26th September 2006
hey to everyone! i am new here to the board. hey nuffs3, talked with you a week or so ago about the buzzing in your ears. hope you are feeling better.
i was diagnosed about 7 years ago with meniere's disease. seems like a lifetime since then. my journey started out with severe allergies. would end up on steroids (yuk) to stop the sneezing which could go on for 10 hours at a time. then one day i started this horrible spinning. my left ear started ringing louder and louder and then the vertigo. after my attack my ears seemed to recover a little but my hearing would get worse after every attack. had all the tests and flunked them all for meniere's. it was very upsetting to learn that at the age of 38 i had 'an old person's disease' but i have read that allergies can be a factor in meniere's.
the vertigo got better as my hearing got worse. now i am deaf in my right ear and loosing some hearing in my left. the buzzing noise is constant.
i had a very bad vertigo attack a couple of weeks ago that was real bad. was weird, cooking dinner and out of no where the world just started spinning and i managed to turn the dinner off before i fell to the floor.
i had stopped taking the dyazide because it really makes my insides feel awful. when i went to the doctor i had fluid behind my ear. i had suffered an allergy attack about a week before that i figure started the ball rolling again for me.
i have also been checked for ms. had some spots on the mri, but the neuro said they were "ubo's" unidentified bright objects. :) nero said 10% of population has them and they were not ms.
low salt, no caffeine, no smoking. that's what i was told could help. and dyazide and antivert.
i have personally heard of 2 other people who were diagnosed with meniere's. both are not elderly. i think it is one of those 'we are not sure so we will call it meniere's.'
glad i found this board. at least i'm not alone in this.
cupoftea
i was diagnosed about 7 years ago with meniere's disease. seems like a lifetime since then. my journey started out with severe allergies. would end up on steroids (yuk) to stop the sneezing which could go on for 10 hours at a time. then one day i started this horrible spinning. my left ear started ringing louder and louder and then the vertigo. after my attack my ears seemed to recover a little but my hearing would get worse after every attack. had all the tests and flunked them all for meniere's. it was very upsetting to learn that at the age of 38 i had 'an old person's disease' but i have read that allergies can be a factor in meniere's.
the vertigo got better as my hearing got worse. now i am deaf in my right ear and loosing some hearing in my left. the buzzing noise is constant.
i had a very bad vertigo attack a couple of weeks ago that was real bad. was weird, cooking dinner and out of no where the world just started spinning and i managed to turn the dinner off before i fell to the floor.
i had stopped taking the dyazide because it really makes my insides feel awful. when i went to the doctor i had fluid behind my ear. i had suffered an allergy attack about a week before that i figure started the ball rolling again for me.
i have also been checked for ms. had some spots on the mri, but the neuro said they were "ubo's" unidentified bright objects. :) nero said 10% of population has them and they were not ms.
low salt, no caffeine, no smoking. that's what i was told could help. and dyazide and antivert.
i have personally heard of 2 other people who were diagnosed with meniere's. both are not elderly. i think it is one of those 'we are not sure so we will call it meniere's.'
glad i found this board. at least i'm not alone in this.
cupoftea