Its cause is unknown, but it is one of the most common reasons for dizziness originating in the inner ear. Often, only one ear is involved, but both ears may be affected in from 15 to 50 percent of patients. Women appear to be affected slightly more often than are men.
There may also be an intermittent hearing loss early in the disease, especially in the low pitches, but a fixed hearing loss involving tones of all pitches can develop in time.
Loud sounds may be uncomfortable and seem distorted in the affected ear. It may last for 20 minutes to two hours or longer. During vertigo attacks, patients are usually incapacitated and unable to perform activities normal to their work or home life. Dysequilibrium or imbalance and generalized tiredness may follow for several hours and even days.
If the hearing loss becomes permanent, patients are often debilitated by the attendant tinnitus or head noise, which can be constant and unremitting. Your doctor will take a history of the frequency, duration, severity, and character of your attacks, the duration of hearing loss or whether it has been changing, and whether you have had tinnitus or fullness in either or both ears. You may be asked questions about your general health, such as whether you have diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, thyroid, or neurologic disorders.
Tests may be ordered to look for these problems in certain cases. When the history has been completed, diagnostic tests will check your hearing and balance functions. An MRI scan may be ordered, especially if the disease is one-sided.
Some people will have single attacks of dizziness separated by long periods of time. Others may experience many attacks closer together over a number of days. The labyrinth is composed of the semicircular canals, the otolithic organs i. Inside their walls bony labyrinth are thin, pliable tubes and sacs membranous labyrinth filled with endolymph.
The labyrinth contains the organs of balance the semicircular canals and otolithic organs and of hearing the cochlea. It has two sections: the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth. There are a variety of medications your doctor could choose for motion sickness, nausea, vomiting or fluid buildup in the inner ear. There are a variety of exercises that can help relieve symptoms of vertigo. A Mercy Health physical therapist can teach you the exercises that help your brain learn to account for the balance differences between the ears.
Typically, your doctor will perform an endolymphatic sac procedure to help reduce fluid production and promote drainage in the inner ear.
Meniere's Disease. Balance Disorders Tinnitus.
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