Hello fellow labbies/vners!
Question: Lately I feel "okay" when I am walking around and/or moving. The second I stand still everything starts swaying/rocking. This happens especially when I sit down now, I feel like I am almost floating while sitting, this happens too while I lay down.
Does this happen to anyone else?
When I first had this it was the opposite I just wanted to be laying down/sitting because walking made me too dizzy and I had to hold on to things and make super slow turns.
I wish you all symptom free days soon! :)
Vivs in so.cal

Hello fellow labbies/vners!
Question: Lately I feel "okay" when I am walking around and/or moving. The second I stand still everything starts swaying/rocking. This happens especially when I sit down now, I feel like I am almost floating while sitting, this happens too while I lay down.
Does this happen to anyone else?
When I first had this it was the opposite I just wanted to be laying down/sitting because walking made me too dizzy and I had to hold on to things and make super slow turns.
I wish you all symptom free days soon! :)
Vivs in so.cal

Well curiously, now that you mentioned it, one of my most upseting symptoms is exactly this, I tend to get more trouble from "static balance", standing still, or sitting down, that from dynamic balance" running, walking or even dancing.

I've noticed, that this bothers me more when I'm sitting at the table for eating, or in front of my computer to work, rather than when I'm driving, for instance.

I've not a exact explanation to this, my only theory is that when you're sitting with little or no support in your back, like when you're driving a car, it's almost the same as if you narrowed your stance, where you're having one small point of balance and/or overall support in your buttocks, thus you have some trouble with your balance.

Try to stand with your feet close together, both giner and heels touching, like a militar stance, and see how you feel, chances are that you might have a swaying and unbalance sensation similar to the one you experienced when you're sitting down.

The only difference between them(for me) is that you'll fel this unsteady sensation coming from your feet, rather than from your hip, because the point of support changed to our feet.

Unfortunately I can't give you any cure for this... because I'm still searching one, but in the end I wanted to say that, I don't know how normal this is but it sure happens to me(the sitting unsteadiness), and sometimes it actually feels worse than the standing or walking variation of it.

Finally I also have noticed that this sensation sometimes increases after a strogn walk, running, or body movement episode.

Hope this helps you somehow.

Thanks Stargrave! Yes it does help and I can relate to the sitting down to eat sensation. Sometimes I eat standing/walking around, so I won't feel it. And I too notice that it is stronger when i sit or stop suddenly after moving around a lot. I had my first VRT today. Feel a bit dizzier, but the therapist says its normal. I hope this helps me reach motion free days soon.

Do you really live in Mexico City? I have family there, was there last Christmas it was super cold.

Vivs

yeah this happens to me too. i am dizzy all the time, but its worse when i am just sitting around. for example, i played a few games of softball in the summer (or at least tried to till i got to dizzy). i could run around the bases just fine, but as soon as i stopped running, i nearly would fall over and feel REALLY lightheaded. i think if our mind is distracted from the 'dizzy', and we can focus on other things, our body doesnt realize how dizzy we actually are until we stop doing it and once again notice we are dizzy...i dont know, its just what seems to happen to me and im trying to make SOMETHING out of it.

Hi Vivs.

Yes I live in Mexico City, and this year feels even colder than last one, I believe it's because of this whole Global Warming stuff... This has given me some more colds(wich are awful for this junk) than ever before.

And Tiff, now that you mention it, I was going to add up something on my "Compensation Theories" post, about what you mention here...

I called "compensation by force", where as I already stated that when we're in a limit situation or at least doing something that caughts our attention completely, sometimes we "forget" about the dizziness, or the body comes up with some mechanism that gets rid of the dizzy feeling, at least during that specific activity.

This is great, because somehow it shows that compensation can be achieved, but I can't tell if this is the same mechanism that gives the brain completeley and permanent compensation, ike int he case of a lot of 100% compensated peole like subs.

Nevertheles I't not exactly as when you're at that leve (100%) where in my perception you feel both "liberated" and "free and clear of mind", wich not implies that I'm foggy all time but there is a noiceable difference, at least for me.

Curiously enought this feels like an alert or force mechanism wich acts in those specific situation when it's needed, but when we relax, sometimes we feel dizzy again.

What I called "compenstion by force" is pretty much what I'm doing now, where after almost two months (thanks to the Weather, as I told Vivs), where I caught both viral and bacterial colds(not to mention my ever present allergic condition), and all of this took a toll of my recovery process.

Because of work, and because of the fact that I'm really tired of thsi stuff, I've over.forced me to overcome dizziness no matter what, and as much as this has not give me total compensation so far, It really helped me to improve, up to the point whre some times, even as I'm still not on a 100% point, I feel quite dizziness free.

I even stopped(NOT an advice) VRT and activity, both because of time and those colds I mentioned wich sent me to bed, and evebn so I feel better overall.

I'll resume both when I'm clear of all the other stuff, and something I did noteiced is that when you start something new(VRT, activity), sometimes you feel a mild decompensation because of this, but is temporal, so I advice that get going Vivs, specially if you have the aid of a therapist.

It's ben shonw in lots of studies that a tailor made VRT program is the best way to rcover from a vestibualr injury by far, so good luck on that.