2/23/07 ? Meniners Syndrom What can I do to treat this diagnisis. Thank you Sunshine?

Answer 1

I was diagnosed with this in 1995. I kept a detailed log for 1 year. Wherever I would have an episode, I would write down the following for the prior 3 days before the attack: what I ate, what medicines I was taking, what perfume/lotions I used, time of day of episode, weather conditions, season of the year, if I had traveled, and how I had been feeling. I could not find any type of pattern. I do not add salt to my food and eat regular home cooked meals and also fast foods. I was prescribed Antivert (common name meclizine hydrochloride that now can be bought over the counter) 25 mg up to 4 times a day when an attack occurs. I found it best to take medicine, lie down in a cool, dark room, close my eyes, and stay as still as possible. If I catch the episode very early and it hasn't progressed to a really bad state, then it passes in about 45 minutes. If after taking the antivert the dizziness does not improve or becomes drastically worse with nausea and vomiting, I was advised to take phenergan 25 mg up to 2 times a day which does require a prescription. The antivert can make you a little drowsy; the phenergan general does make you sleepy. If I continued to lie in bed very still, with my eyes closed the phenergan usually works in about 1 hour. I have learned to be alert to early symptoms (for me it is one or more of the following: ringing in my ears, sudden feeling of motion sickness, dizziness for no reason, a feeling like my ear is full, a pain in the inside of the ear like someone is pinching it), take the antivert right away and lie down, take it again in about 2 hours if I don't feel better, and then maybe move on to the phenergan after another 2 hours. I know how very miserable you are when everything is spinning, you keep puking, and it feels as if you will never get rid of the dizziness. A nurse taught me this trick to use whenever I am in the middle of an episode; it helps you focus on other things while the medicine is working and may make that time go by easier: I go through the alphabet and think of a city that begins with the letter A, then a city that begins with the letter B, and so on through the alphabet. Or do the same thing with names of girls, names of boys, names of animals. Or start from 100 and begin subtracting 3 (or 7) then subtract 3 (or 7) from that number and so on. I know this sounds dumb, but when you are feeling that terrible, you'd be surprised how hard it is to concentrate and think of a city that begins with a D. By focusing on this rather than the dizziness, the medication works while you are distracted. If I have had a really bad attack, I find I get another attack quickly if I read or work on the computer after an attack--it is like my eyes have difficulty focusing on finer print afterwards. It is caused by an imbalance of the fluid in the ear. It usually affects only 1 side. You may have many episodes in a day or go months without one. There is no cure, there are only medicines you can take or things you can do (cut back on salt, caffine) to make you feel a little better until it passes. I have found that as I get older, I am having fewer attacks. You may need to get a doctor's note for work or school explaining what you have, that it can cause sudden dizziness and nausea to the point that you cannot continue with usual activities of life during the attack, and that you may be out unexpectedly. Get a good doctor! Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The most important things you can do to help yourself are (1) Use dietary management and avoid foods high in sodium, cholesterol, triglycerides and carbohydrates. Avoid chocolate, caffeine and excessive sugar. (2) Avoid tobacco, and (3) Adhere strictly to the medication regimen prescribed for you by your doctor.

The standard surgical treatments for Meniere's Syndrome are endolymphatic sac decompression, vestibular nerve section and labyrinthectomy. The newest treatments are vestibular rehab, streptomycin perfusion, Dexamethasone perfusion and electrical stimulation. You might want to discuss these options with your ENT to determine if you are a candidate for any of them.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Patients who are not severely affected may choose to manage their disease through diet.
Dietary management of endolymphatic hydrops is based on the avoidance of substances that may trigger or exacerbate fluid pressure buildup in the inner ear. As with systemic hypertension, the goal of managing Ménière disease is to reduce the total volume of body fluid. This reduction, in turn, may reduce the fluid volume in the inner ear.
Avoidance of salt is one of the mainstays of therapy because sodium seems to play a major role in fluid retention in the inner ear.
Patients should avoid foods with high sodium content (eg, pizza, preserved foods, smoked fish).
Sodium nitrate is used in many preserved and smoked foods; therefore, these foods are high in sodium content.

A rigid salt-restricted diet is recommended (ie, 1.5 g sodium), under the guidance of a nutritionist.
Avoidance of other trigger substances has also been shown to help. The following should be avoided: caffeine; nicotine; chocolate, which has shown to be a potent trigger substance; tobacco; alcohol, particularly red wine and beer; foods with high cholesterol or triglyceride content; foods with high carbohydrate content; and excessive sweets and candy.

Answer 5

Ain't No Sunshine,

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Answer 7

Meniere's Syndrome is the proper spelling. Here is some very good general information. http://oto.wustl.edu/men/

But you must ask your own doctor how YOU should be treated. There is no general answer for everybody.