On 7th September I am climbing Mount Snowdon. I would love if you could donate a small amount (suggest no more than £5) to menieres research.

A few years ago I was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease. 

Ménière’s disease is characterised by long-term hearing and balance symptoms: episodic attacks of vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus and aural fullness.  

Vertigo attacks typically last 20 minutes to multiple hours during which a person can experience nausea, vomiting, sweating and imbalance. Whilst the attack is on-going sufferers are forced to lie motionless until the symptoms subside, as any head movement makes them worse. A single attack can leave a person feeling groggy and unsteady for several days and attacks can occur multiple times per week or lie dormant for
several years.

Hearing and balance symptoms can vary over the course of the disease and each sufferer can be affected very differently to another. 

It is debilitating and life altering. There is currently no cure and very little research taking place to help people like me manage it better. On bad days, I'll be stuck on the floor of my bathroom endlessly vomiting and unable to stand up, on better days, I feel dizzy and unbalanced (permanently feeling as though you have just stepped off a rollercoaster). I'm currently maxed out on a maximum dose of steroids hoping I'll be upright enough for the climb!

Please be a darling and donate!

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