| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 5 days ago |
| We have these things called "inner ears." I'm pretty sure deaf people have them, too. Nature's accelerometers. I've had mine go bad, and it wasn't fun. Just sayin'... |
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| ▲ | ndsipa_pomu 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Were you unable to drive when your inner ears weren't functioning? |
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| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 5 days ago | parent [-] | | I guess so. I was unable to stand up. | | |
| ▲ | ndsipa_pomu 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Sounds horrible. I can understand that stopping you from cycling, but if you could have managed to sit in a car, would you have been able to drive it? I can imagine that inner ear issues can sometimes affect vision too as my wife suffered from positional vertigo for a while and I could see her eyes flicking rapidly when she was getting dizzy. (I did find a helpful YouTube video about a sequence of positions to put the sufferer through which basically helps to remove the otoliths from the ear canal). | | |
| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | In my case, it was a brain tumor. Took a bit more than Lotus Position. It all came out OK, in the end, but it was touch-and-go for a while. | | | |
| ▲ | robocat 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | When the vertigo is bad, you can't even go as a passenger in the car because the movement is literally sickening. Even driving with mild vertigo could be difficult because you want to restrict your head movement. Source: my dad gets Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) | | |
| ▲ | ndsipa_pomu 4 days ago | parent [-] | | I'd recommend him trying the Epley Maneouvre as it's quick and easy to do (needs someone to help though) and is unlikely to make anything worse. | | |
| ▲ | robocat 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Thanks. I've tried to encourage him to learn it. He's stubborn and isn't interested. He's had physio do it when he was hospitalized... He's mentally sharp, and has a science background, but nope! |
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| ▲ | asadotzler 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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