Improvement in the inner ear symptoms of Meniere's using low-frequency vibration

full article
http://www.edoriumjournalofotolaryngology.com/archive/2015-archive/100005ZJZO042015-zou/100005ZJZO042015-zou-full-text.php

Improvement in the inner ear symptoms of patients with Meniere's disease after treatment using low-frequency vibration: A preliminary report

Abstract

Aims: To evaluate the efficacy of controlling the inner ear symptoms for the duration of 7 – 19 months specifically the vertigo in patients with Meniere's disease (MD) using a novel therapy that delivers low-frequency vibrations to the inner ear through the mastoid process.
Methods: The system is composed of vibrational power generator that was driven by the centrifugal force of the rotating weight, and a head holder that couples the vibrator to the temporal bone skin. 14 MD patients were exposed for 30 min to vibrations at a fundamental frequency of 100 Hz at an intensity of 70.6 m/s2 and consisting of a cluster of harmonic waves ranging from 148 to 1120 Hz. The cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) were measured in the MD patients before and at 30 min post-vibration treatment. Gadolinium-enhanced MRI scan was used to detect potential endolymphatic hydrops in MD patients. The complaints in MD patients were followed for 7–19 months.
Results: Twelve out of 14 patients felt comfortable within 24 h after exposure to the low-frequency vibration except that 2 patients did not show any benefit. The vertigo were significantly controlled by the novel therapy (p<0.01, Wilcoxon signed ranks test). There was insignificant improvement in hearing function after the treatment (p>0.05, Wilcoxon signed ranks test). The tinnitus and ear fullness were significantly improved after exposure to the low-frequency vibration (p<0.05, Wilcoxon signed ranks test).
Conclusion: The novel low-frequency vibration therapy was effective in controlling vertigo, tinnitus, and ear fullness of patients with MD.

 

You are all welcome, it was just published in June so it is a new study. But it does sounds good and pretty easy and definitely non invasive.
Hopefully they can do a bigger study with a lot more people.

 

okay so that study got me to thinking, does this low frequency vibration suppress or even kill HSV (which is the cause of many of our MM). I came across some articles but this one from 2008 is interesting
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/03/01/a-new-way-to-kill-viruses-shake-them-to-death.aspx
A New Way to Kill Viruses: Shake Them to Death

Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses by mathematically determining the frequencies at which they can be shaken to death.

All objects have resonant frequencies at which they naturally vibrate. But too much vibration can destroy the object. Recent experiments have shown that laser pulses tuned to the right frequency can kill certain viruses. However, at present, locating these resonant frequencies is a trial and error task.

Researchers are hard at work developing methods to calculate the vibrational motion of every atom in a virus shell. From this, they can determine the lowest resonant frequencies. For example, the satellite tobacco necrosis virus resonates strongly around 60 Gigahertz (60 billion cycles per second).

It is unlikely that viruses will be able to develop resistance to mechanical shaking, as they do to drugs

 

and here is a more recent article from 2011
Full article
http://www.dmphotonics.com/PW2011/asu_tsen.htm

Inactivation of encephalomyocarditis virus and herpes simplex virus by using a visible femtosecond laser request a quote

Paper 7895-28 of Conference 7895
Date: Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Time: 12:10 PM – 12:30 PM

Author(s): Shaw-Wei D. Tsen, Washington Univ. in St. Louis (United States); Kong-Thon Tsen, Arizona State Univ. (United States)


Recently, a variety of viral systems, including M13 bacteriophage, tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), human papillomavirus (HPV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have been shown to be inactivated by the irradiation of a near-infrared subpicosecond fiber laser. These experimental results indicated that the inactivation of viruses by an ultrashort pulsed laser might involve disruption of their protein coat through laser-induced excitation of large-amplitude acoustic vibrations. In this work, we report experimental results on the inactivation of both encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) by using a visible femtosecond laser derived from the second harmonic generation of a cw mode-locked Ti-sapphire laser system. The inactivation of these viral particles has been demonstrated to depend on the laser exposure time as well as laser power density. Possible mechanisms for the inactivation will be discussed.

 

how long were you on the av's Lisa and what dose? and did you get worse on them in the beginning?

 

Lisa 500 mg 3 times a day is much less than the proper dose to start with. That could be why you had no results and was on a low dose for a very short time. That is not enough antiviral or time to suppress the virus if your is caused by one.

For Valtrex Its 1000 mg 3 times a day for 3 weeks to 2-3 months depending. (3000mg to start, you were taking only 1500 mg which is close to a maintenance dose which could take many months to decrease to.)

Also since you have migraines did you check out MAV and start avoiding its food triggers?

 

you could also ask your doctor for an HSV blood test to see if you have the virus, most of the population does even if they do not have MM.

 

LOL you would need to know the frequency of the virus and use that to shake it I believe

 

I agree Lisa, you were taking the right amount and if you were on it that long with no results, unfortunately it wouldn't be the right treatment for you. So sorry it didn't help. But you do have a history of headache/migraines, which might point to MAV and might explain why the antiviral didn't help.