Yeah, Deafgirl1609… You have my understanding and my extreme empathy! The only thing I can offer is the hope that it will “Burn Out” eventually as my Meniers did for me, I clung to the hope of “Burn Out” when all I had or seemed to have, was despair!!! It took most of my residual hearing though, but I would gladly have given all my hearing to be free of Meniers, it is such a debilitating illness, very distressing during an attack, combined with the stress and anxiety awaiting the next one… Eventually I was able to use my Tinnitus as a warning of an imminent Meniers attack (every cloud has a silver lining) as it grew louder and louder till it went off the scale, I was acutely aware I had to lie down and shut my eyes as the visual distortion with the walls and ceiling moving gave me extreme nausea, along with the dizziness and vertigo my hearing became very distorted, it could last for days or sometimes hours and sometimes weeks of cluster attacks, I couldn’t work, who would employ me? I couldn’t plan anything as Meniers controlled me and I had no control over when or where it would show up, I was unable to take any medication which made me permanently ill with side effects… Approximately 8 years it lasted (I Think?) 'Tis a period of my life I try to forget! Early years were not as intense, then it seemed to gather momentum, I would say peaking about the 7th year, then it started to gradually wind down in intensity and the length of each attack to once a month, then 6 weeks, then 3 months or so, 6 months then nothing and funny enough this for me was the absolute worst time for stress and anxiety, not knowing if it was gone or not was perhaps worse than living with it? Probably, I didn’t dare to believe, but I was only able to accept it was gone about 2 years or so after my last attack? Everybody is different, just like hearing loss, Meniers will affect you perhaps differently from me, stress is one of the most likely triggers, tea, coffee, salt, alcohol and visual triggers like shopping malls with square different coloured tiles could set me off. You take care, and hopefully you will have the strength, serenity and determination to see this through… Yeah, it sucks!!!