Peri caused motion sickness?

[NotSoSick]

In my early forties I found I couldn’t tolerate playground swings. I wasn’t sick as such but it just felt awful, I wanted to get straight off. A few years later I started low dose HRT with very few effects, but noticeably I can enjoy playground swings now like I always did before peri!
Just curious if anyone else noticed similar?

Absolutely!

I was queen of the roller coasters and thrill rides until I hit my mid-40s. I didn't really equate it with perimenopause to start with, just though "How odd, I never used to get motion sickness". I finally saw my GP who said that many women develop motion sickness in peri and that it would get worse. He was right. I went from just slight queasiness to full blown nausea and nothing helped. The actual Menopause didn't help it either.

GP finally Rx'd me the Scopolamine patch and it has changed my life! I'm back on almost all the coasters now!

That's really interesting. I've always been motion sick - never been able to manage anything but the tamest rollercoasters. And in the last few years it's got much worse. Never thought it could be peri related!

Good to know it’s not just me!

Yup - one of my lightbulb moments was getting such bad vertigo / motion sickness from an express lift in a high rise hotel that I had to sit down immediately for ages and felt like I was going to vom everywhere. Also cannot look at anything apart from stare straight ahead in the car and once relaxing ferry journeys are now very fraught.

Seriously, everyone. Have your GP Rx you the Scopolamine Patch if you're going somewhere where vertigo is likely (theme park, cruise, long ride, etc). You stick it behind your ear, it lasts 3 days, no drowsiness. They really work!