Is anyone here that is bilateral still drive? I could use some tips on getting back to driving. Thanks.
I get nauseous riding & my balance is so bad just trying to walk I figured I didn't need to be driving. When I ride I can hardly stand up after I get out of the car. I must be a real wimp! LOL. I've got to do better than this. Thanks for reply.
Bilateral. Only stopped driving when I'm really dizzy. I don't know what it is but when I'm a little off and I drive, I'm okay and sometimes even feel better. I think it's something about how the brain processes that hand to mind feature and over rides the mind to ear signals.
Bilateral, stopped driving a few months after my first monster attack, avoid even riding in a car whenever possible, have not been on a train or plane since before 9/11. But I suspect I am a very extreme case.
Brownrecluse, I feel the same way about riding in a car. The last time I drove when I got out of the car to walk I could not stand up. I was sick for days.
I don't believe that we are wimps or extreme cases. I very seldom drive as my brain fog is bad enough most of the time that I don't want to take a chance on causing harm to others. When the fog lets up some and I do drive, I stick close to home. I'm fortunate in that respect as my church, primary care doctor, dentist, and WalMart and Kroger's are all within no more than a mile radius from me. However, my other doctors are much farther and then I have to depend on others to drive me. Even then just riding as passenger, I often have to close my eyes, otherwise the dizziness hits hard.
Thanks marion, You're lucky to live close to most everything. I'm in a rural area & most days a 10-25 mile errand see endless.
I don't drive if I'm dizzy! But, I do drive and no longer have vertigo. Seems balance issues are only when walking--not when driving. I agree, the brain compensates for different situations. I'm not bilateral either.
Does anyone find they have a hard time backing up, iam all over the place when I have to back out of my drive!!!forward is fine, not so much in reverse.
I have that same problem. I wonder why. I have to keep checking so as not to hit anything. And that new feature some cars have with the backwards screen just makes it worse. That backwards motion doesn't help, even if I'm a passenger.
I hear you plus the newer cars are sloped in the front so you cannot see where to stop at a parking place with a pole in front. I have to,use a pillow..wow showing my age now....and have to stick my head out the window to back up...but back when I was sixteen that is how thy taught you to do it...mirrors make me dizzy.. I knew some smart Alec will say. Learn how to drive. , but that is not the point if you have bilateral.