Inner Ear Complaints (Ménière's Symptom Complex)

It rarely begins with a single symptom. It begins with the collapse of several systems at once. A pressure in the ear that feels as though the world inside has become too loud. A tone that will not go away. A dizziness that does not merely make you sway but pulls you straight to the ground — as though the room around you is tipping while you stand still. And in the middle of it all, almost always: the nausea. That dull, sour pull in the stomach signalling that nothing is safe anymore. Up and down have lost their self-evidence. Add to this the headache that settles like a tight ring around your skull and turns every light, every sound, every movement into torment.