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PostPosted: 20:35 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Severe dizziness and sweating during flight? Reply with quote

Had a short 1.5 hour flight today. I like flying and never had any issues until today. About an hour into the flight I got super dizzy and sweating a ridiculous amount. Luckily we were just about to descend and it kind of went away after about 5-10 minutes. This wasn't just feeling unwell, I thought I might pass out and was half way to going to the toilet to throw up.

I have 2 more short flights tomorrow and Google just says possible vertigo but I have never had an issue before. It could also be anxiety but I like flying and think it's awesome. I do have some emergency Valium with me so I might take a couple but I would rather not until I am back in the UK.

Any ideas anyone?
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PostPosted: 22:05 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

How's your general health at the moment?

Any colds, coughs etc and you could be coming down with something, the change in altitude / air pressure could be making your slightly bunged up due to cold cause balance issues that make you feel crap?
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Huge EDIT: Go see a doc if you experience this again. I don't want to scare you with the worst that could happen. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:15 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm currently staying near Victoria Peak on the second to top floor of a serviced apartment. It's about 500 metres above sea level. This makes me feel nausea sometimes.
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Possibly blocked ears or ear infection. It'll make you feel off balance, which will make you feel dizzy and probably sick.

Failing that, it's bad aids.
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PostPosted: 22:43 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's Zika, worse than the bad Aids

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PostPosted: 22:51 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like anxiety to me. I've had it when I was walking through town once, felt like I was about to pass out and got all hot and flustered The world's smallest violin player, just for you!
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PostPosted: 22:52 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pro tip: lift your feet off the floor of the plane and your arms off the armrests whenever you hear the 'bong' noise, or they say the word 'turbulence'. Works a charm for me.

I am not a good flyist though. Sweat and massive shakyhand pilot "thanksfornotkillingme" at the end of the flight is standard.
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PostPosted: 23:40 - 15 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 00:41 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

UnknownStuntman wrote:


I am not a good flyist though. Sweat and massive shakyhand pilot "thanksfornotkillingme" at the end of the flight is standard.


Same here TBH. Man was not designed to be put in a pressurised metal tube 7miles above the ground. Also it should not be possible for a 100ton machine with floppy bendy wings, and a body made of 1mm thick aluminium to get off the ground and stay in the air.

I have a theory with flying, some find laughable but it's basically the black dog syndrome.

If you only fly once a year to Spain and back you will probably be fine, but become a jet setter, world hopper or travel dozens of times a year for business, and your pushing your luck too far and it's not a case of if but when something bad happens.
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PostPosted: 07:09 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonko The Sane wrote:
How's your general health at the moment?

Any colds, coughs etc and you could be coming down with something, the change in altitude / air pressure could be making your slightly bunged up due to cold cause balance issues that make you feel crap?


I have a bit of a cold but not full on. I was fine during the first hour of the flight though. It just randomly started with no turbulence which is confusing me, making me think it's more a mental thing.

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Huge EDIT: Go see a doc if you experience this again. I don't want to scare you with the worst that could happen. Thumbs Up


Well that post is gonna give me more anxiety than getting on the plane. Laughing

ScaredyCat wrote:
Possibly blocked ears or ear infection. It'll make you feel off balance, which will make you feel dizzy and probably sick.

Failing that, it's bad aids.


Well I will try sucking on some sweets the whole journey to keep my ears well and truly popped at all times.

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Sounds like anxiety to me. I've had it when I was walking through town once, felt like I was about to pass out and got all hot and flustered The world's smallest violin player, just for you!


I like flying though. I haven't flown for a few years but I wasn't really anxious about it at all. I kind of like hurtling through the air in a metal can.

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Pro tip: lift your feet off the floor of the plane and your arms off the armrests whenever you hear the 'bong' noise, or they say the word 'turbulence'. Works a charm for me.

I am not a good flyist though. Sweat and massive shakyhand pilot "thanksfornotkillingme" at the end of the flight is standard.


Noted, I will try this if it happens again although there wasn't much turbulence of shaking of the plan that I can remember.

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Same here TBH. Man was not designed to be put in a pressurised metal tube 7miles above the ground. Also it should not be possible for a 100ton machine with floppy bendy wings, and a body made of 1mm thick aluminium to get off the ground and stay in the air.

I have a theory with flying, some find laughable but it's basically the black dog syndrome.

If you only fly once a year to Spain and back you will probably be fine, but become a jet setter, world hopper or travel dozens of times a year for business, and your pushing your luck too far and it's not a case of if but when something bad happens.


I know I don't need to quote statistics to say you are safer flying somewhere than driving and lots of people drive around multiple times a day let alone ride one of those death machine motorcycles. Laughing
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PostPosted: 07:24 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stop carrying drugs and you'll stop sweating like a smuggler walking through customs past the friendly dog. Wink
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PostPosted: 07:26 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's probably nothing, yet it could by anything from sudden drop of the blood pressure and/or blood sugar (didn't eat much, didn't sleep much as well), dehydration, stress related problem (many people get panic attacks when they are in relaxed mood, after a long and stressful events, as all the hormones are gone and their body gets ''addicted'' to them), age related thing as well as a brain tumor, ear infection, pinched nerve in your spine and other things.

To calm your nerves, do the drugs you've got. Or magnesium, that helps to calm the nerves as well. IF you don't feel alright, go to see a GP, just to make sure, as anxiety has the same symptoms as other more serious things.

TL; DR It could be nothing and anything at the same time. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 07:33 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

RhynoCZ wrote:
It's probably nothing, yet it could by anything from sudden drop of the blood pressure and/or blood sugar (didn't eat much, didn't sleep much as well), dehydration, stress related problem (many people get panic attacks when they are in relaxed mood, after a long and stressful events, as all the hormones are gone and their body gets ''addicted'' to them), age related thing as well as a brain tumor, ear infection, pinched nerve in your spine and other things.

To calm your nerves, do the drugs you've got. Or magnesium, that helps to calm the nerves as well. IF you don't feel alright, go to see a GP, just to make sure, as anxiety has the same symptoms as other more serious things.

TL; DR It could be nothing and anything at the same time. Thumbs Up


I didn't sleep much, maybe 2 hours the night before but I did have a bacon roll before the flight. Well I have 2 connecting flights today so will see how that goes.
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PostPosted: 07:33 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
Stop carrying drugs and you'll stop sweating like a smuggler walking through customs past the friendly dog. Wink


If a dog can smell valium, it has my respect. Laughing
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PostPosted: 09:59 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Surely you didn't have the fish for dinner?
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PostPosted: 10:04 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 10:08 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

defblade wrote:
Surely you didn't have the fish for dinner?

I think I did, and don't call me Shirley!
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PostPosted: 12:30 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

defblade wrote:
Surely you didn't have the fish for dinner?


Maybe I should visit a hospital

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PostPosted: 12:58 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Symptoms sound like simple motion sickness to me. (which is anything but simple if you are on the receiving end of it).

Anyone can suffer from it and it's not always predictable.

Look out of the window at the horizon, not at something inside the plane. Motion sickness is caused when your eyes are saying you are staying still (inside of the plane isn't moving) but balance organs in your ears say you're moving. If your eyes and ears agree, you tend not to get it (or get it as quickly/badly)

Anyone who says they don't suffer from motion sickness has never been taken for an air experience flight in the back seat of a de Havilland Chipmunk by a retired RAF fast jet pilot in a showing off mood.
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PostPosted: 13:07 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Symptoms sound like simple motion sickness to me. (which is anything but simple if you are on the receiving end of it).

Anyone can suffer from it and it's not always predictable.

Look out of the window at the horizon, not at something inside the plane. Motion sickness is caused when your eyes are saying you are staying still (inside of the plane isn't moving) but balance organs in your ears say you're moving. If your eyes and ears agree, you tend not to get it (or get it as quickly/badly)

Anyone who says they don't suffer from motion sickness has never been taken for an air experience flight in the back seat of a de Havilland Chipmunk by a retired RAF fast jet pilot in a showing off mood.


I was on an aisle seat so this seems like the most likely. Thumbs Up
It just caught me so off guard and it was so intense when it happened.
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PostPosted: 14:42 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Anyone who says they don't suffer from motion sickness has never been taken for an air experience flight in the back seat of a de Havilland Chipmunk by a retired RAF fast jet pilot in a showing off mood.


I have had that precise experience, and I felt ill (but kept it all inside). Additionally though, the moment I heard "you have control", the motion sickness vanished.

So to OP, if this happens again ask for a go on the controls. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:51 - 16 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have physically passed out from motion sickness before. It was on a particularly rough ferry journey from Lerwick to Aberdeen.

I also got seasick on a stand-up paddle board in the Mediterranian once. You tend to salivate a lot too and get an odd taste in your mouth.

Also keep off the drink and make sure you have some food in your stomach.

Ultimately though, the only known cure is to sit with your back to a tree...
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