About that blasting of your vestibular system. A big problem is that when you blast it with ototoxic drugs - it doesn't go away entirely. We have some ability to re-generate vestibular hair cells - barley, but they do regrow, causing additional episodes and the need for more drugs. Gentamycin is a "last resort" thing for meniere's disease, and I don't know if it is the relief you are looking for. How long ago did you get the ototoxic meds - which started this whole problem?
last march. and it was tobramycin it did not seem to knock out my vestibular system but it made me dizzy, trouble with sleeping, ear fullness, pain in the ears and their constantly popping like im in airplane. i had vertigo all last summer and then that dissapeared. i tried rehab but that didnt seem to help much. i am trying to get off the ativan because i think that is causing more problems than i need, such as DIZZYNESS. my family wants me off the drug and i cant blame them, i want off too, it sucks. i read that they can regenerate hair cells. there is research being done in madison right now where you wear this piece in your mouth on a dental retainer and it helps with balance and the oscillapsia. i dont think i have oscillapsia just have a great deal focusing my eyeballs. and no one knows why i have pain. how come when people get an ototoxic effect from gentamycin they get a 100% loss? i guess thats why i figured you could blast out the ears and get rid of the whole system.
gentamycin causes 100% vestibular loss and only some cochlear loss becuase it is specifically vestibulotoxic - some have a preference for either the cochlea or the vestibular system. The one you took - the tobramycin is the least ototoxic of the main big antibiotic guns - not meaning that it doesn't do it - but a reason why it didn't make you deaf. These antibiotics stay in the fluids of the inner ear longer than they stay in your blood, so this makes it hard to get it out of your system and stop it from doing damage. You do have similar symptoms of menieres but since there is another reason to explain your symptoms - you don't have it. Meniere's is s strange disease - a almost last resort diagnosis. When the symptoms happen to have no other cause - this is usually called Meneiere's disease. Someone diagnosed with it may or may not have all the 4 symptoms - vertigo, fullness/pressure, tinnitus or hearing loss (initially low frequency but eventually covering all, making a flat loss at all frequencies). There are other more
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it did not seem to knock out my vestibular system but it made me dizzy, trouble with sleeping, ear fullness, pain in the ears and their constantly popping like im in airplane. i had vertigo all last summer and then that dissapeared. i tried rehab but that didnt seem to help much. i am trying to get off the ativan because i think that is causing more problems than i need, such as DIZZYNESS. my family wants me off the drug and i cant blame them, i want off too, it sucks. i read that they can regenerate hair cells. there is research being done in madison right now where you wear this piece in your mouth on a dental retainer and it helps with balance and the oscillapsia. i dont think i have oscillapsia just have a great deal focusing my eyeballs. and no one knows why i have pain.
how come when people get an ototoxic effect from gentamycin they get a 100% loss?
i guess thats why i figured you could blast out the ears and get rid of the whole system.
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