets, and in lecture halls, and I got it once when I was doing jury service. I have learnt to associate it with fluorescent lighting, because whenever it happens, I am directly underneath fluorescent lights, and if I move so I am not directly underneath them, I feel better. It is worse if I haven't eaten, and it fluctuates with my menstrual cycle, so I have learnt to control it a little by awareness of what exacerbates it.

If yours is affected by fluorescent lighting, then I recommend using ordinary lightbulbs in your home and not those longlife bulbs. The longlife ones have the same effect as fluorescent lighting, and I noticed I felt a lot more unwell after I switched to longlife lightbulbs in my home. And then I felt better when I switched back to ordinary ones.

TXaspie- I'm actually a very picky eater and I don't have a huge selection to choose from as it is. We don't even have milk over here as my mom's allergic. Almost my entire diet is made up of fast food and cereal and TV dinners. Funny thing is, I'm only 5'3" and 88 lbs.

capriwim- It's not a sensory issue, it just happens at random. Although lately I've been getting a ton of headaches in the front of my head, too, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. It possibly may though.

Have you been to an ENT dr? It's possible you may have vertigo. My grandmother had that and what you are suffering from sounds a lot like what she had.

No, I haven't. I've been checked up on a fair amount of times by nurses, but that's been it.

You may want to consider it, they are the ones who can most likely help you with this issue... you can get a referral from your dr.

Okay, I'll look into it. I'll have some time coming up this week.

Also, I looked up Vertigo on Wikipedia, and that actually may be it. It would also explain why I also always think I'm feeling little earth quakes when everything's perfectly still and why I would get naucious if I feel faint. As for the balance thing, I couldn't even ride a bike until I was fifteen (although that was mostly from fear of falling off and getting hurt). However, I've always been excellent with the balance beam and I beat everyone in "the balance game" in Tae Kwon Do every single time.

It could very well be, but be sure to get it checked when you can.

This could be a lot of things, I agree with the others, you should see your doctor first.

I have a fast metabolism (thin too) When you see your doctor ask about protein drinks. They are a healthy way to replenish what your body is burning off, you might not be eating enough healthy protein. I get dizzy if I've not eaten enough. I drink one protein drink in the morning (20 grams of protein in a scoop - 24 hour time release from GNC - lasts a while) I drink half before working out with resistant bands and the other half right when I finish. That puts the muscle on me. Skinny people need to work out slowly, no aerobics, as your body is burning off enough as is.

It's a good idea to go to an ENT, like others have said. I did that, and they found something wrong inside my ear. However, the difficulty is compounded by the fact that Aspergers can make you hypersensitive to your vestibular system anyway, so apparently vertigo is common.

If it is vertigo, fluorescent lights do have a bad effect, because they work by very tiny unseen flashing, and your brain can detect the flashing and it makes you dizzy. It's more a neurological thing than a sensory thing - they are bad for people with epilepsy too. But it's not just fluorescent lights that can make it happen. Any kind of motion, or visual detection of motion. I get it really badly when I'm travelling by bus, for instance.

Good luck with getting it sorted out - or at least with finding out what it is (mine has not got sorted out - they can't fix it - but still it's been useful to learn about what it is).

Let me go into more detail about Celiac Disease.

Your small intestine gets destroyed over the years of eating things containing gluten(breads, pastas, junk food that has gluten, candy, ect. ect.) This causes malnutrition and obseity OR weight less and growth doesn't go as well.

Eventually you could develop diabetes as your body does not absord vitamins since you're damaging your small intestine and it gets worse and worse.

It's very possible you could have it.. I used to be like you, I could eat lots of junk food. didn't gain weight but it didn't make me feel good obviously. Because it's junk food, but also....because gluten intolerance can cause mental uneasiness too if you're intolerant to it, not to mention loose stools, diahrea and lacktose intolerance(since you aren't aborbing nutrients you can't take milk)

It's very important that you try the gluten free diet for 2 weeks to see if it clears up some of your symptoms at all. It's good to try it because once you've gone 2 weeks without gluten, you will feel so great and new you'll never eat it again.

That is how it was for my dad who told me it ran in our family, and then I tried it.

It's difficult to start a gluten free diet, it's a lifestyle. Absolutely NO gluten should be ingested. This means you can't eat out, there is very FEW places that have gluten free menus. You can't eat foods that have been cooked in the same grease as gluten ect. ect.

Gluten intolerance(Celiac Disease) is not very known, however there are many people finding out more and more about it.

Anyone with aspergers or autism should stop eating gluten completley, you'll be glad you did. Cause once you get older and develop diabettes and other health complications you're going to wish you did way earlier in your life.

My parents did that when I was 10 (whole family, my brother had just been diagnosed HFA and they were ready to try anything). I didn't notice anything different. Still, you can try it and see if it works for you.

That's because you were 10.

Your body has taken that much damage when you're young. You really start to notice it as you become depressed, feel malaise and hardcore stomache cramping around your earlier 20's.

She is 19 and is constantly talking about filling ill.

This is why so many people with AS and autism are lacktose intolerant. Not because of the AS, but because they are gluten intolerant and gluten is damaging their small intestine so they can't digest milk properly so they end up sh*****g liquid for 2 hours.

[quote="Lightning88"]I know that low blood pressure and hypoglycemia run in the family, but I don't know of anyone with high blood pressure. I have had some heart burn lately though.

If anyone's interested, here are the times I've actually passed out.

Age 13- Overheated at grocery store
Age 14- Blindfolded in the woods
Age 17- Riding my bike a block down the street
Age 18- Walking in the snow

None of those things really have anything to do with each other, so I don't know.[/quote]

Except that with all of these things, there is a rise in body temperature and adrenaline--even with being the blindfolded in the woods, I am guessing that you were anxious and that could raise body temperature and adrenaline.

Definitely get it checked out by your doctor.

Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. However, I am not going to stop eating gluten like a few people are saying. I already have very few choices of food as it is, no one knows how to cook anything good in this house (and my mom definitely doesn't have time), and I don't see what the big deal about gluten-free stuff is anyway. I know the milk stuff we have is gluten-free, so that's already enough for me.