A 29-year-old woman was left bedbound and required a wheelchair to get around after using her mobile phone for 14 hours a day. Fenella Fox says that being on her phone and tablet for long periods of time each day left her with severe vertigo.
Fenella, who used the devices to run her OnlyFans account, started suffering from head and neck aches and found herself going to sleep earlier to cope with the pain. Her symptoms peaked in November 2021 and after visiting multiple doctors, she was still struggling to get a diagnosis, the Coventry Telegraph reports.
It was not until her father discovered an article about cyber motion sickness or digital vertigo that Fenella recognised her symptoms. The technology induced condition leaves sufferers feeling dizzy usually due to a malfunction of the nervous system that is responsible for blood and oxygen flow.
