FOAK: The Spins - Am I Going To Die?

I had a mild attack of the spins tonight. No obvious provocation, attack
lasted a couple of minutes. I'd been eating, had maybe a glass or so of
wine, got up and washed my hands (messy food) and started to feel slightly
dizzy on the way back to the table. The dizziness increased after I sat
down, and there was interference with vision. Wife and child reported that
my eyes were scanning rapidly to and fro on a horizontal plane. No other
physical distress, psychological disturbance (apart from NFM), loss of
conscience etc, and the symptoms went away again after a couple of minutes.
If I'd been riding the bike, I'd have had to pull over, but I wouldn't have
had too much trouble doing that safely.

I've seen this sort of thing induced by spinning people in an office chair
for 30 seconds or so, at a CAA demonstration. Needless to say, nothing like
that was done to me.

I'm not going to trouble the medical profession unless it happens again, but
I'd be interested in likely causes. Are my semi-circular canals glitching?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

^^^^^^^^^^

Shame, you could have buried someone under the patio...

Probably. Google for "benign positional vertigo".

If it persists, they'll probably bung you on a spinning table during an
attack to try to sort it out. No biggie.

Or you might have a brain tumour.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Outfit withdrawal?

 

Coo, interesting. Ta.

Well, it sounds a bit like it, although I've no history of it, or any of the
head trauma/migraine stuff. I didn't have any nausea, either.

****. Better buy a Goldwing, quickly.

 

Not unless it bruised my prostate during extraction.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Years of alcohol-induced acclimatisation, that is.

Nice GL1000? In yellow?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

I've had them recently as has about 5 people from work.
It's a virus according to the local quack.
You'll feel fine for a day and then it'll come on sporadically for the next
week or so according to those in the know at work.

I felt fine all day yesterday and then felt sick and dizzy last night.

 

This is sounding like the same thing that kept me off work for 3 months.
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Open up your eyes, just to check that you're asleep, again

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Fr Jack

Ohhhhh! Riiiiiiiight! Gotcher.

Going the non-pysch route then, Mr Monotreme? Good call.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Heh. Nicely taken.

I was in Borders in Bristol on Saturday, waiting for the rest of the fambly
and leafing through the bike mags. I was on an artice about original
GL1000s in Classic Maniacs when they showed up and diagnosed a GoldWing itch
that was going to have to be scratched eventually. I asked if this was an
encouragement to bow to the inevitable, but received no clear answer...

The Hippo has two problems: the colour, and the Windjammer. Hmm.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

I've still got all the stuff to un-Windjammer it. And there's a can of
Halford's Gloss Black in the garage somewhere...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

That's the fucker, a helper at work has been off for 2 weeks already.

 

Don't worry old chap, there's nothing to fear. Your condition has been
brought on by what we chaps in the medical profession like to call
'Dnepritis'; in other words, close proximity to large ugly lumps of
Eastern Bloc motorcycles. The simple cure is to avoid all horrible cheap
motorcycles for a while and get plenty of fresh air.

 

Ta. So long as it's not some horrible degenerate disease that will stop me
driving/riding bikes ever again...

 

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:22:01 GMT, "platypus"

<swings pocket watch>

You want a nice little KH500, you do.

In blue, probably.

<snaps fingers>

 

Can I still masturbate?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Salad Dodger

Aaaaaand. you're back in the group.

It's looking a bit iffy, innit?

I'd pray for a last minute rush, IIWY.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Better fucking not be, it's Chimay in a fortnight.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

FFS! What's happening to standards of English usage in this group?

It's "May I still masturbate?".

And the answer's no.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

I'd say you just spazzed-out for a moment and it's nothing to worry
about unless it happens a lot. I'm not a medial expert though - in fact
I'm not really much of fan of doctors at all and am probably more of an
anti-medical expert. Non-alcohol-induced, one-off vertigo attacks aren't
really that uncommon though, are they?

And, yes, I'm sorry to say you are definitely going to die.