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Post a new topicby livingwith on Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:48 pm


My story is about vertigo. I was diagnosed with it at age 42. Now it has progressed more often and is very uncomfortable.
I had menengitis [meningitis] as a child and grew up with severe vomiting and dizziness up until about age 15 and it suddenly stopped. Never thought about it until I started to have attacks again in my early forties and no one ever diagnosed it as vertigo until I sought help because I could not stop vomiting and being dizzy for days at a time. The longest attack was for...Read the full article
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