Hello everyone, I was just diagnosed with ménière’s disease at 17 this past week. It’s been happening since i was about 16ish. Started off as a just “oops i got up to fast the dizziness should go away in a couple minutes”. But it really didn’t and the only reason it did go away was sleep.
Now it’s just a really slow pressure build that happens maybe once a week, where i just lose hearing in my left ear very slowly. Then sometimes I get really bad vertigo, and sometimes I just get ear pressure.
It is more of an annoyance than anything, because i’m basically deaf. And it just makes me want to pop my ears , and dig in the for any sort of relief. But alas as anyone knows here it really doesn’t help at all.
Now i’m not going to sit here and complain becuase we all are in the same boat. But i’m just so fucking young. Most of the time it like 30-40 year olds. I just turned 18. I got my whole life ahead of me. And know I have to deal with this headache for the rest of my life. I’m a usually optimistic person but having to regulate everything in my routine is just so, i guess scary.
I just wanted to have a normal life, i mean it’s not the end of the world. However it’s just the fact, that knowing there’s no cure and that I have to figure out what I need to do. It’s just so frustrating, like what did I do to have this happen to me. All of my friends are living their best life, while i’m trying not to fall over and puke.
I hope to find comfort in the people that I can relate too. It’s just tough knowing i got a long while of my life to deal with it.