Woman still feeling permanently seasick 5 years after stepping off cruise ship - Polidicks

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/o7vk.jpg[/img] [quote][B]While Michele-Marie Roberts was enjoying a two-week dream cruise to Hawaii with her husband and two sons, she had no idea that her world would be turned upside down when she stepped on to dry land.[/B] "I walked down the gangplank and collapsed - completely blacked out. I got the flight back home and I was staggering all over the shop. "I was slurring my speech - on one occasion I blacked out while chopping vegetables," she recalls. The holiday ended in January 2008 but Michele-Marie still feels as if she is on that cruise ship. She's been seasick for five years.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21786689[/url] Can't even imagine how horrible this would be to endure

I wonder if another boat ride would reverse this????? [editline]17th March 2013[/editline] source: im not a doctor

How is this even possible? [editline]sada[/editline] Nevermind, explained in article.

[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;39942081]I wonder if another boat ride would reverse this????? [editline]17th March 2013[/editline] source: im not a doctor[/QUOTE] [quote]In particularly rough seas during the cruise, Michele-Marie says that everyone was falling over and suffering from seasickness apart from her. Yet on dry land, she is the one slurring her words and being mistaken for being drunk.[/quote] possibly

she just needs to get a job on a boat obviously if she served drinks she'd never spill anything ever [editline]17th March 2013[/editline] no matter how choppy the seas

The condition is called "Mal de Debarquement syndrome" Which roughly translates to "Getting off the boat syndrome" My mother had this for about 2 years, but it finally went away when she went on another cruise. It's terrible to live with when you have it, cant do shit.

This is on par with a girl having unlimited orgasms. And that is still so terrible.

[QUOTE=101kl;39942655] My mother had this for about 2 years, but it finally went away when she went on another cruise. [/QUOTE] [IMG]http://dirtdiggler2823.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/thumbz__bigstockphoto_doctor_with_thumbs_up_1738269.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=101kl;39942655]The condition is called "Mal de Debarquement syndrome" Which roughly translates to "Getting off the boat syndrome" My mother had this for about 2 years, but it finally went away when she went on another cruise. It's terrible to live with when you have it, cant do shit.[/QUOTE] When I was reading this article, this: [quote] "The more motion I am in the better," she explains. [/quote] Made me consider that. She says she'd never get on a boat again, but what if that's what's needed to rejig whatever switch in her brain has gone wrong? I'm no neurologist but this whole thing looks like a bug in her brain making it think she's still on a boat and is incorrectly compensating for it.

I went on a sailing trip for about 4 days, when I got off my brain pretty much thought I was still on the boat, the world was acting like waves - lasted about 2 days and ended up vomiting every 2 hours. Pretty sure it was vertigo though.

Whenever I go swimming on a wavey beach I can't shake off the feeling of being carried up and then down by a wave for several days.

Being seasick is fucking terrible, words can't express how sorry I feel for this woman. :(

Yo ho ho a pirate's life for her! :v:

The boat didn't want her to leave So the boat won't leave her

[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;39942764][IMG]http://dirtdiggler2823.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/thumbz__bigstockphoto_doctor_with_thumbs_up_1738269.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] That's a really ugly tie.

[QUOTE=kaze4159;39942949]The boat didn't want her to leave So the boat won't leave her[/QUOTE] when you get on [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1iycfzd2w1qap3ouo1_400.jpg[/IMG] you'll never get off

There are some tribes of people that live exclusively on boats- when they get off them they get 'landsickness' Shit's crazy, yo.

i didnt know so many people had a problem with seasickness for me the only thing that happens is the night after i get off a boat i feel waves while i lay in bed, but i dont get how it makes people sick. it's just that rocking feeling for me and its not even annoying.

[QUOTE=krakadict;39943271]when you get on [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1iycfzd2w1qap3ouo1_400.jpg[/IMG] you'll never get off[/QUOTE] I approve of this post

Sounds like she had a stroke and caused part of the brain to be rewired.

Never thought that could happen or what seasickness is. Been on a boats and such and never once felt any negative feeling when getting off or being on it.

is it just me or is it always women that end up with these fucking weird conditions

I feel sorry for the husband, too, having to look after two autistic children and his now ill wife :( Semi related story, I went on a vicious version of the spinning tea cups (it was spinning so fast) at some old fair ground when I was about 14, after getting off I felt really strange and I had a headache for about two days. After that, my balance was messed up and even today if I tilt my head I lose all balance and possibly fall over, it's horrible But, I do know the cause (I think) and it is treatable which makes me feel so much better. It's basically particles in your 'inner ear' which deals with balance, but the particles cause you to become confused and dizzy. It's called Vertigo (vertigo isn't a fear of heights, that's a common misconception!) I'd imagine this woman's is like this only all the time and 10x worse, poor woman.

[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;39942845]Whenever I go swimming on a wavey beach I can't shake off the feeling of being carried up and then down by a wave for several days.[/QUOTE] Yeah, after like an hour on a choppy sea, I occasionally lose my balance thinking I'm on a wave, trippy.

After being on a cruise for a couple of days, I usually feel like I'm still on the ship when I lay down on the bed at home. It doesn't make me feel sick or anything, it's just a funky feeling that the whole earth is swaying as if there were waves. Then when I wake up it's completely gone. I can't even imagine how she feels after 5 years of sea-sickness.

I get that feeling when i go swimming for a while.

She must forever live at sea, only returning once every 10 years to be with her true love.

Vertigo maybe? [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo[/url]

I remember one time my family went to this one water-park thingy, and there was a wave machine. I was on that sucker for like 4 hours. When I took a nap back at our house and woke up, I felt like I was still on the ride, Like I felt myself bobbing up and down. It was really freaking weird.

Man, I don't get seasick, I get carsicks, can't think how much of a hell it would be to be carsick for 5 years.