My Meniere’s Diagnosis

Symptoms Part 4 - Aftermath of the Vertigo

After I woke up from the exhausted stupor that the Vertigo left I was better. I was relieved to find that the room wasn’t really spinning that much. I had slept several hours. I felt as though I had jet lag though. I was exhausted and slow moving. It took around a week or so before I got to feeling more like normal again. The fatigue was hard to describe, but fortunately it finally passed.

I had been told by more than one person that I needed to see a doctor about this.

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Symptoms - Part 3 | My First Vertigo Attack

So, I was in a bit of a routine, sometimes my symptoms were more active and would give me light dizziness, preceded by stuffiness in one ear, pressure/roaring in that ear. That seemed to be preceded by times that my allergies were a bit worse. Spring and fall seemed to be more peak times for me. It didn’t seem to match any particular named pollen that I could notice.

Then things took a spin for the worse.

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Symptoms - Part 2

I don’t remember when this happened but occasionally I noticed that when my allergies were particularly bothersome my right ear would stop up. I couldn’t hear as well for stretches at a time. It was always the right ear and I’d try to fight it with a few days of decongestants. Sometimes those decongestants would work, sometimes they didn’t seem to be as effective. It always seemed to go away in 3-5 days anyway, which is about how long it seemed like the cold medicines would take.

Things started getting a bit weirder though.

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Symptoms - Part 1

I’m going to start by going back to before I had all these “ear problems”. The first time I really remember having a problem with my right ear. This predates the Meniere’s diagnosis by about 17 years. I was a senior in High School and woke up on a Sunday morning with a sharp pain in my right ear. It turns out I had an ear infection, the membrane in there was visibly about 50% or more inflamed and I stayed home from school for about a week. I remember it VERY well because the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament was on that week. I think I saw part of most every game in that first round. I remember CBS had this trumpet fanfare that they started back from all the commercial breaks. it sounded TERRIBLE to me. The pitches in one ear were a little off from what I heard in the other ear.

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Welcome to the story of My Meniere’s Diagnosis

I don’t expect this site to JUST be about my being diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease. I do expect to provide resources that may be of use if you have, or suspect you have Meniere’s disease. I also want to explore some of the things that I’ve learned through all of this. Thanks for visiting, please come back soon!