Hi About one month ago I began having drop attacks without vertigo attacks OR vertigo attacks featuring a drop attack. As a general question to those of you who also suffer this terrible addition to the disease do yours follow a pattern in terms of the direction you travel? I have right sided Ménière’s disease currently presenting itself with my vertigo following a left to right motion which I am told supports the right sided deficiency. when I have a drop attack however I am always pulled to my left away from the Ménière’s ear. Is this something any of you have a similar experience with or is this just one of those nuances to this disease and the individual nature of it? cheers
Hi Terratag, I’ve had the opposite happen. I have left sided Meniere’s. A lot of my spins, certainly in recent months have been in a clockwise direction. Some have been more like forward somersaults. I’ve had two drop attacks in the last three months and both forced me down to my left side, as if it were an anti-clockwise spin, as I ended up facing the opposite direction to which I started. Take care
In my opinion, and only my opinion, my drop attacks were not spinning in the usual direction. They were somersaults or cartwheels, a completely different plane of spinning. I think this is why they were so uncontrollable, for lack of a better word. I am right sided only as well. Jim