Have you ever been on a bridge and felt like your scooter was going to fall off the planet with you on it because the bridge moved? Sort of like a wind hitting you from different directions all at once but you can't feel the wind.
Well, I'm on Cipro+Naproxen and I'm assuming that combo is causing me to feel like that while riding and it's freaking me out! I have at least 2 weeks of this crap to look forward to and if it gets any worse, I'm not going to risk riding. I never even thought of the risks when I started but after riding it's on my mind now
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I suppose it's a remote possibility that it's the scooter causing it but I doubt it. What would I look for just to make sure? Just have someone else ride it and see if they feel it or not? I already checked the tires and no wobbles and proper pressure. I do notice it more in turning and breaking but I assumed that it was the motion change that triggers the feeling rather than the scoot itself.
Syd wrote:Got a bike (bicycle)? Maybe that would tell you. Also, ask your Dr about side effects of the combo. Maybe what you are feeling is to be expected.
It is listed on the sheet you get from the pharmacy individualy (dizzyness etc.) which is what led me to think this and it's also starting to feel weirder the longer I sit here so I'm betting even more that is it. The bike idea is great, I might just give that a shot tomorrow.
I just caught myself staring out the window and forgot to "submit" this reply
Many bridges and overpasses flex and cause you to feel like you are bouncing. Particularly when a tractor/trailer rig is crossing it. I feel this in my pickup and on my scooter.
Could that be it?
.::I know the voices in my head aren't real, but man do they come up with some great ideas::.
vertigo sucks! I had it once when I was on cipro after getting my wisdom teeth removed. I'm not a doctor but hopefully it will go away after your done with the meds....FAR AWAY!
Meds can do that and it may take your body sometime to adjust. I used to get gout and the meds they gave me for the pain would throw off my equalibrum. The funny thing is the only thing that helped was driving around in a car or lots of water and snacking. I feel for you!
As I understand it, vertigo is a fairly commonly reported side effect of Cipro, though I'm not sure if it is officially acknowledged. That's why I linked the study above, so you can see that it is being looked at. Many, many medications cause vertigo. If this is the first time you've ever taken naproxen, it's even possible that is the source of your vertigo. The good news here is that these symptoms will disappear when you stop taking those meds. I hope that will be soon and I bet you do, too.
(forgive me if I'm stating the obvious here) The motorcycle safety course I took spoke a lot about "rider readiness". Among other things, it encompasses assessing your physical and mental state prior to riding, in order to determine if it's a good idea. Alcohol is obviously the most common thing one thinks of when it comes to a substance that alters your mental and physical state enough to think twice about operating a vehicle, but plenty of prescription drugs do this as well, and it's definitely worth it not to take such things for granted. I even debate about riding sometimes if I haven't gotten enough sleep and feel really tired. Perhaps for a more experienced rider, such a thing isn't as much of a concern, but I take my safety pretty seriously, and would prefer to be overly cautious than overly careless.
anthony wrote:(forgive me if I'm stating the obvious here) The motorcycle safety course I took spoke a lot about "rider readiness". Among other things, it encompasses assessing your physical and mental state prior to riding, in order to determine if it's a good idea.
I didn't notice it at all until I was halfway home for lunch and it isn't constant. I didn't put the feeling and the drugs thing together until it started getting more frequent on my way back to work an hour later. I'm not (as far as I can tell) physicaly unstable, I just feel sort of dizzy when my movements change suddenly. The closest feeling is the bridge thing I mentioned earlier and I don't think it is compromising enough to not ride as it was but any worse at all or more frequent and I am going to switch from 2 wheels to 4 for the next couple weeks.
Rode home, zero issues. I will see how it goes tomorrow.
To top it off, left work and 3 blocks down the road I hit..... A motorcycle parade for "Rally In The Valley". People started waving to me and I had a little voice in the back of my head saying, "this is not real, you are passed out in a ditch from the meds".
Ugh! Just finished meds this morning and Doc extended me 2 weeks longer!!!
I guess it's for the best since my town is laying down "loose gravel" on many side streets which I hate driving over anyway. What a cheap-out-scam that is.
I didn't scour the thread, but I didn't see this asked: How's your tire/inflation, especially the rear? Whenever my rear tire gets low I get that unsteady feeling.
Syd wrote:I didn't scour the thread, but I didn't see this asked: How's your tire/inflation, especially the rear? Whenever my rear tire gets low I get that unsteady feeling.
I was meaning to check my tire pressure again at 1200 (almost at 1100 now) but I will check it now just to be sure, thanks! Last check was @ 500 and all was good but 600 miles later, I'm sure I am slacking on that front.
Meds ended yesterday and rode to work this morning. Everything seemed normal to me.
Tire pressure was at 26 back 27 front on Sunday so I bumped them both to about 29 and my wife and I both think it felt the same before and after so I doubt that was the issue.
My bicycle was too far "gone" to even mess with as a testing vehicle so I don't have that reference.
I suppose I have no choice but to believe it was the meds and just be glad it was a temporary situation. Now I read Luna's post and my head drops thinking what would have happened if I wiped out due to diminished mental facilities and i'm glad I sat it out when I did.
I am so glad you are okay. Meds can do some strange things. I had a severe ear infection a few years ago and the antibiotic that I was put on... OMG. I began having the strangest thoughts. Just completely irrational. I knew something was wrong, and turns out having a psychotic episode was a possible side effect of that particular antibiotic. Yippee... I was that one in a million person. Lucky me. My doctor told me to stop taking it immediately and I was okay. So prescriptions can definitely do some very strange things to your senses.
But just in case what you were feeling was not just senses going whacko on meds... You scooter is pretty new. I think you got yours maybe a month after I got mine. I don't know how this relates to Buddies, but I just had my 2,000 mile check up service on my Vespa. My headset was loose. I had ridden it over a few bridges and highways and thought it seemed a little squirrelly. Not the well-known GTV/GTS wobble (I have a GTV) but odd. They found the headset was loose, tightened it up and wow. Not squirrelly anymore. It was not like it felt like I was going to lose control, it just didn't feel quite right. Just in case, you might want to have your headset checked.
my mistake...I'm sorry Mousenut I misinterpreted. Please forgive me.