Update:Meniere’s Disease Breakthrough, elimination of vertigo in 291 out of 300

Re: Meniere’s Disease Breakthrough? elimination of vertigo in 291 out of 300 patient

Hi Jacquie,

What's the connection with petroleum? According to homeopaths, a homeopathic remedy is a like versus like cure. Does he think your illness stems from gasoline?

 

Re: Meniere’s Disease Breakthrough? elimination of vertigo in 291 out of 300 patient

Larrikin, I would laugh, because if I don't, I'll cry.

It wasn't my homeopath, but an acquaintance that goes to this person.

I understand what you're saying. As I mentioned to her, it's possible her MM is just in remission and the petroleum remedy has nothing to do with it. She also is having chiropractic adjustments by the same doctor. Since I believe that it can do you know harm, I'm willing to give it a try for a month.

That said, I started yesterday (Fri). Sat. 5 am I woke up with a spell and experienced another one about 12 noon. Go figure.

Jacquie

 

Re: Meniere’s Disease Breakthrough? elimination of vertigo in 291 out of 300 patient

Jacquie, were these normal spells or anything different? Describe.

 

Re: Meniere’s Disease Breakthrough? elimination of vertigo in 291 out of 300 patient

Henry, the spells I've been experiencing lately (for the most part) are not out & out dizzy spells. I just (almost in slow motion) begin to feel unwell and I need to lay down. Sometimes I have a BM, other times not. My head feels unwell (I can't think of a more apt description - sorry) and my balance is 'off'. There is a spot on the ceiling I watch . . . and it 'moves'. Eventually, the spot on the ceiling stops moving. This usually takes 3, 4, 5 hours, and sometimes longer.

That said, yesterday I had two - the first one about 5 a.m. which woke me up, but no vertigo, although I couldn't turn on my side. The 2nd one I actually had a spin for approximately 20 seconds or so. I laid down for 3 or 4 hours.

Last week I had an attack in the bathtub. I think it would have been a drop attack if I'd been standing. Getting out of the tub, there was some dizziness. I laid on the couch for a couple of hours and eventually went to bed.

These spells are not a severe as I experienced years ago . . . but it sure puts me "down and out" for a number of hours.

Jacquie

 

(Update) Meniere’s Disease Breakthrough? elimination of vertigo 291 out of 300 .

Meniere's Disease & Trigeminal Neuralgia Breakthrough
Eleven years of research by Dr. Michael T. Burcon results in elimination of vertigo in 291 out of 300 patients.

May 10, 2011

Dr. Burcon started researching Meniere’s disease (MD) eleven years ago after having three MD patients quickly recover from their vertigo under upper cervical specific chiropractic care. His papers have been published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research and the textbook, Upper Cervical Subluxation Complex, a Review of the Chiropractic and Medical Literature, by Kirk Ericksen in 2004.

Burcon has established a link between both Meniere’s disease and Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) with whiplash injuries that misalign the base of the skull with the top of the neck creating a lesion affecting the Eustachian tube and/or the Trigeminal ganglion. About half of these traumas are caused by vehicular traumas and the other half from injuries involving head trauma. Burcon believes that the correlation was not made because it takes an average of fifteen years from the time the patient was injured until the onset of symptoms.

Patients typically get diagnosed with MD or TN in middle age. Their injuries most often happened during high school or college years from a car accident, sports injury or fall on their heads. Few patients list these old injuries on their doctor’s admission paper work. In fact, they have often forgotten about them, believing they were not hurt if they were not admitted to the hospital.
Burcon has produced three Health Talk videos for GRTV. Copies of Health Talk are available free on DVD. For more information on Dr. Burcon’s Meniere’s research e-mail DrBurcon(at)yahoo(dot)com, call (616) 575-9990 or go to http://www.MenieresResearch.com and http://www.BurconChiropractic.com.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8398635.htm

 

Re: Update:Meniere’s Disease Breakthrough? elimination of vertigo in 291 out of 300

Meniere's Disease And Trigeminal Neuralgia

11th Annual Meniere’s Disease & Trigeminal Neuralgia Symposium sponsored by www.MenieresResearch.com on Saturday, June 18, 2011. 9 am, Academic Auditorium, Family Residency Center, 3291 Loma Vista Rd, Bldg. 340. Exams: 2 pm, Ventura Wellness Group, 1732 Palma Dr, Suite 104, Ventura, CA 93003. X-rays available at 1 pm at Grossman Imaging, 2705 Loma Vista Rd, Ventura, CA 93003. Call (616) 575-9990 or E-mail [email protected] to register today. Doctors: $300, patients: $200, students or caregivers: $50. Seating is limited. Speakers available for radio, TV, magazine and newspaper interviews on Friday. Complimentary DVDs of last year’s seminar available for $5 shipping and handling.

The keynote speaker, Michael Burcon, DC of Grand Rapids, MI has presented his Meniere’s research to more than 1,000 doctors of chiropractic at his research institute, Sherman College of Chiropractic and Palmer College of Chiropractic; and more than 1,000 Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeons at Cleveland Clinic, the Prosper Meniere Society in Austria, and the International Symposium on Meniere’s Disease at the House Ear Institute in California, and the Kyoto International Convention Center in Japan.

Dr. Burcon started researching Meniere’s disease (MD) eleven years ago after having three MD patients quickly recover from their vertigo under upper cervical specific chiropractic care. His papers have been published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research and the textbook, Upper Cervical Subluxation Complex, a Review of the Chiropractic and Medical Literature, by Kirk Ericksen in 2004.

Burcon has established a link between both Meniere’s disease and Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) with whiplash injuries that misalign the base of the skull with the top of the neck creating a lesion affecting the Eustachian tube and/or the Trigeminal ganglion. About half of these traumas are caused by vehicular traumas and the other half from injuries involving head trauma. Burcon believes that the correlation was not made because it takes an average of fifteen years from the time the patient was injured until the onset of symptoms.

Patients typically get diagnosed with MD or TN in middle age. Their injuries most often happened during high school or college years from a car accident, sports injury or fall on their heads. Few patients list these old injuries on their doctor’s admission paper work. In fact, they have often forgotten about them, believing they were not hurt if they were not admitted to the hospital.

Burcon has produced three Health Talk videos for GRTV. Copies of Health Talk are available free on DVD. For more information on Dr. Burcon’s Meniere’s research e-mail [email protected], call (616) 575-9990 or go to www.MenieresResearch.com and www.BurconChiropractic.com.

 

Um, not to be part of any debate or anything like that, I just have a personal question from those who actually used that chiropractic method with success. I think I remember on page one or the early ones (I can't read that long of a post and remember it all) that someone said it helped cure them in a matter of weeks? (want to make sure that was right). I was wondering if they used a neck brace thing to help keep your neck vertebrea in place after they adjust it.

I've been going to the Nuva (spelt wrong) chiro for 2 yrs. In those two years they got my neck to actually curve the correct direction which many many chiros told me would never happen. But I still can't get my c1 to stay in place and often the c2/c3 adjust with traction. My c1 stays in place for maybe a week but that's it.

I'm just trying to figure out if my neck is being stubborn like many parts of my body or if there is more my chiro can do to help. (they do keep up with the latest techniques.)

Can anyone help me with how to get it to stay in place longer than a week? (I have great insurance and get 36 visits a year and that really helps. When the c1 is in place, there is no headache and the disequilibriuim is gone. My chiros are even a bit confused as to why it is still slipping out of place so often.

 

I've had NUCCA chiropractic from two different chiropractors. I could never hold and they admitted that I never held. The reason I can't hold is that I have a herniation in c-5, c-6 that pinches a nerve and has caused my muscles to pull my neck to the side. One side is very weak. I also have two curves in my t-spine which might also come into play.

I did have two major traumas to my neck. Possibly three. After my first car accident (when my head went through the driver-side window) a traditional chiropractor "adjusted" my neck and caused dizziness. It went away but I wonder how much damage that adjustment did. NUCCA adjustments are very light and they NEVER twist the neck.

A friend at work has had some success with NUCCA for TN. She continues to go for monthly maintenance and has been able to keep working. She will be 70. Hank's wife, Winde, provided my friend with support and information.

I intend to try NUCCA again after my c-5, c-6 herniation is fixed.

 

Each vertebra is designed to support the vertical load placed upon it. When the load becomes out of plumb, each vertebra supporting the next up the ladder must offset from it's normal position in order to compensate. So when it moves, the one below does the same thing. The result is an ever increasing scoliosis or inverted neck, neck curved the wrong way. It sounds as if that is what you are describing, backward curvature.

The C1 adjustment is done to try to reverse that wrong way curvature. And many times it will, but it can take a long time. Your neck did not get that wrong curvature over night. It took years to get that way. So it cannot be corrected immediately either.

But your inability to hold an adjustment for long can be from one of a couple of things, or both. First, because it is this mis-balanced load that causes the wrong curvature or scoliosis to begin with, while the adjustment begins the process of correcting the mis-balanced condition, it does not correct it overnight. The same mis-balance is trying to pull your neck back to its previous position. That is why one must have a series of adjustments for any of this to help.

Secondly, like Titus, you may have other structural problems going on in your neck, bad discs, arthritis, etc. Those factors also work against holding an adjustment.

Titus spoke of Winde, my wife. If anyone has ever had a hard time holding an adjustment it is her. But she stayed at it. She has rolled over a long up hill climb and appears to be on the other side. Her neck was almost perfectly straight, looking from the side. It has taken a long time, years, and more visits than I could ever count or imagine, but now her correct curvature is coming back. And as a result, her trigeminal neuralgia is lessened to the point that this person who used to spend 5 of 7 days in bed with excruciating pain is now living a perfectly normal life. It is now almost 6:30 and she is still not home from work, stayed late again! So curvature is a big deal. And if your proper curvature is coming back, I expect that this factor may help you begin to hold your adjustments. Winde has not been to the chiropractor for over 4 months. At one time she was going three or four times a week. So this is a hill that you can climb and I encourage you to stay with it. You may be near the top of the hill.

Good luck.

 

I was in an MVA in 1998 (or was it 1997), that would be about 12 years ago.... hummmm and I had a head injury from a fall from a tree in Hawaii (LONG story... LOL) in 2002. Both did damage to my neck, shoulders and back. No broken bones, but it took MONTHS to sort it out. That would make SO much sense. How do you find a Nucca Dr?

 

Go to www.nucca.com

 

Article I came across.

It shook me deeply to see my father have to crawl to the bathroom to vomit. Dad was only in his mid 50s and was already using a cane to stand up, when he could stand at all. He had a really bad case of Meniere’s Syndrome, a miserable collection of symptoms including recurrent ringing in the ears, dizziness, and nausea. Perhaps it proved to be a defining moment for me. Seeing your father reduced to helplessness is enough to make anyone want to know more about getting well. When you look this one up, the treatments you come across, whether pharmaceutical or surgical, are primarily aimed at the symptoms, because the cause of the illness is pretty much unknown.

Enter natural healing.

By trial and error, I have found that there are some drugless, scalpel-less options for Meniere’s. While the solutions shed some light on the cause, I am interested in results. I have seen success with what follows:

CHIROPRACTIC or osteopathic adjustment of the upper cervical (neck) vertebrae is worth trying, first thing.

Some 20 years ago, I met a young man so dizzy that he could not read or even watch TV without having to lie down. Meniere’s, aptly described in the Merck Manual as “prostrating,” certainly is capable of flooring a person. Such was the case with Lowell, a college dropout. He had a gentle but persistent series of manipulations which restored his life. He was able to read again, to return to school, and live again. How so? The practitioner discovered that his two top neck vertebrae, the atlas and the axis, were practically at right angles to each other, and to the skull on top of that. This seemingly impossible state of affairs turned out to be due to a summer job Lowell had a few years before: he was a sparring partner for boxers in training. He had almost literally had had his block knocked off.

The closest to such an experience my father had was when he was knocked out of the box, figuratively speaking, while in training to become a New York Yankee pitcher. Well, he did not quite make it to the farm team. Still, my Pop struck out Bobby Brown, the guy who would become the President of the American League three times in one game.

But I digress, as usual.

Pa refused to go to a chiropractor until his Meniere’s was so bad he could not take it any more. He’d been on various ineffective medications from various ineffective physicians, none of whom gave chiropractic the time of day. But I managed to get him to a D.C. for a visit or two.

Pa said it did not help one bit.

He then began taking vitamins, notable the B-complex in fairly high doses. Pa had no praise for that, either.

But over a period of months, his specialist-diagnosed Meniere’s went away.

I had persistent suspicions that the natural approach had helped him.

NIACIN
Since then, I have come across references showing that niacin (vitamin B-3) was used for Meniere's syndrome since the 1940s. In long term therapy, improvement has been obtained with only 150-250 mg daily (Bicknell and Prescott, The Vitamins in Medicine, 3rd ed., p 379). This may explain why Pa’s improvement was so gradual, yet in the end, profound.

VITAMIN B-12
I think that Meniere’s syndrome, and perhaps a number of other difficult-to-tag neurological problems, could be a manifestation of untreated, long-term B-12 deficiency. I discuss this, and what to do about it, at http://www.doctoryourself.com/nasal.html

ASPARTAME
My Dad never drank anything with aspartame in it. However, the late Lendon H. Smith's newsletter "The Facts" (October 1991) mentions that aspartame (“Nutrasweet”) may “trigger or mimic” a Meniere’s attack. Dr. Smith specifically lists nausea, vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus as symptoms that say, Stop using aspartame.

OTHER NUTRITIONAL FACTORS:
A low-fat, low-sodium, no alcohol and especially NO SUGAR diet may help a wide variety of illnesses. Meniere’s seems to be closely connected with chronic low blood sugar, sometimes diagnosed as hypoglycemia or Type II diabetes). Caffeine may aggravate the condition, as might manganese deficiency. (Balch and Balch, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, p 239-240)

Zinc supplementation and moderate additional amounts of B-6 (pyridoxine) are also worth a several-month therapeutic trial. (Werbach, M. Textbook of Nutritional Medicine, p 475-482)

HOMEOPATHIC KALI PHOS.
For uncomplicated simple ringing in the ears, dizziness or nausea, a 6X potency of Kali Phos. may be surprisingly helpful. I have personally used this remedy for 30 years, as I have a motion sickness problem that my flight instructor has insisted cannot be matched. If it were not for Kali Phos, I think I would have thrown up right in the FAA examiner’s lap at Batavia airport.

For what it’s worth, these can’t-hurt-to-try-them approaches may help someone you love stop crawling, and start living.

My Dad, fully recovered from Meniere’s, would walk four miles a day for the rest of his life. His dizziness and nausea were gone for good. His sense of humor was not, however. If you ever asked my father how his hearing was, he’d invariably shout back at you:

“WHAT?”

But he did it smiling, and standing up straight.

 

I had my PT evaluation today for neck/shoulder issues. When she felt my c-spine, she said my atlas/axis was "off." She knew by how it felt and how my range of motion looked. She mentioned my "crooked" neck. I'm encouraged....and sore......time for ice.

 

Remember I did NUCCA for a FULL YEAR, 2-3 times a week. A FULL FREAKIN YEAR FOLKS!! The pain in my neck was still there. When I asked him about the pain..he blew it off by saying " I dont know why you're complaining of pain in that area, I am feeling you misaligned up here. ( base of my skull, right side) .
long story short,, make sure you dont have muscles spasms or pinched nerves in your neck. NUCCA will NOT help with this.
p.s. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE , to have your head on straight again? Had I not looked for some kind of treatment for pain management, I would have still been doing NUCCA with no relief for the pain.
I have to wonder.. how many more months he would have adjusted me. According to him, I was always out of alignment.
Bottom line, have the nerve conductor test done to find out if there are any pinched nerves.

 

My first thought would be to ask your chiropractor/physical therapist to recommend exercises. It's kind of a vicious circle--when things are really out of alignment, it's very hard to strengthen the muscles because you're in pain. And weak muscles, especially when unevenly strengthened, can contribute to things being pulled out of alignment. But when things are in alignment, properly strengthening the muscles can help KEEP things in place--and it's a heckuva lot easier when you're not in pain from things being out of alignment!

 

Dear ???

Would you take 5 pellets of Kali Phos at a time?
If so, how many times a day?

. . . and you think it stopped or controlled your tinnitus and the dizziness from Meniere's?


Jacquie