What are the symptoms of Meni??re’s disease? How is it treated? What are the latest developments in Meni??re’s research? Discover the answers to these questions and more.

Understanding Meni??re’s Disease

Meni??re’s disease is a chronic and often debilitating condition that affects the inner ear, causing a range of symptoms that can significantly impact a person’s quality of life. This complex disorder is characterized by recurring episodes of vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and a feeling of pressure or fullness in the affected ear.

Symptoms of Meni??re’s Disease

What are the primary symptoms of Meni??re’s disease? The most common symptoms include:

• Vertigo: Sudden, severe episodes of spinning or whirling sensations that can last from minutes to hours.
• Hearing loss: Fluctuating, progressive hearing loss that typically affects one ear first and may eventually spread to the other ear.
• Tinnitus: Ringing, buzzing, or other persistent sounds in the affected ear.
• Feeling of pressure or fullness in the affected ear.

Causes and Risk Factors of Meni??re’s Disease

The exact cause of Meni??re’s disease is not fully understood, but it is believed to be related to an imbalance of fluids in the inner ear. Factors that may contribute to the development of Meni??re’s disease include:

1. Genetics: There appears to be a genetic component, as the condition can sometimes run in families.
2. Autoimmune disorders: Some research suggests a link between Meni??re’s disease and autoimmune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.
3. Viral infections: Viral infections of the inner ear may trigger Meni??re’s disease in some individuals.
4. Trauma: Head or neck injuries have been associated with the onset of Meni??re’s disease in some cases.

Diagnosing Meni??re’s Disease

How is Meni??re’s disease diagnosed? The diagnosis typically involves a combination of the following:

• Medical history and physical examination: Your healthcare provider will ask about your symptoms and medical history, and may perform a physical examination to rule out other possible causes.
• Hearing tests: Audiometry and other hearing tests can help determine the extent and pattern of hearing loss.
• Balance tests: Tests such as electronystagmography (ENG) or videonystagmography (VNG) can assess inner ear and balance function.
• Imaging tests: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans may be ordered to rule out other conditions, such as tumors or structural abnormalities.

Treating Meni??re’s Disease

What are the treatment options for Meni??re’s disease? The primary goals of treatment are to manage symptoms and prevent further damage to the inner ear. Treatment options may include:

1. Medications: Prescription drugs, such as diuretics, antihistamines, or corticosteroids, can help reduce fluid buildup, relieve vertigo, and alleviate other symptoms.
2. Dietary changes: Reducing salt intake and limiting caffeine and alcohol consumption may help control symptoms in some individuals.
3. Vestibular rehabilitation: Physical therapy exercises can help improve balance and reduce the impact of vertigo episodes.
4. Surgery: In cases where other treatments are not effective, surgical interventions, such as endolymphatic sac decompression or labyrinthectomy, may be considered.

The Latest Developments in Meni??re’s Disease Research

Researchers continue to explore new and innovative approaches to the treatment of Meni??re’s disease. Some of the most promising developments include:

• Repurposed drugs: Clinical trials are investigating the use of existing medications, such as those used to treat allergic rhinitis and asthma, to reduce vertigo and hearing loss in Meni??re’s disease.
• Immunotherapy: Some researchers are exploring the potential of immunotherapy, targeting the autoimmune component of Meni??re’s disease, as a treatment option.
• Regenerative therapies: Stem cell and gene therapies are being investigated as a way to potentially restore inner ear function and prevent further damage.
• Improved diagnostic tools: Advances in imaging techniques and biomarkers may lead to more accurate and earlier diagnosis of Meni??re’s disease.

Living with Meni??re’s Disease

Meni??re’s disease can be a challenging condition to manage, but with the right treatment and support, many individuals are able to maintain a good quality of life. Here are some tips for living with Meni??re’s disease:

1. Work closely with your healthcare team to develop an effective treatment plan.
2. Adopt lifestyle changes, such as a low-salt diet and avoiding triggers like stress and fatigue.
3. Seek out support groups and resources to connect with others who understand the daily challenges of living with Meni??re’s disease.
4. Advocate for yourself and be proactive in managing your condition.

Remember, while Meni??re’s disease can be a complex and debilitating condition, ongoing research and advancements in treatment offer hope for those living with this disorder. By working closely with your healthcare team and staying informed about the latest developments, you can take an active role in managing your Meni??re’s disease and improving your overall quality of life.

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July 1955

MAURICE SALTZMAN, M. D.

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From the Hearing Clinic, Department of Oto-Rhinology, Temple University School of Medicine.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1955;62(1):59-61. doi:10.1001/archotol.1955.03830010061008

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The cochlear type of Ménière’s disease was described by Brunner.¹ Deafness was the cardinal symptom, and there was no history of any vertiginous attack. Williams and associates² reported a number of cases of endolymphatic hydrops without vertigo. Their diagnosis was based on a history of an allergic background, a fluctuating low-tone hearing loss of sudden onset, and diplacusis. As a confirmatory therapeutic test, these authors cited the favorable results they obtained from the administration of histamine.

The audiologic study of Ménière patients during the past 12 years yielded some interesting results. The Ménière cochlear function seems to be encumbered with numerous pathologicophysiologic details. These are revealed in relation to tonal perception, selective hearing, threshold of discomfort, and intelligibility of speech. To be sure, the great majority of my patients presented the complete symptom complex of vertigo, deafness, and tinnitus. The aim is to gather the facts that make

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February 21, 2020, 11:54

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February 21, 2020, 11:58

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February 21, 2020, 12:16

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Guest

maybe something vascular. They say massage of the neck and head helps and exercises0005

Guest

If dizziness is caused by the dislocation of the crystals in the inner ear, neck massage is contraindicated. Make an appointment with an otolaryngologist, author. Look for familiarization as one of the causes of dizziness, an excerpt from the transfer on YouTube, dial – Malyshev’s dizziness. about the eple maneuver. February 21, 2020 Effective treatment in a hospital: Cavinton, trental are instilled, mydocalm is administered intramuscularly. Take tagistine, tanakan, mexidol and cinnarizine. Massage and manual therapy. There will be relief.

February 21, 2020, 12:38

#7

Elena

It says dizziness for 30 seconds when changing body position. And I have all day. Could it be? And it rings in my ear when I lie down

February 21, 2020, 12:42

#8

Guest

Good afternoon. I have a similar situation, I can not sleep on my left side. And it happens that when you go it tends to the left, that you have to cuddle up to everything in a row (the feeling that you are falling). Sometimes you lie down, get up and everything floats. A bunch of examinations and no result, they put osteochondrosis and instability of the cervical vertebrae, vasoconstriction. Did you have any kind of injury? 9Elsa

I had the same experience. Does it take you long? It just all started with dizziness too, I really walked along the wall, everything swam before my eyes, and then it got much worse, I endured it, and one evening I began to choke. I could hardly breathe. They took me away in an ambulance and my long examinations and torment began .. just if you have it not so long ago, then I do not advise you to score, it can only get worse.
Thanks, of course, to our stupid doctors, who created the appearance of treatment and real help from them really was not. Good thing she didn’t die. But this is more my merit, not theirs.

February 21, 2020, 12:48

#11

Elena

The same. It leans me to the right. There were no injuries. The neck cannot give permanent symptoms. I can’t ride the subway at all.

February 21, 2020, 12:49

#12

Elsa

I had the same. Does it take you long? It just all started with dizziness too, I really walked along the wall, everything swam before my eyes, and then it got much worse, I endured it, and one evening I began to choke. I could hardly breathe. They took me away in an ambulance and my long examinations and torment began .. just if you have it not so long ago, then I do not advise you to score, it can only get worse.
Thanks, of course, to our stupid doctors, who created the appearance of treatment and there was really no real help from them. Good thing she didn’t die. But this is more my merit, not theirs.

February 21, 2020, 12:52

#13

Guest

I am told that it is because of the blood vessels, what is being squeezed by the vertebrae, the blood starts to go wrong. Therefore, when you lie down, the blood begins to flow differently. 5

Elena

This is said when nothing to say. If something was so squeezed there, then people would immediately lose consciousness. Dizziness when clamping is light and short-term. And now they told me to do a CT scan of the inner ear, but I don’t know how. I can’t lie on my back, at all

February 21, 2020, 13:05

#16

Guest

I have already visited many doctors. Even the manual one had it all to no avail. Today it grabbed me, leaned to the left, as if they were pushing you, you couldn’t walk, the pressure had risen. I don’t know what to do next, but it’s impossible to live like this…
It started like this for me in 2012, it stopped for a while, and now it starts again. The first time I went to the MRI with severe dizziness, I could hardly stand it, I could not get up, they led me by the arms.
And now it’s like this at times, I don’t know what else to examine

February 21, 2020, 13:06

#17

Natalya

and I had wild dizziness due to an ovarian cyst, as it turned out, doctors don’t care about it either. do not speak

February 21, 2020, 13:07

#18

Guest

I have already visited many doctors. Even the manual one had it all to no avail. Today it grabbed me, leaned to the left, as if they were pushing you, you couldn’t walk, the pressure had risen. I don’t know what to do next, but it’s impossible to live like this…
It started for me in 2012, so it stopped for a while, and now again. The first time I went to the MRI with severe dizziness, I could hardly stand it, I could not get up, they led me by the arms.
And now it’s like this at times, I don’t know what else to examine

February 21, 2020, 13:29

#19

Elena

I am very afraid of Meniere’s disease. It looks like I have

February 21, 2020, 13:31

#20

Elena

I am very afraid of Meniere’s disease. I seem to be

February 21, 2020, 13:33

#21

Elena

Cavinton is not allowed, my blood pressure is very low. I am allergic to betaserk. The ambush is shorter. I was in the hospital for 10 days, I gave the last money, and they injected me with tivortin and mildronat. February 21, 2020 All symptoms are similar. I have already read about the inner ear. I understand you, because I feel the same way. It is impossible to live in peace. And when you still don’t know the exact reason, you don’t know what to drink or what kind of injections to do.
Do you feel like this every day?

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  #24

  Guest

  I have for some reason, there is some kind of tightness on the left side, all this pain goes into the leg, the leg still becomes straight cotton and heavy. Do you have the same?

  February 21, 2020, 2:14 pm

  #25

  February 21, 2020, 2:47 pm

  #26

  Elena

  It used to be seizures, but now it’s bad 24 hours a day. Crises at night. I don’t sleep for days. I can’t lie down for a long time, I can’t sit either. This is how I jump all day long: I lie down, I sit down, I cry

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  February 21, 2020, 14:50 having, at least with needles, if. But I slept on it all the time until yesterday. And my feet are cold, they’re freezing. I quit smoking a month ago, it would have been better if I had known how life would hit me.Elena

  I myself am in despair. The head is not mine. Nothing helps. There is no life. February 21, 2020 How tired of it all. I go to the doctors, but they can’t really say anything. They also refer to the growth that I am tall 1.80, while the weight is 63, that all the muscles in the neck are tense.
  And on the left side I haven’t slept for 7 years already, as soon as I lie down, everything starts to swim and I feel terribly sick.
  She herself is also only 24 years old, you know how insulting it is, I want to live in peace, but this state … Do not work kindly, you think the day would end faster. February 21, 2020 And my legs and arms are also icy during attacks. I drink tenoten. And the left hand goes numb when, for example, you dry your hair with a hairdryer and starts …

  February 21, 2020, 16:12

  #32

  Guest

  Variants:
  Cervical artery compression
  Otolithiasis
  Meniere’s disease 9 0085 Hypertension/hypotension
  Neurosis

  February 21, 2020, 16:15

  #33

  Guest

  I had severe dizziness, they checked everything and everything, it turned out to be a neurosis. I drank phenibut for a month, strezam for two months, psychotherapy went through and dizziness disappeared as it never was.
  Donate more blood for ferritin.

  21 February 2020, 16:50

  #34

  Elena

  I had the same experience Does it take you long? It just all started with dizziness too, I really walked along the wall, everything swam before my eyes, and then it got much worse, I endured it, and one evening I began to choke. I could hardly breathe. They took me away in an ambulance and my long examinations and torment began .. just if you have it not so long ago, then I do not advise you to score, it can only get worse.
  Thanks, of course, to our stupid doctors, who created the appearance of treatment and real help from them really was not. Good thing she didn’t die. But this is more my merit, not theirs.

  one fine day, while swimming in the pool, I almost drowned in it, an attack of dizziness, then it turned out that it was a cyst, it’s good that I don’t remember what they are called, which resolve themselves, as it passes, everything stops, but I have to deal with menopause, it happened 2 times already, as soon as the head starts to spin, the left side hurts, I drink glycine, pressure pills, betaserk, and how much more this will be, it is not known, doctors recommend chemical hormones, I somehow get by with Bonisan 9February 21, 2020 I have this month, I walk along the wall. What could it be? How did you get rid of dizziness?

  one fine day, while swimming in the pool, I almost drowned in it, an attack of dizziness, then it turned out that it was a cyst, it’s good that I don’t remember what they are called, which resolve themselves, as it passes, everything stops, but I have to deal with menopause, it happened 2 times already, as soon as the head starts to spin, the left side hurts, I drink glycine, pressure pills, betaserk, and how much more this will be, it is not known, doctors recommend chemical hormones, I somehow get by with Bonisan

  February 21, 2020, 17:08

  #36

  Elena

  And I am 1.77, weighed 67, and now 74, because I don’t move at all, I don’t even turn my head. I sit, not moving, and eat, and in horror I think that if this is Meniere, then how to live on

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  February 21, 2020, 17:50

  #38

  Guest

  I read about Meniere’s disease. There are similar symptoms. But everything shows up differently. Most likely it comes from blood vessels + muscle tension + more nerves.
  My hemoglobin was also low. Try drinking fenyuls, and also drops of valemedin, sedatives.
  Every time I face this myself, then you start to calm yourself down. When you start to panic and think about something else (meniere, etc.), you make yourself even worse. I understand that it’s hard, there’s no getting away from it, if there is a problem in the neck, then nothing can be done, no manual and pills will help. I also drank tanakan. Betaserk drank, I didn’t feel anything from him.
  I also started to do exercises, on the neck, but now they have stopped for now, it seems to me that they click even more in the neck. I was recently at a doctor’s appointment, so she told me, “We will live for a long time, but we will suffer,” she has the same problem, only dizziness is rare, severe headaches that she can’t get up sometimes.
  That’s why I’m starting to calm myself down, it’s worth enduring it and most importantly, don’t get nervous. Sometimes I cry, I also think what all this is for, to endure this, it’s sooo unpleasant. And then you begin to reassure yourself, because someone with us would even change places. Some people, knowing that they have a year (or even less) left to live, try to live with joy.
  After such conversations with myself, it becomes easier. You just know you have to be patient. No matter how bad it is now.
  As I understand it, you also underwent head examinations? And what about the cervical region, for what reason did you turn to a chiropractor? And how long? Perhaps because of this, everything was provoked 9Elena

  There is compression of the cervical arteries (manually unsuccessfully), otolithiasis, I don’t know, doctors and we have not heard about this, but I think not, there the attacks are short. Hypotension is present after quitting smoking, but not critical. Neurosis-100%, and no longer neurosis, but psychosis and despair

  February 21, 2020, 18:220006 Elena

  Yes, I had an MRI. There is a relative norm. The neck is bad, but I got used to it. And when I was in the hospital, I was sent for kinesiotherapy. So she pressed me so hard that I screamed in pain, and the doctor said, this is how the clamps appear. After that, I staggered to the ward. And then I stopped sleeping on the right side and a terrible dizziness began. They said drink an antidepressant and you will be happy. But I strongly doubt something.

  February 21, 2020, 19:03

  #42

  Elena

  Yes, I had an MRI. There is a relative norm. The neck is bad, but I got used to it. And when I was in the hospital, I was sent for kinesiotherapy. So she pressed me so hard that I screamed in pain, and the doctor said, this is how the clamps appear. After that, I staggered to the ward. And then I stopped sleeping on the right side and a terrible dizziness began. They said drink an antidepressant and you will be happy. But I strongly doubt something.

  February 21, 2020, 19:04

  #43

  Elena

  Did you feel better when your hemoglobin level increased? P. S answered above with regards to the neck

  February 21, 2020, 19:21 uh, you what are you so scared of? At least that’s what I’ve heard. It’s annoying, but fixable.

  February 21, 2020, 19:22

  #45

  Guest

  My mother had monotonous, not short bouts of dizziness during otolithiasis, about five years ago this happened to her, she suffered with them for two months. She went to an otoneurologist, he did some maneuvers for her, and then she herself did exercises that were simpler. Do the same, it won’t get worse. Ask a neurologist for a prescription for phenibut, he personally helped me well, mexidol is also not bad as an antihyposkatic.

  February 21, 2020, 19:22

  #46

  Guest

  Maybe you really have neurotic vertigo. Descend or go to the psychotherapist, only look good on responses.

  Attention

  February 21, 2020, 19:24

  #47

  Guest

  It didn’t get any easier, just no such shortness of breath. Somehow I didn’t even have enough air before. Fenules can’t, allergy to B vitamins, just horror 9February 21, 2020 In general, a mixture of dried apricots, raisins, walnuts, honey, lemon, everything through a meat grinder is also useful

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