Clinical manifestations of Meniere’s disease include: vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and a feeling of ear stuffiness.
1. Vertigo: Typically, it is a sudden onset of rotational vertigo. Patients feel themselves or the surrounding objects rotating along a certain direction and plane, or feel shaking, lifting or floating. Vertigo is accompanied by autonomic reflex symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, pallor, cold sweat, slow pulse, drop in blood pressure, and so on. The above symptoms are aggravated when the eyes are open and alleviated when the eyes are closed.
2. Hearing loss: Early stage is low-frequency descending type sensorineural deafness, hearing fluctuation, hearing loss during the seizure period, and hearing can be partially or completely recovered in the intermittent period. With the development of the disease, hearing loss gradually aggravates, and there is no relief in the intermittent period; at the same time, high-frequency hearing loss occurs, but purely high-frequency hearing loss is rare.
3. Tinnitus: it mostly appears before the onset of vertigo. At first, it is a persistent low-pitched sound of blowing wind or running water, and then it turns into a high-pitched sound of cicadas, whistles or sirens. The tinnitus is aggravated during the vertigo attack, and can be alleviated during the intervals, but often does not disappear.
4. Ear stuffiness and swelling: the attack period of the affected ear or head with fullness, heaviness or pressure, sometimes feel burning pain around the ear.
If you suspect that you are suffering from Meniere’s disease, you can actively consult a doctor for a systematic examination in order to make a clear diagnosis.