Bob McLaughlin
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A couple times this year I had a stuffy feeling in my ear which I just figured was a head cold. I had a few short dizzy spells and just figured it was related to my stuffy ear, but I assumed it would go away by itself.
Last Friday I got a really nasty dizzy spell, the room was spinning like I was drunk, and my eyeballs kept darting around. I sat down for a while but that didn't help. I ended up violently throwing up in a parking lot and couldn't stop retching. My wife drove me to the hospital where they said I had vertigo, they gave me motion sickness pills and referred me to an ear nose throat specialist.
They said I have Meniere's disease, an inner ear condition that has no known cause or cure. I have some hearing loss in my left ear which may or may not be temporary. This can go away at any time, within weeks or last for years. They gave me some eye/head/neck exercises to get me used to dealing with dizziness so I do not become incapacitated by it.
Does anyone else have Meniere's disease? Has anyone had it before and it went away? I want to know how bad this is going to be. Certainly last Friday was awful and I hope a major episode like that doesn't reoccur. I have had slight dizzy spells every day since then but nothing too bad.
Last Friday I got a really nasty dizzy spell, the room was spinning like I was drunk, and my eyeballs kept darting around. I sat down for a while but that didn't help. I ended up violently throwing up in a parking lot and couldn't stop retching. My wife drove me to the hospital where they said I had vertigo, they gave me motion sickness pills and referred me to an ear nose throat specialist.
They said I have Meniere's disease, an inner ear condition that has no known cause or cure. I have some hearing loss in my left ear which may or may not be temporary. This can go away at any time, within weeks or last for years. They gave me some eye/head/neck exercises to get me used to dealing with dizziness so I do not become incapacitated by it.
Does anyone else have Meniere's disease? Has anyone had it before and it went away? I want to know how bad this is going to be. Certainly last Friday was awful and I hope a major episode like that doesn't reoccur. I have had slight dizzy spells every day since then but nothing too bad.