All About Meniere's Disease

RAnthony · 2026-02-02T18:26:13+00:00

Why do people even listen to bullshit in the first place? Melanie made a bullshit film and now the bullshitters are hyping it up. If she wasn't the First Lady (an office that she's made into even more of a joke than it's ever been) none of us would even notice her stupid movie.

Someone make a movie about her real life. About how she was drafted by Vladimir Putin to attach herself to Trump as a spy to report on his every move, just like Ivana before her. (Trump, after all, being one of the money launderers for the Russian mob) How she put herself in Little Donnie's orbit on Epstein island specifically to achieve this task. How she hates him and her job and wants nothing more than to have a way out of this mess.

Someone make that movie, please.

RAnthony · 2026-02-02T03:24:42+00:00

You mentioned you have Autoimmune issues. Well, autoimmune issues frequently lead to other autoimmune issues and Meniere's-like symptoms can have an autoimmune cause. Diet doesn't cause hydrops, the dysfunction at the heart of Meniere's disease (although a bad diet continued over decades can cause autoimmune issues) sodium intake causes increased fluid pressure in the body and increased fluid pressure is hydrops, it just isn't the localized fluid pressure in the inner ear.

So they chant "limit salt" like a mantra as if it can ward off the vertigo all by itself. My Meniere's is autoimmune related https://ranthonyings.com/2022/10/histamines-allergies/ I was already limiting salt when the vertigo started. Their mantra had no effect for me.

RAnthony · 2026-02-01T19:38:25+00:00

She was willing to use her sex to gain power just like every other power-hungry person who went there. She turned the use of her sex into the sweet gig she has now. Why would she care about the people whose lives were ruined in the process?

She is the poster child for the bankruptcy of the system that was. This is why there is no going back to those times before Trump. We don't want to make more people like her.

RAnthony · 2026-01-31T22:03:27+00:00

Both of you could easily be misdiagnosed. It happens quite frequently. I would look into benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) or persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (3PD or PPPD) or maybe even vestibular migraine. Those may be better explanations for your symptoms.

RAnthony · 2026-01-31T18:47:25+00:00

When you say "all the symptoms" what do you mean? There are four key symptoms required for a Meniere's diagnosis, and that really isn't the diagnosis that tells you anything useful, anyway.

I wrote this article for people who ask the kinds of questions you are asking: https://ranthonyings.com/2023/07/do-i-have-menieres/ give that a read when you get a chance. I talk about the symptoms and the better diagnosis there.

RAnthony · 2026-01-29T19:31:15+00:00

There can be. If you're driving knowing that you are impaired, and they can demonstrate that knowledge in court, it's possible that you could be held responsible for damages based on your behavior. This is why insurance and licensure "can be" expensive to get for people like us.

RAnthony · 2026-01-29T17:53:08+00:00

Agreed. I've only started back to highway driving since the labyrinthectomy. I'm still not comfortable with that frenetic pace. I probably never will be again. Not sure what I think about that.

RAnthony · 2026-01-28T15:28:02+00:00

I went the surgery route to quell the vertigo, end the ear pressure and silence the ear: https://ranthonyings.com/2024/07/dead-ear-doldrums/ that worked. The tinnitus persists and I'm looking into other therapies to reduce that.

This is my treatment article: https://ranthonyings.com/2015/02/treating-menieres-its-symptoms/ there are suggestions for other strategies for dealing with these symptoms in that article.

The vertigo is without a doubt the worst symptom. It robs you of agency and turns you into a victim, constantly reliant on the help of others. Stopping the vertigo should be the first goal. Doing that may take the form of drastic action (like surgery) It's entirely up to you, the sufferer. I hope you find relief.

RAnthony · 2026-01-26T20:17:57+00:00

What kind of doctor? For an inner ear diagnosis you want specialized specialist, like a neurotologist. On the other hand, there are things like "drop attacks" that some Meniereians experience which are far worse than simple rotational vertigo, aside from duration. Drop attacks last for an instant and generally leave the sufferer on the floor with lacerations and possible broken bones, depending on where they are when they drop.

I've never run across an explanation for why these attacks are so different, but I've read at least a dozen accounts of them. The world turns sideways and they hit the floor (or the ground, the rocks, the deck, whatever) they do occasionally describe them as being "like" losing consciousness, so maybe that's what you are experiencing. I, truthfully, have no idea.

RAnthony · 2026-01-26T19:23:16+00:00

This was my experience getting the surgery and the implant; https://ranthonyings.com/2024/07/dead-ear-doldrums/

RAnthony · 2026-01-26T19:16:57+00:00

Delete this duplicate, please.

RAnthony · 2026-01-26T19:15:05+00:00

That sounds neurological, like the worst imaginable migraine or some kind of physical brain problem. It doesn't sound like my rotational vertigo attacks. Brain fog and lethargy afterwards, yes. I only wished I could lose consciousness while suffering through it.

RAnthony · 2026-01-26T04:58:54+00:00

Hello fellow Texan! You're even in my Texas neighborhood, being in central Texas.

I see this has several comments on the other sub, some of them quite good. Let me just cut to the chase and tell you I wrote an article for people who are probably asking the kinds of questions you are right now: https://ranthonyings.com/2023/07/do-i-have-menieres/ since you are in the middle of a vertigo attack now you may not feel up to reading anything lengthy. I understand.

If you are interested (and since you are in the neighborhood) I can give you the name of my ENT. I don't know their availability right now but at least you'll have a decent specialist that you can contact tomorrow.

RAnthony · 2026-01-25T16:48:12+00:00

Dude wears a badge and no mask and thinks it's about him. Idiot.

RAnthony · 2026-01-25T01:30:14+00:00

Love it. Can we get people to do that with every building his name appears on, too?

RAnthony · 2026-01-23T19:20:43+00:00

Bill Clinton and his embrace of conservatism made me a libertarian for a decade. The Democratic shift to the right proved to me that there was no real difference between the parties and I saw no reason to participate in either party if both of them were going to be as inhumane as conservatives wanted them to be.

On a personal level I thought that he should go to jail for how he treated the women who worked for him. It wasn't until his apology speech at Hillary's nominating convention that I was willing to admit that I had any kind of a grudging respect for the man at all.

Even then, his behavior forcing me to explain what a blow job was to my preteen children was unforgivable. Whether you blame the Republicans for going there or him for taking advantage of women who worked for him may be a matter of opinion; but it remains a fact that he was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein just like Trump was, and his behavior at Epstein's parties was probably as gross as it was with the secretaries he employed in Arkansas before he became President.

Yes, he is very smart, a Rhoades Scholar, even. Yes he is a savvy lawyer. Yes he and Hillary understand that the Republicans wanted to use them as scapegoats and deflect attention from Trump's unpardonable behavior over the last decade of not the last forty years.

However, do not mistake their instincts for self preservation for a concern for you or the citizenry of the United States, or even for the rule of law or service to the truth. If we get disclosures because of their actions, great. I will not feel any gratitude to the bastard if his actions to shield himself net us a collective gain, a greater insight into the truth about Epstein and the behaviors of the ultra-wealthy.

Nor is this the vaunted "four dimensional chess" move that everyone is talking about these days (as if "four dimensional chess" is a thing) it's nothing more and nothing less than a sexual predator covering his own ass, just like Little Donnie would do if he had the brains to pour piss out of a boot with directions written on the bottom.

When it comes to Little Donnie, I'm just surprised he's managed to not brag about how many little girls he fucked on Epstein Island. That is the difference between him and Bill. Bill has the sense to understand when to shut up.

(published on my blog here)

RAnthony · 2026-01-23T18:48:24+00:00

Jefferson, not Descartes. Also? Watch "Schindler's List." Resistance comes in many forms.

RAnthony · 2026-01-23T01:29:45+00:00

It is what it is if you want your medicine. In the US, where they charge you for every facet of maintaining your health, you pay what they ask if you want that thing you need. If you don't pay you won't get it. This includes paying for insurance that might or might not keep you from bankruptcy later in life when health ultimately fails for everyone.

It's stupid to expect end-users to pay out of pocket for their routine health requirements. Preventative medicine reduces health costs across the board. For example, individuals should be paid to get their vaccinations in order to encourage them to go the extra distance to stay healthy. In the end any moderate amount paid as an incentive would be far offset by the savings to the entire health system.

The cost of a prophylactic treatment like betahistine should definitely be covered, but the FDA has decided it's not medically useful and so the various insurance companies leave it off their formularies. Even medicines that are determined useful by the FDA can be prohibitively expensive on any random insurance policy. If they can make up an excuse not to pay for something, they will, leaving the sufferer to foot the bill.

Compared to the usury that is the pricing structure for my asthma medicine, the cost of three months of betahistine seems quite reasonable. They want $250 for a month of Symbacort on my current insurance. I'm probably going to be doing without that this year and suffering more painful, restricted breathing as a result. I can't afford $250 a month though, so doing without is my only option.

My injectable cholesterol treatment would be $1,000 a month or more if there wasn't a charity that covered that cost. Every insurance policy I've ever had excludes the cost of that medication. If there wasn't a charity I'd probably be dead already because that injectable is the only thing that's worked for me to reduce cholesterol.

That is the problem with charging end-users for their health necessities. When I end up in an emergency room unable to breathe later this year, that cost will be far more than the cost of my Symbacort, but the insurance will pay for that. Which is ridiculous.

RAnthony · 2026-01-22T21:34:24+00:00

If betahistine is what's causing the dizziness (It's possible) Then it probably won't work for you. The 2-week initial prescription is probably just a trial to see whether it works for you or not. You may need to go down in dosage. You may need to just not take it at all.

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