Meniere's and Barometric Pressure

Niner2sevenNiner7, the last rainy week was bad for me. Never seemed to be a problem before with me either. I'll have to start including baro pressure in my daily dizzy charting.

Hope you stay with us. Meniere's since '74? Man, too bad. With that much experience you could be a good source of advice/info for people here.

 

Yep, it hurts me too. This last storm really put me through the ringer. Like Pup said, your history should be interesting to say the least!

 

Barometric pressure shifting is not my favorite! This citation corroborates our feelings on this issue.


The Weather and Ménière's Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis in the UK
Schmidt, Wiebke; Sarran, Christophe; Ronan, Natalie; Barrett, George; Whinney, David J.; Fleming, Lora E.; Osborne, Nicholas J.; Tyrrell, Jessica

Otology & Neurotology: February 2017 - Volume 38 - Issue 2 - p 225–233

 

My wife pointed it out to me........she was right, changes in pressure and humidity definitely have an affect on my symptoms.

 

It 100% has an effect on me. I can tell days in advance it is going to rain - the pressure is very noticeable!

 

It has rained for days and this morning, dark and raining out and within mins. of being up, I am sooo lightheaded!! Feel like I have to 'work' at balance when I walk. A bit nauseated as a result. And--have a doctor appt. this morning--eye doctor!!

I agree this has an affect on us for sure. No vertigo for me--thankfully, since the shunt surgery in 2012, but horrible head pressure and dizziness I deal with 'often'!

 

I didn't know that barometric pressure would effect MM. When storms I have noticed a change but I didn't relate that to my MM. What kind of changes has anyone noticed and is there any way to relive it?

 

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that when the barometric pressure lowers, it lessens the pressure on the cochlea, the cochlea expands slightly and that in turn causes an increase in symptoms. I have no proof of this, but it makes sense to me. I’ll get an increase in tinnitus, pressure and fullness when a system is approaching. Sometimes it can trigger vertigo. I usually take a Valium if needed or also an ondansetron if it’s really bothering me.

 

I noticed my symptoms getting worse the older I got, for instance at work towards almost the end of the day it got really bad with ringing in my ears so loud I couldn’t hear anything but the ringing, the sounds I did hear sounded like I was under water. Vertigo then started which blurred my vision so much that everything I looked at had no distinct features. The pressure was so heavy I couldn’t breathe and lastly the dreaded migraine. For some reason I felt like I needed to get under my desk, I was crying because I didn’t understand what was happening to me and none of my coworkers seemed to notice I was in distress. Luck for me it was the Friday of Memorial Day weekend so I had some time to recover.
Honestly, I believe it’s where you live and the extreme fluctuations of the weather because here in Minnesota it changes a lot and fast from spring to fall not much in the winter. I have Oklahoma to be the worst right next to the Carolinas

 

Hi, I suffer with barometric pressure changes too. Autumn here in Europe is bad but last autumn with all that rain was terrible.

A couple of solutions for me that help...so I can keep functioning and getting to work are as follows:

Weather X app that gives me pressure change warnings on my phone.

Airplane earplugs, the type that protect you from pressure changes when you take off and land. My earphones are nearly as good.

Eustachian tube clearance by moving my jaw from side to side and some ear massages to get plenty of blood to the suffering ear to help it adapt. Qi gong helps too.


I put the ear plugs in my bad ear when i get a warning on my phone.

I also live at altitude so sometimes the pressure difference between work and home can be a bother.

I hope this helps some of you.

 

I think barometric pressure changes are causing 90% of my problems of late. The barometer here has been going minimum maximum every other day. It's like being in hell. When it's stable for a while I'm in pretty good shape but when it goes yo-yo so does my tinnitus in my deaf ear and the hearing in my good ear.

 

I was diagnose with manières about 25 years ago, i barely remember when i first got it, it has been a long time since i had any symptoms and then all of a sudden it came back full force, the tinnitus is horrible, what do you guys suggest to do?

 

I have noticed the same phenomena. It may have to do with an incresase in the density
a a particular allergen. Reaction to allergens is based on level to trigger histamine.
It's like being allergic to cat hair but only when you touch it.
Hope this helps.

 

I also realize now change in barometer pressure bothers me more now then years ago so now I know pressure dropping. Thanks for that exercise I am going to do that and Qi gong.

 

It's raining. I understand. The problem has to do with a combination of an allergy which causes the eustachian
tube to swell and some vestibilar damage damage which prevents the inner ear from using the normal pathway to equalize pressure between inner ear ond out side pressue.The normal opening of your mouth does not work and
the result is quite painfull. The method I use is not generally available yet.
But a another person who recently posted, may have a decogestent to recommend. Decongestants can make
your problem worse. The allergic swelling is caused some allergen. Best way I have found is to stop the
inflammation with an anti-inflamamatory.

 

Which anti -inflammatory works for u ?

 

I use a transdermal method. But You may get enough diffusion into the inner ear
where the inflammation is by using this: Make a lotion of flax seed oil, primrose oil,
punicic acid, 95% etoh. Ratio: 10:5:0.3:0.3. Shake very well. Apply to a q-tip, one drop. More is not better. If one drop does not work, a gallon won't either. The lotion is applied gently inside the ear canal. Do not touch the ear drum. Let me know if it works.