I have been diagnosed with meniere's. My question is this. Is it possible to actually have Meniere's when you don't have the true spinning vertigo? I have fullness in ear, severe lightheadedness/dizzyness, nausea and high-pitched tinnitus, but I don;t get the room actually spinning around and around. I had my first attack about 8 years ago. Then nothing until about two months ago. It has been horrible.
It's so horrible when it flares up. I have different degrees of meniers, it's not always that the room is spinning but only when it's at a really bad stage for me. I too get the fullness in my ear, lightheadedness, neausea and tinnitus but the frequency changes in my ear. Meniers does seem to come and go.
Try and figure out what caused it this time, I've had this episode for the last three weeks and when looking back on events I have realised that something triggered it off. For me it's stress.
I know a lot of people will suggest to get a few opinions to make sure it's correctly diagnosed. Have you been taking any medication? I hope that you feel better soon! It is horrible when it comes back.
Thanks Melanie.
We had a break-in a few nights ago and my precious bicycles were stolen. I laid awake all night worrying. Then Bam: lightheadedness and nausea. Sore neck too. Has lasted for a couple of days.
That's horrible news, so it must be stress related for you also. Have you got insurance or have the police done anything to help? What has made my dizzyness far less worse was sorting the stressful situation out, trying to clear my mind. I only found this forum a few weeks ago but reading up on what helps others is great. Things such as yoga and other therapies to relax. It's good to know what's triggered your dizzyness this time even if it was under bad circumstances.
Will know the results of the insurance claim tomorrow. Phew.
Am going to get a neck massage at a Physio this afternoon. There are some peer-reviewed studies which show it can actually help alleviate symptoms.
You sound like meniere's at its early stages and hasnt progressed further because , I am guessing..but you are in good health to start with. It can get to room spins but yours hasn't. That sounds like your advantage. If I were where you are right now..forget the room spins...but turn it around ...read up as much as you can and look at diet, salt, stress etc...and it sounds like you can turn it around to not ger worse but better.
Thankss Farside. Yes I am in good health as a cyclist, but I do have an anxiety disorder. Time to free myself of the burden of it. I turned over a new leaf today and went and got a neck and head massage at a physiotherapist's rooms. He said it was at the extreme end of 'tight'.
Yikes.
Talking of sore neck I find that when the nausea is not too bad a nack massage helps reduce the tinnitis,
But for me for the nausea and drowsiness acupuncture works wonders I didn t have any of these for the last 2 months.
The tinnitus comes and goes , acupuncture helps to reduce it but it never really goes.
It is very possible to experience meniere's disease without room spin. It is possible it'll develop at a later time though.
I suffered with Minere's for as long as i can remeber yet the room spin and vertigo were fairly recent - within last year or so, excluding the time where i had a run in with labrynthitis in childhood but i have never got vertigo so bad that it incapacitated me or knocked me off my feet. I also get high-pitched tinnitus, problems with balance and ear fullness on a near constant basis.
My brother does not experience vertigo but has been diagnosed with Meniers. He has fluctuating hearing loss along with ringing in his ears that comes and goes.