Meniere's and Vestibular Migraine Overlap?
Does anyone have a good list of symptoms for each condition, that includes where the conditions overlap and where they don't?
I was diagnosed with MD when I was *14*, but because I don't remember the doctor or practice I was with for them to recover my records, no one locally will take me seriously. They say I CAN'T have MD, because on the days they do the hearing tests I don't have significant hearing loss--even tho it's *fluctuating* and not permanent, they don't care because it's not there that day. ENTs all send me to neurology, and neurology says "yeah we know you have migraines, that's why you're already a patient here, but you really should go back to ENT." I just don't really know what to do, because the last ENT I saw didn't even refer me for VM, they just set me up with vestibular rehab as if it was just BPPV. At best, the ENT will give me water pills that mess with my blood pressure but not really my ears.
I'm trying to get in with my GP now, hoping she'll refer me to a different ENT. But otherwise, idk what to do. I'm not missing work yet, but I'm not able to drive at all. I'm taking an OLD prescription of Valium I found, because that at least gets rid of the vertigo, but even then I still can't drive because of being all medicine-head. I won't be able to get an up to date prescription of Valium from any doctor tho, because I'm already on Ativan for anxiety and my psych PA doesn't like giving valium (or Xanax). She says the Ativan is safer. (It doesn't matter that I KNOW not to take them together, they still won't give me scripts of both.)
Any advice, or a list of overlapping symptoms? (The best list I've found was a NIH paper that's peer reviewed, yes, but not formatted for printing out a list of symptoms.)