TMJ causing your Meniere's?

I haven't had any problems in 3 years after 10 bad years. I took antivirals at high dose then gradually down to 1/4 of a famciclovir per day. BUT THE WHOLE 3 YEARS THAT I AM WELL I HAVE USED MY SIMPLE PLASTIC BITE GUARD TO PREVENT GRINDING. It works, I no longer grind as I always have. You dont have to call it TMJ I believe. You dont need a TMJ specialist rippoff doctor and those things are uncomfortable. My theory is just get a plastic guard at your dentists office or from ebay custom made like I used "my teeth store". Easy way out perhaps.

 

No dizziness ,fluctuation of hearing or fullness. I had 10 years of trouble , lost hearing and permanent tinnitus which is ok with me. My tinnitus now is much more bearable than when I was sick with Menieres.

 

The guards in pharmacy are a mistake. For about $75 you can get custom made guard on ebay. I use "my teeth store" on ebay.

 

I’m so new to all of this I’m honestly overwhelmed, but your post below, BT1, is exactly my experience. I come to posting here after seeing my ENT last week and being handed a brochure about Meniere’s Disease.

Here’s the short story: Back in March, 2020 I almost certainly had covid (not tested) and I was really sick for many weeks. As I got better by summer, I noticed my jaw was not working the same…crunchy noises, pops, and at times even difficult to open all the way while eating or it would pop. I have a night guard so I started wearing it again, but my jaw is still not right.

By fall, 2020, the sound in my right ear was less and not of the same quality as my left. I went to the ENT, and he ordered Brain & Inner Ear Canal MRIs & a hearing test.As expected, I have hearing loss in my right ear and the MRIs showed a couple of mini strokes.

I still have this pressure in my ears as I write this and it seems to not go away completely after trying all sorts of allergy meds from my allergist.

Thankfully, I have never had dizziness or a vertigo attack yet, but my ears are stuffed up all the time over the last two months and the tinnitus started off an on as well. My ENT said, “you have 2 out of 3 symptoms for MD and we’ve tried to alleviate the pressure in your ears with antibiotics & prednisone.”

It makes me wonder if all of this started because of my jaw problems.

Not sure what to do next…

 

I definitely have a problem with my jaw alignment. I was supposed to undergo a fairly big process to fix everything when I was a kid but we never did anything. I have been able to pop my jaw for my whole life basically. I never really knew it was something that was abnormal.
I also have it high up on my list of “possible causes”

 

For what it’s worth…..i too grind my teeth according to my dentist and when I got my laby I also got fitted for a mouth guard by my dentist to help prevent teeth grinding at night. When he fitted me he said I had TMJ from the constant grinding.

10 years later after using the mouth guard and also a CPAP machine at night I sleep like an absolute baby and have no issues with roaring tinnitus.

I love my mouth guard