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Talk to T-Mobile and have them evaluate your phone and what you need, the others is cheaper, but it doesn’t work so it isn’t even worth what you are spending on it.
As far as Meneres, my trigger is excess sodium and fluid retention. At 24 a Dr diagnosed it as nervous stomach, so for 15 years I was wondering what I was nervous about. Then I had a spell and ended in an emergency room, and the Dr said, “Follow my finger with your eyes, then he said follow my finger with your head.” “I said I can’t!” He said, “You have Meneres Disease!” From then on I had more diagnosis and got on Meclazine. I finally also pinned the spells on the sodium, I’ve had it under control for many years without and medication, just very low sodium intake under 1000 mg a day.
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Jon,
Interesting, in that docs always tell us to limit salt, but not too many Menierians find that to be the key. There definitely is some fluid retention, and some of us believe that exercise, real exercise that makes you sweat, may remove some of the excess fluid from our inner ears. 30 years ago, I played coed basketball once I got headed toward a remission, and I always felt better after playing. I'm sure that some of the reason was I was pleased that I had made the effort to do a normal thing. I've been on a low-salt diet since my early 20s due to congenital high BP. The ENT who first diagnosed me told me that a couple of slices of pizza would definitely bring on a crisis, but that wasn't true. On the rare occasions when I've had real salt, it made no difference as far as the Meniere's was concerned. I also got allergies to mold and mildew treated. Didn't help the Meniere's at all, but it does make it possible for me to work in flowerbeds or in a place that has mold/mildew (i.e., garage...living on the coast as we do) without needing antihistimines.
The doc who diagnosed me patted me on the hand and said, "Now, now, Dearie, just quit your silly job, stay in bed, and take Valium." None of the various meds like Valium or meclizine worked for me, just made me dopey, drugged. Many of us believe that, because the disease is so difficult to diagnose and is really a process of elimination rather than an "aha," that it may actually me a cluster of inner ear diseases with a common label hung on them.