Someone over on Reddit/Meniere’s asked the question:
Does severity increase over time?
Since people are getting a diagnosis earlier these days, the symptoms will continue to manifest in greater severity until you reach whatever plateau your symptoms will top out at; unless you find a treatment that sends Meniere’s into remission. Makes it seem to disappear, like a cancer sometimes does.
Had I been diagnosed back in the 1980’s when my symptoms first appeared, I would have had a diagnosis for a disease that slowly got worse over the next twenty years until it turned me into a couch dweller that suffered vertigo near-constantly, for years. So, yes, the severity can increase over time. That doesn’t mean that it will increase.
As it is, I kick myself for not being honest with the doctors and demanding some kind of a diagnosis sooner. Had I started betahistine back in the eighties (the treatment that seems to work for me now) I might have been able to continue working far longer. The symptoms probably wouldn’t have been as severe. The plateau could have been much lower.
With remission, the symptoms disappear for years at a time. The people lucky enough to experience that bliss would tell you Meniere’s doesn’t get more severe. I would have liked to have had their experience, rather than mine. Newly diagnosed people may well have that experience. I hope that they do.
