مرض مينيير يبدأ عادة تقتصر على أذن واحدة، ولكنها تمتد في كثير من الأحيان إلى إشراك كل من الأذنين مع مرور الوقت. وناقش عدد من المرضى الذين ينتهي بهم الأمر مع لمينير بين البلدين، مع النطاقات التي تمتد من 17٪ إلى 75٪. [43]
بعض الذين يعانون من مرض مينيير، في الحالات الشديدة، قد ينتهي بهم المطاف فقدان وظائفهم، وسيكون على العجز حتى مرض يحرق بها. [44] ومع ذلك، فإن الغالبية (60-80٪) من الذين يعانون من لن تحتاج الى العجز الدائم وسيتعافى مع أو من دون مساعدة طبية. [43]
فقدان السمع يتراوح عادة في المراحل الأولى، وتصبح أكثر دواما في مراحل لاحقة، على الرغم من السمع و زراعة قوقعة يمكن أن تساعد في علاج الضرر. [45] يمكن أن يكون الطنين لا يمكن التنبؤ به، ولكن المرضى عادة تعتاد على ذلك مع مرور الوقت. [45]
مرض مينيير، كونه لا يمكن التنبؤ به، لديه التشخيص متغير. يمكن أن تأتي هذه الهجمات بشكل أكثر تكرارا وأكثر من ذلك بشدة، في كثير من الأحيان أقل وأقل للغاية، وفي أي مكان في بين. [46] ولكن من المعروف في مينير الى "حرق" عندما وظيفة الدهليزي . قد دمر إلى هذه المرحلة حيث وقف الهجمات دوار
الدراسات التي اجريت على الذين يعانون من الأذن اليمين واليسار معا تبين أن المرضى الذين يعانون من آذانهم حق المتضررين تميل إلى القيام أسوأ بشكل ملحوظ في الأداء الإدراكي. [47] لم يعرقل العامة والاستخبارات، واستنتج أن له علاقة تردي الأداء على مدى فترة طويلة وكان المريض كان يعاني من هذا المرض. [48]

Alan B. Shepard , the first American astronaut and fifth man on the Moon, was diagnosed with Ménière's disease in 1964, grounding him after only one brief spaceflight.

Several years later, an endolymphatic shunt surgery (which was then at the experimental stage) was performed, allowing Shepard to fly to the Moon on Apollo 14 . [ 49 ]

Jonathan Swift , Anglo-Irish satirist , poet , and cleric , is known to have suffered from Ménière's disease. [ 50 ]

Varlam Shalamov , a Russian writer, was affected. [ 51 ]

Su Yu , PLA General who achieved many victories for the communists during the Chinese Civil War was hospitalized in 1949 and that prevented him from taking command in the Korean War , and Mao Zedong selected Peng Dehuai instead. [ 52 ]

Ryan Adams , an American musician, had to take a two year break from music because the disease became so degenerative to him, and needed to undergo therapy to get back on stage to overcome the anxiety the disease afforded him. [ 53 ]

Marilyn Monroe , American actress and cultural icon was known to experience the vertigo and compromised hearing associated with Ménière's. [ 54 ]

Charles Darwin may have suffered from Ménière's disease. [ 55 ] This idea is based on a common list of symptoms which were present in Darwin's case, such as tinnitus, vertigo, dizziness, motion sickness, vomiting, continual malaise and tiredness.

The absence of hearing loss and 'fullness' of the ear (as far as known) excludes, however, a diagnosis of typical Ménière's disease.

Darwin himself had the opinion that most of his health problems had an origin in his 4-year bout with sea sickness.

Later, he could not stand traveling by carriage, and only horse riding would not affect his health.

One of the diagnoses that he received from his physicians at the time was that of "suppressed gout ".

The source of Darwin's illness is not known for certain.

See Charles Darwin's health .

Martin Luther wrote in letters about the distresses of vertigo, and suspected Satan was the cause. [ 56 ] [ 57 ]

Julius Caesar was known to have suffered from the "falling sickness" as noted in Plutarch 's Parallel Lives , and has been cited by Shakespeare , noting that Caesar was unable to hear fully in his left ear. [ 58 ]

It has been suggested that Vincent Van Gogh may have suffered from Ménière's, [ 59 ] though this is now considered conjectural. [ 60 ] See Vincent van Gogh's medical condition for a discussion of the range of possible alternative diagnoses.