Ed’s Meniere’s Disease: Disease Progression – Update November 2011

I have now had active Meniere's for 18 months now since June 2010. For the past 5 months my MD has been extremely poorly controlled and has NEVER calmed down. I feel like am tortured by this disease every single minute of my life. Even when I try to sleep the tinnitus is NEVER ENDING and sometimes so severe that I can not think. Even when I sleep, I have been woken by bouts of nausea and true vertigo attacks. Here is nice PDF File Link to the Official Functional Level of Meniere's functionality. www.medtronic.com Here are the interventions I have been tried in the past 5 months or am trying: 1) Daily Maxide (diuretics) — Stopped no benefit for me. 2) Extremely low sodium diet 1200 mg — nearly impossible to do. 3) Hypervolemia water ingestion (taking 3 to 5 liters of water per day) — minimal benefit 4) 1 to 2 drinks of Alcohol per day (to possibly block ADH) — seems to have quieted the tinnitus mildly but has done nothing for the attacks. 5) Weekly Acupuncture or massage treatments — getting expensive and again has NOT fixed underlying MD flares. 6) Escalating Chinese Herbs with RESPECTED and EXPERIENCED Herbalist. Actually seems to decrease the severity of symptoms but not frequency. 7) 4th Formal Consultation at the Los Angeles House Ear Institute Will be trying a 12 week Famciclovir Treatment. I just had a Tympanostomy Tube (also called Ear Tube, PE (Pressure Equalization) Tube, or Myringotomy Tube) placed at end of November 2011. 9) I am going to Start the <b>…</b>