Stress And Meniere's Disease

Dealing with stress is hard enough as it is without the added complication of having to live with Meniere's Disease.

Meniere's Disease and Stress seem to go hand in hand but is stress a cause of Meniere's or stress a result of having to live with such a debilitating and depressing condition?

Well, possibly it is both, as it can become a vicious circle. Prolonged periods of stress can cause the blood vessels to contract, slowing up blood flow and subsequently contributing to worsening the condition of the affected ear(s). If that is not enough, the levels of stress living with Meniere's Syndrome or Meniere's Disease, whatever you choose to call it, puts strain both physically and mentally on sufferers at levels beyond the comprehension of the vast majority of people who have never experienced it.

The stress is making your Meniere's worse and Meniere's is making you more stressed! So what on earth can you do about it?

Does this sound familiar?

More often than not for people with Meniere's, severe bouts of vertigo come suddenly and unexpected. Sometimes though, you'll feel it coming: You start to feel clammy. A sudden fever will grip you, coupled with nausea and a sudden exhaustion. You panic, knowing full well what will follow, which more often than not, is a full blown vertigo attack. That panic (stress) helps speed up the oncoming bout of vertigo, and before you know it you are reeling!

Stress Management

Most of the time it seems unavoidable. But have you ever, (situation permitting) as soon as you feel that clammy feeling and the feeling of panic, just closed your eyes sat back and kept your eyes closed until the feeling passes. This can actually sometimes work, either with limiting the dizziness to a milder bout that passes more quickly or on occasions even keep the dreaded attack completely at bay. Being stationary, sitting and keeping your eyes closed is essential to this having any chance of working.

To people with Menieres who have never done this, it may sound an impossible task, and quite honestly with those sudden vertigo attacks it is. But on the occasions where it creeps up on you (relatively speaking)...this can be done.

Avoiding that Pre-Vertigo Panic Attack and Reducing Your Risk

Is it possible to calm yourself in the face of the panic attack that occurs minutes, or sometimes seconds prior to a vertigo attack? In the right situation, 'possibly' yes.

We recently came across a program that is well worth checking. It was designed for people who suffer from panic attacks and general anxiety. While generally speaking you may or may not fall neatly into that category. We do all know that feeling of panic just before a major attack. And the acute anxiety at that particular time has to speed up the chances of a full blown vertigo onslaught. And the stress and anxiety many of us feel daily, sometimes extreme, is contributing to our condition.

Now, none of us directly involved with Menieres-Help.Com have used this personally, but we have had emails from people with Meniere's who claim to have used these techniques with very good results.

A natural self help program like this, that reportedly has such good results quickly, has to be better than spending money, month after month on valium or other tranquilizer drugs that the doctors prescribe. There are good reasons why the doctors may prescribe such medicines, but they can leave Meniere's sufferers, who already stumble through daily life with brain fog and the like, feeling like Zombies.

If you are interested in trying the methods used in this stress/panic/anxiety relief program Click Here to read about it in more detail. It is by all accounts very simple and very effective.

If you do decide to use these methods or you have already used them, we would love to hear from you so we can advise people better. If it works for you, please let us know and even more so if it doesn't work for you let us know. We want to be in the best position to give accurate, useful advice that can positively benefit the Meniere's sufferers who visit Menieres-Help.Com.

The name of this simple program is "Panic Away" and you can read about the simple techniques here.

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