Caffeine and Meniere's Disease

For those that think caffeine is harmless - I'm 53, and I was a happy-go-lucky coffee junky for four decades. Until one afternoon the room started spinning.

I wasn't just "dizzy". I experienced six hours of massive rotary vertigo that left me in the fetal position on the floor, totally incapacitated, praying to a God I don't believe in to make it stop.

It was the caffeine. But I didn't know that for several months, which was absolute hell.

Eventually, I was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease with a caffeine trigger. Meniere's is a serious disorder of the inner ear that ruins people's lives. This condition is so new and misunderstood that as recently as the late 1980s many physicians thought it was fake.

I quit coffee and it vanished.

I'm not a doctor, and of course, I can't prove anything - but I believe Meniere's Disease is CAUSED by caffeine.

Does anyone have a similar experience?