Patient Spotlights

Journey On! My Journey Living with Vestibular Migraine

The Beginning “Looking back now…my journey began 11 years ago on July 14, 2011. Little did I realize on that day my life would change forever. I remember having a history of bad headaches on

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Emma – Discovering Balance Through Yoga

My journey with Vestibular Migraine and how it has changed my life for the better! I’d just returned from the trip of a lifetime to Australia and went straight back into work as a school teacher.

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An Unexpected Life Journey

I had a good thing going. A great life with my husband, who I married in 2018, and we had a 9-month old daughter at home. My life forever changed one morning in June, 2021,

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My life changed in an instant. I felt as if I was drunk 24/7, and had no idea why.

I began 2019 feeling great. I was an airline pilot, and I was in the process of landing my dream job. I was happily married to my wife Aubree, and I was the proud father

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Vestibular Migraines Do Not Define Me

Vertigo can be scary. It can come out of nowhere and incapacitate us if we let it. Mine started 8 years ago after a series of 4 sinus infections back to back. I woke up

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I woke up to my worst possible nightmare

April 11th, 2020 was like any other in my life. I was 81 years old. I had lived alone in my home since my wife died 6 years earlier. That day, a Saturday before Easter,

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My diagnosis came as a complete shock to me, but was completely understandable!

I have suffered from BPPV since my early 20's. I am now 49 years old. I was diagnosed just last week by my doctor, who did some balance tests in his office. I have it

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Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome

I started having extreme dizziness and vertigo in the Spring of 2109. I was originally diagnosed with BPPV but nothing was making my dizziness better. I also noticed a high sensitivity and vertigo when loud

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Nausea, nausea, nausea.

Life before my concussion or TBi was great. I was able to walk, run, basically participate in normal everyday life. I suffered a TBi on both sides of the head at the temples from coming

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fairly successful ~ after a decade !

It was the early-mid 1990's. I was told it'd be my change-of-life time. I'd just gotten my BA and was trying out part-time positions that interested me, mostly in schools. I was at a stop

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Recovery from MdDs

March 11, 2021 (Not too long ago, right? Since today is July 21, 2021 [4.3 months]). Little did I know that a volunteer boat trip would change the course of my life. After an incredible

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The Fight

I have had dizziness since I was a child. I never liked it when my dad or other people would spin me around because of how I felt afterward. I still lived a kind of

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