Extreme noise sensitivity, dizziness, nausea

i delivered my baby on the 27th of April 2011 and about 5-6 days later i started having some severe dizzy spells, nausea and vomitting sometimes. Shortly thereafter that i started having severe sound sensitivity that when other people or myself talk it hurts my ears and it feels like my ears have this fluttering, reverberating sensation and my brain feels like as if some current is passing through. Please help. I had a hearing test done and it was all normal, had a CT scan done and that was normal too. Please please help.

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there. This is tinnitus or ringing sensation in the ear. This could be due to ear infections, foreign body in the ear, as part of demyelinating disease , multiple sclerosis. You need to be investigated for multiple sclerosis. MS is a chronic demyelinating disorder where the disease phase is characterized by active phase and remissions. It has multiple symptoms and signs and is a diagnosis of exclusion. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis are loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness in any area, problems with walking and coordination, tremors in one or more arms and legs. Bowel and bladder symptoms include frequency of micturition, urine leakage, eye symptoms like double vision uncontrollable rapid eye movements, facial pain, painful muscle spasms, tingling, burning in arms or legs, depression, dizziness, hearing loss, fatigue etc. The treatment is essentially limited to symptomatic therapy so the course of action would not change much whether MS has been diagnosed or not. Apart from clinical neurological examination, MRI shows MS as paler areas of demyelination, two different episodes of demyelination separated by one month in at least two different brain locations. Spinal tap is done and CSF electrophoresis reveals oligoclonal bands suggestive of immune activity, which is suggestive but not diagnostic of MS. Demyelinating neurons, transmit nerve signals slower than non-demyelinated ones and can be detected with EP tests. These are visual evoked potentials, brain stem auditory evoked response, and somatosensory evoked potential. Slower nerve responses in any one of these is not confirmatory of MS but can be used to complement diagnosis along with a neurological examination, medical history and an MRI in addition, a spinal tap. Therefore, it would be prudent to consult your neurologist with these concerns. Hope this helps. Take care

[tschock]

It could also be Meniere's Disease...

You have described the exact same symptoms that I have...and I have Meniere's...which my hubby so fondly calls Men's Ears. lol