28-10-24, 10:27 PM
(28-10-24, 09:41 PM)fazersharp Wrote:(27-10-24, 05:28 AM)darrsi Wrote:(18-10-24, 10:02 PM)fazersharp Wrote: Well that makes a change from insurance companies trying to take the piss
My insurance has gone up by £7 to £125 fully comp.
My insurance is always on my birthday in June, and even though at that time my licence hadn't been returned i wanted to keep the same date so i never forget it.
I think he told me it was something like £130ish, but after a few minutes on hold he then apologised and said he'd made a mistake, so i feared the worst, but he said it was actually £115
I got my licence back just over 2 weeks ago, after having a whole year of not riding, so quickly ordered an MOT about 4 days later and was so looking forward to riding it, but then it all went Pete Tong when i got all my bike gear on, started the garaged bike, and rode it a whopping 15 feet then realised my head was not quite right and i immediately reversed it straight back inside.
That was about 12 days ago now and i appear to have a mild case of vertigo which isn't bad by any means, but it is bad enough to not get on the bike....unless i'm going for an Uber Eats delivery rider job where i'll probably pass a maniac riding test with flying colours.
Very annoying and disappointing to say the least, and i'm doing everything i possibly can to fix it asap but it's certainly dragging on a bit longer than i expected, but i'm not going to rush anything at all and i'll know without a doubt when the time is right.
As i said, it's only very mild, and the GP gave me some medication to try, plus i'm doing some Epley manoeuvre head exercises to combat possible BPPV (a posh term for vertigo), but if anyone else has any tips that may help my cause, i'm all ears?
WOW that sucks. Still got to take small steps I suppose.
I know someone who gets vertigo and they do the manovers - the somersault one but they are not sure that help or not. Medication they used was over the counter anti travel sickness tablets -
Funnily enough last Monday somebody I haven't seen for over a year came to say hello to me at work and ask how I was after hearing about my incident, and when I mentioned the current vertigo to add to my woes and that I'd been prescribed some tablets for it he told me to stop taking them as the side effects could be iffy, and to try what you mention, a travel sickness version called Stugeron.
Unfortunately on this occasion they didn't work for me for quite a simple reason. I'm already on 4 meds that cause drowsiness, and this was clearly a drowsy one as well, and after taking 3 of these throughout the day they wiped me out. By evening time I can only describe the feeling you get after having an anesthetic jab just before an operation. After nodding off on the car on the way home I ate at home around 6ish then was out cold until the next morning.
It wasn't very pleasant at all actually. But then not everyone would be on the same meds as me so I was just unlucky I reckon.
I was back on the prescribed version the next day but it's gonna be 14 days tomorrow and although it's quite mild compared my previous 3 month bout earlier in the year, it's still too much for me to attempt to ride the bike yet.
I wouldn't be surprised if it then snowed when I am finally ready to ride.
I know my limits, and they now include vertigo, snow and ice.
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