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A Christmas greeting and music to our ears after Maureen had many problems along the way
Hello,
I am just writing a quick note to let you know how I am feeling. I have been on the supplements for just over a year and when I compare my lifestyle to this time last year, it is amazing.
We are flying off to Australia for Christmas and New Year to celebrate my husband's 60th birthday. Also I have begun to look around for part time work, it is so wonderful to be able to communicate and go to town on my own!
I hope this finds you well and I wish you and your families a Happy Christmas
Best Wishes from Maureen
This was sent from Jon in South Australia. Like me he was very sceptical about the whole concept and was hard to win over. He was lucky enough to be persuaded by his partner.
I thought I would provide you with an update of my experiences. Maybe some of my experiences may be helpful for others.
It all started with a small feeling of a blocked ear, and the start of a small sound in my ear which was only noticeable when I went to bed at night.
I was told I had an ear infection. Anti-biotics didn't change anything and the fullness developed and the sounds in my ear increased.
In March I had my first attack, which was horrendous. After this attack, no more followed, but the tinnitus and fullness kept getting stronger.
In April I visited an ENT specialist who undertook an audiogram which showed I had moderate hearing loss in one ear. I had an MRI to discount any tumour, which was fine. He told me I had early onset Menieres. I was immediately in denial because I had had no other attacks apart from the first major one, so I thought he was wrong. I left thinking he didn't really know what he was talking about.
A couple of weeks later, the attacks started full-on. I was virtually incapacitated for 3 weeks, and it was during this time that thanks to Sue, we found you.
In what seems like only that 3-4 week period, the hearing in my affected ear deteriorated very rapidly, and I lost virtually all my hearing in one ear. The ENT specialist was not very helpful. He simply said that I had Menieres, and there was nothing that can be done to help. That's when I started on the supplements. I have always been sceptical about vitamins and minerals, and until recently, even when I was taking them, I remained sceptical.
Interestingly, after a very short time of taking the system, my attacks virtually stopped and I began to feel better overall. My tinnitus continued to get worse, and the fullness remained, but no attacks and my head cleared and I was otherwise AOK.
I decided that I had to see if the supplements were actually making a difference, or if my symptoms had simply abated as part of the normal Menieres process, so I stopped taking them. Within 10 days of stopping, my symptoms started coming back. Dizziness, spinning etc all started to resume and the feeling of a thick head started to reappear. I was amazed. So I immediately went back on the supplements just 4 days ago, and I am basically back to where I was when I was on them before - no symptoms, clear head etc. The affect is simply amazing. I am no longer a sceptic.
I explained to my ENT doctor twice about the nutritional supplement products I was taking, and the beneficial affects I had experienced, and how rapidly I started to deteriorate when I stopped taking them, and then the beneficial affects again when I re-started. He just wasn't interested and virtually dismissive of them. He even suggested that I start reducing them over the next few months to see if they make a difference. Well, I have just done that experiment and I know I will remain on them now.
Others that you talk to should not be swayed by an ENT specialist who just doesn't see natural supplements as beneficial. I have, in my mind, uncontroversial proof that for me, they have been of immense benefit. So thank you for your advice and suggestions.
So I am now a staunch supporter of these natural supplements. Thank you for your assistance, and I thought you would like to hear my experiences, and also those thoughts of the medical fraternity that are dismissive of the benefits that can be achieved through natural methods. I should also say that during this time I haven't altered my diet at all, and have made no effort to reduce my sodium intake. Despite this, the beneficial affect has been substantial.
Hope you are well and look forward to hearing from you again.
Jon
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We got this from a very happy Richard from Birmingham in the UK
I hope this email finds you both well. As promised i wanted to send you a testimonial that you are more than welcome to use in your news letter. I still can't thank you enough for changing my life round completely
Approximately four years ago i was diagnosed with Menieres disease following many tests and consultations with various specialists. My symptoms became very severe with the hearing in my left ear being virtually destroyed. On top of this i had sustained periods of extremely high levels of tinnitus in both ears and sporadic hearing loss in my right ear which could last for up to a month at a time. Oh yes and of course to top all of this off i had lots of vertigo attacks for these sustained periods. Most of which would leave me vomiting and bed ridden. Naturally this effected every element of my life and work became almost an impossibility as i work in a hectic office that requires a lot of interaction with customers and staff. Gradually this effected my confidence and i contemplated leaving my job.
During this time i saw yet more specialists and tried all of the recommended conventional treatments for menieres such as SERC, Steroids Diuretics etc etc. All to no avail, i was determined not to go down the surgery route as all of the information that i read about it had led me to the conclusion that it is maximum risk for minimum gain and my specialist said that it would only incur deafness in my good ear.
To cut a long story short after trying all kinds of alternative medicines too acupuncture, Raiki etc I was at a loss and i joined SPIN the British Charity for Menieres sufferers. All if the information in their helpbooks was fairly negative and there appeared to be no way out of this nightmare and to make matters worse i was off work unable to attend due to the severity of the symptoms. At this point i would of literally tried anything when i came across the system information. At first i was very sceptical yet i was intrigued by others testimonials that mirrored my own symptoms and problems. The research and reasoning behind the supplements appeared to make more sense than just being told by doctors to "keep taking the tablets" I had no idea why i was taking them and they just seemed to aggravate the situation and not help me in any way. So i went for it as Karins and Michael's confidence in them was extremely high.
On receipt of the first batch i was probably at my lowest ebb that i have ever been at in my whole life hence my willingness to try anything. I followed the guidelines as to how to start taking the supplements and building up my immune system properly and within one week i had a massive remission of the deafness in my right ear and all vertigo with a drastic reduction of tinnitus in both ears. I have continued to take the supplements twice daily ever since and can honestly say that i have led a completely normal life since and have returned to work with renewed fervour and energy.
If anyone is still unconvinced by this then i would me more than willing to talk to people who would like any guidance or help as i would like to try and help in the way that Karin and Michael have helped me.
My Kindest regards
Richard
This Christmas greeting came from Grazia in London .
Hello Karin and Mike,
May your lives be full of joy, Health and Happiness, May God repay you up there for all the people you are helping with meniere's!!!
I for one will be praying for you tonight for giving me back my life this year!!! It is one year on the 21 December since I received the supplements and from day two I started feeling better, I could feel that I would get better and spent Christmas day free of an attack, on New Year's Eve I was dancing!!! I really couldn't believe it!!!! THANK YOU!!!
I wish the doctors were as helpful and prompt as you are!!! Whenever I have come to you for help, you have been there instantly and that is such a relief! Having your support makes me feel as if I am being looked after and confidence with Meniere's has been fully restored, thanks to your help!!! But you know something? Whenever I tell people with it, they don't believe me!!! I feel so much for these people suffering the way I did but they do not believe!!!
Anyway, this was just meant to be a Happy Christmas message to you both and to tell you how truly grateful I am to you for restoring my health …….THANK YOU THANK YOU THANKYOU!!! GOD BLESS YOU FOREVER…….
This from Eglantyne in Sydney Australia
Dear Mike
I am feeling super after using the supplements. I just realise that a few friends are using the same products. I am happy to take it as long as I need.
Thanks for your concerns.
Eggy
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Karin's husband, David's Story from Vancouver in Canada
I have had Meniere's Disease for several years now. At first I thought I just had build up of wax in my ear. My family doctor said there was no wax buildup. At first, the symptoms were so bad that at times I would have to crawl on my hands and knees to bed. I would then spend one or two days just lying there because I was so dizzy and suffering from vertigo and inner ear dizziness.
This could happen on a daily basis. I had to stop working, and haven't worked for over three years.
I had to plan my days around how I felt in the morning. Some days driving or walking was out of the question and even on the mornings when I felt ok I would never know when I would get dizzy. I then became very depressed. I also started to have financial problems and felt I was a prisoner in my own home.
I went from being self sufficient to totally reliant on other people.
At that time I owned a retail store and was selling clothing. I would talk to customers and get so dizzy I had to hang onto things to get around the store. It became an impossible situation. I wasn't able to look after my customers properly and I wasn't able to do my business justice, so I closed my business down in Dec of 1997.
I functioned with the dizzy spells until the winter of 2000. I then began to have dizzy spells almost on a daily basis. I also began to fall like a bag of sand with no warning. I had one very bad scare while driving my car. I became totally disoriented and I slammed the brakes on and stopped in the middle of the road. Fortunately this was not a busy road or I am sure I would have caused an accident.
The last straw for me was in May of 2000 I fell in the kitchen and split my head open and my eye brow, and eye lid. It all got infected. I thought to myself, life can't get much worse. Through the winter of 2000 I became a prisoner in my own home. As soon as I would go into a store I would get dizzy.
When I first started to have symptoms, I saw my family doctor and was given the usual prescription drugs for Meniere's, all to no avail. I was also referred to a specialist and had all the hearing test and an MRI done, again to no avail.
I started to do my own research on the Internet (just like you are doing now) and I ran across two doctors that are both using a similar approach to treating Meniere's Disease.
One of the doctors is using high quality vitamins and nutritional supplements to treat his patients that have Meniere's disease and the second doctor actually suffers from Menieres Disease.
Since both doctors solution to treating menieres was to use a combination of high quality vitamins and nutritional supplements, I figured that two doctors using the same system and products, with good results, is as good as a second opinion, so I decided to give it a try.
The one doctor that I spoke to who is suffering from Meniere's was experiencing the same problems as I was. He would have to cancel all his appointments and be carried out of his office and driven home.
I decided to see for myself. If this worked for him, it might also work for me. I had nothing to loose except a few dollars and I had spent a lot on prescription drugs, which didn't work. So I was game to try almost anything to get rid of these symptoms.
I started these products in the middle of May 2000 and by the beginning of June my dizzy spell's were gone. I was fine until I was admitted to the hospital this Nov. 2000 for one week. At that time, because my doctor didn't believe in this concept, he took me off the vitamins and nutritional supplements and at the end of five days, I was dizzy again. The next day I was discharged and started taking my vitamin's and nutritional supplements again and two days later I was dizzy free.
To visit David's menieres site go to www.menieres-disease-information.com/
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This from Maureen also in the UK who had a lot of problems but got there in the end.
Hello Karin and Michael
It has been quite some time since we communicated and I am so glad to say that it has now been FIFTEEN WEEKS since my last 'attack'. I know you have heard all of this so many times before, but what a difference these supplements have made.
My hearing has definitely improved, but still have periods throughout the day when the tinnitus appears louder and the hearing dips.
I know I had many problems along the way, but I would think it took approximately six months before I started to feel better. I am gradually regaining my confidence and working up to walking to the local shopping centre on my own. I sometimes experience a slight 'feeling' as if I am about to become dizzy and within seconds this passes.
Thank you both for your help and advice along the way and for introducing me to the 'system'.
With kind regards Maureen
Success stories from Karin’s menieres-disease.ca
My name is Debbie, I am 45 years old and I have dealt with the horrible disabling disease called Meniere's Disease since November of 1997.
I started out with ringing in my left ear about six months prior to having symptoms of the Meniere's Disease itself. I went to three Dr's when I developed the ringing because it was so loud that it interfered with my daily living. I even had a hard time sleeping at night. The Dr's told me that I had tinnitus and there was nothing that could be done for it.
I was told I would have to just learn to live with it.
Finally, in November of 1998, I was working and started developing some dizziness every time I bent over or moved my head too fast from one side to the other or up and down. I worked at this job for about nine years. I was a home health aide and my job required a lot of traveling.
I was out of town the day that the dizziness started. I noticed at a patient's home while I was doing some dressing changes that every time I bent or moved my head I got dizzy. I had never been dizzy before in my life and it really concerned me. I left the patient's home and had about an hour's drive before I got back to the office where I worked. I noticed that the whole time that I was driving in that I could not focus on anything or move my head very fast or I would get dizzy.
It was about three in the afternoon and I just thought that maybe I was dizzy because I hadn't eaten anything all day because I had been so busy that day and running behind. I finally made it back to the office and they had a big dinner that day where everyone brought in pot luck for Thanksgiving. I got out of my car and was thinking that I would go in and eat something before I did my paper work for the day to see if it would get rid of the dizziness. As I was walking from the car towards the office door, I noticed that I felt an imbalance and couldn't walk a straight line.
I was really beginning to get scared. When I got to the door and walked in, there was a friend of mine sitting at her desk and had been watching me walk towards the building. She asked me if I had been nipping the bottle and laughed at me. She thought that I was just putting on an act and being silly. I told her that there was something wrong with me and explained to her what was happening with me. She asked me if I felt sick at my stomach. I told her no. I then tried to hurry back and get something to eat.
I ate gobs and gobs of food hoping that it would take care of the dizziness. After stuffing myself, I went back out to my car to get my paperwork and get it done so I could go home. The dizziness kept getting worse. As I got back to the door again, I couldn't even focus on the handle to open the door and instead of walking up the sidewalk I was wandering around on the grass. I managed to get the door opened and my friend, which is an R.N. meet me at the door this time and told me to stop it because I was starting to scare her.
I told her that I wasn't fooling around and that something was really wrong. By this time she knew I was serious and asked me again if I felt sick at my stomach. I told her no and then tried to show her by turning my head when I felt the most dizzy.
The next thing I knew is that they were carrying me back to the bathroom and holding my head up over the toilet so I could throw up. My whole world starting spinning out of control and I couldn't even hold my own head up over the stool to vomit. The boss, which is an R.N. also came in and picked me up and carried me to his truck and took me to a Dr's office there in town. The whole trip there he was holding me up with one hand and driving with the other. I couldn't sit up on my own. By that time I had tossed everything that I had eaten and had dry heaves so bad that I thought I was going to die.
I laid on the table at the Dr's office for about three hours before the spinning stopped. The Dr. told me that I had an inner ear infection and gave some antibiotics along with meclizine for the nausea and sent me home. My daughter came and got me from the Dr's office. I was totally drained for about three days after the first attack. I noticed that my ear felt like someone had filled it full of water and put a plug in it and the ringing got ten times worse as if it wasn't bad enough to start with. I finally went back to work after taking off for four days.
About a week and a half later after getting off work I was standing in the laundry room folding my clothes and my daughter happened to be here. I noticed that I was beginning to feel a little funny and my ear started ringing out of control. All of a sudden my world started spinning again and I fell to the floor. My daughter wanted to call the ambulance but I refused and told her to just get me something to throw up in and please leave me alone. I laid on the floor for about two hours this time heaving my insides out before this attack left and I was able to get up and walk to the bed. After the second attack, I really began to get concerned.
This started my numerous visits to different Dr's. and ENT's. I won't go into detail on how many attacks or how many Dr's that I went to see.
My life was a living nightmare and I was very depressed and confined myself to the house as much as possible. I was afraid to even go out in public because I never knew when an attack was going to hit. They would come with no warning. I ended up in the floor at some stores while shopping and ran off the road while driving once. I finally decided that it was unsafe for me to drive.
Finally a friend told me about a Dr. in Springfield, Mo. that was really good and she knew that he had the answer for me. By this time I had lost all faith in any Dr. but decided to give it a try. I had to pay out of my own pocket for this Dr. because he wasn't a provider on my insurance plan. This was in May of 1998. The Dr. ran a bunch of tests including MRI's Cat scans and the whole nine yards. He then told me that he could see nothing wrong on any of the tests and ruled out any tumors and said that there was only one thing that it could be. He told me that he thought that I had Meniere's Disease. He told me that he didn't treat Meniere's but had a good friend that had his practice in Kansas City, Mo. and has had great success treating the disease. He sat me up an appointment with the Dr. which was about a five hour drive from where I lived.
For the first time, since the drop attacks started I felt a little relief. I went to see the Dr. and he ran numerous tests also and confirmed that I did have Meniere's Disease. He then explained all the treatments that he offered and told me that he had great results in treating Meniere's and stopping my vertigo and drop attacks. He first offered a surgery called shunt where they went in and cut out a small piece of my skull behind the left ear and inserted a tube into the sac that isn't draining properly. The tube is suppose to drain the fluid to the spinal column. After the surgery, I went home with high hopes. He told me that there was a 66% chance of it working. For the first two weeks I had a very bad balance problem after the surgery which was normal. I had no drop attacks for about six weeks and was beginning to enjoy life again. The hearing in my left ear is very bad. I lost almost 75% of my hearing.
Then one day I got out of bed and started off to work again as usual. I had put the drop attack nightmare behind me. All of a sudden my world started spinning out of control again and I fell to the floor again. This time it lasted for over four hours. I heaved so much that my whole body hurt. I called the Dr. back and told him the next day what had happened and he told me to give it a little more time. The vertigo and drop attacks came back full force over the next several weeks, only ten times worse than they were before the surgery. My life was in an uproar again and my nightmare had returned.
I then went back to the Dr. and he said that scar tissue had grown over the tube and that was why it stopped working. He then started me on Gentamycin injections to kill out the balance nerve in my inner ear. This was a nightmare in itself. When the nerve is killed out then the other side of your brain has to learn how to work without using the other and the imbalance is horrible. I had three injections into the inner ear and still having the attacks and vertigo. He told me that it may take as many as seven injections before the nerve was completely destroyed. He had to give the injections in very small doses to keep from destroying any more hearing that I had left. I had to take one injection then wait for several weeks to see how it worked. If there was no success then I had to go back for another one. I finally gave up after the third injection. I would schedule an appointment but end up canceling it before the visit. I did this several times. I felt as if my life wasn't worth living anymore and that nothing was going to help.
I then happened to be looking in a site on the internet one evening on Meniere's after getting my strength back after having a bad vertigo and drop attack. I ran across a story about someone that also had Meniere's and was looking for help also. She had mentioned a site that she had found on someone selling natural supplements but didn't have the money to invest into it and was wondering if anyone had any information for her to help with her Meniere's.
She just happened to give the e-mail address of the site that was selling the supplements. I decided to check into it but had no intention of buying natural supplements. I had taken Valium, Prednisone, Meclizine, diuretics and many more with no help.
I read the story of the lady that was advertising the supplements and her husband also had Meniere's Disease. She told how the supplements had stopped the vertigo and symptoms of Meniere's Disease for her husband. I was very skeptical but decided to send her an e-mail and ask about the supplements. The lady, whose name is Karin, got back to me with-in minutes. We exchanged e-mail for some time and then she asked for my phone number where she could call me and explain more about it. I gave her my number and she called with-in a few minutes. She talked to me for about an hour and told me how great the products were and that they were 100% money back guarantee.
I was very skeptical and really didn't want to try them and knew that they probably wouldn't work but thought that I couldn't lose anything if I could get my money back. She told me exactly what I needed and how many to take. My shipment arrived with-in a week.
I started on the the products in December of 2001 and have taken them faithfully since. The first few weeks of taking the supplements, I felt kind of like I had the flu and wanted to quit. Didn't seem like the dizzy spells or vertigo was getting any better. Karin had already told me that my body would go through a detox stage and that I needed to continue taking them. After being on the products for about four weeks I noticed that my dizzy spells were gone and the vertigo had stopped.
I have not had one dizzy spell since the second week in January of 2002.
I would encourage anyone out there with Meniere's Disease to try this product. I have my life back and have more energy than I have had since I was a teen-ager. I won't go one day without the supplements. I still can't believe that I went through all the surgery and treatments when all I needed was something natural that my body was lacking and being deprived of. I still have a little ringing and the hearing will not come back. The ringing has even went down to where I can live with it now. I can even at times not even notice that it is there at all. These products are amazing. Anyone out there that is living with this horrible disabling disease, PLEASE give this product a chance!!!!
Morning,
I am doing better with my Meniere's since starting the supplements, not just the vertigo but the brain fog I was in for so long has lifted. I don't feel so awkward while engaging in intellectual conversations anymore. My allergies did better this pollen season as well. I believe that Meniere's is caused by several scenarios whether allergies, immune deficiency, viruses, etc., but all available remedies were to mask the effects of MM and not help cure the issue. I believe that the supplements have helped me help myself. I had/have one small obstacle to overcome which is over the years I became paranoid that I would have an attack and sometimes that would bring on an attack. I still deal with the feeling of anxiety of having an attack but they never come. In other words, it will take some time to trust that my symptoms are gone forever but I am well on my way to reconciling with this. I am very happy I chose this route instead of the more invasive current practices. I wish I could convince others with this dreaded condition to AT LEAST try it for two months before surgical procedures. By the way, something I did not expect was the fact that I have regained some of my lost hearing. It has been four years since I was able to listen to a telephone conversation in my left ear. I had a conversation with my wife several weeks ago and at the end of the conversation I told my wife I listened to her with my left ear, she could not believe it. I am scheduled for another hearing test and I am excited about the upcoming results. I was not a candidate in the past for a hearing aid, I hope I don't even need one now.
God bless
Patrick
PS, another unexpected benefit is my hair is fuller than it has been in years, maybe supplements have something to do with men keeping their hair?
Hello,
Just to let you know that I am continuing with the Vitamins and am feeling fine, better than I have felt in 6 Months I have so much more energy its wonderful.
There is a lot of negative press re taking Vitamins in the Press over here at the moment I am feeling so good I am ignoring these reports at the moment.
Hope you are O.K.
Regards Margaret
I am so sorry I have not been in touch yet! I wanted you to know that I am
feeling better and better every day.
I have had only one dizzy spell since we talked on July 31st 2002, and that one
only lasted 2 hours (they had been averaging 4-6 hours at a time!). What a
success!
Thank you so much for your ministry to so many people. You are truly an
answer to my prayers!
Thank you again!
Renee
Hope your holiday was filled with love, peace and family. I had a wonderful Christmas. I had e-mailed Debbie telling her that I feel so great lately. My symptoms are totally under control and I feel better than I have in over a year. My ear is so much better! I have been using the supplements since May 2002.
Jenny
I just wanted to update you on my father. He is doing so much better. He had been suffering from Meniere's Disease episodes for 5 months with relative brief periods of cessation. He is 87y.o. He also has severe COPD and heart disease, although up until the Meniere's Disease symptoms, he had been relatively independent in his care. The Meniere's Disease episodes were debilitating and depressing. We followed the doctor's protocol.. low salt diet, diuretics.. nothing was working. I was beginning to think it was going to kill him.
Because we had heard from a couple of sources that there was a positive link between Meniere's Disease symptoms and antioxidant therapy, we decided to give it a try. This source had recommended different supplements. We followed their recommended dosages. The symptoms subsided for a couple of weeks, and then returned full force. I continued to do research on the Internet, and found Karin and what David had been using. My father has not had a full-blown episode of Meniere's Disease in 6 months. He also seems to have increased energy. He is back doing yard work and minding everyone's business! I'm so glad to have my father back.
I felt obligated to write this letter. If anyone out there is suffering from this potentially debilitating disease, don't give up hope. Karin, please feel free to post this on your web page.
Thanks, so much
Julie
had to cry when you sent me the story on Terry. Please keep me informed on how he does. I sent him an e-mail to tell him what wonders that the system David is using has done for me. I encouraged him to stick with the supplements and not give up. I am just so thrilled over the supplements. They have changed my life. I have had no vertigo or drop attacks for two months now.
It is amazing. I still have some ringing in my ear but can live with that. This system has finally given me a new lease on life. I will probably take these for life. I have you to also thank for helping me to get started on them and for being so understanding and talking to me. These supplements have not only got my Meniere's under control but have given me more energy than I have had since I was a teenager. I feel better than I have felt in ten years. Thanks Karin.
Yes Karin, You may use any info. that I send to you if it can help others. I am so amazed with the results of these products that I would like to see other people give them a try to get a new lease on life as I have. I feel like a new person!!!
Debbie
Long time no hear from. Just like to give you an update .
Feeling much better been on David's system for 5 weeks brain fog almost gone, as is dizziness and that overall bad feeling. Still have noise in my ears some days worse than others, but I can put up with that. I also think its helping with my diabetes. I cut my insulin from 30 to 25 units, I think that's great.
Hope you are well
Phil
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