From National Institute of Health - 1998 Summary of Dr. Bradley S. Thedinger paper on failed VNS surgeries. (I cannot access the full paper. Will summarize it here if I ever find it.) Analysis of patients with persistent dizziness after vestibular nerve section.
“Poor central nervous system compensation from the other ear” That’s why I’m scared to do anything drastic. When I had my testing done I was told that my brain does a poor job at compensating for the poor/bad signals coming from my affected ear. Now if I were to have nerves cut, would this mean that the lack of a poor signal would help or does it mean the opposite?
More info. Most of us already know this. So more for benefit of newcomers. Clip from American Hearing Research Foundation: Failed VNS: https://www.american-hearing.org/disorders/destructive-treatments-of-vertigo/#whatis "Half" of VNS patients retain nerve function? What? Who is this Eismann character and where does he get off? Maybe that was true back in 2001 but I can't imagine it is now. I had my regular ear surgeon AND a neurosurgeon do my VNS. I don't believe that there was a 50% chance they couldn't sever the nerve completely.
Maybe I’m having such a hard time with MM because I’ve had such a straightforward experience with all my heart issues. With the heart, when it fails there are a select number of things that you can do to fix it. High blood pressure? Take these pills, exercise and stop eating bacon. Heart attack? Just bypass this other vein around that bum part and stop eating bacon. Heart trashed? Replace it. Take these pills and you won’t reject it. With MM there are few answers, more questions and I still can’t eat bacon.