just wanted to recommend a new book called 'Losing Music' by John Cotter that is vivid memoir describing the author's very personal experience being diagnosed with, grappling with, then adapting to living with Meniere's disease, it came out earlier this year.
I've read about 20% of it now. While here on the forum we all mingle and share our experiences it is incredibly interesting to read this book with this fellow going through exactly the same things I am experiencing. His hearing goes from adequate to almost deaf all in a matter of hours. He has a vertigo attack while out and has to call his wife to come get him but he has the car. This happened to me twice this past summer except we had to somehow get my car home afterwards. I am definitely enjoying the book, it's like reading a biography about myself LOL!!
Well, I finished the book. It was not meant to be uplifting and it certainly wasn't. There was a lot of text that felt like "filler" material, but I am glad that I read it. A lot of people on this forum have spent a lot of energy going from doctor to doctor to chiropractor to voodoo medicine man and back to doctor, all without much to show for it except dashed hopes and depleted wallets. The author did much the same with no real gain that I could see. I'm not sure that I would recommend the book to someone who is new to Meniere's. I don't think you would learn much and it certainly wouldn't make you feel better. Anyway, that's my take, your mileage may vary
More of a question for others who have experienced “losing music.” Has anyone tried bone conduction headphones? If so does it help at all with the distortion that is so annoying when trying to listen to music?