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Why Dizziness Is Still a Medical Mystery
- BillSims 3y ago> An earlier version of this article misstated the unit of measurement used in the collection of tears.
- katrotz 3y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20231010230541/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-dizziness-is-still-a-mystery https://web.archive.org/web/20231010230541/https://www.newyo...
- ramoz 3y agoI 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.
- elric 3y agoAs 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.
- HellzStormer 3y ago> 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?
- BillSims 3y ago> and collected seven microlitres of my tears. Perhaps milliliters was a typo later corrected