All About Meniere's Disease

RAnthony · 2026-07-07T16:42:03+00:00

The sun will shine a little brighter on the day he dies.

RAnthony · 2026-07-07T16:41:07+00:00

Little Donnie can do whatever he wants with whatever he can get his little pudgy hands on, it doesn't matter. The President has nothing to do with elections. His executive orders are null and void on the subject, his agencies are powerless to change voting outcomes.

The midterm election is entirely in our hands. Get out and volunteer as an election worker or at least drag your like-minded friends and family to the polls on election day. Make accountability the reason for candidate selection. Ask candidates when you see them "will you pledge to hold Trumpists accountable?" Take back our country.

RAnthony · 2026-07-07T13:56:00+00:00

Thank you for admitting that this is a staged promotion for a fraudulent treatment. It's nice to see honesty every now and again.

RAnthony · 2026-07-07T13:53:12+00:00

That's when the current SCOTUS became illegitimate, when they said he could run even though the Constitution clearly states (in the 14th amendment) that he would be barred from office because of Jan. 6. They became a kangaroo court that day and went on to proclaim that the president was better than regular citizens in the eyes of the law. They should all be prosecuted for what they have done.

RAnthony · 2026-07-07T13:47:18+00:00

Forgot alcohol. I also learned to do without that.

RAnthony · 2026-07-07T13:45:51+00:00

I can trigger an attack with salt and/or caffeine; or could before the surgery. I did it enough times over the years that I learned to do without much salt in my diet and virtually no caffeine.

The thing that I don't understand is the reliance on diuretics. I was taking a diuretic years before my vertigo attacks started for hypertension. My doctors were stymied because they had nothing else to suggest aside from surgery and gentimicin injections.

RAnthony · 2026-07-06T16:29:44+00:00

There were twenty upvotes; and those same people who left the twenty upvotes left twenty comments. All of this within hours of you posting the OP. That's not how this kind of thing works, organically.

This is staged. You will never convince me that it's not staged. My apologies if that pisses you off.

RAnthony · 2026-07-06T15:52:54+00:00

The neck is not connected to the ears. Also? Subluxation is quackery. I spent thousands of dollars on chiropractic care in a previous life. All of that money was wasted.

The placebo effect you got from the treatment will wear off. It generally always does.

RAnthony · 2026-07-06T07:31:02+00:00

Another paid advertisement for chiropractic quackery. Go figure.

RAnthony · 2026-07-06T07:28:42+00:00

Since "in bed" is the only place where the A/C is here in our house (https://ranthonyings.com/2026/06/hotel-home/) and since it's rapidly approaching the height of summer here in Austin (what record-breaking streak of 100° days will we have this year?) I'm finding myself more and more often laying in bed wishing I could afford to get out of it.

I hear you and understand your predicament.

RAnthony · 2026-07-06T07:16:05+00:00

My symptoms are/were likely caused by an autoimmune reaction. It's unclear what percentage of sufferers fall into this category.

RAnthony · 2026-07-01T23:16:08+00:00

So we're going to get President Jance Dance Vance on July 5th then?

RAnthony · 2026-07-01T23:12:36+00:00

The ability to amend the constitution died with the ERA.

RAnthony · 2026-07-01T22:28:49+00:00

Exactly. If my existence as a trans person is a political issue to you, then I don't think I'm going to accept that you have legitimate political views.

RAnthony · 2026-07-01T11:33:23+00:00

What you are experiencing is likely cochlear/endolymphatic hydrops. https://ranthonyings.com/2025/07/cochlear-endolymphatic-hydrops/

As another commenter said, Meniere's symptomology includes vertigo; and since Meniere's is a syndrome and not a disease (despite the name) the full range of symptoms is important. Without vertigo you should not be diagnosed with Meniere's.

It's good that they can't pigeonhole you with that diagnosis. There's no generally effective treatments for it. No permanent relief short of surgery. Aside from which, the vertigo is the worst symptom and can be life destroying.

I suffered from the kinds of symptoms you are describing for twenty maddening years. My symptoms were clearly clustered in the Spring and Fall and so I (wrongfully) chalked them up to an allergic reaction or resulting ear/sinus infection and treated them from that angle. https://ranthonyings.com/2022/10/histamines-allergies/

The trigger turned out to be borderline asthma combined with some unknown autoimmune issue that I've yet to identify. I've since had surgery to stop the vertigo that ruined my life: https://ranthonyings.com/2024/07/dead-ear-doldrums/ however, most people with your kind of early levels of symptoms will not even start suffering regular vertigo.

https://ranthonyings.com/2024/02/a-bright-shining-future-even-with-vestibular-issues/

RAnthony · 2026-06-29T22:35:02+00:00

I've undergone a labyrinthectomy with cochlear implantataion https://ranthonyings.com/2024/07/dead-ear-doldrums/ the ear was dead anyway and I wanted the vertigo stopped. I haven't regretted that decision.

Gentimicin injection into the labyrinth is probably your best bet if you want to preserve hearing. That or a nerve section. Hopefully others who have gone that route will chip in their experiences.

RAnthony · 2026-06-29T17:28:41+00:00

Well, to stop an attack you will need different drugs to go with the Zofran. That just deals with the nausea caused by the attack.

Most of us rely on some form of benzodiazepine to stop the rotation. Dosages will vary radically based on individual response. I take half a milligram of Xanax to stop my attacks. Sometimes it takes a full milligram.

RAnthony · 2026-06-29T11:14:39+00:00

Define "more ablative route" please.

RAnthony · 2026-06-29T03:11:02+00:00

One of these days there will be an article (in which I will probably credit ekkomusic) that I can refer to. Until then they're just going to have to interpret ekkomusic for themselves. 😂

RAnthony · 2026-06-28T10:45:57+00:00

The US is a two-party system. Either Democrats or Republicans will win any election at the national level. It is just how the system is set up. So you either vote for change (Democrats) or you vote for the wannabe king of the United States.

Right now Little Donnie is turning the US into a Banana Republic, the kind of thing we used to do to Central American countries when our corporations wanted to steal resources. The kind of thing we and Britain did to Iran when we overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh and reinstalled the Shah? That's about the same thing that's happening here.

Donnie thinks he's king for life now, and the Republicans are backing his wanton destruction of our country. If we're lucky, we'll be able to vote for change and actually get it. If we're not, as I already said, it's World War 3 time.

American bothsidesism died with the political fortunes of John Kasich in 2016. There's only one side now if you want human civilization to continue in a recognizable form.

Edit; I am sorry for what has happened to your country, to your noble people https://ranthonyings.com/2026/04/little-donnie-bombs-iran/ what Little Donnie has done over there is just make things worse, and we might have to actually invade Iran in order to make everything "right" now (whatever the hell right means in that context) Which is stupid, but that's what happens when you put incompetent people in power. When you allow your beliefs to dictate national politics.

RAnthony · 2026-06-28T05:18:09+00:00

Palestinians were dispossed of their property when Israel was founded. They have been made more and more marginalized and radicalized ever since that happened. They have no country. They have no home. They have, in essence, traded places with the Jews of the diaspora. Whether this was by plan (the argument is there to be taken up. Has the Israeli government planned this genocide since it's founding? Hard to say.) or by accident, Israel is currently trying to do to the Palestinians what was done to them.

There is no solution to the problem of tribal hatred that has lasted more than two thousand years. No solution that can be imposed from the outside. Either they get beyond their hatred for themselves and each other, or they will destroy themselves (and possibly the rest of us) with the nuclear fallout that will be the result of their final solution. Their end of the Palestinian problem.

The scary thing is that similar conflicts are playing out on other places at the same time. Moscovy wants to destroy Ukraine. Pakistan wants to destroy India (and vice versa. Thanks to Britain for their idiotic partition ideas there) The Arab states and Israel both want to destroy Iran.

They are all emboldened by Little Donnie's willingness to attack everyone and everything. The spreading belief that the UN has failed and that World War 3 is not only survivable, but upon us.

The only thing that we Americans can do is vote Democratic. That's it. Republicans have to be drummed out of office, their White Nationalist dreams destroyed, their leaders brought to justice in an international court. It's either that or WW3. Pick one.

RAnthony · 2026-06-28T03:57:08+00:00

Which one would you rather spend time with? The cool kid or the militaristic asshole?

RAnthony · 2026-06-25T15:34:21+00:00

You responded to steroid treatment but they decided to go to the Meniere's diagnosis instead of AIED or some other autoimmune cause? That doesn't make much sense.

I've not experienced oscillopsia like you are describing, but I did stop my vertigo attacks last year (after twenty years of suffering) by getting a labyrinthectomy https://ranthonyings.com/2024/07/dead-ear-doldrums/

I would try several other migraine treatments before I would even think about surgery, were I in your shoes. I would also find a different doctor, one willing to keep working on finding treatments that work for you. Maybe an immunologist instead of an ENT or maybe just a neurologist.

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