MdDS Relapse

Last year around this time I wrote about my 5-month experience with MdDS (Mal de débarquement syndrome or “I’m stuck on an ocean buoy in a storm” syndrome). From October 2025 to June 2026, I was pretty much back to normal. I weaned off of Paxil (Paroxetine) in January and felt great. In those ~8 months, the only symptom I still experienced was instant dizziness when walking on a treadmill or moving sidewalk. Easy enough to avoid. I took roundtrip flights to San Diego and Hawaii without issue. I even rode on a boat in rough weather while in Hawaii and only had the usual motion sickness symptoms I always get. In early June, we flew to Denver for a concert and it seems like the flight back home re-triggered my MdDS. This time around # A few days after our return flight, I was feeling MdDS symptoms again: dizziness, persistent rocking motion, headaches, and gravitational pulling. This time the symptoms came on really slowly. Slowly enough that I waited a couple weeks to see if they would…

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