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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Tempest_Craft on 2025-11-04 17:11:20+00:00.
Obligatory this didn't happen today but a few months ago, I noticed I was having kinda weird occasional vertigo, seemingly out of nowhere and headaches, not very often ...at first. The vertigo would fele like someone had gently tugged my hair I guess, it was very strange.
I am American but I live abroad in a country that has cheap access to Healthcare, but still my American instincts all said "eh, it will pass, whatever it is." Over the next 2 months the frequency increased and increased to just about daily, as well as some slight nausea almost all the time. I finally was like alright, you gotta see a doctor.
Bloodwork from general doctor, all clear, not sick in a general way. So I see an ear nose and throat doctor, that is also all clear. He suggests a neurologist, great. I see a neurologist, show them my balance is fucked up and everything is all clear otherwise, they suggest a brain MRI, great.
Meanwhile, I wear glasses, my work had fucked them up, very scratched lenses, broken nose pieces, not sitting on my face in the right place, very old, etc. I am a cheap fuck, what can I say? And I only wear them for far away stuff and getting around. A few days after the neurologist and trying to figure out how to schedule a brain MRI, I was getting off the bus, I had been reading so glasses weren't on.
I noticed I wasn't dizzy or nauseous. Weird. Put the glasses on, immediately my balance is weird and I feel sick and it just clicks.
I had been wearing my fucked up glasses for so long that my eyes were just exhausted from compensating for them, which is what was fucking my balance and everything else. So thankfully not a brain tumor or other neuropathy.
So I stopped wearing them, got new glasses and it took a few weeks of readjustment but all good now!
TL:DR - I wore fucked up glasses for so long that it was giving me vertigo and I thought I had a neurological problem, new glasses solved it, a real occam's razor scenario. Hahaha.