


She said she immediately recognized the disorder because her young niece has suffered from it for overĪ decade.

The first reader to make this diagnosis was Theresa Baker, a retired bookkeeper and mother from Philomath, Ore. The cause of the young woman’s dizziness was… Wrote in with suggested diagnoses, but only a handful of you noticed the clue that led the medical student who saw the patient to the right answer. She had a medical history that was complicated by back surgery and a subsequent infection, and chronic headaches after a car accident. On Wednesday, we challenged Well readers to take on the case of a 21-year-old college student withĬhronic headaches who suddenly became too dizzy to walk.
