Hey guys! Before I had fibro, I never had motion sickness. When I first started to develop fibro symptoms, motion started to bother me. I first remember swinging on a swing was making me feel sick. Then it was a ride at a fair....which I never had problems with before. Ever since then anytime I'm in a car and my fibro is acting up, it makes me feel sick and yucky feeling. I think it's a combination of the motion and the pain that does it for me. I get dizzy really easily too. I was reading that fibro can have problems with disequilibrium. I suppose this is what causes it. Anyone else have experience this?

Crystal

I've always gotten sick at the fair, and in the back seat of cars. When I first got sick, I was having some virtigo problems, feeling like I was going to pass out-not so much anymore, but I do feel dizzy alot...could be the medication for me.

Well being it attacks the central nervous system (basically everything gets whacked) It wouldn't surprise me that your getting dizzy and nausious. I ended up in the hospital a month ago with vertigo. Never had it before fibro.

Definitly have the motion sickness. I had it when I was a child and I always got sick on any ride that went around. As I got older though and I obviously had fibro just didn't know it motion sickness became worse. Right now it is giving me fits, also I haven't been able to lie down flat for some time without getting sick to my stomach. I sleep with two pillows. That is not uncommon though, even my docs nurse has that and she doesn't have fibro. I think we have a tendency to blame a lot on fibro, but sometimes it is just something we would have even without the fibro. Or maybe having fibro sends our other little problems like motion sickness over the edge and it goes full blown.

Glojer

Hi,

I think vertigo comes with the fibro. There's a drug called Antivert that helps.....I haven't had this in a long time, knock on wood. I'm okay driving, but cloverleaves on a highway with someone else drivng bothers me at times. When I'm driving and sitting at a redlight behind someone who rolls back and forth because of the clutch, it makes me about barf. So those of you that do that please stop it, haha!

Just make sure that you don't have an inner ear infection, that'll mess you up too.

AnneBoleyn

add me to the dizzy list. not barfy feeling like when i was a kid cooped up in an air conditioned car with parents who smoked on windy roads. back seats are still out for me. unless someone wants a mess.
i found a good way to ease the symptom. acupressure. i know. can't be that easy. yet my granddaughter used it on a trip recently and it works for her too. you apply pressure to your wrist at the pulse with your other hand. i don't remember who showed me this. a stranger no doubt as i talk to them all. all i know is it helps me. try one hand and then the other to see which one connects in your body to that tiny spot in your brain. there are even braces you can wear for this. check your pharmacy. i used to have some. wonder where they went?
peace,
blue