Muscle weakness, constant dizziness, deterioration in general well-being may be the result of physical or psycho-emotional fatigue. Against the background of fatigue or stress, various sleep disorders and mood swings additionally occur, and chronic somatic diseases may worsen.
However, dizziness may also indicate the presence of pathological processes in the body, especially if the head has been dizzy for a long time or attacks occur frequently. In this case, vascular pathologies, hormonal changes or cervical osteochondrosis are usually detected.
Similar symptoms are observed with prolonged intoxication and taking certain types of medications.
Why does a pregnant woman suffer from insomnia?
Sometimes a pregnant woman cannot sleep for some specific reason. But often her condition is not explained by anything specific - she is simply uncomfortable and does not want to sleep. Let's look at some factors that prevent a pregnant woman from sleeping normally.
- In the early stages of pregnancy, a woman cannot sleep due to constant going to the toilet. The fact is that the uterus enlarges and puts pressure on the bladder. Even a small accumulation of urine makes you feel the urge to urinate. When you have to get up 3-5 times a night to go to the toilet, all sleep disappears.
- Hormones and nausea are another good reason for insomnia during pregnancy. Most often, toxicosis occurs in the morning, but it happens that nausea does not allow you to sleep at night.
- In the third trimester, a woman's belly acquires an impressive size. Therefore, it is very difficult for a woman to find a comfortable sleeping position. It is impossible to sleep on your stomach, nor on your back - your stomach pinches a vital artery, you immediately want to roll over. And the sides have been resting for many months so that there is no strength. The longer the period, the more difficult it is for the expectant mother to fall asleep.
- Often a woman cannot sleep due to heartburn - the uterus puts pressure on the stomach, forcing gastric juice to be thrown into the esophagus.
- Very often a woman cannot sleep due to psychological worries - she worries about her figure, work, housing, finances and relationships with her husband. Hormones add fuel to the fire and present everything in gloomy tones.
- Often a pregnant woman cannot sleep because she does not have enough air. This is how the lack of oxygen in the body manifests itself. She wants to get up, open the window, take a deep breath of air.
- The life of a pregnant woman is not sugar. She may also suffer from cramps in the limbs from a lack of calcium.
- Insomnia at night can be caused by too much sleep during the day.
- In the later stages, the expectant mother cannot sleep due to the fact that the baby kicks so much. Since the baby acquires an impressive size after the 35th week of pregnancy, even a small push can be very sensitive.
- Women are emotionally quite impressionable, and during pregnancy this feeling intensifies several times. A complaining kitten on the street, news from hot spots, a colorful story about childbirth, a conflict with a neighbor - all this can unsettle a pregnant woman for a long time, what a dream.
- Stretching of the skin causes the stomach and thighs to itch. And you can’t scratch your skin to avoid stretch marks. Therefore, the poor woman has to lie down, endure and stroke her restless tummy.
Headache treatment
In case of systematic severe headaches, at least the following examinations should be carried out:
1. Measure blood pressure
2. Do a computed tomography and x-ray of the cervical spine.
The causes of headaches are very diverse. When it is secondary and occurs together with the underlying acute disease, then its treatment is the best way to combat headaches.
If medical help is unavailable for some reason, and the cause of the pain is not clear, you should measure your blood pressure yourself. If the blood pressure is acceptable and the pain is moderate, self-administration of certain medications is allowed.
Nutrition, diet
Biogenic amines, nitrites, monosodium glutamate, and caffeine contained in food products can cause constant headaches. All of these substances, to one degree or another, affect our blood vessels, and the vessels of the brain are no exception, thereby causing headaches in people who are sensitive to these substances.
Biogenic amines are found in: mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, cheese, smoked meat, beans, onions, spinach, pineapples, bananas, nuts, chocolate and many other products. If these products enter the blood in excess quantities, then in people sensitive to biogenic amines, the blood vessels of the brain chaotically narrow and dilate, causing a pulse-shaped headache.
Monosodium glutamate is most often used to change the taste of food. It is used in various instant products, chips, and canned meat.
A person who is sensitive to glutamate, half an hour after consuming foods containing it, experiences a headache in the temporal and frontal part of the head. At the same time, strong sweating occurs and difficulty breathing occurs.
Nitrites are added to meat products to give them a pink color and better preserve them. Present in smoked sausages, fish, ham, bacon. Even a small amount of it can dilate blood vessels in the brain and contribute to headaches in people who are highly susceptible to nitrites.
Caffeine is found in carbonated drinks (global producers), tea, coffee; if consumed in excess, they contribute to headaches.
When an exact connection has been established between the occurrence of a headache and the consumption of a particular product, it should be excluded from your diet. Diet is extremely important for headache prevention.
Treatment of headaches with folk remedies
1. Boil a glass of milk and add one raw chicken egg. Mix everything and eat hot. Course duration is one week.
2. Take in equal parts (one hundred grams each): chamomile, St. John's wort, birch buds, and immortelle. Mix everything, put it through a meat grinder, put it in a jar, close it with a lid and leave it in the sun for a day.
Then pour one tablespoon of the mixture into 0.5 liters of boiling water and let it brew for half an hour. Strain through a cloth and squeeze out. Then dissolve a teaspoon of honey in one glass of this liquid. Take it before going to bed; you can’t eat it after that. Heat the remaining liquid in the morning and dissolve a teaspoon of honey in it again. Take fifteen minutes before meals.
3. Dilute one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water and bring to a boil. Cool the resulting mixture to seventy degrees and inhale the vapors for ten minutes.
4. Peel the fresh lemon peel from the white substance, apply it to the temple with the soft side and hold until itching appears and the pain stops.
5. In case of a sudden headache, this type of massage is recommended: the head rests the forehead on the hands, the patient is in a sitting position. The massage is performed with dry and warm hands – ten minutes. First, massage the scalp area, then the lower jaw.
6. Massage for regular headaches. The sick person is seated comfortably and the collar of his clothes is unbuttoned. Perform smooth stroking of the scalp, with palms from the frontal part to the parietal part and back. The fingers are placed on the top of the head, opposite each other, massage its lateral parts, moving the fingers to the ears and neck.
After this, place your palms on your head and make vibration movements, first with your fingers, then with your entire palm. The massage time is five minutes and it should be performed easily, without strong pressure or sudden movements. Additionally, massage the ears, upper forehead and temples. Massage course 6-7 procedures.
Why does a pregnant woman suffer from insomnia?
The state of lethargy and drowsiness appears for a number of reasons. Basically, a woman with such symptoms is simply overtired and did not get enough sleep, but if this condition lasts a long time and practically does not go away, it is necessary to consult a doctor.
Causes:
- Constant excessive physical activity.
- Insufficient night sleep.
- Binge eating.
- Pregnancy.
- Stress.
If a woman is not bothered by anything other than drowsiness and lethargy, there is no reason for alarm. You just need to relax and get some sleep. If, however, more severe conditions are added to these symptoms, you cannot do without a medical examination.
People tend to overeat. Women love to eat tasty things, to which their body reacts with drowsiness and lethargy.
Pregnancy
Feelings of dizziness, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness and lethargy are common to almost all pregnant women. This condition is caused by hormonal changes. In the first months of pregnancy, these unpleasant symptoms are especially acute, when the body is just beginning to rebuild.
Tension headaches - how do they form?
This type of headache occurs in various stressful situations; in addition, pain can manifest itself when sitting or incorrect body position (posture), changes in the cervical vertebrae. It is characterized by a low degree of intensity and does not change with physical activity.
At the same time, a person gets the feeling that his head is being squeezed in a “vice.” Nausea and vomiting do not occur with this type of headache. There is a strong tension in the back muscles of the neck, felt in the jaw and muscles of the skull.
Why does a pregnant woman suffer from insomnia?
Morning sickness in the early stages of pregnancy is also associated with hormonal changes. In the first trimester, the production of hormones increases sharply, and the body has not yet adapted to their increased levels.
Toxicosis is very exhausting, leading to loss of strength and a constant desire to sleep. Fortunately, with the help of additional rest and correction of the diet, it is often possible to stop the unpleasant manifestations of morning toxicosis, and by the second trimester of pregnancy the feeling of nausea completely disappears.
Headache due to hypertension
The cause of pain in this heart disease is increased blood pressure. Symptoms include dull pain in the back of the head in the morning, which subsides by midday. In addition, it is characterized by sharp throbbing pain in the parietal and temporal region of the head in the evening, especially during physical and mental stress. In rare cases, the patient may experience hearing loss and a feeling of fullness in the ears. Sometimes there are people whose headaches occur when their “normal” increased blood pressure decreases.
When should you see a doctor?
Headaches and the causes of their occurrence are quite different, and therefore it is necessary to accurately determine them in each specific case. If you experience a severe headache due to nausea, you should immediately call a doctor.
List of diseases with symptom: weakness
In women, such symptoms are observed during pregnancy. Nausea, dizziness, weakness indicate that conception has occurred and become the first symptoms by which a woman learns that a new life is developing inside her.
These signs can develop during general intoxication of the body, when some substance that affects the body has entered the gastrointestinal tract.
Viral infections often have such symptoms in the first 3 days of illness. High temperature, nausea, weakness, dizziness indicate that the body is having difficulty coping with the virus that has entered inside, and intoxication with waste products of the aggressive virus begins.
This happens with rhinovirus and intestinal flu, meningococcal infection and cerebral encephalopathy. This condition cannot be treated at home.
Patients are threatened by sudden onset of cerebral edema, which leads to the death of the patient.
Nausea, dizziness, weakness indicate conception has occurred.
Nausea, chills, weakness, dizziness can be a symptom of the onset of an acute inflammatory process in the middle ear. Damage to the vestibular apparatus creates the illusion of objects moving around and the body rotating in space. Cold sweat and vomiting are added to this unpleasant sensation.
Chronic dizziness, accompanied by ringing in the ears, in which the audibility of sounds on one side disappears, may be a sign of a developing brain tumor. If nausea and weakness are added to these symptoms, this may mean that the tumor is large enough that it is compressing the center responsible for the gag reflex.
The causes of dizziness, nausea, and sudden signs of general weakness in women may be associated with migraine attacks. Its onset is often accompanied by tinnitus, photophobia and the appearance of severe irritation from any sounds.
Frequent headaches - causes
Migraine - the headache is of an increasing, pulsating nature with a high degree of intensity. It increases with heavy physical exertion and intense walking, while a person’s activity drops sharply.
In addition, there is also a secondary cause of headache (vomiting, photophobia, nausea). The duration of a headache attack can be from two hours to three days. The attack usually begins with tingling in the temporal region, floating circles and colored spots appear before the eyes, and nausea appears. A person becomes very irritated by everything around him: light, smell, sound of something, and so on. After about an hour, the migraine attack itself occurs, which is characterized by an acute, throbbing headache, sometimes accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
Dizziness in Miller's dream book
In a dream, you felt very dizzy - this is a harbinger of material and moral losses. Troubles and worries await you, most of them quite unpleasant. Despite the effort expended, they will not bring a feeling of satisfaction with the results. There is a possibility that your affairs will irrevocably and completely decline, and your family will fall apart without hope of reunification.
You can see dreams in reality - if you close one eye from time to time.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
Many people suffer from dizziness, since not everyone can cope with the modern rhythm of life. The head may feel dizzy even in sleep, which often indicates a serious illness.
