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You know the feeling. You’re suddenly woozy, feeling unsteady, your head starts throbbing while you’re in a vehicle, on a boat or an amusement park ride. Motion sickness doesn’t discriminate.
Post-coital tristesse (PCT) is a feeling of melancholy and anxiety after sexual intercourse that lasts anywhere from five minutes to two hours. PCT, which affects both men and women, occurs only after sexual intercourse and does not require an orgasm to occur, and in that its effects are primarily emotional rather than physiological.
Leisure sickness, similar to paradise syndrome, is the name given to a purported psychological condition, not universally recognized by psychologists, by which some people (typically characterized as workaholics) develop symptoms of sickness during the weekends and/or during vacations. [1]
It’s like clockwork: You start settling into your daily routine after a fun weekend getaway when all of a sudden you notice you’ve got a case of the sniffles.
Nausea is a side effect of many medications including chemotherapy, or morning sickness in early pregnancy. Nausea may also be caused by disgust and depression. [1] Medications taken to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting are called antiemetics.
Other symptoms include the feeling of pressure in the brain, mostly around the frontal lobe area, headaches or migraine headaches, ear pain, ear fullness and possibly tinnitus. [ citation needed ] Fluctuations in weather also affect sufferers, in particularly hot weather and barometric pressure changes.
Seasickness is a form of terrestrial motion sickness characterized by a feeling of nausea and, in extreme cases, vertigo experienced after spending time on a boat. [12] It is essentially the same as carsickness, though the motion of a watercraft tends to be more regular.
The cause of morning sickness is unknown but may relate to changing levels of estrogen and the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin. [2] [9] Some have proposed that morning sickness may be useful from an evolutionary point of view -it may protect both the pregnant woman and the developing embryo just when the fetus is most vulnerable. [1]