For about 3-4 years now, I will occasionally get VERY strong episodes of vertigo where it feels like I am being very strongly pulled in a weird direction. Sometimes it feels like my head is shaking back and forth. These episodes usually last anywhere from 20 seconds to sometimes 5-7 minutes. They NEVER happen whenContinue reading “Ask the Doctor: Brief vertigo”
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SSCD: Fixing the problem
In a normal inner ear, sound waves travel from a membrane, the oval window, through the cochlea to another membrane at the far end of the cochlea, the round window. Sound waves need this second window in order to flow through the ear. In superior canal dehiscence, the hole in the canal acts as anotherContinue reading “SSCD: Fixing the problem “
SSCD: Vertigo from sound and pulsing vertigo
Superior semicircular canal dehiscence causes many symptoms depending on how large the hole in the canal becomes. The best-known type is vertigo caused by loud sounds. Normally the sound wave passes harmlessly by the semicircular canals and enters the cochlea, the hearing part of the ear. However, when there is a hole in the canal,Continue reading “SSCD: Vertigo from sound and pulsing vertigo “
Ending Vertigo Today 