12 hrs of boat yoga Vertigo

Rhylsailer99

Rhylsailer99

Well-Known Member
Joined
19 Jun 2020
Messages
837
Visit site
Last week I spent around 12 hrs doing what I can only describe as boat yoga afloat. Then a few days later wham vertigo. After doing some research it seems I was doing movements that mimick the Epley manouvre whilst inside a port locker. After 3 days of head spin I am just starting to feel normal ish. Has anyone else experienced this after boat work?
 
Not boat but car work. I saw a hearing specialist a few weeks ago. Apparently within the inner ear are some very small crystals associated with the cranial nerve, on which balance depends. These crystals can move, increasingly the case as we age, disruption of these by a millimetre or less causes the problem.
 
Absolutely very interested in this! It's called BPPV. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. I hate anti fouling beneath the keels on my bilge keeper for the same reason. However I think a virus can cause similar symptoms. I have never had it formally diagnosed, nor have I ever treated myself with the exercises but I really should. Last year my daughter's boyfriend was keen to impress so they did the antifouling. Now they are married so they have no incentive! So I should try the exercises, but I worry I will just make myself feel ill. It's quite unpleasant. I tried and gave up pilates for the same reason.... floor work.
 
Formal diagnosis is the Dix Hallpike manoeuvre. Epley is one treatment. If that doesn't work (it often works) then Brandt- Darhoff daily exercises over 2 or 3 weeks. Symptoms often resolve naturally so getting over the tipping point and doing the treatment is my issue. Treatment might make anti fouling a nicer job...... or antifouling might restart the Symptoms. I've had them quite a bit for 3 weeks since I was crawling about under the hull in preparation for AF. Symptoms make me want a fin keel, they look so much nicer to work on!
 
I’ve only had vertigo badly once, when I got my tinnitus fifty years ago. Although there are a few serious causes, I usually think of it as the most disabling condition that won’t do you any harm, along with a nosebleed.
 
Some years ago I woke up into the morning and tried to get out of bed - as soon as I raised myself up from horizontal I felt incredibly incredibly dizzy. Never had anything like it before. I couldn’t get to the GP so one came to me - diagnosed an inner ear infection, was given some little white tablets and it went away over a couple of days. It was totally debilitating.
 
A good chum of mine suffered from a bout of labyrinthitis, which knocked him sideways. He had been a very keen hill walker and an accomplished climber, so I believe it affected him more by depriving him of those pastimes.
 
jamie N said:
A good chum of mine suffered from a bout of labyrinthitis, which knocked him sideways. He had been a very keen hill walker and an accomplished climber, so I believe it affected him more by depriving him of those pastimes.
Click to expand...
I believe that this was the cause of my condition, possibly viral. Climbing was never something that I was noted for, but I lost my high-tone hearing overnight. Previously, I could often hear bats, but now many bird-calls are lost to me.
 
Rhylsailer99 said:
Last week I spent around 12 hrs doing what I can only describe as boat yoga afloat. Then a few days later wham vertigo. After doing some research it seems I was doing movements that mimick the Epley manouvre whilst inside a port locker. After 3 days of head spin I am just starting to feel normal ish. Has anyone else experienced this after boat work?
Click to expand...

I’ve had the opposite effect.

One morning I woke with a sensation that my head was violently spinning. I couldn’t stand up and suffered carpet burns crawling to the loo to be sick, convinced I was going to fall off the floor as the room spun.

Epley manoeuvres certainly got the ear crystals – otoliths, moving eventually into the right place where they had little effect. My perception of movement was altered as a doc put it my brain was recalibrating its sensitivity to moving.

The positive side was that as my brain became accustomed to a strange sense of movement I was no longer troubled by sea sickness.
 
I have not experienced this problem myself but have a friend who has. I have got this idea that as we get older we spend more time with our head in one position either straight and level or when a sleep. We do not exercise our balance organs to their extreme enough. I think things like the Epley manouvre is one excercise worth doing occasionally just to avert this condition. Absurdly I like to swim and when doing so like to roll, dive and somersault etc under water because I think it might be good to get the fluids moving in balance canals. ol'will
 
I woke up one morning with this BPPV thing about three years ago, had it really bad. Everything spinning, couldnt walk, just fell flat, vomiting all the time. It was grim, was taken to doctors crawling on my hands and knees and sent to hospital. Was in the stroke unit for two days which felt a bit overkill and was dead depresssing, but they wouldn’t let me out until I finally managed to walk unaided. They never showed me the manoeuvre!!
 
I need to finish off my engine mounts, but every day is windy. I do not like the idea of rowing accross a choppy bay In the Menai Straits. I can do the Epley manouvre now without feeling like I am on a gravity wheel upside down. Still not 100% though, every now and then I get a feeling the ground just moved.
 
Wife suffered a dose. Went to the surgery immediately and the on-call doctor performed an Employ manoeuvre. It wasn't a startling success and wife's screams reverberated through the surgery.
It settled down.
Out of interest, I researched the Employ manoeuvre and found a significant difference between the doctor's interpretation and that on the internet.
When wife suffered another attack, I took her through the net version with an instant cessation of the attack.
I bl.ieve the difference was down to rapidly throwing wife backwards on the bed with her head turned towarsds the affected side.
As an engineer, it made sense as the inertia perhaps caused the crystals to return to where they belonged.
 
FairweatherDave said:
Formal diagnosis is the Dix Hallpike manoeuvre. Epley is one treatment. If that doesn't work (it often works) then Brandt- Darhoff daily exercises over 2 or 3 weeks. Symptoms often resolve naturally so getting over the tipping point and doing the treatment is my issue. Treatment might make anti fouling a nicer job...... or antifouling might restart the Symptoms. I've had them quite a bit for 3 weeks since I was crawling about under the hull in preparation for AF. Symptoms make me want a fin keel, they look so much nicer to work on!
Click to expand...
Brant darhoff worked for me. Ten days of exercises and (touch wood) no reoccurrence
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top