Reduced Gait Automaticity In Female Patients With CFS

[rosie26]

Do you think this is an ataxia, poor balance, or to do with difficulties processing visual info and proprioceptive info??
I have noticed that I lose my balance much more easily, and I can't cope with walking near drops/edges at all. I'm not scared of heights but I can't balance if there's a big drop. I found myself almost completely stuck at work (when I was still trying to work) when I was trying to go down the stairs from the 4th floor and the stairs had glass on one side.... I had to hold on the banister and not look out!

I don't know, there's too much going on. I don't know what comes first and what triggers other responses. I remember being unable to walk down a steep pair of stairs when my POTS was very severe years ago. I can do that same set of stairs now.

 

[rosie26]

@rosie26 I would be curious about your answers to daisybell's question above.

I have trouble with when people, cars, or other movement is in multiple directions too. Also balance issues near an edge. I'm not sure why I have the problems and want to figure it out. Sometimes I thought it was my inner ear.

I get a thick feeling in my ears but that thick feeling is everywhere in my head. So I don't think it's the ears that are the problem really for me. It feels like activated neurons on a busy charge, that are going fast in all directions and creating that thick space by it's highly activated energy. But that energy creates a thick, dullness that is hard to get through to retrieve or retain information. There is a pressure there, I think. Hard to describe.