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All the "fun" of being pissed without drinking alcohol.
Come upon me Friday afternoon it was awful, Saturday felt like the worst hangover ever!
Anybody have experience of this and how long to recover?
I have managed to see a doctor and they have prescribed tablets for the dizziness.
This is the Yuppie Flu thing isn't it - my mum had it and still seems to be affected by it - she can't use escalators or stairs (without holding on ideally with both hands) or stand on anything higher than a couple of inches without getting dizzy.
She had it early 90s (hence me calling it yuppie Flu) and she was generally ok after about 18 months initially then about 8 years ago it flared up again and has remained...she is generally fine until she has to raise herself higher than the ground and then it all goes to pot.
Absolutely no help for you, but when she first got it, she did fully recover, but it wasn't quick, sorry.
My sympathies. I had it about ten years ago. Was brutal.
3-4 days in the worst of it from what I remember. Anti-nausea pills made me feel worse than the nausea.
Cleared up again fairly quickly. I went to Iceland bike touring 10 days later, although I was a little nervous of a relapse out in the highlands…
Glad to hear someone had a far quicker recovery...I posted my experience (as someone living with the person suffering it) and then thought it was a bad move as recovery time was a while - your story is far more positive.
My wife has had it a few times recovery time is random it seams
Yeah a mate had it, couldn't move his head without vomitting but made a pretty quick recovery, no side affects or reoccurance & is fit as a butchers dog.
Yeah it's bad. It won't last though.
I found being inside was far worse than being out. And oddly/luckily once I was over the worst I found I could ride and feel ok whilst being barely able to stand inside.
The bad thing is you will now get reoccurrences of this, but these won't be as bad or as long lasting as the first.
And the anti nausea tablets didn't help so I sacked those off in favour of minimising inside time.
And iirc about 2ish weeks total and 4-5 days of being really bad. Subsequent reoccurrences have lasted a few days per go.
The yuppie flu comment above is a bit bizarre - wasn't that chronic fatigue syndrome?
Had labyrinthitis twice in ten years. Not nice but the worst does subside for me in a few days as your brain / balance system gets used to things. The pills are basically travel sickness ones and cheaper over the counter. Stopping the pills and getting out walking in the fresh air seems to work best for me to speed up the balance adaption process.
Was about 2 weeks before I was mostly OK. I tried to go back on site at work too soon and had a bit of a dizzy wobble so worked from home for the second week.
I don't think so...although it might have been...I don't remember that but do recall the doc suggesting it was this yuppie Flu thing and a year or so later it was being referred to as labyrinthitis...but this was very early 90s and I didn't pay much attention back then as I was an ignorant teenager who just wanted to get out and ride his bike.
I'll ask next time I'm chatting with my mum though. It wasn't intentionally said to be incorrect, so if it is, I'll post up and correct it (well not my original post but post another comment flagging my first one was wrong).
Absolutely horrible thing, I felt like I had stroke symptoms, could hardly speak everything was going slow, mouth wouldn’t work fully and the dizziness and nausea you have my full sympathy. It hadn’t to me one week before lock down, missed my friends funeral as I could hardly stand up.
I had it about ten years ago. I was unable to do anything for a couple of days and just stayed in bed listening to the radio. I tried riding a bike after about a week and could manage off road along the canal but occasionally just fell over. It took about 2 weeks until I could drive again and manage to look over my shoulder when riding.
As above, it seems to take a variable amount of time to recover from, but in my case it was definitely days rather than weeks.
Yuppie flu was definitely chronic fatigue syndrome.
Took me about 2-3 weeks to recover but I still had the odd spell of unpleasant symptoms for a while afterwards.
Had it eleven years ago, and Jesus was it horrible! Took me a LONG time to recover, three to four months. Like others have said, the anti-nausea drugs are worse than the nausea. Walking was what helped me more than anything else, and one day I was just fine.
Have had a few recurrences in the past few years, but never really for longer than a day or two. There are some things that I just cannot do now, though. Any VR stuff is instant pukeyness, for instance! And if I'm sitting on a train and the one next to me pulls away, that sets me off as well.