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).

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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.

	▲	ndsipa_pomu 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ouch! Not quite a Lotus Position, but I used the Epley Maneuver on her which immediately lessened her symptoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver

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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)

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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!