Patient Spotlights

It took 7 years to be diagnosed with Autoimmune Disease of the ear, which affects my vision, hearing loss, right ear few decibels left and the left a few more. May have to have cochlear

My vestibular disorder, Migraine Associated Vertigo, is also sometimes called Vertiginous Migraines.  When people think of migraines, they think of someone in pain, and that part is true.  But migraines, which vary in severity, can

On a recent annual visit to the radiation oncologist who treated me for cancer nearly 20 years ago, I was asked to fill out a form prior to examination. The answers enable the doctor to

I was first diagnosed with Meniere’s disease was in 1991. My symptoms were mild in the beginning - uneasiness, nausea, a feeling of fullness in my head. They were generally worst when I spent too

I am 65 years old and live in Atlanta, Georgia. In June, 2010 MdDS changed my life. My symptoms started while my husband and I were aboard a ship waiting to disembark from a long

We leased a brand new house in 02/2007 in southwest Florida to work with the hospital system. In about 3-4 months we began feeling weak. My 2-year old daughter began hearing sounds much louder than normal

The symptoms began innocuously enough—a return of preadolescent motion sickness, jiggling vision during teeth-brushing, apparent cognitive decline—and I shrugged them off, attributing them to middle age. By the time I reached 50, they grew more

Writing this has taken me a long time to know that it is something I wanted to do. Having always fantasized about writing a book, I could never come up with a subject I thought

In 2009, I was working the ideal part-time retirement job at a luxury health resort/spa. After a horrific nose-bleed in the middle of the night, I awoke to the world spinning.  Any movement, just raising

Life is just beginning for me and no- I was not born yesterday. Growing up feeling "off", and popping advil on a daily basis, I never stopped to think that maybe there was "REALLY" something wrong.

I was just coming into my own and I had it all figured out. I was producing a life my parents could be proud of and everyone in my circle could respect. I was emulating

I woke up Friday morning and the room was violently spinning. I stumbled to the bathroom, holding on to furniture along the way, hoping and praying it would just go away. It didn’t. I felt