So I feel fine most of the day. Lately, when I get on the freeway and am going 60-70mph, I sometimes get this wave of dizziness in my head which really freaks me out when it happens and I have to grip tight on the wheel until it passes, which happens after a couple seconds. It comes out of nowhere without warning and I can't see a pattern. When I am driving around town at low to medium speeds, no problem. When I'm walking around or up and down stairs, no problem. When I'm at my desk or watching TV, no problem. It only happens when driving and at highway speeds. I don't get it. I was in the Navy and deployed on 4 ships and never got sea sick. Done about 100 scuba dives off boats and never got motion sickness. Since it started happening, I have been taking more back roads to avoid the issue. Any thought? This is weird.
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Do you wear glasses? The one and only time I tried to wear progressive lens bifocals, the distortion of my peripheral vision while driving almost caused me to wreck my car at intersections. Cars driving up to a stoplight on either side appeared to be turning into my lane of travel. I went back to regular lined bificals and the problem went away.
I have marginal vision. I've had a prescription for several years but never wear glasses.
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You’re suffering from Bidenitis! It causes the nerves betwix the eyes and a sshole to get crossed up and it gives you a s hitty outlook on life in general!
You’re suffering from Bidenitis! It causes the nerves betwix the eyes and a sshole to get crossed up and it gives you a s hitty outlook on life in general!
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Happens to me too. Scares the hell out of me. Almost always on the interstate. Maybe anxiety and or stress from all the morons playing Richard petty while sending emails. It the traffic not the speed, I think, hope.
So I feel fine most of the day. Lately, when I get on the freeway and am going 60-70mph, I sometimes get this wave of dizziness in my head which really freaks me out when it happens and I have to grip tight on the wheel until it passes, which happens after a couple seconds. It comes out of nowhere without warning and I can't see a pattern. When I am driving around town at low to medium speeds, no problem. When I'm walking around or up and down stairs, no problem. When I'm at my desk or watching TV, no problem. It only happens when driving and at highway speeds. I don't get it. I was in the Navy and deployed on 4 ships and never got sea sick. Done about 100 scuba dives off boats and never got motion sickness. Since it started happening, I have been taking more back roads to avoid the issue. Any thought? This is weird.
could it be some anxiety brought on by the speed of cars beside you ?
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Saw this online "binocular vision dysfunction". Never heard of it but may be related.
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Do you actually get dizzy or does your view of the road change?
No I feel a WAVE of dizziness in my head for about a second that catches me off guard and I have to grab the steering wheel to "ground" me. I never swerve or anything but it scares the crap out of me when it happens.
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I had sumtin maybe similar about 5 or 6 times happen to me.
It'd just come outta the blue, always on a high speed 2 lane.
Just all the sudden It'd be like I was sitting still and the road was coming at me at a intense speed, maybe sorta like a video game.
First time it happened I tried driving through it, shut my eyes, shook my head, couldn't shake it off. I gripped the wheel as hard as I could and did my best to negotiate the scene coming at me. Didn't pan out, couldn't do it, everything was outta control. First car that was coming at me was unbearable, I was ready to let go of the wheel and turn and duck, I had to get off the road.
Parked the truck, took a walk, I was fine, just couldn't drive.
My buddy took over driving and I was OK, the weirdness ceased.
It happened again and again over a period of about 3 years, I'd just get off the road immediately, wait a couple hours and everything would be OK, I could continue on.
There were two common denominators, one was the high speed two lane roads, the other was....well, I quit smokin' that schit and trying to drive, hasn't happened since.
It's on the higher side and I take Lisinopril. But I can't seem to reconcile why it only seems to happen when driving at highway speeds. And I don't think it's road rage or anything because I have had it happen when there's hardly any traffic. Does seem more common with traffic though but I may be imagining that.
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I haven't tried this but I may take some drives as a passenger vice the driver on the highway. If it doesn't happen when I'm not actually in the act of driving, maybe I have some neurological schit going on. Not sure why the speed would matter on that but who knows.
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Is it while you’re going through shadows of trees alongside the highway as in late in the afternoon or early morning? That can induce flicker vertigo.
We were all screened for it on our initial flight physical because we could have been assigned to rotary wing aircraft. Helo pilots have to deal with sunlight flickering through the rotors.
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I have had the same phenomena happen to me for a few years now. My doctor and I finally narrowed it down to Vertigo caused by a combination of an inner ear problem and my failing vision. The vision has been corrected by glasses. The inner ear was a result of an ear infection that changed the shape of the ear drum in some way. I can replicate the vertigo by standing on my deck and looking up at the sky. Immediately feel the world start to spin and have to grip the railing to keep from falling down. Doc mentioned a surgery that could be done on the ear to correct the drum issue but the odds of hearing loss afterwards has kept me from going that route. For now, I have learned to deal with it by looking down at my gauges when it occurs. That usually helps. Eventually I will need the ear corrected.
For what it's worth, I also take Lisinipril for blood pressure but the vertigo started long before that medication was added to my breakfast.
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