Are you referring to hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT)? If so I have; 28 treatments. It didn’t do anything for me that I can tell. It was prescribed to me when it was believed that I had sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
It’s possible that it stabilized my condition, but it definitely didn’t improve my hearing. The most noticeable thing was that my skin looked great, almost like I rolled back 5 years of aging. Scars and blemishes that I had for years actually healed a bit. Of course that’s not why I went for the treatments. This disease is crazy though and what didn’t help me might help you. However, HBOT definitely isn’t a go to treatment for many people.
I just did psychedelic therapy (ketamine) and I mentally feel tremendously better. I am also now in allergy medication’s. The ketamine treatment relieved the stress feeling, I couldn’t shake. I feel like I am now at a 1 in discomfort. If you’re open to it I definitely recommend!!!!
I was given ketamine for a hip replacement surgery last year & had a horrific hallucination. It did nothing for my symptoms & left me w/ a great sense of unease. That just goes to show how every human body can react differently to the things we put in to them.
Interesting, and yest everyone is different. I'm not denying that it can help people, in fact I have a friend who suffers from long term, severe depression and is going through the therapy right now. But that has nothing to do with Menieres or treatments of the inner ear.
The unfortunate thing about Ketamine is, many doctors understand its efficacy but don't necessarily understand how to instruct usage. While I don't doubt you had a horrific hallucination that left you with unease, I do highly doubt you were integrated properly. What sort of pre-treatment, treatment and post treatment procedures did you follow? Did you have an integrator on site or available by phone? Where did you do your treatment? What was your dosage level and what methods did you use to take the ketamine? Ketamine is showing to have an 80%-85% efficacy for mental health treatments. So of course, 15%-20% of the patients might not click with it as a treatment. Having said that, 80%-85% is a huge success rate. I'd like to know more about your ketamine trial before making a judgment if was used wrong or you're one of the percentage that just doesn't respond well to it. I'm not a doctor so please don't take this as medical advice but your final statement is inaccurate based on personal experience. "Ménière’s disease has links with stress and anxiety. However, it is unclear whether stress and anxiety cause symptoms of Ménière’s disease, or whether the disease leads to stress and anxiety." Meniere's disease: Treatment, symptoms, stages, and diet. I am happy to cut and past links and quotes but I'll break this down simply. There is a reason why drugs like Xanax and Klonopin are used to treat Menieres and vertigo. Doctor prescribed, pharmaceutical-compounded-ketamine with proper integration checks most/all of the same boxes that Xanax and Klonopin target. It relieves anxiety and stress. It's also used extensively for chronic pain management. I happen to know a lot about doctor prescribed ketamine treatments. I've seen it help with Meniere's. I'm happy to share my non-medical knowledge and observations. If anyone has questions, please let me know.
@Bend and Twist - as stated, ketamine was administered when I had bilateral hip replacement last year. After the fact, I learned in surgical situations, it's used as a paralytic. It was not used as a therapy for Meniere's, but I chose to comment that I had no Meniere's symptoms relief after the dose of ketamine I received immediately prior to my surgery. It was delivered intravenously into my lower back along w/ an epidural. I've had a couple of brain injuries from cycling accidents & have found that I'm more susceptible to medication side effects potentially as a result of that. My point in commenting at all is that ketamine is a hallucinogen, & some people will be more sensitive to it than others regardless of the amount or method of acquisition into the body.
Ketamine is classified as an "Essential Medicine" by the World Health Organization because it's a readily available anesthetic. It is used daily in ambulances, surgical suites, emergency rooms all around the world. It's inexpensive and easy to use. Some years ago doctors started using ketamine to help treat hospice, near-end-of life-patients with chronic pain. They realized the patients who were given ketamine did not have the same levels of depression and gloom when compared to patients who were not on ketamine. This observation is when it started to be considered as a mental health treatment. In my research of Meniere's it is clear that the disease does have ties to mental health. Stress, anxiety, depression seem to exacerbate the symptoms like ear pressure/tinnitus which is also a type of chronic pain. Regardless if Meniere's causes the mental health issues or if the mental health issues triggers/accelerates Meniere's is not really important for the purposes of this conversation. What is relevant to this conversation, can ketamine be a potential treatment to address the mental health component of Meniere's? And if it is a potential treatment to address the mentalh health component of Meniere's, is it reasonable to assume/believe that reducing anxiety, stress, depression and chronic pain might alleviate symptoms caused by Meniere's? It's unfortunate you had an unpleasant experience with ketamine. But when we come back to the conversation that Meniere's is tied to mental health and ketamine is widely being used as a very effective mental health treatment, it is within reason to think that ketamine might help some or even many people who are suffering.
I have absolutely no argument w/ what you said about ketamine's potential use as an aid in Meniere's symptoms reduction. However, after my experience, I'm not likely to try it again at any dosage.
Ketamine really do wonder for depression/meniere, the dosage they are giving are too strong imo. Even at lower dosage, it will numb the physical and psychological pain of meniere, and the best part is the dissociation to "let go" of the disease and the latter one is having lasting effect over a few days. But after a while it get bad for your bladder(belly pain). psychological pain(not depression) is one aspect of meniere i think is overlooked by doctors. I always think that all drug should be legal(at least to people with disabilities/debilitating illness). You take what work best for you in the dosage that you like. The dosage they are giving for ketamine session is just way too high imo, they dont really know what they are doing like with everything else, doctors suck and they are more a nuisance than anything else.
I'm glad if you've had good results from ketamine @tek465b. Again, what I got was for a bilateral hip replacement surgery & not for Meniere's, so it was most likely a higher dose than would be given to treat Meniere's symptoms.
Your right, for ketamine session/depression they start with lower dosage and ramp it up vs surgery(knockout) high dosage. Even the ketamine session some people dont enjoy it so its not for everyone. Usually they dont give this for surgery for adult, but they do for kids surgery. Apparently its easier for them to let go of the experience, adult tend not to like it for surgery. Its a dissociative and pain killer(2 in 1 for surgery), vs the traditional mix of propofol for dissociation and fent(or other opiates) for pain. Sorry for sliding this off topic.
This post didn't seem like a "slide off topic" but an "aside". Anyone considering trying a new medication needs to be aware of others' experiences w/ it & possible side effects as well as other ways the medication is used.
This is an unfortunately inaccurate assessment. SOME doctors might dose ketamine too high but to suggest that all doctors do is highly irresponsible. Doctors who understand ketamine instruct DOSAGE DISCOVERY. They start you off with a minimum threshold dosage and then increase dosage per treatment until the patient finds the goldilocks zone. In my experience, ketamine clinics who are using intravenous and intramuscular delivery methods are more responsible for the high dosages than say the doctors who are prescribing, at home, oral treatments. Buchal absorption for example, you might start with a 100mg or 200mg dosage. Next session try a 200mg or 300mg dosage. And then 300mg to 400mg and so on. Every patient is different. Patients can even respond differently depending on the time of day, contents of the stomach, social factors, tolerances, etc. There are lots of people in the space who know, understand and dose correctly. And also know how to integrate pretreatment, treatment and post treatment. Again, you keep coming back to this same argument. Using ketamine at a sub-anesthetic dose level for mental health including chronic pain is not the same as a doctor who uses ketamine to put a patient into full twilight for surgery. Comparing these two things is like saying Fentanyl is bad. Well, street fentanyl is bad. Abuse of fentanyl is bad. But fentanyl is also used in hospitals every.single.day. Last time I was in the hospital for trauma I was given Fentanyl. Doesn't mean I'm on the street trying to find my next dose of smack. In conclusion, finding the right doctors, the right dosages and doing the treatments properly... Ketamine can be an extremely effective treatment for mental health issues like chronic pain and anxiety, both of which are immediately associated with Meniere's.