Do these symptoms sound familiar?

Scott,

Yes, they sound all to familiar. I was diagnosed over 15 yrs ago and it started out the way you have described. The dizzy spells unfortunately can be totally debilitating lasting for an hour to sometimes several. You mention it feels like "fluid pressing down", the usual feeling I get is pressure similar to when you fly and can't decompress your ears. Do you have any loss of hearing? You should have an auditory test done. If not loss of hearing certain sounds, usually low frequency are garbled or harder to hear. I've found that certain times of the year are worse for me, and am trying to understand if allergies may play as a trigger. My worse attacks happen around Spring. I've been on a diuretic for years and take everyday. My new specialist also has me taking a calcium blocker. Can't say for sure if either help, but I'll try anything at this point. I would definitely get several opinions from both ENT, and Neurotologist. There are lots of resources online.

Good luck!

Dizzydaddy

Scott,

Sounds like the same symptoms as me. I keep to my low sodium diet and carry cbd drops from hemp (no THC) to calm anxiety and brain fog which also controls dizziness. I also take one or two 550mg potassium pills with each meal. It seems to keep sodium from building up quickly and causing pressure. The normal mdr for potassium is 4,700mg per day. Most people don't come close to that every day. A potato is about 600mg and a banana is about 450mg. As long as you don't have a health reason to keep your potassium low, it may help. Good luck.

Have you experienced deafness?

Hi Scott,

Yes all those symptoms sound like Meniere's. I have had MD for 17 years now, been through every MRI, CAT Scan, balance tests, likes others have said low salt diet, try to keep allergies in control with allergy meds. The low potassium levels could have just been that way before you were diagnosed with MD. If you smoke you'll have low potassium levels also, or just not eating foods with enough potassium. My vertigo had gotten so bad I was having 3-4 sever vertigo attacks a day. I did finally get steroid injections in my ear that has MD, sounds a lot worst than it feels, really doesn't hurt much and it has lowered the amount of vertigo attacks I was getting tremendously. I actually went 8 months with only 5 or 6 vertigo attacks that whole time. They do come back just went a month ago and got another set of steroid injections. The only thing I can't seem to get any relief from is this God forsaken tinnitus. My hearing loss is pretty bad but mostly not because I can't hear well, I do have some hearing loss in both ears, but the tinnitus makes it hard to understand what people are saying, can't watch TV without closed captions. My opinion, and this is just my opinion, from 30 years of working in the medical field is, that if there was a lot of money to be made off helping people with MD there would be a lot more being done about it, that's just my opinion anyway. Best of luck to you, and try not to get to depressed about it, my ENT doctor had a good point, he said "at least it's not a disease that's going to kill you"