. The thing that I hate about internet diagnosis, is that to be "Meniere" one has to have all three symptoms. 1. Reoccuring vertigo - several episodes have to be experienced over a fairly short period of time. 2. Sensonueral hearing loss - Permanent. loss due to damage to nerve sensors. 3. Tinnitus - Which must be constant, however, it generally gets louder or changes tone at the onset of an attack. I wish that Meniere's disease label would disappear since it has become a big internet business. The correct diagnosis is endolymphatic hydrops and not something one can self-diagnose. Meniere's only exist when endolymphatic hydrops has gone full-blown and torn the endolymph sac. Then it exists only as a description based on symptoms and correctly said as endolymphatic hydrops gone Meniere. There is no disease called Meniere disease. It is all based on the observations, in the mid-1800s, of Dr. Meniere and was not medical science until 1950 when a doctor discovered the cause of the symptoms as being endolymphatic hydrops. Still today many doctors still diagnose folks with vertigo as Meniere's disease which they claim has no establishable cause, which is total bunk but does make a lot of folks' money. The good news is if one suspects they have BPPV, then try the simple home maneuver and if endolymphatic hydrops is suspected, then go on the balanced diet modified Dr. Sears diet and enjoy the results. If vertigo persists, then see a neuro-otologist because a fistula may have developed and that will earn you up to a year in bed. One can just have daily dizziness as the only symptom and that can be from endolymphatic hydrops. Motion sickness is many times from E hydrops. E Hydrops can have one or many symptoms. Years ago they did an autopsy study and found that 9 out of 10 elderly persons, a few with no symptoms, and some even with fairly good balance, had E hydrops. This is no surprise as it makes sense the endolymphatic sac would grow weaker with age. A few years ago, I hosted a group where several 60-85 that had balance problems, tried the "hydrops" diet and saw amazing results. A few with dizziness noticed less dizziness. I am not promoting any agenda, just putting this info out there since after the vestibular enlightening starting around 1990 went silent around 2010, the internet is once again filled with antiquated Meniere's disease information that advocates it as current science. There is no cure is all they have correct. There are many known causes and any competent ENT should be able to establish such. Virus is common and the one most ignored since antiviral therapy can dismiss all the miracle therapies out there as bogus. Meniere's is kept mysterious because of the millions made by small companies and individuals that prey on the vestibular disabled. As we age our inner ear deteriorates just like the rest of us. Since medicare won't pay to see a neuro-otologist and many ENTs don't care because it doesn't make them much money and Medicare pays them at a lower rate and most PCP doctors have no clue what either BPPV or EH is (or any other vestibular disorders), then helping ourselves is what we are left with. I strongly advise seeing a PCP doctor, but if their diagnosis (lack of one) is Meniere's, then start your own study and find an ENT. If the ENT tells you you have Meniere's, then do your own study and don't fall for any of the internet miracle therapies with all their testimonials by folks that never had a diagnosis based on the necessary test.
I was never diagnosed as Meniere's. I just thought it was a possibility due to the fact that I had the hearing loss at the same time as the vertigo. The vertigo turned out to be just the BPPV, but have been to three ENTs and none of them seem to care one bit about my spontaneous loss of hearing. I have also seen 3 or more audiologists who have come up with strange readings on my hearing tests, but if the MDs don't care, nothing is done but amplification.