Mal de Barquement

[cowgirl8]

In 2003ish, i went on a long deep sea fishing trip. The water was really rough and i get sea sick easily, i got very very sea sick this day. I got sick about an hour into the trip and was never vertical until we got back to land 10 hours later. I threw up until it was just dry heaves, the whole time. Once we got back to land, i was able to walk and shake it off enough to function, but it lingered on and on. I never felt 100% after that day, some days would be ok, but most days any movement around me made me dizzy. A bird flying by the window, a flash of light from the TV, a shutting door, anything that moved past my vision. It was pretty normal for me to grab onto things many times a day to keep from tilting over. I stayed in a constant state of car sickness...The only time i was free of this was when i was driving, riding a horse or jogging. 4 or 5 times during this time, when under stress, i'd get full blown vertigo where i'd vomit and be unable to move. These episodes would last about half a day, and then i'd be fine. About 6 years later, one day while walking through a hallway, i stopped because something changed. It was gone, that feeling was totally gone. Instantly, totally gone.
3 years have passed and i've only had a few episodes of vertigo. And when i do get it, its usually with sinus trouble. I can take a decongestant and clear up in a couple houre.
Does this sound like Mal de Barquement and or does it sound like i had that and now i just have sinus related vertigo.

[cowgirl8]

No one diagnosed me, looks like most doctors, specially where i am, wouldn't even know what it is. I've been told its vertigo and caused by sinuses. I saw this Mal thing here in one of the forum discussions and i looked it up. Never heard of it and as far as i was concerned i get vertigo like anyone else does. What was different about mine was it never went away and if i moved it didnt seem as bad. And, i can link it to that fishing trip when it started and didnt go away.
So, i'm hoping to see what others who know what this is have to say.

[Jerry_NJ]

I for won have no idea what "Mal de Barquement" is an I'm not about to look it up.  Suppose that means I shouldn't reply, but as a couple of days have passed and not one has made a public reply I offer the may be a need for you to explain your question in more common terms.  You didnt' mention any doctors, did a doctor diagnose you with "Mal de Barquement".

Your situation sounds very troublesome, happy to see it seems to have resolved itself. I served in the US Naval Air Force and while I didn't send much time aboard an aircraft carrier I was out long enough to get "sea legs" and found it had to walk on the good old solid ground when coming ashore.   I think that feeling didn't last more than a couple of days.  And, I was never sea sick, it take a big storm to make a 1000 foot ship do much more than rock a little.