Meniere's Disease Surgeries

With any kind of illnesses it always seems that surgery should be the last resort and that is certainly true of Meniere’s disease. If you can alleviate the meniere’s attacks or eliminate the attacks by lowering your sodium that’s great or maybe the diuretics do the trick for you. I hope that is the case with most people. Unfortunately for a lot of folks that isn’t the case. Surgery and procedures like the gentamicin injections are your only hope.

I have written before about one surgery that I almost went through with it was the endolymphatic shunt surgery. Like I had written in the post I got a second opinion and decided against it. I’m glad that I did and it showed me to always check with at least one if not two more doctors before going under the knife.

Another surgery that I wrote about was the Labyrinthectomy which is mostly for patients who don’t have any hearing left.

Cutting the nerve from the vestibular section in the ear is another type of surgery to help treat Meniere’s disease. This surgery is supposed to preserve the hearing in the ear. But there may be problems with balance after the procedure is done.

It is always best to go over all options surgical or otherwise with your doctor. And do your research so you can be informed before you discuss them. There is a lot of information out there so non-medical people like me and you can benefit from it.

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