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In 2010, when Jacqueline Alnes was in her second semester as a Division I collegiate cross-country runner, she began to experience inexplicable neurological episodes. Her symptoms began after what her university's team physician called a bout of bronchitis; he prescribed antibiotics. Shortly after taking her first dose, she collapsed. At first, the doctor chalked up her fainting spell to an allergic reaction. But weeks later, Alnes was still experiencing periods of blurred vision, vertigo and fainting; her head "felt full of some atmospheric pressure" and "would start rocking back and forth on its own, like an unwilling marionette." The team doctor referred her to a neurologist, who suggested that she had vestibular neuronitis, inflammation of an inner ear nerve, and assured her that her symptoms would resolve within weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]