Meniere’s Disease and Rain

I live in the Atlanta area and for the past week we have been deluged with rain. Usually rain doesn’t have any effect on my meniere’s disease with this time it has really been bad.

Sunday night the rain started in the early evening and really didn’t stop till the following afternoon and then only for a little while before it started back up again. I went into work late because I needed to stay at the house to make sure the water wasn’t coming into the house (luckily it didn’t). When I did start for work around noon, my left ear (my bad ear) seemed to quickly fill up. It felt as though something was in it. I had very little hearing in that ear and then a rustling sound almost like white noise got louder and louder. This went on for most of the day and into the early evening. Before I went to bed my head became heavy which is usually a precursor to an attack. I took a Phenergan and went to bed.

This morning when I woke up my ear was okay but I was very tired. The rain had stopped for now and threat of the water getting into the house was gone. Unfortunately this afternoon while at work I once again felt like I was going to have an attack.

I can’t help wondering if all this humidity in the air has had an adverse effect on my meniere’s. It could also be the stress of worrying about having the basement filled with water. I’m just not sure.

My family was very fortunate in that we didn’t have any damage done to the house, so many people in the Atlanta area were not so lucky. It breaks your heart to see the pictures on the TV and the internet of how devastating this storm was. It shows how important it is to support organization like the Red Cross who do an outstanding job of being there when disaster hits.