The Sound of Silence: My journey with Ménière's Disease
I want to start by acknowledging that I am aware that there are bigger problems in the world and my problems are nothing in comparison. But I have been trivialising this for far too long and I don't want to do that anymore because it's not nothing. I was 15 when I started having unexplained migraines [often accompanied by tinnitus (back then, I didn't know it was called that) and vertigo]. I tried all sorts of home remedies, nothing seemed to work. A doctor in Chennai (a legit doctor in a reputed hospital) attributed my pain to "kids these days not being able to handle minor inconveniences" and told me i should do some journaling :/ My parents took me to visit an ENT specialist in Vijayawada who diagnosed me with mild hearing loss. We used to live in Chennai back then and were visiting relatives in Vijayawada. This is important, we'll come back to this in the next paragraph. Then we went to see a neurosurgeon (don't ask why). He looked at the ENT's di...