Anyone else ever get checked out for Ménière's?

[Hobarticus]

I've had moderate tinnitus for years, now. Just had my second occurrence of vertigo in the past few months. Lasted for about four hours. Looks like I may need to see my doc.

:scared:

[harmonicon]

1. similar situation here

I think I'm finally going to go to the doctor this month. I've had pretty bad tinnitus since about December, which is especially trouble since I make my living more-or-less by being a musician. I've been reading up on it, and I think the problem may be my wisdom teeth, but that's just a guess. I hope that that is the cause, because it could be a relatively easy fix. In reading about this though, I did find out about Mediere's disease, and I think I'll also ask if that could be the problem. I have absolutely horrible balance, but only for the last 10 years or so - I had great balance as a kid. I went to a physical therapist about it (well, about knee pain, but it's all related), and she said that I was somehow relying on my eyesight for balance and not my inner ear, which is certainly not right - she couldn't tell me why I did this though. It didn't occur to me that there could be a connection until recently. I've had occasional ringing in my ears for many years, but before I always thought that it was just because of playing and listening to lots of very loud music (something which I don't do anymore - or very infrequently at least).

I hope you don't have it, and the problem is less severe!! I also hope that I can get my wisdom teeth yanked, and it will solve at least some of my problems, though I don't expect it to fix the fact that I don't seem to know how to walk.

[Hobarticus]

5. Good luck with those teeth...

I hope indeed that's the source of your ringing.

[ashling]

2. I have Minieres

I've had tinnutus to some degree as long as I can remember. They used to give us hearing tests when I was in elementary school and I kept holding my had up because I thought I hear the tone) However, I think that mine is the type that is due to brain stem activity (or something like that, and not Miniere's, per se) My tinnitus was affected by some medication that I was on once and it got so bad that I actually had thoughts of jamming an ice pick in my ear to make it stop.

Though I have never really had problems with balance growing up, I am famous for running into things. I have had terrible vertigo, though not recently, thank Olberman, but within the last 20 years there have been times I had to lay on the floor and still thought I was falling off.
When I would wake in the morning the whole room was spinning really fast.

Sometimes I still have issues where it seems like things want to spin, but I generally take Antivert (meclizene) and it is ok. However, I generally don't drive around those times.

Once I was at a church picnic and they had brought in this gyroscope thing where they strar you in to a ring that spins head over heels which is positioned in another that spins on an axis perpendicular to it. It was a dollar a ride. I asked why anybody would pay for that kind of experience. I have been paying to try to get rid of that for years! Makes me nauseous and dizzy even writing this. LOL

My Dad was a doctor ( he's gone now) and he pegged it as Miniere's years ago.


I hope I didn't make any typos in this, but I am feeling to dizzy to check.
:rofl:

[ashling]

3. I forgot to mention

that the only thing to which tinnitus responds positively is a purring cat, the louder the better. Sometimes I think I need a cat for each ear.
:rofl:

[Connonym]

4. I keep a fan running next to the bed while I sleep

it pretty effectively distracts me from the tinnitus so that I can fall asleep. I think mine is caused by a low-level hearing loss probably from too much loud music exposure. The otologist said I could get hearing aids if I wanted them, ugh. I have to admit though that I do find myself reading lips a lot and when I'm in a crowded noisy environment I have a lot of trouble hearing people talking to me. I get so tired of asking "what?" that a lot of times I will just smile and nod and hope that I'm not missing any important information.

I've never had full blown room spinning vertigo but I do have a strong tendency to motion sickness. Wish you the best of luck in finding a good treatment for your tinnitus and Meniere's, it can be very debilitating and I hope you have luck with treatment.

[Miss Carly]

6. I have had tinnitus for years

vertigo, I have had a couple of really bad spells over the years, one was so bad that I couldn't walk, it was like doing somersaults over and over, and I was nauseated. The tinnitius started for me several years ago; I had a bad case of strep and remember waking up in the middle of the night, the room was spinning, and the ringing was so bad that I could not hear my husband speaking to me. It's been constant since, not loud, the tone reminds me of a jet engine, my hearing is actually o.k., just that ringing is always there, I have tuned it out, just at night when it's quiet I can hear it.

Carly

[Rambis]

7. Grandmother had it, mother has it, sister has it

the docs at Mary Greeley say it is not hereditary- Our neighbor was just diagnosed she is 35- My sister went to MAYO and had an operation that seems to be working 1 year later.
GO CYCLONES!