Dizziness & Vertigo Support Group

Dizziness is the sensation of instability. Vertigo refers to dizziness with a sensation of motion. Vertigo is more likely than other types of dizziness to be associated with nausea, vomiting, or double vision, to occur even when lying down, and to feel better with the eyes closed. If you are a frequent sufferer of dizziness or vertigo, join the group and find support.

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physician recommendation

Monnie45
Monnie45
Hi, I live in the Silver Spring, MD area near Rockville and Olney. I have seen a doctor at Washington Hospital Center who specializes in dizziness but would like a second opinion and see someone a bit closer. I was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease. Anybody have any suggestions.

Marlene
hotdogdog
hotdogdog
I went to GWU's clinics, and the only really helpful thing I got there was sympathy from a Neurologist who had vertigo herself and all the same issues. One ENT was nice but not helpful, one was not helfpul or nice in the least ("sign up for yoga"?!?!). The audiologist was very nice, but couldn't help. My particular cause is not part of their specialty, so I'm still looking. (I was supposed to start physical therapy once, but I got to the appt, and they said that doctor had quit two weeks earlier.)
yntovonmij
yntovonmij
hotdogdog

I agree with you 100 percent. Doctors are clueless when it comes to Meniere's. They think just a low salt diet will help. Oh so very wrong. As far as therapy. Save your money. All it does is put Meniere's in remission for a few days then it comes back even worse. I'm to the point they are going to send me a surgeon. Maybe get shots of steroids in my ears. Beyond that I don't know. They don't know. Really what they want to do is destroy my hearing by removing the small bones that make you hear. I will not do that. I will wait to see if the disease takes my hearing. It doesn't for everyone. I don't want to loose my hearing. I have birds as pets. To not hear them would be miserable. My parents and sister and her husband live far away. To not hear there voice over the phone would be tragic. Doctors just suck. That is why we need support groups.