Hm. The room is sinking. (Anyone else get vertigo?)

[eyesroll]

It's kind of an interesting sensory quirk to have -- my dad and grandmother get it too (my doc says it's benign, not severe enough to medicate unless I can't compensate, which I can for now). Sometimes, it's bad enough that I have to grab on to something or someone and steady myself.

It usually gets triggered when my eyes and ears (balance) don't agree -- like in an elevator, or walking up a stalled escalator. Sometimes, vibrations from an air conditioner or something can throw me off if I can feel them on the floor or chair. (Las Vegas, for whatever reason, set me off -- could be the dinging and the lights; could be the flight threw me off. I had to tell my dinner companions I might grab on to them, and don't take it personally...)

Just now, they're doing some work on the roof and I can feel the vibrations in my chair and on my desk (through my hands). It's triggering a sensation that the room's kind of sinking around me.

Anyone else get this?

[soothsayer]

1. I've had vertigo a couple of times (was it the stress?)

Verrry scary stuff!

[eyesroll]

3. When I'm stressed, it does get worse...

But it happens pretty often. I'm used to it.

First time it happened, though, it scared the hell out of me. I was in Tampa on business, about to leave the hotel for home, and the whole hotel just sank. I couldn't shake it for a day or two after, either.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Las Vagas doesn't give you VERTIGO, silly.

That's SYPHILLIS.

[eyesroll]

4. Your modifier is unclear...

Does Las Vegas give me syphillis, or does syphillis give me vertigo?

:crazy:

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Yes.

[fairfaxvadem]

6. Yup. Mild Vertigo sufferer...

Escalators are the worse. High school gym bleachers too.

Occassionally in elevators.

[eyesroll]

7. I haven't done gym bleachers in awhile; pro stadiums are usually OK.

I got hit hard once in the Imax theater, though, so I understand about weird seating arrangements.

[eyesroll]

8. Wow...so dizzy I posted a dupe...

sorry
:eyes:

[redqueen]

9. Yes, but not sure what triggers it

It doesn't happen to me very often. I kind of enjoy it, too.

[eyesroll]

10. Well, enjoy is perhaps too strong a word...

:D

It can be interesting, though...I used to get this feeling on pot, a bit, too (which I stopped smoking maybe 9 years ago)...I guess I can say I get what people pay big money for, for free, so that's something...

[jukes]

11. only

w/ certain substances.