10-11-2021, 01:20 PM
graylocks wrote:
[quote=bazookaman]
Haha. Thats not necessarily true. I haven't had a single doctor give me a concrete list of the symptoms or non-symptoms of Menieres. I WISH they would... Meniere's sucks.
Meniere's is diagnosed by exclusion. They rule out everything else that could be causing the symptoms of vertigo, pressure in the ear, tinnitus, and loss of hearing and if none of those causes pan out it's oh, you have Menieres. They can diagnose by autopsy but that's a bit extreme.
glad meclizine works for you. nothing would stop my vertigo attacks except letting it exhaust itself. could last anywhere from two minutes to 10 hours. i'm pretty much in remission though i avoid any situation that could trigger me like amusement park rides or even glancing at the movement of some of my son's video games. haven't had a vertigo attack in 18 years. recently got a hearing aid for my left ear.
yeah, Menieres sucks.
Ah. That was what I was trying to think of. Diagnosis of exclusion. He still seemed puzzled that I had vertigo but not tinnitus. Or that I didn't have hearing loss. So he kind of just threw up his hands and said I had Menieres. I don't have a trigger unfortunately (that I know of). I eat a low salt diet. I'm on high blood pressure medicine now too. I just wake up some days and boom, there it is.
The problem was I only JUST discovered Meclizine worked. I went through years of it just laying me out for several hours. I would just lie in bed hoping to fall asleep as the room spinned around me and I felt like throwing up. Thankfully they were few and far between. I guess the good thing is that I don't have THOSE kinds of attacks anymore. The doc says it's b/c the nerves were probably destroyed in my ear. Ha! Good news indeed.