EagleH, I did get my ENT specialist referral from a family doctor. ENT then referred me to the hearing testing clinic where extensive testing was done as explained earlier.

I also told my sister, who is a family doctor. She supported 100% of the specialists who were recommended to me to visit. She was very glad I was tested by..the right sources.

Just this past weekend, I met up with a bunch of cyclists. One of them an active 70+ grandmother who still cycles. She was recovering from eye surgery. She had an isolated incident of vertigo. So she did see an ENT, he had her do some simple head movements...to move the crystal in the ears ...and then she was.....fine. This woman used to be a full-time nurse..so somebody already body-aware..

Support group means this:

http://www.balanceanddizziness.org/resources-speakers/index.html

In Toronto
• Toronto, ON
Co-leaders: Heather DesRoches, RN; Don Lynch
Meniere's Support Group
The Toronto Hospital EN7-209
200 Elizabeth St.
7 Eaton 213
Toronto, ON M5G 2C4
(416) 340-3665
Fax: (416) 340-3745
e-mail: heather.desroches@uhn.on.ca
meeting location: 30 Gloucester St.

Meniere's is a more severe, long-term condition. However this hospital ..is a large teaching, research hospital in downtown Toronto. A teaching hospital usually means the physicians must be on top of the latest developments in their speciality areas so that they can do research and teach....medical students/intersn.

Do seriously send an email to them and ask if they can recommend a contact in Ottawa. You simply need to be pointed in the right direction.

I have experienced dizziness from lack of proper food energy sources...only under highly active cycling situations and high hot humid summers...100% humidity, 35 degrees C and cycling for 45 kms. with only some bread and water for breakfast after a hot night of camping...let's see that was in Kingston, Ontario. On highway 401... Yes, really...lightning storm was also booming in distance. Needless to say, way too much stimuli going on then. Yes, I nearly fell off the bike when world turned abit too grey/black for me, before I stopped at a donut shop.

My intuition tells me powerfully, it's highly doubtful your diet has been completely out of whack. There's something very solid about you EH, that at the very least, you would feed yourself right.

I have every confidence in you EH. The only difference between you and my sister, is my sister with the temporary balance problems, lives alone and has to manage her house.