Re: Vertigo warnings on BBC

On Aug 18, 5:34 pm, "DAB sounds worse than FM" <dab.is@dead> wrote:
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No warnings about vertigo inducing scenes in last night's brilliant
rock climbing program, nor offers of counseling from Julie B.
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Isn't vertigo due to the effects on the inner ear - so images
couldn't cause it.

How would your inner ear know if you were looking over Beachy Head or
looking at your keyboard?

It wouldn't - so the experience isn't true vertigo - although I think
the term has come to encompass any sort of height related problems.

If you look at the caption below the picture on here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28medical%29

"Most people experience at least some degree of vertigo sensation while
looking at images like this."

although I can't see any mention of fear of heights on that page, so maybe
the common usage of the word is wrong?

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Thanks for that link. I don't know why, given that it has affected my
work duties, I never thought to really research it.
This time last year in fact I was looking for another job because I
realised that (seemingly) quite suddenly, I could no longer go up
trees.
Instead the bosses asked me to stay and agreed no more tree work for
me.
It was terrible. And really frustrating because I couldn't understand
it. I would see a tree, not even consider a problem in going up, but
before I was even 4 or 5 metres up I would get quite faint-ish.
What I notice is that air temperature makes a difference.

Admittedly, many years ago something similar affected me, and rather
long term after a bad cross channel sailing. But much worse because I
couldn't stop the spinning even when lying down. it was like I had
never left the boat.
At work it was a joke. I'd be doing a high hedge, feel I was falling
and had to first look at surrounding structures before proceeding with
'falling safely'. That meant, looking at a building near by and if it
seemed to be moving then it was me and not not my ladder, the ground
under it, scaffolding or what ever I was on.

Eventually I went to my then north London doctor and told him. He
didn't want to know. He said I looked like the healthiest guy he'd
seen for months. My occupation was enough to confirm that for him.
He refused to investigate it further than that even after I asked what
do I do the next time it hits me whilst walking up the high street and
have to ly on the ground like a drunk because I just can't keep
standing.
He asked how long since I had a holiday. Then he asked if I had a
girlfriend and when I said no to that question, his answer began with
"ahhhh, now, I know what you really need.!" but then didn't really
elaborate further.

I had to go elsewhere, got given a sort of stone-age diet and it
cleared up except for a brief return (I thought) after I had gotton
stuck up a tree at around 35m for about 2 hours when a sudden storm
blew up.

Some years later, after I had left that area, I read that a doctor at
that surgery had been nicked for interfering with young male patients.
I always wonder if it was him. Shame I can't remember his name.

.

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