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Were you unable to drive when your inner ears weren't functioning?
by ndsipa_pomu 1y ago
Were you unable to drive when your inner ears weren't functioning?
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI guess so. I was unable to stand up.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoSounds 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 1y agoIn 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 1y agoOuch! 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
- robocat 1y agoWhen 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 1y agoI'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 1y agoThanks. 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!