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Dizzy spells every day

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virginia57691
virginia57691

I am 63 and had md for over thirty years all last year I have had dizzy spells and nausea. The past seven weeks I have had dizzy spells but Ihave been able to manage them I work and yesterday stood up and I felt like someone had tipped me upside down. I was vomiting and was sent home from work. Please can anyone offer any advice. I feel exhausted.

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  • tanney
    tanney virginia57691

    Posted

    Hi Virginia.  Several questions:

    1.  are you still on a no salt, no caffeine, no alcohol diet?

    2.  What meds are you on?

    3.  Are you having symptoms other than vertigo....such as ear fullness, extra loud tinnitus, additional sound distortion/less hearing?

    4.  Are you having any of these symptoms in your "good ear"?

    5.  have you recently had allergy or rhinitis problems?

    • virginia57691
      virginia57691 tanney

      Posted

      Hello tanney i do not add salt to my food I eat plenty of vegetables and fruit. I take bethistine tablets my ear is buzzing all the time and pressure in my ear is full. I do not drink coffee only decaf tea no alchol at all. No trouble with my good ear. Just want to get well.
    • maria77273
      maria77273 virginia57691

      Posted

      Sounds like me with the Menieres but I don't get dizzy every day just when I am having an attack which can last over 2 days. Also on Betahistine. Do you find they work. 

    • virginia57691
      virginia57691 maria77273

      Posted

      Hello Maria the betahistine I take do work but sadly I am having dizzy spells every day dont know whether its my age and its taking longer to get out of my system.
  • Bertman
    Bertman virginia57691

    Posted

    Hello Virginia, So sorry to hear about the dizzies, I suffer from the dizzies also. Just curious when you were diagnosed with meniere's did it pertain just one ear? Mine started in one ear, I suffered from violent vertigo, dizziness and severe nausea. and then years later it moved to include the other ear, my symptoms started all over again. Now with bilateral meniere's the dizziness is chronic, loss of balance, I can no longer ambulate with a walker. I would fall backwards away from my walker, I begin using a wheelchair in Dec. 2016. just wondering if your issues might be brought about by the infliction of meniere's in the other ear. 

    Best Wishes, Bertman 

    • virginia57691
      virginia57691 Bertman

      Posted

      Hello Bertman I only have md in my left ear thank goodness. MD is a terrible thing to have you seem to be suffering more than me. I juat hope I can get through it working is difficult sometimes.

      Kind regard Ginny

  • tanney
    tanney virginia57691

    Posted

    There are two meds that might be helpful to you....ask your doctor to prescribe:

    1.  diuretic such as dyazide.  Start at 25mg pill and if that doesn't do it after two weeks request 50mg.

    2.  Ativan (lorazapan) sedative which will calm your inner ear.  Start at 0.5mg up to 1.0 mg up to twice/day until things calm down.  Then use ONLY if/when symptoms get our of control again.

    3.  If above still does not give you relief seek out an ENT who has subspecialty in inner ear diseases and who has experience with intratympanic steroid injection into the middle ear.  Request this procedure.... which is quite benign and is done in the office as Out Patient procedure.

    Please let us know how you are doing and if you are improving.  Best of luck.

    • maria77273
      maria77273 tanney

      Posted

      Oh dear Tanner I would not recommend steroid injection into the ear. I had a grommet with steroid solution over 2 years ago. First of all the whole procedure did not work on me and secondly I was left who a hole where grommet was that didn't heal. My ent specialist says fixing hole will not cure Menieres, tinnitus or hearing loss. So made my situation worse but everyone is different. 

    • tanney
      tanney maria77273

      Posted

      Maria, so sorry you had such bad experience with steroid injection/grommet.  My recommendation is to have just the steroid injection WITHOUT the grommet.  And, it's important to have this done by an experienced ENT that specializes in inner ear diseases.....not all ENT do.  The holes created by just the steroid injection are very tiny (point of needle) and will heal on their own within 2 weeks (must keep ear dry when showering/washing for 2 weeks).  I'm not familiar with the grommet procedure so I'm unable to recommend/comment on it.  Just the steroid injection by itself is a benign procedure with very little side effects and is often the procedure of choice when ENT believes hearing loss, vertigo and ear fullness are caused by inflammation within the middle/inner ear.  It however is not effective in all cases and many MD patients need multiple injections for improvement. 

      If a MD patient still receives no relief from all of the above, and still has one good ear (NOT bilateral MD), the next step to consider is gentamicin injections which will deaden the dysfunctional balance nerve in the MD ear and will eliminate the vertigo in 90 - 95% of sufferers.  It will not, however, relieve tinnitus and ear fullness.  The good ear's balance nerve will compensate for the loss of the bad ear's balance nerve.

    • maria77273
      maria77273 tanney

      Posted

      Thanks Taney. My MD and vertigo seems to have subsided over the last 3 months which is such a blessing. However my tinnitus and fullness is fairly constant. Some days better than others. Through my procedure and MD have
    • maria77273
      maria77273

      Posted

      Sorry pressed wrong button. I was saying that my tinnitus is the real problem for now and thinking of hearing aid as I have lost 60 to 70 percent of hearing in that ear. 
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