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About Meniere's Disease
Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear. It can cause severe dizziness, a roaring sound in your ears called tinnitus, hearing loss that comes and goes and the feeling of ear pressure or pain. It usually affects just one ear. It is a common cause of hearing loss.
Attacks of dizziness may come on suddenly or after a short period of tinnitus or muffled hearing. Some people have single attacks of dizziness once in a while. Others may have many attacks close together over several days. Some people with Meniere's disease have "drop attacks" during which the dizziness is so bad they lose their balance and fall.
Scientists don't yet know the cause. They think that it has to do with the fluid levels or the mixing of fluids in the canals of your inner ear. Doctors diagnose it based on a physical exam and your symptoms. A hearing test can check to see how it has affected your hearing.
There is no cure. Treatments include medicines to control dizziness, limiting salt in your diet, and taking water pills. A device that fits into the outer ear and delivers air pulses to the middle ear can help. Severe cases may require surgery.
It sits within Ear, Nose and Throat.
The lead U.S. institute for this subject is the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
When to speak to someone. Reading about a topic cannot tell you whether it applies to you. Speak to a doctor or pharmacist if symptoms are severe, sudden, getting worse, or simply not going away — and seek emergency care immediately for chest pain, breathing difficulty, sudden weakness or confusion, or a serious allergic reaction.
Research on Meniere's Disease
54 studies areregistered for this condition on ClinicalTrials.gov, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's public registry. A selection is below — the links go straight to the registry entry, not to a summary of ours.
What a registered study does and does not mean. Registration means a study exists and has been declared publicly. It says nothing about whether the treatment being tested works, is safe, or is available to you. Many studies find no benefit — that is what research is for. Never seek out an experimental treatment on the strength of a registry entry alone.
Research currently under way
- SPI-1005 for the Treatment of Meniere's Disease (Open Label)Sound Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated
- Deep Phenotyping of Hearing Instability Disorders: Cohort Establishment, Biomarker Identification, Development of Novel Phenotyping Measures, and Discovery of Therapeutic TargetsNational Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- Treatment of Meniere's Disease With Migraine MedicationsUniversity of California, Irvine
- CI Following VS Removal or LabyrinthectomyOhio State University
- Effects of Anakinra in Subjects With Corticosteroid-resistant/Intolerant Meniere's Disease and Autoimmune Inner Ear DiseaseNorthwell Health
- Genetic and Biohumoral Factors Involved in Menière's Disease and Their Correlation With PhenotypesIRCCS San Raffaele
Research already completed
- SPI-1005 for the Treatment of Meniere's DiseaseSound Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated
- Study to Evaluate SPI-1005 in Adults With Meniere's DiseaseSound Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated
- Non Enhanced Labyrinth Imaging for the Detection of Endolymphatic Hydrops in Meniere's Disease "NELI Study"University Hospital, Bordeaux
- Evaluation of the OtoBand in Subjects With Self-reported Vertigo to Reduce Severity of Vertigo in a Real-world SettingOtolith Labs
- Assessing the Efficacy of a Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor for Improving Meniere's Disease OutcomesMedical University of South Carolina
- Comparison of 3 Methods to Diagnose Endolymphatic Hydrops in Meniere's DiseaseCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
Study data from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2026-07-30. Registry entries are supplied by study sponsors and investigators; ClinicalTrials.gov does not verify their scientific validity. PocketsInfo is not affiliated with, and not endorsed by, the NLM or the NIH.
Where to read more
Rather than paraphrase, we point you to the primary sources. Every link below is to a government health agency, a national institute or a recognised medical body — grouped by what you are trying to find out.
Start Here
- Meniere's DiseaseMayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- Meniere's DiseaseAmerican Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery
- Ménière's DiseaseNational Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Diagnosis and Tests
- Balance TestsNational Library of Medicine
- Videonystagmography (VNG)National Library of Medicine
Genetics
- Ménière disease: MedlinePlus GeneticsNational Library of Medicine
Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Meniere DiseaseNational Institutes of Health
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Vestibular DiseasesNational Institutes of Health
Medical subject headings
Clinicians and researchers index this subject under Meniere Disease. These are the terms to use when searching medical literature.
This page is built from the MedlinePlus health topic record for Meniere's Disease, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health. Information is from MedlinePlus.gov. PocketsInfo is not affiliated with, and is not endorsed by, the NLM or the NIH. Retrieved 30 July 2026.