Ménières disease due to b12 and D deficiency?

[psawant]

Hi ,

Is it possible that our vitamin deficiency can trigger Ménière disease? I was just searching for symptoms online and they were kind of matching. Dizziness, vertigo kind of feeling , Tinnitus in one ear.

[fbirder]

Not according to this paper - researchgate.net/profile/Se...

[Nackapan]

Well virtigo was my dramatic symptom that eventually got me a b12 test. One of my grown up children's first symptom too. Meniers is usually associated with deafness.

So virtigo yes

I dont think meniers

Only my thinking

[psawant in reply to Nackapan]

I am feeling dizzy, offbalance and nauseous. Some visual disturbance too. In the beginning i felt many strong vertigo episodes but now its like they come and go but in very less intensity. And tinnitus is also there.

[Nackapan in reply to psawant]

Yrs I get tinnitus

Cawthorne pysio exercises helped balance

Little and often food and yoghurt I found /find helps nausea

And if vputse b12 . I was then able walk

I'd been through a and e as symptoms so bad. My pupils were too dilated.

Vision bad. Ct scan

Only later got a blood test at go that found b12 was 106. Inje turns werd the only thing that brought improvements

Oh and the Epley manouvre. Dine wrong at surgery. Si on 3rd attempt at home stopped the nytagus rapid eys movement and spinning.

B12 will help tour symptoms . Takes a bit of time.

[Nackapan in reply to psawant]

Btw I was diagnosed in Octobed 2018. Started b12 I jections Nov 7 2018. Wasnt until Jan/ Feb 2019 I started to walk again and out of bed most of the day. And my vision went back to prescription it was before. I'd dropped 2 steps I initially.

Never had virtigo in my life before.

[DelMegJJ]

My husband was diagnosed with menirere disease before he had a diagnosis of PA. It started with a vertigo attack he had numerous investigations and was given an antipsychotic drug. They did not help. Eventually he was diagnosed with Pernicious Anaemia he stopped taking the drug and had B12 injections. B12 injections have made a huge difference.

[Retteacher]

Classical Menieres disease involves increased fluid pressures within the inner ear which can damage the sensory hair cells involved in both hearing and balance. The residual damaged nerve fibres often then produce sensations of phantom sounds i.e. tinnitus. It is interesting that DelMegJJ reports her husbands symptoms as being improved by B12 injections. Perhaps it helps sooth the nerve fibres,although unfortunately there is no natural mechanism that will replace the damaged sensory hair cells.

My husband tells me that he has never seen any evidence that a B12 deficiency could trigger Meniere's disease.