Huey Lewis diagnosed with Meniere's disease

Very cool history lessons here guys. At one time, Ryan Adams suffered from the same affliction. A man of Huey's status will find a specialist to help treat Meniere's- get well soon.

There is no cure or effective treatment for Meniere's. If you have a severe enough version you will go deaf and constantly lose your equilibrium. Less severe cases "just" have godawful/constant ringing in the ears. It is genetic.

my mother had a wonderful singing voice. I used to love sitting with her in church. she contracted Meniere's....couldnt buy a note for the rest of her life.....I missed her singing.

I've had a mild to moderate case of Meniere's for the past 20+ years, what it does is gives you some weird inner ear ringing/noise, and dizziness due to affecting the balance canals in your ear.  but I was and am still able to listen to music no problem.  if it gets really bad though, a person can lose their balance to the point they can't walk, or fall down.  what happens is, your eyes take over for balance by sight perception.  if a person with Meniere's tries to walk a straight line with their eyes closed, they stagger and almost fall over.   a person with good inner ear balance can still walk a straight line with their eyes closed.

I’ve suffered with Menieres for over 15 years.  It is not genetic. It’s caused by a malfunction of the body’s immmunodeficiency system that attacks the inner ear.  Symptoms include tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, loss of hearing, and can eventually result in deafness in some cases.  A fellow sufferer eventually had his inner removed because of non stop vertigo.  Treatments vary and results vary and it can remit but it never goes away.  At its worst, in my case, unexpected violent onsets included vomiting, falling down, and horrible headaches.  Really nasty stuff.  Genetic? No.  I’ve seen the best doctors and it confuses them all, like many immunodeficiency diseases.  Bonus!  I have another immunodeficiency disease:  alopecia totalis!  Docs can’t figure that one out either!