Decades of Dizziness Finally Revealed a Benign Acoustic Neuroma
A health writer recounts how her husband’s decades-long dizziness and unilateral hearing loss were repeatedly dismissed as stress until a CT scan revealed a four-centimeter acoustic neuroma, a typically slow-growing benign brain tumor. Surgery to remove it left him with left facial and throat paralysis, underscoring how earlier imaging and specialist input could have reduced harm and why persistent symptoms deserve thorough evaluation.