Mal de débarquement syndrome

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We NEVER called it that when I was young but thats what google comes up with! I used to get it a lot after a day on a boat. DH and I on holiday and couple of hours after end of the boat trip today, I have the same rocking sensation but I cannot for the life of me think of what we used to call it...

Sea legs? The sways? Land legs? Boat brain? There's some common name for it I'm sure, please mumsnet hivemind

Please help! Grew up in South East if that helps at all...

I don't know what it's called but I once spent three days in a boat and I remember the room still swaying for a while once I was on dry land..as someone who suffers with motion sickness, it wasn't the most fun I've had.

Bless you - not nice!

I also get it, but I don’t think i have ever heard a name for it.

It can be called land sickness, i.e. the opposite of sea sickness.

I used to work with people who spent the day on a floating pontoon and they called it Pontoon Fever 😃

I've had it many times, but I never even knew it had a name!

When I've had narrowboat holidays, I've had it the other way, ie a back and forward feeling, rather than side to side like on a sailing boat.

Wow that sounds trippy

After a particularly rough transatlantic crossing my body would not believe it was off the boat for a full week.

Oddly I never get seasick or bothered by the motion of the boat.

Motion sickness or sea legs/land legs.
I also get it for 2/3 days after being on a boat - not pleasant.

I assume that it’s to do with the inner ear?

I have heard that submariners get a more extreme version because their field of vision becomes affected by being in an enclosed space for so long.

I've always called it "vertigo" when I get it. But I can get it weirdly for no.reason too and that really is vertigo I think.

I had it after driving for eight hours.

with MDDS your brain switches to being on a boat but when you are back on land it doesn’t switch back. It can take months or years of rehab. 15 years after it triggered my husband still can’t go on boats in case he undoes the rehab

Currently suffering with this myself! 3 days after a boat trip. Fucking horrendous!

We call it sea legs I think?
I had it for a month after a 5 day cruise - thought I’d permanently broken my brain!

I had it for a month after floating around on a boat, had to take anti psychotics to regulate eyes and brain. was fine after a couple of days.

I get the same feeling after half an hour on a treadmill. It's not quite motion sickness or vertigo but maybe a cross between the two.

A couple if years ago I read an article about somebody who went on a two week cruise and got it. She thought it would go but it didn't and she constantly felt sick. Horrible.

It's a brain function problem. I used to get it after being on a boat or a plane. I would be dizzy for weeks, even after a short journey. I remember having to hold on because I thought I would keel over and i was utterly exhausted by it.

I had all the tests done, there was nothing to see. I was told it was MDD

There's no cure but I now take antipsychotics for bipolar, and I've not been bothered with it since.

It is way more debilitating than just being in the "finding your land legs" stage which is normal for a wee while once back on land.

I get it, also when I went ski-ing or on a rollercoaster. Even ice skating has set it off. Doesn't everyone get it? Everyone in my family does. I don't mind the sensation though, I quite like imagining I'm still on a boat when lying in bed.

That is AMAZING that two of you found it was fixed by antipsychotics! I'm guessing there's some well-studied neuroscience behind it, but I had no idea that a brain having difficulty with a physical readjustment would be closely related to a brain getting stuck in its imagination. Wow 🤯

The bends?

The correct technical term, I believe, is ‘the post-cruise weeble-wobbles’ 😀

When I was getting dizzy spells I was prescribed anti psychotics, they worked respecting the dizziness but I felt really over emotional and burnt out on them and had to stop taking them.

😂 @LoveHeartsFan