Does Meniere's eventually fade away?

Hey Ken. This is a tricky one.

As you know we don’t have a lot of Meniere’s sufferers here. But perhaps the one or two will chime in.

Just my two cents:

  1. I’ve heard that to be the case too.

  2. it may depend on the root cause and ‘type’ of Meniere’s.

I for one have had both MAV diagnoses but also alternatively ‘Secondary Hydrops’. Some doctors consider that a kind of Meniere’s (it shares the endolymphatic Hydrops element), but the symptoms appear to be identical to MAV.

In any case my doctor told me that it does indeed burn out. ie the Hydrops fades. That’s certainly been my experience: I no longer have vestibular attacks or issues with my balance. Just the auditory symptoms remain.

It is frustrating how usually doctors are unable to be definitive. But on this occasion this doctor was quite adamant.

I would go with how things have gone so far: if it has eased significantly then I see no reason why it won’t continue to do so?

Btw, looking back at your post history you seem to be discussing vestibular migraine: did your diagnosis change? If so how come? What has happened since? Did you get another opinion?

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