Patient Spotlights

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

Ten years ago I experienced a profound bout of dizziness, disequilibrium, and other neuropsychiatric symptoms after taking the anti-malarial drug mefloquine (previously marketed as Lariam) prescribed to me by the U.S. Navy at the start

My son Josh was 12 years old when he attended a three week camp that was recommended for him and and run by his occupational therapist. He had some sensory issues that made writing and

My life changed and my career as a tv cameraman/videographer gradually came to a halt starting back in 2003. My fellow cameramen would notice I was losing my balance while carrying my video equipment for