Patient Spotlights

The Vestibular Patient Experience

Vestibular disorders are invisible. You look fine on the outside, but inside you’re struggling with a myriad of debilitating symptoms. It’s easy to feel like you’re alone, and no one understands what you’re going through.

Reading about others who have been in your shoes can validate your experience and give you tips on what to expect and how to deal with it.

You can also share your story to spread hope and increase awareness about what it’s like to live with vestibular dysfunction.

Elyse Riesa

I started off slowly with a vertigo problem that just kept getting worse. I did not have time to address it as I was running for election in my small town. Finally after the election

Theresa G.

My name is Theresa and I have been diagnosed with a vestibular disorder, convergence insufficiency as well as post-concussion syndrome. It all started with a bicycling accident that resulted in trauma to my head, neck

Bobby Gibbs

For over 3 years I have been diagnosed with vestibular neuritis and BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo), and I had no idea what was going on with my body at first. I thought maybe this

Julie Mathieson

After reading Katies story and many others like hers I have felt compelled to write to you, to thank you for your newsletters, all the information that have helped me through my disorder, my vestibular

Katie Ford

I have something called Uncompensated Peripheral Vestibulopathy. I’ve been told there are several kinds of this but I’m not sure the exact one I have. The report from the balance test just says Uncompensated Peripheral

Peggy Artman

Hi, my name is Peggy Artman and I am 47 years old. My story from the beginning of my dizziness symptoms to an eventual diagnosis is a long one, but I’m going to try to

Kimberley Bell, PT, DPT

Sometimes I feel angry when someone looks at me and assumes I am well. I know that may seem weird since I do SO MANY activities on a daily basis to maintain my wellness and

Claire Snyman

14 May 2010, a spinning room upon waking – my first vertigo attack and the onset of my first migraine, prompted a CT scan. I remember lying in the ER room listening to the doctors

Karen Alexander

In November 2014, I was waiting for a red light to change when I was rear-ended by a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. There was minimal damage to both vehicles, so I

Noel Newby

When I was in school as a child, I cannot recall us normally wearing helmets, and I do recall multiple hits to the head with various balls, including while playing softball and, when I was

Stephanie Hynson

To my memory, my first real experience with motion discomfort, or abnormal dizziness was on the bus in eighth grade; there were three buses parked in a row and I was on the center bus

Sherron Laurrell

May used to be my favorite month. Mild spring weather in New Jersey. Freshly planted flowers. Open windows. I always looked forward to May. That changed in 2013. May now represents the anniversary of the