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2 months ago
in Video Game-induced Nausea, Dizziness and Headaches on The Daleisphere
Hello everyone. I stumbled across this and decided to post my input for all. I'm in my early 20's and have played video games all my life. They never bothered me once. I could play gameboy in the car, I could sit for hours with a console, same with pc. But almost a year ago I started feeling really sick. Like to the point where I was sick to my stomach and had a bad headache. My history is playing all kinds of games, mostly RTS for PC like the C&C franchise with no problem. I played all consoles all types of games with no problems. I've had the same CRT 27" tv for a long time and played 360 on it since release with no problem. Then I started CoD4 (& now 5) about a year and a half ago with no problem, then things started to change. I was feeling crappy during play but I never thought it was the games. Then I bought xblive and was only able to play for 30 Min and I would be just sick I had to lay down. It's been the same until this day. A few hours ago I played cod5 on ps3 network on a 42" plasma and quit in about 5 min. I've felt like crap since and that was about 7 hrs ago. It seems no matter what game, what tv, what console, no matter distance or anything I get sick now no matter what. Except, I can watch tv no problem, movies at the theatre, Internet use, long times at the computer for work an no problem. This puzzled me so I thought back to changes and I can think of one medication I started when this did, around the same time. It's a SSRI to replace another SSRI I was on. I'm going to try to switch that, and also I talked to an eye doctor and she recommended crizal lenses for eye glasses. They supposedly cut glare by 99% she told me people use them when they are at a monitor for long times or night driving. I might try both of those, I'm also interested in the Ginger pill. I would hope this isn't permanent cuz I want to game again soon!! Thanks dr listening to my rant! Hope eveyone feels a little bit better!
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Dale Dietrich
Wow, that's sad Kyle. Please let us know if things improve and how. I think aging is probably relevant to all this. I wasn't a gamer until the original Halo came out back in 2001. That means I was 36 before I ever played any video game. So, I don't know if my being younger would have made things better. I doubt glare is the issue though. As for me, its always game specific. As mentioned above I'm probably 20 hours into Prince of Persia and I feel no nausea or headaches of any kind.
