Dizziness after driving.. has anyone ever experienced this ...

[Greyarea12]

Hi

First Post on MN. Posting here in the hope someone may recognise what could be going on.

Got a new car on Tuesday. After driving it both Tuesday, Wednesday and today I have terrible dizziness & nausea that is lasting hours upon hours. It's actually unbearable.. I feel ill with it. The car is quite powerful and I have a feeling it has something to maybe do with that.

I have never felt like this with a car. I'm quite certain there's no fumes coming from car causing it as my daughter is fine after being in car.

Bit of background.. I have idiopathic intracranial hypertension, although it is slowly but surely improving. Driving has never affected me in terms of this condition.

Has anyone ever experienced nausea & dizziness after driving and if so was there anything that helped? I feel abit daft calling a doctor (they very much fob you off where I am) but I am considering going to a chemist for some motion sickness tablets.

My OH has contract cars so changes every 3 years. Never had an issues until he got a Mazda which drove super smoothly. Within 2 minutes of me being in the car I would be feeling boiling hot, sick, dizzy and just plain awful. I had three years of slow deep breaths in through the nose, out through the mouth and focussing on the horizon each time I was a passenger.

@Woobeedoo this is my fear that it is going to be like this for the duration I have the car. I have driven brand news cars before, really smooth, never had an issue. Only difference is with this one i can feel it has more power in it when pulling away because of the Gdi and I'm wondering if it's that that is causing me the dizziness/nausea. Going to try get some motion sickness tablets and see if they help. Fingers crossed.

Know nothing about engines (others will)

Any chance some exhaust fumes could be finding their way inside somehow?

My dh can't be in a car that accelerates hard as it triggers vertigo.

Just want to give an update on this incase this happens to anyone else in the future and they are looking for suggestions as to what might be causing it.

Opticians have confirmed binocular vision and have prescribed glasses with a prism in them. The binocular vision is what is causing the dizziness and nausea after driving along with double vision which I have experienced for several years since third cranial never palsy back in 2015. Something about the car has exacerbated the symptoms of binocular vision.

Thank you to all who replied.

Gosh that’s interesting, so glad to hear you solved the mystery and can enjoy driving again.

Ive started to have this over the past year, car is the same one but I think mine is peri menopause, vertigo is quite bad at times, whooshy head feeling.
I have to drive quite slowly now, motorway driving sets it off very badly, the whizzing past of the white lines, particularly any chevrons.

Yes I get this, if I'm in the car for a while, it's worse when I'm a passenger but I do still get it when driving. Drove to Cornwall from Scotland once. Thought I was on my road out, head spinning and felt physically sick!