motion sickness at the cinema

middlewife

bestpud wrote: »

Ooh, that's interesting, Maureen.


I also get dizzy if I lie flat on my back, look up in the air, turn my head too quickly (I hate supermarket shopping!), chew hard (I can't eat toffee!), turn over quickly in bed or float on my back in a swimming pool.

I've been sure for a while that it's an ear problem, especially as I am far worse when I have a cold and my sinuses are probably a bit bunged up.

Best pud have a google on the Epley manoeuvre, the symptoms you describe can sometimes be treated really simply, it's due to little crystals building up in your inner ear. Last time mine came on was when i tipped my head back to put something on a high shelf, whilst turning quickly to my left - I found the floor coming up to meet me and had to sit on it for half an hour until the room stopped spinning, my son had to come and rescue me and get a colleague to drive me home from work as i was alone at the time. Thank god for mobile phones!

NoAngel

bestpud wrote: »

Ooh, that's interesting, Maureen.

I get motion sickness from computer games as well as when sitting to the side of a cinema screen as I mentioned earlier in the thread.

I adjust within a few minutes of playing a game but can't pan the camera angle around too quickly.

I also get dizzy if I lie flat on my back, look up in the air, turn my head too quickly (I hate supermarket shopping!), chew hard (I can't eat toffee!), turn over quickly in bed or float on my back in a swimming pool.

I've been sure for a while that it's an ear problem, especially as I am far worse when I have a cold and my sinuses are probably a bit bunged up.

Sounds like BPPV, have a little google search. You might be able to self treat with an Epley manoeuvre but if not, ask your GP to refer you to see an ENT doctor.

**professor~yaffle**

This might sound a bit off-the-wall but I wonder if it's anything to do with the refresh rate? My tv at home is an old one and if I look slightly sideways at the screen I can see it flickering, though it's not noticeable when I look head-on. I'm not sure how cinema projectors work these days but I imagine it's computerised. Could it be that it's slightly flickery and this is making you feel a bit muzzy-headed?

It could also be the darkness and the atmosphere there. Perhaps the stale air, and also your mind remembers that this is the place where you feel sick, so it happens again and again.

I get this trouble at the cinema, too, hence I rarely go.

Ladyhawk

So I'm in Dubai at the moment and went to the cinema tonight... And no sickness! I even had a ultra sweet Cinnabon before it so it wasn't the sugar. Next step is to try another cinema at home and see if that makes a difference