Service dogs for menieres disease

I can understand how a service dog can help you with balance and walking but would you please explain how a dog can detect when you're going to have a vertigo attack? What signs do they pick up on?

 

Wow that is truly amazing!

 

This is awesome. Having a service dog to help would also provide companionship and comfort. Menierer's can bring loneliness as you might tend to pull back from social activities due to not being comfortable in social gatherings due to noise irritation; not being able to hear well or understand people; feeling unsteady, tired, and sometimes weak; and fear of having a vertigo episode. Not to mention, most social events are centered around food. If you are following a low sodium, low sugar, Menierer's diet it is sometimes difficult to eat.

 

Heather and Ghost, can you please post more information about your service dog as well as specific training.

 

This is amazing. I know they have service dogs for diabetics who can detect when their owner has low blood sugar. Fantastic Heather!!

 

Truly a mans / woman’s best friend.

 

I’ve heard of service dogs for epilepsy, autism... all kinds of amazing things.

Do you know of any organization in Canada?

 

Heather, do your trained dogs also warn of an impending "drop attack"?

 

I don't doubt this for one second. Dogs have a sense of things--lots of different things--that we humans don't have.

 

Bummer. I have an Australian Shepherd who is so smart. I’d move her to be my menieres service dog. But I’m in MN

 

Oh stop it.

Wait, what?

 

Don't mind him. Nathan's just a smartass. Hey guys! I'm back. I've truly been sick as a dog. Sorry, I'm still my punny self. Missed you all.

 

Planning to get a service dog, but mostly for hearing.its hard to find the right dog.

 

My post was to say I’d LOVE her to be a service dog (my dog) but she’s a nut case.

 

Hurray!

Ladies & gentlemen, brothers & sisters, comrades & friends, for the record I do assert, as I would hate to be accused of as much, I'm neither a typo nor grammar nazi.

I 'wait'ed & 'what'ed' not because I take issues with typographical error, but rather because I assumed someone had finally recognised my unparalleled genius.

However my heart promptly shattered when I realised Saera was, in fact, concerning her delightful & intelligent female hound, & not me (I'm Australian *sniffs).

 

I love Aussies Nathan!!!! Both the furry ones and the human variety!!

 

Hi, Heather and Ghost. I would like more information on training to vertigo alerts. I don’t see how to email you directly.