Description: My journey adapting to deafened and dizzy life after sudden sensorineural hearing loss and vestibular neuritis, otherwise labelled as Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease.
Hi I’m Candice . In February 2015 I became very sick with severe vertigo, tinnitus and hearing loss. At first we all thought it was Labyrinthitus – an infection of the inner ear, but over the weeks and months to follow I lost more of my hearing and my balance and vision didn’t improve.
As a result, I’m now severe/profoundly deaf in both ears and my balance (vestibular) system has been obliterated. I have tinnitus permanently, and oscillopsia (loss of image stabilisation). The UK medical establishment don’t know what causes this to happen so have labelled is as an autoimmune condition but I now know differently…this condition is caused by the Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) in the labyrinth of the ear.
I am fully dedicated to healing myself as naturally as possible and adapting to the changes this illness has created in my life. I write this blog to share my journey in the hope that it will be a support to anyone else who is also suffering with similar conditions of the inner ear or trying to detoxify themselves from the havoc caused by EBV.