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I've seen sites where it's claimed that a labyrinthectomy is a cure for Meniere's.... I was wondering if a labyrinthectomy would stop tinnitus. Everything I read seems to indicate that tinnitus is the brain's version of a phantom pain. I was diag'd in late 2009 with bilateral atypical...

Wow... no votes yet for Firefly?!?

Hey all -- been a while since I've been on as there's been a lot of change in my life this past year but things are settling down... Meniere's is progressing ruthlessly: right ear is gone for speech with only residual hearing left, and left ear has lost upper freqs, but low-to-midrange is...

San Jose - face the hands towards each other, all fingers splayed and extended except the middle, which are repeatedly flicked towards each other off the pad of the thumb. Similar, somewhat, to the sign for "internet" except with flicking and no touching. I have no idea why... When I first...

Hey Mizwytch -- You and your husband have my happy thoughts and prayers -- cherish everything; forget nothing.

Thanks, MizWitch! Hey MizWitch -- thanks for the reply... what you've experienced appears to be exactly what I'm going through. My friends are either sympathetic or horrified depending on the degree that it impacts them. For me, there's a sense of peace that comes with acceptance. I'm...

random update...frustrated, pissed, and tired... I made my first post to A/D a year or so ago here as an introduction. At that time, I had mild-severe hearing loss, was fitted with open-tip ha's and life headed back to normalland. In the last year or so, I've had to return several times to...

I'm heavily tattoo'd, so I (personally) thought it'd be cool to get those yellow/black crash-test-dummy circles tattoo'd on my head where the ci's mount.... but that's just me...

Hey all...just a quick update... A week ago Friday I went down to my local HA center b/c I've been noticing that my ha's seem to be on the fritz. Yah... I'm also the type that, when my t-shirts get tight, I blame the washing machine for shrinking them... Long story short, my audi tests...

I'm not saying Meniere's isn't legit - not at all -- I was only pondering why the mainstream (or established) medical centers <koff>Kaiser<koff> appear (at least to me) to be so reluctant to diagnose....

Is there some hesitation from the medical community to diagnose Meniere's? I've studied what's been published and there seems to be a "tastes-great/less-filling" divide over whether or not it's a legitimate disease. Which kind of pisses me off -- since the "classic" symptoms are far-ranging...

reddit.com + a lot of the other sites previously mentioned...

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Update, post-audi... Last week I had my appt's w/the audi and the HA center. My loss has progressed significantly in the right ear - two more ranges are >90db loss, and the curve on the previous freqs lost, on average, about 5%. Left ear fairly stable - some jittering, but nothing to be...

Mobile ASL from UW Deaf/HH Advanced Studies Thought this article share-worthy... Apologies if post is redundant... An excerpt: --mike