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Jun-18-2010 |
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Jun-03-2010 |
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May-19-2010 |
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Mar-25-2010 |
- Added the following information to the
Patients Page for Patty Spitler, retired
broadcast journalist:
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Feb-22-2010 |
- After two years of unresolved problems with
the blog software, and after two years without posting blog entries, we finally discontinued
the blog
on February 22, 2010. For the past two years, we have been
updating the website instead of posting to the blog, and that has been
working well for us.
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Feb-20-2010 |
- The server on which the website is
hosted
went down on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, and remained down until this
morning, Saturday, February 20, 2010.
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Feb-07-2010 |
- Added the following information to the
Treatment Page:
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If "it" triggers your symptoms, "it"
triggers your symptoms,
no matter what "it" is, and regardless of whether "it" triggers symptoms for anyone else.
- Physical exercise, including sexual
intercourse.
- We know of no clinical research on the
effect of physical exercise on the symptoms of Meniere's Disease.
- Some patients anecdotally report that
they experience attacks of Meniere's symptoms brought on by physical
exercise, including attacks during sex. Other patients do not
have this experience.
- Some patients anecdotally credit a so-called "healthy
lifestyle," including what they believe to be "eating right" and
regular physical
exercise, with improvements in their overall health and well-being,
including reduced symptoms of Meniere's Disease. Other patients
see no improvements in their symptoms.
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Click here to search PubMed for Meniere's Disease and physical
exercise research.
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| Oct-26-2009 |
- Updated PubMed statistics on the
Research Page. Over the past 10
years, medical journal articles concerning Meniere's Disease, almost
all of them relevant, have been added to PubMed on an average of every 2.6
days. We are not ignored, no matter who says otherwise.
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| Oct-17-2009 |
- Added the following information to the
Diagnosis Page under
diagnostic tests:
- Vestibular evoked myogenic
potentials (VEMP). VEMP is a type of auditory testing,
usually performed by an audiologist, that some believe to be of value
in the diagnosis of Meniere's Disease. VEMP as a
diagnostic tool as applied to Meniere's Disease is somewhat
controversial and there are authorities pro and con. We believe
that VEMP has not gained wide acceptance among experts as applied to
Meniere's Disease.
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| Aug-29-2009 |
- Added the following information to the
Diagnosis Page under
mimics:
- Petrous apex cholesterol granuloma
(PACG) (not to be confused with primary angle closure glaucoma, also
abbreviated PACG). A type of lesion that can be visualized with
MRI.
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| Aug-13-2009 |
- Added the following information to the
Famous Patients Page:
- Under Les Paul, guitarist and
father of the electric guitar.
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The Daily Mirror, L.A. Times blog, August 13, 2009 (on the
occasion of Les Paul's death), reprinting an article dated November
24, 1991. "Since 1980, he has undergone quintuple bypass surgery
and several operations for Meniere's syndrome, a vertigo-inducing ear
disorder."
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| Aug-08-2009 |
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| Jun-29-2009 |
- Thanks to a tip from a reader, added the
following information to the
Disability Page:
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| Jun-05-2009 |
- Added the following information to the
Famous Patients Page:
- Shawnae Jebbia, television and film
personality, and Miss USA 1998.
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| May-16-2009 |
- Revised and clarified the
Disability Page as follows:
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Two problems with
obtaining veteran's benefits due to a diagnosis of "Meniere's Disease"
can be causation and timing. "Meniere's Disease" caused by military
service is probably better diagnosed as a different form of
endolymphatic hydrops.
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Remember that Meniere's
Disease is considered by most authorities to be "idiopathic
endolymphatic hydrops," with "idiopathic" meaning "cause unknown."
With the cause unknown, it is difficult to establish the time period
during which Meniere's Disease began. If the cause and therefore
the timing is unknown, it is hard to say that it was caused by
line-of-duty military service.
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If one has endolymphatic
hydrops caused by line-of-duty military service, then most authorities
would say that one does not have "idiopathic" endolymphatic hydrops
(Meniere's Disease), because the cause is known. In that case,
one might have "secondary endolymphatic hydrops" ("secondary" being
secondary to the known cause of line-of-duty military service) or
"delayed endolymphatic hydrops," where symptoms manifest subsequent
to, rather than coincident with line-of-duty military service.
See more information on this subject on the
Cause Page.
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Tip to Service Members:
Be sure that symptoms of endolymphatic hydrops (whether Meniere's
Disease or any other form) and anything else are documented in your
medical records, ESPECIALLY in your separation physical.
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| Apr-15-2009 |
- Added the following information to the
Treatment Page:
- Triggers are highly individualized.
One might have a trigger that no one else has, and one might not have
a trigger that many other patients have. Statistics aren't useful
here. It's not a matter of "how likely" it is for one to have a
particular trigger. Either one has the trigger or one doesn't.
- Added the following information to the
Famous Patients Page:
- Kristen Chenoweth, singer, actress.
- Chenoweth writes of her Meniere's
Disease in her memoir, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and
Faith in Stages, as reviewed in
Publishers Weekly (scroll down).
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| Mar-15-2009 |
- Added the following information to the
Famous Patients page:
- Television journalist Meg MacDonald
renovates her home to accommodate her Meniere's Disease.
- Update:
Article, Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal, March 15, 2009.
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| Mar-03-2009 |
- Updated the excerpts related to
Meniere's Disease disability from the official U.S. Social Security
Administration manual "Disability Evaluation Under Social Security"
(known as the "Blue Book") to the September 2008 edition.
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| Jan-15-2009 |
- Added the following information to the
Famous Patients Page:
- Ryan Adams, musician, singer,
songwriter, author.
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