This is My Story of How I Won My Fight With Meniere’s Disease and Finally Got Relief
I have had Meniere’s Disease for several years now. At first I thought I just had build up of wax in my ear. My family doctor said there was no wax build-up. At first, the Meniere’s Disease symptoms were so bad that at times I would have to crawl on my hands and knees to bed. I would then spend one or two days just lying there because I was so dizzy and suffering from vertigo and inner ear dizziness.
This could happen on a daily basis. I had to stop working, and could not work for over three years because of my Meniere’s disease attacks.
I had to plan my days around how I felt in the morning. Some days driving or walking was out of the question and even on the mornings when I felt ok I would never know when I would get dizzy. I then became very depressed. I also started to have financial problems and felt I was a prisoner in my own home.
I went from being self sufficient to totally reliant on other people.
At that time I owned a retail store and was selling clothing. I would talk to customers and get so dizzy I had to hang onto things to get around the store. It became an impossible situation. I wasn’t able to look after my customers properly and I wasn’t able to do my business justice, so I closed my business down in Dec of 1997.
I functioned with the dizzy spells until the winter of 2000. I then began to have dizzy spells almost on a daily basis. I also began to fall like a bag of sand with no warning. I had one very bad scare while driving my car. I became totally disoriented and I slammed the brakes on and stopped in the middle of the road. Fortunately this was not a busy road or I am sure I would have caused an accident.
The last straw for me was in May of 2000 I fell in the kitchen and split my head open and my eye brow, and eye lid. It all got infected. I thought to myself, life can’t get much worse. Through the winter of 2000 I became a prisoner in my own home. As soon as I would go into a store I would get dizzy.
When I first started to have Meniere’s disease symptoms, I saw my family doctor and was given the usual prescription drugs for Meniere’s, all to no avail. I was also referred to a specialist for testing and I had all the usual hearing tests and an MRI done, again to no avail.
I started to do my own research on the Internet (just like you are doing now) and I ran across two doctors that are both using a similar approach to treating Meniere’s Disease.
One of the doctors is using high quality vitamins and nutritional supplements to treat his patients that have Meniere’s disease and the second doctor actually suffers from Meniere’s Disease.
Since both doctors solution to treating Meniere’s Disease was to use a combination of high quality vitamins and nutritional supplements, I figured that two doctors using the same system and products, with good results, is as good as a second opinion, so I decided to give it a try.
The one doctor that I spoke to who is suffering from Meniere’s Disease was experiencing the same problems as I was. He would have to cancel all his appointments and be carried out of his office and driven home.
I decided to see for myself. If this worked for him, it might also work for me. I had nothing to loose except a few dollars and I had spent a lot on prescription drugs, which didn’t work. So I was game to try almost anything to get rid of these symptoms.
I started these products in the middle of May 2000 and by the beginning of June my dizzy spell’s were gone. I was fine until I was admitted to the hospital this Nov. 2000 for one week.
At that time, because my doctor didn’t believe in this concept, he took me off the vitamins and nutritional supplements and at the end of five days, I was dizzy again. The next day I was discharged and started taking my vitamin’s and nutritional supplements again and two days later I was dizzy free.
David Henderson
My thoughts as to why this works, what the supplements are meant to do routinely.
To my way of thinking, our bodies are meant to be “in balance” and “healthy”. That means every part (cell, tissue, organ, system) is doing its assigned job.
One part is meant to do one thing and another is meant to do something else. But as a whole, they are meant to work in unison. And in order to help each other, balance is the order. In medical terminology, this is known as homeostasis. Together “everything” creates one very harmonious and healthy body.
Here is a quick, basic biology lesson
We have thousands of different TYPES of cells in our nine body systems and therefore millions of cells. So every one of these cells requires food to live. This “system” is based on the need for the individual cell to be “fed” appropriately. In some cases, the body first needs to be helped to clean out unwanted elements and then get fed to maintain its healthy standard.
This is the time element part no one can estimate. Only those ingredients that are needed and can be used by the body, are supplied by these products. This, in a VERY, VERY simplistic way, is how cell culture technology functions.
It is MY belief that if we already took in enough vitamin and mineral “coverage”, our immune system would be able to handle this “Meniere’s disease glitch”, these balance and hearing symptoms. But it doesn’t seem to be able to. What could be missing? So by providing all the required ingredients, the body can choose what it needs.
Earlier I mentioned how the body desires to create “homeostasis” (balance)? In order for it to do that, it borrows constantly from one part to another. Could it run out of things to borrow? Why not, if you don’t supply it with what it needs.
By providing all the ingredients your body could need, you now giving it a variety of nutrients it can use immediately. that is the purpose of these supplements. You are now actively taking back control over our own health. As David put himself on the the “system”, he was now getting back to a healthy state. This worked beautifully for him. It has helped him eliminate the vertigo, dizziness and ringing in his ear (tinnitus).
What didn’t work for David
One of David’s big challenges was getting a correct Meniere’s disease diagnosis. I, of course, knew little about Meniere’s Disease outside of a textbook. No one in our circle of acquaintances even hinted at having the disease. (Of course we now realize that few people want to share this “news” with others outside of their immediate families.)
So we paid little attention to his problems. It was brought to our attention in a shocking way! He crawled along the floor to get to bed! A grown man! There would be many more of those episodes. Or he would walk holding on to the wall or hold onto chairs, or people. Anything that could keep him upright!
Everything seemed to take such a long time and so many tests in order to come up with a diagnosis. Eventually we learned that he had all the classic symptoms of Meniere’s Disease. However it was a relief to put a name to something that changed our lives so dramatically.
David had to retire from our store. It was closed down. He just couldn’t look after customers when his vertigo was so severe and unpredictable. There was fluorescent lighting which seemed to make it worse. Even driving was questionable.
Throughout all this he tried all the usual remedies;
- Low salt diet for Meniere’s disease (We did eliminate salt from the cooking. It made a pretty bland spaghetti sauce which we “doctored” up)
- Water pills (didn’t have any effect.)
- SERC (an antihistamine that worked occasionally)
- And many different decongestants and anti-inflammatories. (All stopped working eventually.)
He refused to have any kind of surgery, choosing instead to put up with the Meniere’s disease symptoms. David had spent a very long time going back and forth to doctors and hospitals, trying to find out what was wrong with him.
When he did finally get the answer that it was Meniere’s Disease, he was then told that there were no answers as to how to recover from this affliction. So eventually he even stopped doing any of the traditional recommendations.
The End Was Finally in Sight
As a family, we spent a lot more time trying to help David find answers about Meniere’s Disease as well as helping him throughout the days and weeks ahead. Some of those days were very bad for David and us as a family, others were quite good.
The only problem was that the good days were flowed by bad days. They always lurked around the corner. So nobody could really enjoy the good ones. Since stress is also a big contributor to Meniere’s attacks, there was no escape. You can read more about David’s story here.
Then we discovered a doctor that had Meniere’s Disease, but had been attack free for quite some time. Suddenly, there seemed to be hope. David contacted the Doctor and the Doctor explained what he was using to get relief from his Meniere’s Disease symptoms.
Since David went on the same recommended system, he has also been virtually symptom free. This is what we want to offer you, a chance.
We would be very happy to communicate with you if have any Meniere’s questions. Let us know if you wanted to find out specifically what worked for David to get relief from his Meniere’s disease. Email is best as we can send you relevant information quickly.
We would be happy to share our insight you have about this disease. Health Canada (since we are in Canada and must follow their rules) and the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) say that anytime you connect a disease with a possible solution, you are now diagnosing.
We are allowed to correspond privately with you through email to provide more helpful information. That includes what helped David and others to find relief from their Meniere’s Disease symptoms.
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- If you would like a copy of our Meniere’s Disease Study Guide, please click here. This guide is a step by step journey exploring your symptoms and what may be causing them.
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Karin Henderson, Retired Nurse
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