It is my understanding that it's always been around with no known causation.

A few years ago, a week or so following a cruise, I had my one and only (so far) attack complete with insane dizziness and finding my way to the bathroom for severe vomiting by hugging the walls. It was just awful. I asked if the cruise could have caused it (no seasickness) and the professionals just shrugged their shoulders and answered with a "Maybe".

I had it happen once Jan. 2018 and I hope it never happens again. Don't know what caused it. Just got hit out of the blue. I had to have DH take me to the ER. I had to keep my eyes closed or I couldn't walk. It was one of the weirdest things to ever happen to me.

The doctor said "it may be caused by a disturbance in an area of the inner ear that helps your brain to sense movement and balance. This disturbance can be caused by a viral infection (labyrinthitis), head injury, or repetitive motion."

The symptoms were:

• Loss of balance and falling.
• Feeling like you are spinning or moving.
• Feeling like your surroundings are spinning or moving.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Blurred vision.
• Dizziness.

my vertigo can be induced by watching a ceiling fan (when my attacks are bad, all ceiling fans have to be off period) or a train going by at a crossing...

I have both also rhizo. As do other family members. I can do the Epley maneuver which usually takes care of the BPPV. The Menier's is a different situation. My father had it so bad. I remember him suffering from the dizziness. But being a farmer there were no sick days. It is a miserable disease.

Re - OP's last question - I have no doubt that weather changes and coupled with the co-responding changes in barometric pressure can affect health. When the weather changes, especially quickly, the arthritis in my hands is extremely painful. It makes sense that it could also cause or affect already existing balance issues.

I have suffered off and on since college. People usually identify triggers. Salt can be a culprit and even coffee for some people. I have had attacks caused by bright sunlight. It is generally more of a problem in spring and fall so maybe allergens? The worst was having an attack while driving home from my eye doctor. I had to stagger into a grocery store looking for some sort of fast acting antihistamine which I took and then sat in my car for a couple of hours. I will take a pseudo ephedrine when I get a severe attack. there is a cycle to them. Sleeping can help reset what ever is glitching. If I am having tippy spells if I am not careful it progresses to a full blown attack. I wont be able to stand up, tell up from down. I cut salt to the bone. the thinking there is retaining fluid affects the inner ear.

My sister suffered from vertigo. The dizziness and inability to get up were the worst parts. She also had nausea and so on.

She doesn't have meniere's disease. They think she got it from a flu. No meds helped. The exercises she did for several months re-established her brain's ability to balance. Apparently the flu can cause inner ear problems.

I can promise you that a drop in the barometric pressure when the weather changes, will make my pulmonary problems a LOT worse. The same is true for all the others at my pulmonary rehab. The nurses at the one I attend while on vacation said it's also true in a newborn nursery and with horses.

I’ve never heard of Menires. I have bouts of vertigo now and then, but have always thought it was caused by fluid in or excess wax.

I don’t know if weather can cause vertigo, but there are times when a change in the barometric pressure will give me a headache.

It sounds awful. I remember my sister having an episode once that was diagnosed as an ear infection. I hope that all of you who suffer from this problem can find some relief, hopefully permanently.

My friend has Menires and swears that if she eats even a bit too much salt, she will suffer the consequences! I think that her salt intake is about the only thing she has to do to control it but I swear, if she even thinks about eating canned soup, she will have a spell!

My father-in-law came down with Meniere's disease. The cause is not known, but the affects and the affected nerve are known. He was a Minister of a church and was embarrassed at the local airport. He had gone to the airport to take a flight for church business when an attack hit him. He was arrested and put in the "drunk tank" until Security could sort out the derails. At the same time, his hearing began to fail. There wasn't much the doctors could do for him. One surgery was tried that did not work. His doctor told him the bad news is we can not do anything for it except to give you a procedures to help you through an attack; the good news is that as you go deaf, Meniere's disease will abate (which it did).

This disease caused my FIL to retire 3 years earlier than planned. It upset his quality of life and short changed his retirement funds. However, his vertigo attacks did lessen as his hearing failed. When his hearing became quite bad, the attacks went away.

Had a terrible attack once, could not even focus on the bedside clock. Went to ENT, diagnosed with a virus that attacked inner ear. Couldn't stand certain noises such as putting silverware in drawer, until diagnosed and treated.

With Meniere's you have too much fluid in your inner ear. It is thought salt can increase that especially in people who are salt sensitive (about 20% of the population). I looked up the latest thinking and they mention three phases. I haven't had a full blown episode in some years although I still get the tinnitus and small tippy spells. I hope I am in phase three finally. It is a really unpleasant disorder. My hearing loss has been mild so I am lucky but it varies.

Having vertigo attacks does not necessarily mean you have Meniere's Disease. Having fluid in your ears does not necessarily mean you have it either. Meniere's is a cluster of symptoms and they can vary. I am late deafened and it was only this week that a doctor confirmed that my symptoms over the past 8 years are indicative of Meniere's. And I see top specialists in the field. It is a serious disease and not to be taken lightly. It is not something you self diagnose. If you think you may have Meniere's due to symptoms then see a Neuro-otologist. If you are self-diagnosing or know people who are self diagnosing please don't promote thier internet advice. It is harmful to those of us who really have the disease just like the gluten free fad hurts the true celiacs. In other words quit spreading partial truths you know nothing about.

https://www.american-hearing.org/disease/menieres-disease/

That's so true, Watchme. In those countries where medical care is scarce, no one has Meniere's because there are no doctors to pronounce'The Diagnosis'. In fact, they are extremely healthy because there are few doctors to pronounce any diagnosis so they can't really have any disease.

What a load of hogwash.

Yes, diagnoses are difficult. People get them wrong. Drs. get them wrong. A particular symptom does not make a disease. So what? Wander in the dark forbidden to talk to others with similar symptoms until one is graced with 'The Diagnosis?" Pffft.

The way most of these diseases were discovered in the first place is from medical professionals talking to lay people who had talked to each other and made observations. Medical expertise is valuable, no question. But it does not and should not exclude sharing information.