What is your guesstimate on what brought on your Meniere’s?

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  1. Starfish03

    Starfish03 New Member

    not a clue . . . one day I was living my life . . . the next I was in the ER with a major vertigo attack. It's been a long 10 years for me - but am learning to live with it.

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  2. AKJim

    AKJim Giant's Causeway Northern Ireland

    Hi Stick,

    It sure could have been, but I would think you would have had others. The light sensitivity (photophobia) is classic for Migraines.

    Jim
     
  3. Linda1002

    Linda1002 New Member

    No offense taken.
     
  4. birdmom3

    birdmom3 New Member

    My case was nerve deafness in my right ear and severy dizzy spells as a child. They said it was benign tumor in the brain. But 3 years ago I was diagnosed with Meniere's. I would not wish this on anyone.

    Birdmom3
     
  5. Venus

    Venus New Member

    Working as a nurse!!

    Venus
     
  6. Verti_Geaux

    Verti_Geaux New Member

    Maybe this is what happened to me! It seems like whenever a HIGHLY stressful situation happens to me, something REALLY BAD results IN me! Mom died, 5 months later......cancer. Dad died........ a few months later vertigo! So, maybe the stress of his death, and also, of not having a living parent left, brought the Meniere's on. Who knows???
     
  7. Verti_Geaux

    Verti_Geaux New Member

    That will do it EVERY TIME!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!

    Some of these are hilarious! Especially the 70s ones!!! I guess I fall into that category too! LOL!!! Thanks for the laughs!
     
  8. May21

    May21 New Member

    #1: Most probable cause in my case was a head injury in 2007. I fell backwards into a wall one night while holding my son and thinking there was a chair behind me when there wasn't. I hit the wall full-force with the back of my head. That was around 2am. By 7am I had my first "attack" of pressure, tinnitus, terrible ringing, and a strange imbalance all in the left ear. It was obvious there was something damaged in my inner ear, but due to living in a remote area (with only a rural medical clinic) at the time, it was not diagnosed until this year.

    #2: I have Graves Disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism) so that may have made me more vulnerable.

    #3: I had terrible swimmer's ear infections as a child, maybe this laid the groundwork? Or not. I don't know. :-\
     
  9. dizzysheba01

    dizzysheba01 New Member

    At the age of nine, I was stricken with spinalmeningitis. It was immediately following that illness when my MM symptoms developed.
     
  10. pinball

    pinball New Member

    when i was diagnosed my ent told me it was because I had so many bad ear infections as a child. I do suffer bad allergies also.

    Guess we are just the lucky ones!!!!!!!!11
     
  11. nome

    nome New Member

    When I was diagnosed I was a healthy 25 year old! Never had a thing wrong....sometimes I thought I got panic attacks where the world spinned....now I know it was vertigo. I used to get vertigo as a child when I had an ear infection.
     
  12. Nani

    Nani New Member

    Extreme stress of my daughter moving far across the ocean with my grandchildren. My husband says I cried myself into having MM. He may be right as I know that crying makes the symptoms worse.
     
  13. heywally

    heywally New Member

    First showed symptoms at about age 45.

    Possibilities - severe ear infections when I was a kid (though I don't know how much worse they were than anyone else), allergies (could have been cats) I developed when I was about 40, smoked cigarettes and pot regularly from ages of 16-31 (I'm 57 now).
     

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