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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 137737" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I've often wondered about my sister's case. She had her diagnosis of Meniere's confirmed by a specialist, but decided by herself to try antihistamines because she noticed she was fine for most of the year, it would hit her for about three months every spring. So did she really have Meniere's after all? It hasn't returned for her. It could have subsided coincidentally. Or it could have been something in her immune system causing loss of balance. I just don't know. Neither did her doctor, who just couldn't believe it.</p><p>I remember my mother insisting to an Agriculture professor who lived next door to us (our families were best of friends) that although she was very good at bottling and preserving fruit, she could never do it right when she tried preserving fruit when she was pregnant. He used this as an example in a lecture he gave, which was published in the "University News" of Sydney University, decades later. He said, "Although this seemed to make no sense scientifically, who was I to argue with a person who had conducted tests in the field with eight replications?" </p><p>He was encouraging his students to listen to the farmers even if what they were saying seemed crackpot. This is how new discoveries can be made - sometimes it IS crackpot or coincidence, and sometimes it is something wonderful undiscovered. If Edward Jenner hadn't listened to the dairy maid whose cowpox he was treating, would he have found a better way to prevent smallpox?</p><p></p><p>With the success I had with the combination of Epley's plus vibrator for benign positional vertigo, I need to emphasise a couple of things - this should work, BUT it needs to be done right (ie you need to be turned the correct direction) according to which canal is affected, on which side. There is a very high success rate, but it may need to be repeated.</p><p>However - in my case, I had this for years and never got treated for it. I mean, literally decades. It was when it hit hard, much worse, that my NEW neurologist (not all the ones I'd seen previously) fixed it as I described.</p><p></p><p>He did try the Epley's without using the vibrator, first time round. He was saying as he did this, "If I had a vibrator, I could shake this thing loose from where it's settled and it would be easier to tip it back into position." That's when I said I'd bring one in for him, and he described exactly what I would need.</p><p>He may have been trying harder for me because he knew we were supposed to be going to NZ in a few days' time and he wanted me well enough. I had about three appointments with him in two weeks, the last being only a couple of days before we left.</p><p></p><p>I'm delighted he fixed it so easily, but annoyed at all the years I put up with it in a milder form despite seeing many neurologists who would have known what to do.</p><p></p><p>But if the vertigo is due to another cause, then the Epley's Manouvre won't help.</p><p></p><p>My friend at church whose vertigo is getting really bad - she is a former nurse, and didn't know about the Epley's manouvre even though she's been told it's Benign Positional Vertigo that she has, on top of her hearing loss. Her neurologist doesn't seem to have mentioned it to her either, nor has her GP, so she said she's going to try to see my bloke.</p><p></p><p>I looked it up online (when I thought I was going to have to do those rolling exercises all the way round NZ) and found that it is well-known.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it's not considered a serious enough problem to go to too much trouble for? It's not life-threatening, so let the patient learn to live with it. I don't know.</p><p></p><p>I know it won't help everybody, since there can be many different causes, but if anyone out there can benefit, then go for it!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 137737, member: 1991"] I've often wondered about my sister's case. She had her diagnosis of Meniere's confirmed by a specialist, but decided by herself to try antihistamines because she noticed she was fine for most of the year, it would hit her for about three months every spring. So did she really have Meniere's after all? It hasn't returned for her. It could have subsided coincidentally. Or it could have been something in her immune system causing loss of balance. I just don't know. Neither did her doctor, who just couldn't believe it. I remember my mother insisting to an Agriculture professor who lived next door to us (our families were best of friends) that although she was very good at bottling and preserving fruit, she could never do it right when she tried preserving fruit when she was pregnant. He used this as an example in a lecture he gave, which was published in the "University News" of Sydney University, decades later. He said, "Although this seemed to make no sense scientifically, who was I to argue with a person who had conducted tests in the field with eight replications?" He was encouraging his students to listen to the farmers even if what they were saying seemed crackpot. This is how new discoveries can be made - sometimes it IS crackpot or coincidence, and sometimes it is something wonderful undiscovered. If Edward Jenner hadn't listened to the dairy maid whose cowpox he was treating, would he have found a better way to prevent smallpox? With the success I had with the combination of Epley's plus vibrator for benign positional vertigo, I need to emphasise a couple of things - this should work, BUT it needs to be done right (ie you need to be turned the correct direction) according to which canal is affected, on which side. There is a very high success rate, but it may need to be repeated. However - in my case, I had this for years and never got treated for it. I mean, literally decades. It was when it hit hard, much worse, that my NEW neurologist (not all the ones I'd seen previously) fixed it as I described. He did try the Epley's without using the vibrator, first time round. He was saying as he did this, "If I had a vibrator, I could shake this thing loose from where it's settled and it would be easier to tip it back into position." That's when I said I'd bring one in for him, and he described exactly what I would need. He may have been trying harder for me because he knew we were supposed to be going to NZ in a few days' time and he wanted me well enough. I had about three appointments with him in two weeks, the last being only a couple of days before we left. I'm delighted he fixed it so easily, but annoyed at all the years I put up with it in a milder form despite seeing many neurologists who would have known what to do. But if the vertigo is due to another cause, then the Epley's Manouvre won't help. My friend at church whose vertigo is getting really bad - she is a former nurse, and didn't know about the Epley's manouvre even though she's been told it's Benign Positional Vertigo that she has, on top of her hearing loss. Her neurologist doesn't seem to have mentioned it to her either, nor has her GP, so she said she's going to try to see my bloke. I looked it up online (when I thought I was going to have to do those rolling exercises all the way round NZ) and found that it is well-known. Maybe it's not considered a serious enough problem to go to too much trouble for? It's not life-threatening, so let the patient learn to live with it. I don't know. I know it won't help everybody, since there can be many different causes, but if anyone out there can benefit, then go for it! Marg [/QUOTE]
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