Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition of our podcast. I'm going to delve out of the legal realm. As you've heard me say before, I was really close to going to medical school. It was only science and math that kept me from doing that. My dad is a doctor.

A lot of my friends are doctor.

So we're going to go the medical route today.

There are certain diseases or syndromes or whatever word you want to use that we really

never hear about until we do.

They are silent and that there are no physical manifestations

to the outside eye. And by that I mean dizziness, vertigo, vestibular migraines, persistent,

postural, perceptual dizziness, if you can get all of that out in one effort.

Those are some of the names, but there's also overlap between all of the above, which makes diagnosis and treatment more complicated than if you just had a broken arm.

Some of those conditions are exacerbated by sound, light, sodium, caffeine, what my wife calls stress.

But there is hope.

Today we are joined by a subject matter expert, Dr. Habib Rizik, the Medical University of South Carolina.

He's the head of the Vistibular program at MUSC,

which to a layman's ears think ear, nose, and throat, or otorino laryngology plus plus is the way

I look at it, and E&T plus, and I met Dr. Rizek under less than ideal circumstances.

I had just emerged from what seemed and felt like a three-day vertigo episode, and you're

not sure if you're going to walk again or work or play golf.

It's actually worse than just vertigo.

It's vertigo accompanied by being physically ill.

So my wife took me to the medical university where I met Dr. Rizik.

The culprit is the size, I think, of your little fingernail.

It's called the inner ear.

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