Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofasical pain – Rolling car effect?

This post is old, but for anyone who is having this issue get your eyes checked. I started noticing this once in a blue moon as soon as I started driving as a teenager. Decades later it’s became more frequent. My vision has now also started jumping (like something out of a horror movie), blurry, & flashes in vision. Literally thought I was going crazy. Anyway I found out I have a condition where one eye is not moving at the same speed as the other. This is not something you can visually see. The eye muscle is week. The condition can be corrected with eye exercises & prism glasses. If you already wear glasses the prisms can be put into your prescription lens. On a side note just incase it may be associated I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease two years ago.

By any chance are you taking gabapentin? If you are quit as it creates issues in some people concerning the operation of a motor vehicle. It’s possible another medication is causing this effect. Seroquel isn’t great and messes with motor control and spatial behavior quality.

Yes! I have experienced that. I wonder why and I just read about balance problems of the inner ears. I will definitely bring it up to my doctor next time I visit.

I don't understand that but that happens to sometime also I just can't answer that I need help to

Hi. I just googled the rolling backwards phenomenon and saw your post. Yes, that happens to me too !! It started for me around 2005 or 2006. It would happen in my car but also when I am just standing somewhere.
It is more frequent and more pronounced lately. Two days ago I was walking with a friend and as I was going forward I had a strange feeling of sliding backwards like I was on a conveyor belt. It was very disconcerting to walk forward but feel like you are going backwards at the same time.
I believe it has to do with processing emotional trauma. . . . but just my speculation. ☺

I just start having this happen to me, stuck in traffic, but the left hand lane starts moving forward and if I am looking in that direction it seems as if my car is going back fast. I check the rear view mirror and no one is reacting, the first time this happened I ran into the back of a semi truck, he did not know this and everyone in traffic acting like nothing had taken place.

So once I stopped to get gas I checked my car and sure enough I hit that truck, it just looks like I rubbed against something.

It happened twice in one day, another time of course, this time I turned my car off, heart racing the works.

After reading about it I brought some motion sickness over the counter medication. This is very scarey, so now I have anxiety because I am waiting for it to happen, so I try to avoid eye contact with moving traffic and try to keep my vehicle moving if possible.

Yes I feel this way very often to Austin as a matter of fact. The doctors I've been hospitalized the doctors haven't found any reason have your doctors found a reason for your condition please help me I feel so lost so hopefully I know there is God but I need help please help me. Please respond thank you.

YES, this has been happened to me for the past two weeks. The only difference is that I feel like I am still moving forwards (where you feel backwards motion). It is starting to freak me out. Like you, I double check my brake each time and I know I am STOPPED but my body feels like I am still moving. I hate it.

Hi Emeraldgirl,
Need your help. I felt the same today and searched internet and found you feeling the same.
I could not believe myself pressing ft break as hard as I can and even the hand breaks and still felt car is rolling backwards, which scared me to hell.

Please rspond how are you feeling now after treatment. I am very scared.

Hi there. This is happening to me all the time. It is really bad when I am on an incline but this feeling is not limited to inclines. Its as though my car is rolling and about to hit the vehicle behind me. I know the car is not rolling cos I have my brake in but this sensation of rolling is there and it does not go away. My heart pounds... I just dont know what this is... Pls help

You ciukd have a biut of Vertrigo. I had that for months and it was no fun at all. Best of luck to you!

Yes, I have to agree with the others. The only time it has happened to me is when the car beside me is moving. Otherwise not. You should talk to your doctor about it. Good luck.

I'm with lara on this one. I've had that feeling, but when someone else along side is rolling forward. Our eyes play tricks on us sometimes. If this happens often I'd mention it to my dr.

Hi EmGirl,
May I ask how often this happens? I'd guess that everyone has had that odd feeling before, but not often, it usually happens (to me) when the car next to me is in motion, but that is not the case with you, is it?
Your friend,
Lara