re: Greg Brooks medical emergency was on Thursday

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tigerwat
Vertigo can be a medical emergency. My first episode came out of the blue many years ago. Thru the years, I would instantly get an episode that would render me useless.....going from the whole world spinning, getting boiling hot and sweating to shivering cold in an minute. It would take me days to get over it, many times bedridden. I can fully understand how it could take down a young athlete in the prime of life. Fortunately over the years the episodes have become few and far between.

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This sounds like Ménière's disease. Which a bigger, more chronic deal than vertigo. I had vertigo for over a month last year. Was awful. Finally got my ear "crystals" right, which took going to an ENT.

I have two good friends with Ménière's disease, and it sounds 100x worse than what I had.

(And yes, thread jacked... Brooks doesn't have Ménière's disease, or simply vertigo)