Patient Spotlights

DizzynDeaf

Hi and thanks for reading this! I'm grateful to be part of the VeDA group. I got Meniere's Disease in 2014. I am grateful for my doctors, friends, family and support groups/resources like VeDA, because

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Dawn Mlodoch

Looking back over the years, my husband and I can now see that vestibular symptoms were slowly creeping into my life. November 2013 marked the beginning of a journey that there was no turning back

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Donna Conboy

I had a full life before vertigo, dizziness, vision loss and imbalance stole my freedom and financial security. I have three biological children – two sons, Luke and Adam, and a daughter, Melissa. My home

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Alicia Hudnett

I can only assume that if you are reading this story, you have somehow been touched by a vestibular disorder. As I begin to share my own personal story, I want to emphasize that although

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Kristin Knapp

I am one of the thousands of people in the United State who live with vestibular dysfunction. Following my diagnosis of bilateral vestibular hypofunction (BVH), I doggedly pursued any path that had potential to give

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Lynn Johnson

Lynn's vestibular journey started on Thanksgiving in 2015, when Lynn started to feel off-balance and nauseous. She went to urgent care and was told to take Sudafed for the fluid in her inner ear. By

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Andy Derrow

Background: I am a 59-year-old man in excellent health. I take a statin to lower my cholesterol and a low-dose ACE inhibitor to maintain ideal blood pressure. I exercise both regularly and vigorously. My most

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Saffire aka De Etta Lerch

I have yet to find anyone who has my symptoms, so I thought that maybe if I wrote my story here and shared it, maybe someone could relate. Most of my life has been one

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Lara Bishop

I am a very proud mum of gorgeous identical twin girls who are now 7 years old, they are my world. They are my best friends, my companions, my sanity, my little comedy act. I

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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

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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

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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

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