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5 symptoms qualify Meniere :
Symptom Brief Explanation
Vertigo Loss of balance. In Meniere often fluctuating between attacks. If it is other vestibular problems often more permanent in its nature.
Bad Hearing Sometimes fluctuating. In the long run worse after each attack
Tinnitus Ringing, hissing or whooshing sound in the ear(s). Comes normally together with bad hearing. If the hearing gets better the tinnitus normally gets lower.
Ear Fullness or Pressure The ear feels "full", sometimes with pain.
Frequent attacks More than one single attack that causes the person to loose balance for minutes or hours. Often combined with vomiting. An Attack without warning that causes a person to be virtually falling to the floor is called drop-attack. Most people feel warnings in the form of fullness or worse hearing etc. before attacks.
Other common symptoms are Distorted hearing, Dizziness, Nausea, Vomiting (sometimes "both ends"), Hard to Focus the eyes on one place only, Hard to concentrate, Weak memory, Nervous, Moody, Tired, Headaches. Some even get Oversensitive for low noise. Some even to the extent that they cannot stand normal everyday noises like running water, heavy rain or many people talking at the same time etc., (=Hyperacusis or recruitment). It is as if everything around you has loudspeakers with amplifiers turned to high or the highest and with a lot of distortion.
Causes..
There is seldom no definite cause of Meniere or Meniere-like symptoms. It can be many things like: Stress, High blood pressure, Cholesterol, Bad diet, Too much Coffee, Bad blood supply to the organs in the ear, Too much to drink, Salt, Sugar, Lack of sleep, Smoking, Alcohol, Virus (perhaps Herpes), Obesity, Noise, Hereditary, Tumor, Previous accident with a blow to the head, Auto immune complications, Amalgam tooth - fillings, hypothyroidism, Lead-poisoning, Candida Albicans, (=Yeast infection), Vaccinations etc.
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