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Why Dizziness Is Still a Medical Mystery

by grzm on 10/10/23, 11:05 PM with 6 comments

  • by elric on 10/11/23, 12:12 PM

    As I was reading the story, I thought "that sounds like vestibular migraine", which turned out to be the diagnosis. It took me years to get that diagnosis myself, even though I'd received a diagnosis of migraine auras decades before. Apparently putting 2 and 2 together isn't always easy. My symptoms aren't usually as bad as the author's, but can nevertheless be pretty annoying. Especially when I didn't know what was going on ... Doctors didn't know what was going on either, which resulted in much anxiety (of the "is this MS?"-variety).

    I hope this article can help others towards a diagnosis.

  • by ramoz on 10/11/23, 9:32 AM

    I had vertigo recently and the author perfectly describes it.

    “In benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, crystals in the inner ear canals become loose” was the same explanation I received in the ER.

  • by katrotz on 10/11/23, 7:37 AM

  • by HellzStormer on 10/11/23, 6:23 PM

    > and collected seven millilitres of my tears.

    Can you really collect half a table spoon of tears from tear ducts? How much tears are in there?

  • by BillSims on 10/12/23, 6:55 PM

    > An earlier version of this article misstated the unit of measurement used in the collection of tears.

  • by BillSims on 10/12/23, 12:54 AM

    > and collected seven microlitres of my tears.

    Perhaps milliliters was a typo later corrected