fibro and motion sickness...is there a connection? - Fibromyalgia Message Board

shrtcak81 · 09-05-2008, 09:54 PM

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

1stBlush · 09-05-2008, 10:03 PM

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.

jessbcuz10 · 09-05-2008, 10:16 PM

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.

Glojer · 09-06-2008, 09:25 PM

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

DeBeachSiren · 09-07-2008, 03:18 AM

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