Dad, 35, Feared Vertigo Was Cancer Diagnosed With Brain Abscess

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When Eric Markowitz suddenly began feeling a bit nauseous in January 2023, he thought it was just a bug. But within a day, his symptoms became severe. The scariest part was the vertigo, he recalls. “The room was kind of spinning. That’s just what it felt like constantly. No matter what I did, no matter what position I was in, I just felt like I was in the state of spinning,” Markowitz, who lives in Portland, Oregon, tells TODAY.com.

True diagnosis revealed The lesion was in Markowitz’s cerebellum, the part of the brain in the back of the head near the brain stem. For the surgery, he was positioned face down so Medress could remove a piece of his skull and make a small incision in his brain. When the neurosurgeon got to the lesion, he immediately saw a capsule filled with pus. He was then 99% sure it was a brain abscess. “We were actually happy to find an abscess and not brain cancer in terms of his long-term prognosis.

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