Any time that you read about Meniere’s disease, hearing loss will be one of the four primary symptoms listed. But is the hearing loss being caused by Meniere’s disease? If so, could hearing loss become permanent? Let’s take a closer look at the symptoms associated with Meniere’s disease. Then we will look closer at hearing loss in particular. Finally, we will conclude by taking a closer look at a natural way to get help for Meniere’s. 

The Symptoms of Meniere’s Disease 

There are four main symptoms that will help your doctor to make a diagnosis of Meniere’s disease. These symptoms are:

1. Vertigo
2. Tinnitus
3. Full in the ear
4. Hearing loss

Let’s examine each symptom to see how they help to identify this syndrome. 

#1 Meniere’s Disease Vertigo 

Meniere’s disease vertigo differs from this symptom as caused by other conditions. First of all, it is usually quite severe. In fact, it can lead to falls, nausea, or vomiting. Second, the duration of an episode may last a while longer. Take positional vertigo as an example. While most cases of positional vertigo last less than a minute or up to a few minutes, Meniere’s disease vertigo usually lasts at least 20 minutes and can go on for the entire day. 

Vertigo is usually the first symptom that sends a patient to the doctor. It is the most severe symptom right from the beginning of the condition, while other symptoms grow worse over time. Plus, having vertigo arise out of the blue and last all day can be scary and have a significant impact on what a person can accomplish. Thus, the majority of people are going to give in and see a doctor even if they have a tendency to ignore health issues. 

#2 Tinnitus 

Tinnitus is a ringing or buzzing sound in the ear. It is a symptom that something is wrong and not an actual sound that is occurring. For a Meniere’s patient, tinnitus can become loud, distracting, and make it difficult to hear. This particular symptom will grow worse as the disease progresses, so it is essential to find some way to care for your Meniere’s as soon as possible. 

#3 Fullness in the Ear

Most Meniere’s cases only occur in one ear or the other, although it is possible to have Meniere’s in both ears or to develop it in the second ear later. In the meantime, you can tell which ear the condition is affecting. A feeling of pressure or fullness in the ear with accompany most of your symptom flare-ups. This is another symptom that usually gets worse as the condition progresses. 

#4 Meniere’s Disease Hearing Loss 

Meniere’s disease hearing loss varies from patient to patient. For some people, hearing loss may come and go. For others, hearing issues may relate mostly to tinnitus. In many situations, low tones will be affected. This can make it challenging to hear a deep voice or the bass sounds in music. However, some people find the opposite is true and that high tones are either difficult to understand or become painful.

While some patients will say that hearing loss grows worse the longer that they have the condition, hearing loss rarely becomes permanent. Other patients may lose hearing in the affected ear due to the Meniere’s disease treatment they seek. For example, some of the injections or surgeries that may be recommended for severe cases of Meniere’s disease can leave a person deaf in the treated ear. You have to weigh the risks carefully.

Meniere’s Disease Self-Care

Some alternatives that your doctor recommends may include lifestyle adjustments that can help to relieve your symptoms. A few examples include:

• Eating a low sodium diet – This may reduce fluid levels in the ear. Since symptoms may flare-up when there is too much fluid in the inner ear, this can increase the time between attacks.
• Reduce caffeine intake – While caffeine can reduce fluids in the body, it also tends to increase tinnitus according to many patients.
• Quit smoking – Patients often report reduced symptoms after they give up this habit.
• Manage your stress – Stress is a common trigger for Meniere’s, so you want to reduce sources of stress and control the stress that you do have to live with.

These are a few ways that you can keep your triggers at bay and limit how often you get an attack. However, it is also essential to get to the root of the problem so that you can try to find long-term relief. Therefore, we would like to introduce you to upper cervical specific chiropractic as an alternative way to get help. 

Upper Cervical Chiropractic and Meniere’s Disease 

If you are living with Meniere’s disease, you may want to give upper cervical chiropractic a try. One practitioner performed case studies with hundreds of patients and found that correcting an upper cervical misalignment can provide significant symptomatic relief in just six weeks and continued benefits with long-term maintenance. We want to try and help you get the same results by relieving an upper cervical misalignment that can affect central nervous system function as well as ear function. 

If you want to learn more about how upper cervical chiropractic may be able to provide you with the natural help you’ve been searching for, use this website to locate a practitioner in your area. A consultation may be your first step to getting the benefits you seek.

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