Is my vertigo Meniere’s?

(My doctor) says I have beginning of Meniere’s but I truly don’t believe so.  I only have one symptom, vertigo, no loss of hearing or ringing at time of the episode.  My vertigo comes on when my left ear is plugged and feels full of fluid due to allergies, (which I always have). Usually itContinue reading “Is my vertigo Meniere’s?”

Drop Attacks in Vertigo Patients

If you have vertigo, you will have noticed that your balance can be so impaired that you may fall.  There are lots of other reasons for falls (fainting, for example), but if the fall is due to the inner ear there is one important characteristic:  you don’t lose consciousness before the fall.  In fact, unlessContinue reading “Drop Attacks in Vertigo Patients”

Muffled hearing and ringing in the ears

“I woke up with extreme nausea, the room was spinning, my eyes were extremely sensitive to light. I didn’t think much of it at the time, I had thought maybe I was coming down with a virus or that I was extremely dehydrated. A couple days after that I started to get migraines severe enoughContinue reading “Muffled hearing and ringing in the ears”