MdDS Foundation

Mal de Debarquement Syndrome, MdDS, is a neurological syndrome for which there is no reliable treatment or cure. It effects both females and males, although it appears to be under reported in the male population. 

MdDS is typically diagnosed when a person reports a persistent rocking feeling (though they are not necessarily rocking). This USUALLY follows a cruise or other motion experience. Most vestibular testing proves to be negative, and doctors may be baffled as they attempt to diagnose the syndrome. Many doctors believe MdDS occurs when your brain does not regain a proper sense place in space after adapting to a motion experience. A major diagnostic indicator is that most of us feel BETTER while driving or riding in a car or while in passive motion.