I was wondering if anyone had been on motion simulator ride post MS diagnosis and your experience of what it did to your head and balance afterwards? I am ambulant and used to love these rides pre MS, but worry that the visuals coupled with motion may be too much. I can always shut my eyes if it gets too much,but wonder if the motion would be detrimental to me anyway. I do lurch around sometimes anyway like my gyroscope is out of kilter! We are thinking of going to Universal Studios Hollywood at some point, with a family member who would absolutely love it, and I don’t want to go with false expectations of going on the rides, rather than just walking around the park.
A friend has one of those Virtual Reality headsets that you put a smart phone in. I started watching a sequence about a ghost train to see what I made of it, and lasted about a minute. Long before anything scary happened, or the ghost train plunged down anything but the mildest of dips, off came that headset. Even then, my balance was all over the place for a good couple of hours afterwards and I was feeling clammy and nauseated with motion sickness.
It was definitely not for me. And my balance is not too bad usually - it was one of those experiences that reminded me that that MS had done more damage than I had thought. It seems that my own system manages to compensate, pretty much, in normal life, but is instantly overwhelmed by the exaggerated inputs from the virtual world. I won’t be doing that again.
My advice? Avoid, unless you want to see your breakfast again.
Alison
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Blast…that’s what I thought. I’m not too good when turning round quickly on my own two feet, but hoped somehow, that sitting down on aride whilst it all went on around me, might be ok. Oh well, back to the drawing board. I shall just have to enjoy something else instead. I too find MS has done more than I thought. Just had the good news that I am coeliac too. Whoopee! Not the best news for a vegetarian. I am grateful that I can walk though… p.s. I’m an Alison too!
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Oh that’s bad luck about the coeliac dx. I suppose there is the hope that you will feel much better now you know what foods to avoid, but avoiding them is going to be darned difficult, as you say.
Alison
Hi again, funnily enough, I haven’t got any symptoms that I know of. Apparently that’s the worst type, but I imagine it is because people will be less compliant than if they suffered with it. Still have a lot to be thankful for.
Oh if only I could still loop de loop!
Is that a euphamism?
Please yourselves!
pollx
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Ooh our Polly, calm yourself down. I think there’s been a bit too much giddiness this week.
S x