I have ear fullness or pressure about 75% of the time in one ear, often with a burning sensation. Sometimes I feel unsteady, but I'm not getting the bad spinning vertigo that is typical of Meniere's. Does anybody else have this? I did have vertigo over 25 years ago when I first got diagnosed with Meniere's, but I didn't have the other symptoms I have now. The new symptoms started up last August and got more frequent and worse over time. I tried betahistine and a diuretic and neither helped. I did prednisone and a round of steroid injections in the ear but they only helped a day or two before the pressure came back. My ear pops a lot when I have the fullness, which gives relief for a second but then comes right back. At the moment my ear dr is having me try a riboflavin supplement in case it could be vestibule migraines since that can have symptoms similar to Meniere's. I’m so frustrated because nothing is working, yet I since don't have the severe vertigo, I'm not sure if it is Meniere's this time around or some other problem.
Editing to add that ear pressure is a fairly new symptom for me. It only became a big problem since last October and I was first diagnosed with Meniere's back in 1995. Which is one reason why I wonder if it's something else in addition to Meniere's.
I also had a lot of ear pressure fullness and a lot of imbalance in pain from the fullness. If I would hold my nose and blow, it would pop, and be relief for just a second and it would be back. The imbalance was the worst. I have had the injections in the air which only helped for a day or two just like you. I’m going to Dr. Gasek in AL. I have since went for an outpatient surgical procedure where they have to put you under, and they go behind your eardrum. Insert act Acyclovir onto the nerves that cause MD. I have been much better. I have an eight week recovery. Which will be over in about another two weeks. I have had a little bit of a balance now and then nothing compared to what I was going through and that your phone this is much less. They only do this procedure once. After this, if I have problems, I’m gonna go to supplements that John of Ohio has on his site I don’t know that there’s anyone fix for everybody. I do know that not fighting and doing something is wrong too. I’m gonna fight with Gods help !
Isn’t Acyclovir an antiviral? I’ve never heard of them doing a surgery to inject it, I thought you take it in pill form. Did you try antiviral pills before the surgery? Do you know what initially triggered your symptoms, was it a virus?
Yes Acyclovir is an antiviral. I still take it daily in pill form. but he also said that putting it into and behind the eardrum where the inflammation of the nerves is is much more effective. He believes is it the chicken pox virus.
Also, I do not know what triggered it except for the chickenpox virus itself stress age I believe it’s been coming on for sometime just had very mild symptoms once in a while a few times a year of feeling tired, ear fullness, swimmy headed, but it always went away easily. Until it stayed! Then I had severe imbalance lots of ear pressure, fatigue, nausea, high pitch, sounds in my ear every now and then, it was not good. It’s been a year now since it has stayed. I am doing so much better. I’m just praying it doesn’t come back.
I’m so glad you're doing better, Hoping! Was it after the surgery when you really noticed improvement? My symptoms started about six weeks after I got COVID, plus I had a super stressful year prior to that. Now I’m wondering if mine is viral.
I had short lived improvement from steroid shots but had much more from surgical procedure with Acyclovir. It’s not 100% but glad I did it and hoping it will even get better. Covid intensifies it and so does stress. I’d bet viral.
I also have ear fullness and high pitch sounds tiredness thats what made me start looking. Glad I found this site alot of information here. I have had Meniere's for 4 years no vertigo since fullness bit off balance it seems to be lasting over a couple weeks now and tinnitus usually came and went not this time. Magnesium does help been doing that on and off for years now need some new ideas which I see here never thought about large amount of Vit C and lysine must try and see if it works for me. . Chiropractor helps also Acupuncture.
My meniers started with ear fullness, pain and periodic deafness. It took years before I had vertigo attacks. My feeling, from what I have learned and experienced, is that the vertigo attacks come when there is excess endolymph buildup in the labyrinth (the fullness) and the chamber bursts allowing the fluid to flow into another chamber messing up the inner gyroscope and sending me into counterspin land. So my mission in life is to keep that buildup from happening. Besides a daily diuretic and the JOH regime I take a product called "Clear Sinus and Ear" and if things start looking bad a product called "Inner Ear Balance". On the side... years of periodic deafness attacks from the fullness slowly destroyed the hearing in my left ear and I now wear hearing aids.
Hoping, it’s great that you’re feeling better. Is it Dr Gacek that does the acyclovir injection? It’s the first I’ve heard of this option.
I was just diagnosed with Menieres two days ago. It’s been a 9 month journey to get a diagnosis. I too have ear pain, fullness, dizziness but no spinning thankfully. I’m like this about 95% of the time. Started after a bout with RSV then Covid 6 weeks later last fall. I’m about to start on beta histamine (SERC) and truly hope it helps. I have had dizzy free days but they are seldom although cherished. I may try the supplements approach as well. Just trying to learn as much as I can.
Not sure, I replied to this or not so I will again. I had the procedure done in late May and will be going back for my final check up in a couple weeks. I have definitely had relief from the symptoms although in the past few weeks, symptoms tried to come back I have days where there it’s almost symptom-free, and other days where I’m having some motion symptoms, and once in a while, a high pitch sound in my ear. It seems to be when it’s more humid and I am in Alabama and it’s very humid that I feel more fullness in my ear. And have more symptoms I’m assuming anything that makes you swell makes it worse. I’ve also been on a weight watchers diet since about that time and I think the lack of inflammatory foods and less salt has helped also yes Dr Gacek did the surgery and only really terrible part was having my ear packed for two weeks that was very annoying and scary. Not being able to hear out of that ear but yes I can hear out of it it’s still not as good as it should be, but it’s no worse than it was; as far as hearing level and I’m hoping when they test it’ll actually be some better. I’m still glad I did it because the symptoms aren’t all the time and they are better. Hope this helps.
Exactly! Looking back I had a few attacks years and years before it became full blown. The light ringing in my ears I attributed to a lifetime of rock concerts/industrial settings etc. The constant migraines should have been a clue back then. Then like you say, you wake up one day and it doesn't go away. Nearly three years in, constantly ear popping/fullness/slow drip inner ear feeling/wobbly/clumsy feeling. Constantly hung over. None of the medical sites I have visited have mentioned these symptoms. Good to know Im not as batshit crazy as I have been supposing.