One of the worse things I feel can happen to a person is suddenly loosing their balance, specially for no reason. As a kid, like most, I would be with my friends & spin as fast as we could then see how far we could walk in a straight line. We would laugh so hard watching each other walk left or right & then constantly tripping on the ground. Sometime we would be on the playground & ride the one thing that your friend would spin as hard as they could. Then when you’re old enough, you would have a few alcoholic drinks that would make you walk unbalanced or spin. Lucky, I was never was crazy enough to drink that much. To me, it’s like throwing money away in the river. I would never let myself loose control. But it was funny watching my friends get goofy.
But when you have Meniere’s or any other type of inner ear disease, the worst symptom is vertigo. Sometimes it’s triggered by moving you head or most of the time for me, I would be sitting in a a chair & boom! It’s happened when I driving on day, but luckily it was very short. Most of my attacks were severe & triggered by eating too much sodium, caffeine or beef. But of course one doesn’t realize they have triggers for awhile. It’s not like I would eat a whole salt shaker or 12 pack of Coke a day. When the disease was at it’s worst, I would have 14hr attacks every other day. People would joke & say your just drunk & I would say “I wish it was that simple.” This was back around 2002-2003.
Now I have’t had a full blown vertigo attack in several years. I follow my low sodium, low caffeine & beef maybe twice a week diet. I feel it’s because of the Meniett Device & keeping a tube in my ear drums to help with pressure. There are uncomfortable days either because of severe weather, pollen, or being sick. Sometimes even hormones can affect balance.
Found the article below. Hope it gives you a better understand of vertigo.
Living With Meniere's Disease Blog 