Medications that trigger Meniere’s disease

What brings on an attack of Meniere’s disease seems to be a concern to whoever has this terrible condition. We know about eating too much salt and how the sodium causes havoc in the inner ear. We also know that stress can bring on an attack, although not every one believes that, but I certainly do! And we know that movement doesn’t cause Meniere’s disease (once again I don’t know if I believe that entirely).

My question is about medication that causes an attack of Meniere’s disease.

This past weekend my wife had the flu, I don’t know if it is just the regular flu or the one that everyone is talking about. Of course I started to feel bad about Sunday night. My body ached and I ran a fever and at night I couldn’t stop coughing. I took some Tylenol for the fever and for the coughing I took some prescription cough medicine. The warning label on the bottle was very clear and big enough to read without my glasses. “MAY CAUSE DIZZINESS” When you have Meniere’s disease you don’t want to take any thing that has those words written on them.
My cough was so bad that I took the cough syrup anyway.

Needless to say it did make me dizzy the next morning. It certainly helped my cough but I had a bad attack last night and I have been feeling like I could have another today. Hopefully after a few days I will be feeling back to normal (no meniere’s attacks).

Has anyone else ever had a problem with cough medicine?

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