I've had an exasperating tendency to motion sickness for my entire life. Unlike most people I didn't "grow" out of it after childhood, though I have developed better strategies for managing it. It's a long time since I actually threw up violently, as was rather commonly the case in my childhood and even teenage years, but there are times when I reach the end of a journey, sometimes even a short one, feeling nauseous, feverish and weak, and take quite a while to recover from the experience.
It usually starts with a sudden elevation in temperature, then I get nausea, a rapid pulse, and often end up going very pale. Cooling down can help to control it if I do so early enough, before the nausea really takes hold; I've before now had to resort to sitting in a car with the window wide open, in the middle of winter, wearing just a thin T-shirt, for most of the journey to relieve symptoms - while other occupants give me baleful stares from inside their coats, scarves, and thick layers of clothing. (It's harder for people to carp and complain when I, and not them am evidently the one who is going to be freezing to death, and I never seem to get any takers when I ask whether they would perhaps like to be thrown up on as an alternative, hehe
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For some reason this problem only appears to affect me in wheeled transport - cars, buses, etc. I haven't had problems while flying or travelling by sea that I remember. The other day I was getting what may have been aura-ish symptoms and was generally not feeling so good (I'm pretty sure that I would have had some kind of seizures if I'd gone to sleep, but resolutely stayed awake). These symptoms didn't include nausea or anything I'd associate with motion sickness though. However, at the end of a short car journey of about 5 miles, I was feeling extremely ill and had difficulty doing anything at all for a while: I took several hours in total to fully recover from the motion sickness symptoms and be left with just the seizurey ones to contend with. This is a pretty bad reaction even for me.
Is anyone else here more than usually prone to motion sickness, and is it something they would associate with seizures in any way? Or is it just me who gets this? I've never heard of a motion sickness/epilepsy link, but it wouldn't altogether surprise me if there was one.
It usually starts with a sudden elevation in temperature, then I get nausea, a rapid pulse, and often end up going very pale. Cooling down can help to control it if I do so early enough, before the nausea really takes hold; I've before now had to resort to sitting in a car with the window wide open, in the middle of winter, wearing just a thin T-shirt, for most of the journey to relieve symptoms - while other occupants give me baleful stares from inside their coats, scarves, and thick layers of clothing. (It's harder for people to carp and complain when I, and not them am evidently the one who is going to be freezing to death, and I never seem to get any takers when I ask whether they would perhaps like to be thrown up on as an alternative, hehe
)For some reason this problem only appears to affect me in wheeled transport - cars, buses, etc. I haven't had problems while flying or travelling by sea that I remember. The other day I was getting what may have been aura-ish symptoms and was generally not feeling so good (I'm pretty sure that I would have had some kind of seizures if I'd gone to sleep, but resolutely stayed awake). These symptoms didn't include nausea or anything I'd associate with motion sickness though. However, at the end of a short car journey of about 5 miles, I was feeling extremely ill and had difficulty doing anything at all for a while: I took several hours in total to fully recover from the motion sickness symptoms and be left with just the seizurey ones to contend with. This is a pretty bad reaction even for me.
Is anyone else here more than usually prone to motion sickness, and is it something they would associate with seizures in any way? Or is it just me who gets this? I've never heard of a motion sickness/epilepsy link, but it wouldn't altogether surprise me if there was one.
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