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Ray M's post highlights how differently Meniere's affects those of us "chosen" to have it! While low-salt diets have many benefits, only a small percentage of Menierians are sensitive to salt and see improvement by limiting salt intake. It depends upon individual triggers, and salt is only one of several. For me, since my trigger is abnormally low hormone levels, limiting my salt intake did zero for combatting Meniere's--you need to have adequate hormone levels in order for salt to affect your "ability" to retain water, which is why pregnant women with naturally high hormone levels retain water so easily. Again, the first thing all of us need to do is keep a diary showing the kind of day we experienced contrasted with anything (and I do mean anything) out of the ordinary. Over time, you'll find a pattern of activities, food, environmental effects, etc. that points to the thing or things that are triggers for your bad days. Some can be eliminated, while others, like weather or stress for example, require coping skills so that you can deal with them.

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I think you are correct in that salt is not the only thing that can cause water retention.In my case I never did consume much salt, but I did consume a lot of caffiene and diet soda. And in the case of diet soda, I had through the years noted that it caused me to retain fluid; My breasts would feel very full - as they did when I nursed my four children. Strange. Now that I have eliminated caffeine and all soda, I have not had another episode of Meniere's and I do not get that full feeliing in my breasts. I agree that we each have to find our own trigger(s) and it is not necessarily always salt.