Very sad. There’s no cure. Doctors can only mitigate some of the symptoms.
He needs a new drug.
He’s a bright guy, he scored 800 on his math SAT.
"...Huey Lewis..."
I have 2 close friends who both have it to one extent or another. One of them isn’t too badly affected, but until it got under control, the other one would be literally unable to even sit up without vomiting from the vertigo.
Not pretty...
Alan Shepard found a cure, for himself at least:
In 1969, he checked himself into a Los Angeles hotel under a pseudonym to undergo a new and, at the time, risky operation to correct his inner ear condition. The surgeon successfully implanted a small tube in his inner ear to drain the fluid away.
“I finally found a gent who corrected my ear problem surgically, and after Nasa looked at me for perhaps a year, they decided that I was well enough to fly again,” Shepard explained in 1991.
A close relative developed Meneire’s, his doctor told him it was likely related to constant high-decimal exposure he received during military service, including Desert Storm. severe symptoms but he got completely under control by cutting down on salt and cutting caffeine out completely, along with getting his diet under wraps in general. One of his friends also developed Meniere’s and hasn’t been able to mitigate it at all. Tough thing to live with.
My wife was struck by men years disease approximately 8 years ago. For a year-and-a-half she had vertigo nausea and the other symptoms that have been discussed.
She washed her diet religiously especially her salt and caffeine. She hasn’t been struck by nausea now for over 5 years although she occasionally has bouts of dizziness. She has to avoid spinning ceiling fans and flickering fluorescent lights as these trigger dizziness.
Al Shepard’s surgery for his Meniere’s syndrome allowed him to get back on flight status and go to the moon on Apollo 14. Dr William House performed the surgery in 1968 and NASA doctors cleared Shepard to return to space in 1970. According to Dr House, this surgery does not cure Meniere’s. It just relieves the symptoms.
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jul/25/local/me-6898
A tiny silicone, rubber tube is inserted to shunt fluid called endolymph from the inner ear to the fluid called cerebrospinal that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
In recent years, more doctors have accepted the theory that Meniere’s disease results from the lack of proper absorption —not an overproduction—of endolymph.
Therefore Dr. House performed the shunt operation, which Dr. Berry said was done at space agency expense. The surgery. Dr. House wrote, was “not designed to cure Meniere’s disease” but to relieve its symptoms.
Dr. House cut through the mastoid bone behind Captain Shepard’s left ear into a round part of the inner ear called the sacculus that contains endolymph.
Dr. House slit the sacculus, inserted one end of the tiny tube and then connected the other end to the cerebrospinal fluid behind the sacculus.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/02/archives/a-tube-implant-corrected-shepards-ear-disease.html
I wonder...if it’s not years and years of very loud music?
Been dealing with it for years.
Hugh A. Cregg III. His grandfather, Hugh A. Cregg Sr., was District Attorney of Essex County MA back in the fifties.
Bump