Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info. A model has revealed how she was left unable to stand after using her phone for up to 14 hours a day. But the use left her with vertigo-like symptoms, the year-old has said.
She was bed-bound at one point and needed a wheelchair to get around. She initially started getting head and neck aches and found herself going to bed early to cope with the pain. Fenella moved to Portugal and her symptoms steadily got worse, peaking in November , the Mirror reports. She said: "I started to get dizzy.
Dizzy, and kind of distorted. One day her friend came to visit and suddenly Fenella said she felt so bad she needed to go home.
But getting into bed she just lay scrolling on her phone. Fenella said: "It got me so sick I wasn't able to stand up, I wasn't able to shower. I couldn't cook for myself. I ended up needing a wheelchair to get home and my parents had to look after me. I was sick then for about six months. She had visited a doctor in Portugal who did tests including closing her eyes and walking in a straight line but she couldn't do it. He asked her to close her eyes and lift her knees up but she ended up "rotating and looking the other way - that's not normal.
I had a serious problem with my balance. Then car to bed, then in bed for ages. Fenella visited around half a dozen doctors in total, including once back in the UK, "and all of them didn't know what it was". It was only when her dad found an article about cyber motion sickness or digital vertigo that she recognised the symptoms mirrored how she felt.
