Underdiagnosis

misdiagnosis, concomintant conditions and/or diagnoses that can be seen concomitantly with scds

in alphabetic order:

• ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD)

• AUTISM

• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)

• CSF LEAK

• CHIARI MALFORMATION

• CHRONIC BPPV

• CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS)

• EUSTACHIAN TUBE DYSFUNCTION

• FIBROMYALGIA

• HYPOTHYROIDISM

• INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION

• LYME DISEASE

• MÉNIÈRE’S DISEASE

• Migraina associated vertigo (MAV)

• MYALGIC ENCEPALOMYLITIS (ME)

• PATULOUS EUSTACHIAN TUBE (PET)

• PERILYMPH FISTULA (PLF)

• POST-CONCUSSIVE SYNDROME

• POST-VIRAL FATIGUE SYNDROME

• PSYCHOLOGICAL/MENTAL PROBLEMS

• WHIPLASH

The list is incomplete.  Please note that SCDS can be misdiagnosed as one of the above and/or be present concomitantly with the above.  In fact, some of these diagnoses are suspected to be more commonly present among the SCDS population.

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