Meniere's and balance, plus aging: I wouldn't have the balance center destroyed unless I had gone to a really good vestibular rehab center and honestly done VRT exercises, which you need to do for the rest of your life, EVERY DAY. I've had Meniere's most of my life, but it only became a serious problem in my 40s, after I quit taking birth control pills (i.e., hormones). After four years of searching for a safe combo of estrogen and progesterone, I quit having crises of several hours 2-3 times every week and was able to do rehab, which I did every day. Then, two years ago, I went bilateral. Initially, it only affected my hearing so that I was functionally nearly totally deaf, but after a few months I began having frequent crises, so I finally found a doc in this little town who was willing to prescribe large doses of hormones for someone 78. Within two weeks, my hearing in the newly-affected ear returned to the poor level it had been before going bilateral and I was able to wear my aid once again (less recruitment). The next step was to schedule a series of appts. at the Vestibular Center in Portland, Oregon, one of the best in the nation, for follow-up to regain stability. I learned a couple of new things to do, to counteract not only having gone bilateral, but to offset age-related loss of nerve sensitivity in my lower legs: I need to work hard to "listen" to what my feet tell me (proprioception). At 79, I am once again driving two hours each way, hiking/wading 7 miles along a wild river to collect data for our state fisheries agency--no cell reception for 20 miles. I also cross the lower mainstem (a real challenge) and do some serious scrambling every spring to place a temperature monitor above a waterfall, and then to check it midsummer and remove it before fall rains make that impossible. I wouldn't have done work in that wild watershed for the last 29 years if I hadn't learned to do VRT...every stinking day.