abby, that's cool. i'm almost totally deaf and wear a digital hearing aid, which helps with some sounds, but not with speech. i'm a lip-reader, anyway. a couple of times when i had vertigo attacks, my tinnitus was incredibly loud. it amazed me because i've never heard of it being so loud.

i've been to an ent and was tested on my balance. the test revealed so much activity that couldn't be produced by my inner ears. he told me that it had to be my brain sending abnormal signals to my inner ears, so no wonder meclizine did not work, and sent me to my pcp. my pcp put me on neurontin. i was told that it would take a month for it to work. so, i'm still having to deal with very debilitating vertigo and eye-wagging (back and forth movement) that interferes with my abilitey to lip-read.