Bilateral menieres with nerve section

When the Meniere's went to my second ear, it was much, much worse than onset in the first ear--and has continued to be much more problematic than the first ear has been.

 

I have only one hearing and balance nerve and it has cochlear hydrops. Anti virals and allergy treatment restored it to near normal hearing function and stopped the progression of balance issues in it. I do have ch/mm in the other ear as well so technically i am bilateral but since that nerve was destroyed years ago it does not matter and cannot be measured. Except for unilateral deafness and walking a little like a drunk when i am tired you would not now know i have a problem. I owe my normal functioning to anti virals.

 

Christ, I totally did not need to know that.

 

Pup, I know for a FACT there is no reason to be concerned. My doc told me, "don't worry, nobody goes bilateral, but if you do, the second ear is almost never as bad as the first." Say What? For some reason I tend to remember that doctors have, "practices" when things like this are spoken.

Even the best doctor in the world can't tell anyone what specific treatment, in what specific order, will "cure" anyone, as we are all different, nobody knows the exact cause(s) of their menieres(for a fact, usually just very good suspicions), and there is no cure, just alleviation of symptoms, if you're lucky. Many of us have demonstrated that different cause(s) and treatments deserve more research. ::I'll just listen to the frogs croaking while I wait for all of those grants to fall out of the sky for comprehensive menieres research into causes/treatments::

 

Just trying to point out that the "experts"--and I use that term very loosely--cannot predict what will happen with this condition; they can only make an educated guess. This condition is so variable from person to person, i don't think that anyone can predict for sure what course it will take in a given individual. Also keep in mind that because one person had a given experience doesn't mean that you will have the same experience.
This is just too variable for anyone to know or predict.

 

I dont know if this is correct but it seems to me that antivirals might have more success with the second ear because it would be recognized early and they could be taken early. At least i sure would try them at the first hint of the second ear going bad.