Hello, I just found this group and I’m hoping for some tips. I did a Fear of Flying course on Saturday which was horrendous, but I think this is due to my vertigo, rather than fear of flying. I saw a specialist for vestibular disorder on Wednesday, prior to the flying course, but I was worse than ever. The feeling is simply that I’m going to fall out of the sky and I want to curl up on the floor, except the floor of the plane isn’t safe either. I have a work trip to the US in a month. Can anyone tell me if anything works to help as I’m getting in a panic about it, I will take any drug needed, ear plugs, anything so long as I don’t feel like I’m going to die for a 9 hour flight. Thank you!
Hi Elena, welcome to the forum. Do you mind asking what your diagnosis is and how long you’ve been struggling with vertigo. The reason I ask is that folks from this forum may have suggestions tailored that could help. When the mav beast hit me, I was scheduled for a work trip and stupidly went ahead with it, I had been given steminel by a go but it did nothing for me, to be honest I had no idea what I was dealing with. However two years on, I flew this year and all was very good, I had started meds, got earugs and drank loads of water, my flight was only 3 hours but I survived OK. From recall lots of folks on this for do long trips so hopefully someone will reach out. Try not to over think it, it’ll raise your anxiety lots and remember its a whole month away, things can improve between now and then. Best of luck x
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Just wanted to say one thing: vestibular conditions can really heighten your anxiety levels and make you much more sensitive to perceived risk. I totally empathise.
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Have you been diagnosed with migraine associated vertigo, vestibular migraine or secondary hydrops, or are you more thinking of ‘vertigo’ as a fear of heights?