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		<title>An Inconvenient Patient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patient Hank Akins struggles with Medi-Cal (which is what Medicaid is called in California) to get a diagnosis.  But he finds that he is an &#8220;inconvenient patient,&#8221; rather than a valued member of our society.
 Link:  An Inconvenient Patient
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		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Randy Thurman: Artist, Musician, Menierian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Received in the email:

Greetings to Everyone at menieresinfo.com!Â 
We have some great news to share on recent developments with Randy Thurman&#8217;s art and music careers.Â  The year has been very successful with both.Â  On the art scene, Randy&#8217;s work has been exhibited in a total of eleven international group shows, with publication of his visual art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=157</link>
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		<title>New Educational Consulting Service for Meniere&#8217;s Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[P.J. Haybach, R.N., M.S., the author of theÂ best bookÂ about Meniere&#8217;s Disease for patients,Â &#8221;Meniere&#8217;s Disease &#8212; What You Need to Know,&#8221; has launched a new educational consulting service for vestibular disorders, including Meniere&#8217;s Disease.Â  The details are available at her website here:Â  http://balance-and-dizziness.com/page1.htm.Â  It strikes us that this innovative service should be extremely useful to almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=156</link>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Look Disabled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding to the many difficulties endured by those with Meniere&#8217;s Disease is the problem of people not believing us because we don&#8217;t &#8220;look&#8221; disabled. Oftentimes they say just that: &#8220;You don&#8217;t look disabled.&#8221; Translated: &#8220;Hell, you don&#8217;t look disabled to me, you lazy, faking, no-good, bloodsucking, thief-of-my-tax-money!&#8221; Read about this phenomenon in this article written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=155</link>
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		<title>Great Message From a Great Patient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read a a GREAT message from GREAT Meniere&#8217;s Disease patient Annie Coleman at her website anniecoleman.com.
Here are just some of the many important things to be found in her message, things that make her a GREAT patient:

She became informed!
She changed doctors when it made sense.
She went to a neurotologist (specialty most specific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=154</link>
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		<title>How Do Doctors Think?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do doctors think?Â  Don&#8217;t we wish we knew?Â  There may be help at hand!
Dr. Jerome Groopman&#8217;s new book, &#8220;How Doctors Think,&#8221;Â describes how doctors hit &#8212; and miss &#8212; the correct diagnosis,Â and includesÂ Groopman&#8217;s own errors!Â  (Bless any doctor who can admit error!)
TheÂ New York Times book review of &#8220;How Doctors Think,&#8221; by Michael Crichton, M.D., can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=153</link>
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		<title>What Can I Do About Medi-Cal (Medicaid)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Updated March 3, 2007]
[Revised February 24, 2007]
[Revised FebruaryÂ 17, 2007]
Question
For almost twenty years, I have had all the symptoms of Meniereâ€™s Disease, including â€œbrain fog.â€Â  All the while, my doctors said my tests were fine and so I must be fine, and that my symptoms must be manifestations of stress.Â  (Or else I was just plain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Study Reports Highly Encouraging Results Using the Meniett Device</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From MenieresInfo.com (our home website):Â  A study published in the medical journal Archives of Otolaryngology &#8212; Head and Neck Surgery, published by the American Medical Association, reports highly encouraging results in a two-year survey of patients using the Meniett Device.Â  (&#8220;Archives of otolaryngology&#8211;head &#38; neck surgery&#8221; Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006 Dec;132(12):1311-6.)Â  (See the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Should I See Another Doctor?  (Our answer is *always* &#8220;yes.&#8221;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I have had Meniere&#8217;s Disease since I was a child.Â Â Ten years ago, whenÂ the vertigoÂ became so bad that I could not drive, work, or sometimes even walk, I had IT (intratympanic) gentamicin treatments to stop it. Â I have not experienced the spinning sensations of dizziness since then. I still feel slightly off balance, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=146</link>
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		<title>Can Meniere&#8217;s Disease Lie Dormant and Then Become Active Later?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I was diagnosed with Meniereâ€™s Disease at age 10. I had attacks of vertigo and vomiting and lost 20% of myÂ hearing in one year. I was virtually bedridden for one year. I could not attend school. I could not go anywhere without experiencing an attack. No one knew what it was at first. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Nothing is Working &#8212; What Can I Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We received yet another inquiry along the lines of:

Nothing is working.
What can I do?

Our answer is always the same:

Read this.
Talk to your doctors.
Get more medical opinions until you are satisfied.
If you&#8217;ve already gotten more medical opinions, get still more medical opinions until you are satisfied.

Revised October 29, 2006
Originally posted May 17, 2006
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		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>My Attacks Come After Scuba Diving; Should I Stop Scuba Diving?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I am a scuba diver diagnosed with Meniere&#8217;s Disease. My attacks come after diving.Â  I have continued to dive since my diagnosis six years ago.Â Should I stop scuba diving?Â Are there any studies on this?
Whether you should stop scuba diving is a question for you to discuss with your doctor, not with us.Â  You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Is There a Connection Between Meniere&#8217;s Disease and the Vagus Nerve?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
Is there aÂ connection between Meniere&#8217;s Disease and the vagus nerve?
Not that we can see in PubMed.Â  Click here.
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		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Should I Get a Second Hearing Aid?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I use a hearing aid inÂ my &#8220;better&#8221;Â ear because I have more than 90% loss of hearing in theÂ &#8221;worse&#8221; ear andÂ supposedly there is no hearing aidÂ that can reasonably be used on a daily basis forÂ the worseÂ ear.Â  My problem is that my hearing aid, when placed in my &#8220;better&#8221; ear is good for volume, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=125</link>
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		<title>How Frequently Do Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) and Meniere&#8217;s Disease Occur Together?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
How likely is it that someone could be diagnosed with both Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) and Meniere&#8217;s Disease?
Actually, the question that our reader poses is somewhat different from the title of this post, which we worded.Â  But let&#8217;s start with the title.Â  We haven&#8217;t seen any authoritative studies on the subject, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=124</link>
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		<title>Should I See Another Doctor?  What About Cheese?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A patient writes:
I have had several Meniere&#8217;s attacks in my life, the most recent being over 10 years ago.Â  As a result, I had slight hearing loss in my right ear.Â  In January 2006, I had major surgery, after which I was given an ototoxic &#8220;loop&#8221; diuretic.Â  The next day after being given the loop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<title>PubMed Adds Eight Interesting Medical Journal Articles on Meniere&#8217;s Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via our free subscription to PubMed alerts, we were notified today that the following articles have been added to PubMed.Â  For tips on how to obtain the full text of these articles, see the MenieresInfo.com Research Page.

Differentiation of Meniere&#8217;s disease and migraine-associated dizziness: a review.
Electrocochleography in the evaluation of patients with Meniere&#8217;s disease/endolymphatic hydrops.
An update [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Can People With Meniere&#8217;s Disease Wear Hearing Aids?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
Can people with Meniere&#8217;s Disease wear hearing aids?Â  I tried a hearing aid, and after three hours I had an episode of severe vertigo.Â  Did the hearing aid have anything to do with it?Â  I am afraid to try the hearing aid again.
Most people with Meniere&#8217;s Disease can wear hearing aids.Â  We have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Birth Control Pills Make My Symptoms Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I have found that taking birth control pills makes my symptoms worse.Â  Is there any further information on this?
We found no authoritative resources on this subject at PubMed, nor do we recall any anecdotal reports one way or the other.Â  But anything can be a trigger for Meniere&#8217;s Disease symptoms for any particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=116</link>
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		<title>I Stopped Taking My Medicine Because it Makes Me Drowsy &#8212; What Else Should I Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader writes to say that he has stopped taking his medicine because it makes him drowsy and asks what else he should do.
The reader should talk to his doctor and discuss whether an adjustment in the frequency and dosage of his medicine is in order.
For every medicine, there are one or more side effects.Â  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=115</link>
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		<title>My Doctors Aren&#8217;t Helping Me &#8212; What Treatment Do You Suggest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader writes that his doctors aren&#8217;t helping him and asks for our suggestions for treatment.
We are patients, not doctors, so our suggestion is that this reader should keep on seeing doctors until he finds one who inspires his confidence.Â  There is no getting around this.
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		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Which Ear Should My Doctor Operate On?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
My doctor recommends endolymphatic sac surgery of some sort on one of my ears.Â  How can he or I tell which ear is causing the problem?
You should discuss this with your doctor and ask how the doctor determined which ear to operate on.Â  OneÂ might expect that ear to be the one that has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<title>We Always Advise a Patient to See a Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
MyÂ dadÂ has vertigo for a few seconds whenever he moves his head or gets up out of bed or turns over in bed.Â  When he stays still, his vertigo stops. He&#8217;s 73, and hears well.Â  My uncle, who is a doctor who specializes in liver disease, diagnosed my father&#8217;s illness as Meniere&#8217;s Disease over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=111</link>
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		<title>I Can&#8217;t Live Without Chocolate and Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I recently was diagnosed with Meniere&#8217;s Disease, and I am on a low-sodium, no caffeine, and no alcohol diet.Â  I am miserable.Â  The low-sodium diet I can deal with, but no caffeine or alcohol?Â  I&#8217;ve read that the low-sodium diet is important, but received conflicting views on the necessity to abstain from caffeine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<title>What is the Medical Specialist That is Closest to Meniere&#8217;s Disease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I was wondering &#8212; what is the best specialist to see for diagnosis of Meniere&#8217;s Disease?
A &#8220;neurotologist&#8221; (also calledÂ &#8221;otoneurologist&#8221;) is the medical specialist closest to Meniere&#8217;s Disease.Â  Visit the MenieresInfo.com section on Medical Specialists for more information.Â  This specialistÂ should be able to perform, or arrange for, a differential diagnosis of the symptoms of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Your Blog Helps Me to Be Better Informed and to Ask More Informed Questions of My Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader writes:
I suffer fromÂ three of the four classicÂ symptoms of Meniere&#8217;s Disease, without the vertigo.Â  Needless to say, I am concerned about the progression of these symptoms.Â  I have been losing hearing since age 13, and now at age 30, I have lost much of the hearing in my left ear. In the recent 5-6 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=108</link>
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		<title>When Meniere&#8217;s Disease Goes Into Remission, Can It Relapse Almost 30 Years Later?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:Â 
I was diagnosed with Meniere&#8217;s Disease 40 years ago.Â  I lost all of my hearing in my left ear at age 5, and developed severe vertigo attacks that lasted about a week, and which occurred twice a year for 11 years.Â  At age 16, all symptoms abruptly stopped.Â  Now,Â 29 years later, and at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=106</link>
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		<title>How Can I Find My Triggers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I don&#8217;t know what is &#8220;triggering&#8221; my attacks.Â  How can IÂ find myÂ &#8221;triggers&#8221;?Â If the possibilitiesÂ are nearly limitless, what questions can I ask myself to help me find what my triggers might be?
Some patients either have no triggers or no identifiable triggers.Â  There&#8217;s nothing magical about trying to find your triggers.Â  Some patients have allergies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=104</link>
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		<title>Are My Attacks More Frequent Than Normal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks:
I have Meniere&#8217;s DiseaseÂ attacks three times a week, which seems to be more frequent than most people experience.Â  What is the &#8220;average&#8221; or &#8220;normal&#8221; reported frequency of attacks?Â  What does the frequency of episodes suggest about the &#8220;stage&#8221; in the progression of the condition?Â  What does the frequency of episodes suggest about how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=103</link>
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		<title>What Is Your Opinion On My Case?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After giving a run-down on history and symptoms, a patients asks:
What is your opinion on this particular case &#8212; does this sound like a serious problem or an issue that you can find a solution for?
We are patients, not doctors.Â  You need to be seeing doctors for diagnostic tests and diagnosis of your condition, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://menieresinfo.com/blog/?p=102</link>
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