We all know the feeling: all of a sudden you feel like the room is revolving, or you can’t focus your eyes, or nausea hits unless you lay down and stay still. Read about one man’s journey through dizziness, and what your own symptoms may reveal. When Pierino DeMitis woke up to go to work one morning in September, a gigantic wave of nausea overcame him. He felt worse when he got out of bed. “I felt dizzy,” DeMitis, 34, explains. “I thought it was something I ate. Maybe I had the flu.” He vomited.