I realize this is an older post so I hope you are coming to terms with your
salt free diet. I was very upset by the dietary changes but I've found over the years that food tastes good without salt, you just have to retrain your taste buds and it takes awhile. I can't even eat anything too salty now.

I found your "sick at both ends" comment very interesting as I thought I've been suffering from irritable bowel syndrome as well as meniere's and I never related the two directly, even though I sometimes am hit with both or the irritable bowel problems would seem to bring on the vertigo attacks. I need to bring this symptom up to my doctor as I thought I should discuss it with my regular MD, not my Meniere's specialist.

I also hope that by this time they have prescribed for you something better than antivert for vertigo. Valium or Xanax work much much better for me.

I worked initially as a dental office assistant/receptionist/office manager and later did medical transcription from home which was my favorite job. I had to let that job go however because of my diminishing hearing. I started working in veterinary clinics basicaly doing more manual labor...clean up, housekeeping, sterilizing, handling animals, etc. Now I'm starting to have trouble handling that and have to reinvent myself again.
Hopefully at the end of my life I will feel all this change I had to make for my disease made it more interesting, but I do feel that all the choice in life was taken away and I had only to pick the lesser of two evils most of the time.
So, I clean up dog poo and change kitty litter boxes for a living. But I do love animals and don't have a weak stomach after all the nausea I've had in my life.
I'm thinking my next step is getting onto disability as I cannot really do the vet clinic job anymore very well, and hopefully make homemade soap I sell on the internet. But the term that encourages me is to think of it as reinventing myself.

I was diagnosed about 10 weeks ago and have been on a diuretic and low sodium diet (1000-1200 mg/day) since then. My initial hearing loss was treated effectively with intra-tympanic steroid injections after oral steroids didn't work. After 7-8 weeks, things seemed on track.

Unfortunately, I've been steadily getting worse, not better. Initially, I had dizziness and occasional bouts of mild vertigo. A week and a half ago, I ended up on the floor of my office for 2.5 hours, vomiting for 1 of those hours. Now, the ringing and pressure in my right ear is constant and I feel the left ear starting.

What experience do others have? Is it bad at the start? Does it "settle down" or get more consistent? Info from others who are newly diagnosed would really help. I work as a corporate trainer and am also a singer so my career rides on being able to perform.

Thanks for sharing!

I find at as the time goes on my 6 hour attacks, of laying on the floor throwing up among other things, has stopped. But now I have days of mild attacks. And am now having the drop attacks which comes out of nowhere. Just as my kids are all going up, and life should be easier, I get Meniere's. I think I would rather have the throwing up attacks then the drop attacks. At least I don't get hurt with them. I have totally quite driving since these drop attacks, so finding a job outside the home is out of the question, but am looking for something I can do out of my home.

I am also on a diuretic but have not been too good at maintaining the low salt diet. My vertigo from Menieir's over the years has stabilized. However, my ear specialist prescribed valium in case of an attack. It is suppose to help stop the attack and keep it from continueing. They can give it in low doses so you can take one every few hours for several hours but is not something you would take every day only in an emergency. I am suppose to carry it with me but have only needed it a few times in the past several years because my symptoms have been very mild since stabilized. I wish you the best and hope you find some answers.

i am on so many things: diuretic, special vitamin, niacin, serc and starting something new for herpes virus. The valium when i am plugged seems to help reduce the flare up of vertigo. I am not sure if yesterday's mild attack was due to the valium or serc (betahistine from canada). I think there might be something to my last flare up-did i blow my nose too hard?
Who knows.....