Question: my finace is about five weeks pregnant and she is experiancing extreme dizziness that has almost made her completely bed ridden for the last four days. It started about two weeks ago with just some mild dizzy spells and then they would go away for a while, but now she only feels good in the morning until around noon or 1pm and then she is basically stuck in the couch or in bed and even then she is almost constantly dizzy with it getting worse for a few minutes and it gets worse as the day goes on and when she lays down for bed she has trouble falling asleep becasue the room is spinning so fast. we went to the er yesterday and they did blood work, ekg, chest x-rays, urine sample, and had her hooked up to a heart monitor and blood pressure machine for almost four hours and could not find anything wrong

She has always had dizziness, i have known her for over five years and she would just all of a sudden get really dizzy, but it would only last for less than thirty seconds and this was only like once a day or once every couple days. One doctor put her an over the counter motion sickness pill and this seemed to help with the dizziness. She started to have seizures when she was like 10 or eleven and she had a few up until she was like 14 then none until about a year ago and this is when they diagnosed her with epilepsy and put her on dilantin the same dose she is on now. When she was first put on the dilantin she was not getting the dizzy spells until about three months ago and then it came back like it always was before. then about two weeks ago she started to get dizzy more fequently than normal and then on thursday she was feeling really sick to her stomach a dizzy even more frequently but it still would always only last a couple mins and go away. then friday we went to see her mid wife which was her gyno. and they confirmed the pregnancy and drew some blood and she got so dizzy she felt like she was gonna black out and ever since she cannot stand for much longer than a few minutes before she feels like she is gonna passout, but this only happens in the afternoon and continues to get worse and worse throughout the day. Her face is actually starting to get red and sore looking becasue of how much she keeps a cool wash cloth on her face. It really doesnt matter how she sits or lays it is the same way. She still has not had any siezures or convulsions since all of this began, just the last one a year ago. She has not experianced any headaches really, she says she has had a few very mild ones that only lasted ten or fifteen minutes, there is some nausea but she has not thrown up yet, one thing that she always complains about is when she gets dizzy she feels like her ears need to pop like when you travel through the mountains and they feel wierd from the difference in altitude. on sunday we went to the er becasue when the dizzy spells got bad she felt her heart racing, tightness in her chest, and a few of her fingers tingled like they went to sleep. any they did tons of tests on her all sorts of blood work, urine sample, chest x-ray, and ekg. About the dilantin her family doctor says the same thing you did about the medication and pregnancy, but her neurologist says it is the safest medicine to be pregnant on. What other medications would you recomend because we are going to see her family doctor on weds. this week and we will ask him how he feels about those meds for her during pregnancy.

she only feels her heart racing and sometimes tightness in her chest making it hard to breathe during the episode. And she does get hot, but mostly it is just her face that is hot during the dizzzy spells, she has a blanket over the lower portion of her body for the majority of the day. I hear about how hot her head is all day long and constanly keep wetting her rag with cold water that she keeps on her face. The only thing is that she has trouble hearing, she alays says that her ears feel clogged like they need to pop, but no ringing