Massive scam operations and people are getting seriously damaged for life; I worked at OLOL Pontchartrain Surgery Center in Covington Louisiana, and I can tell you that Gerard Gianoli is manipulating and elevating the lumbar puncture results of his patients. After botching their ears he is blaming their injuries and their horrifying symptoms on elevated intracranial pressure that they never had. He then suggests to perform additional lumbar punctures and additional surgeries. Gianoli is orchestrating a massive financial scam operation in Covington Louisiana.

After 5 years of dizziness, I unfortunately ended up at Dr. Gerard Gianoli's office. Thousands of dollars later, he diagnosed me with bilateral Perilymph Fistulas. This seems to be his favorite and most profitable diagnosis. After a couple expensive visits to see him, and all cash-pay testing, I agreed with him to get an otic window repair on the left ear. This was the worst decision of my life, and the day of the surgery is the day my life was forever ruined. I had perfect hearing the day before surgery and zero ear symptoms. Now, I am still plagued by dizziness that was never corrected, but have horrible tinnitus and hearing loss in my left ear. He put tubes in both ears, which I have since had removed. But, for some reason, I now have bilateral plugged ears that feel the need to be cleared nearly 24/7. Dr. Gianoli said this is because I have intracranial hypertension, which he determined with a lumbar puncture, performed just before ear surgery. He prescribed me high dose Diamox for the intracranial hypertension for months. I am not sure what effect this had on my ears and body. My neurologist sent me for another lumbar puncture, 10 months after Gianoli's surgery, and I do not have intracranial hypertension. My pressure is completely normal. He was treating me for something I didn't have in order to disguise and hide his dishonest surgical practices and horrible results. When the repair of the first side did not resolve the dizziness, he encouraged me to "repair" the other ear for over $4500. He completely botched my left ear with surgery. I would never let him near my second ear. My life is torture every day, and I have a hard time socializing with family and friends, due to the symptoms in my left ear and the clogged feeling of both ears. I don't know if he did something to my right ear while I was asleep, if the tubes had a negative effect, or if the high dose Diamox affected the pressure negatively. I wish I could go back to the day before surgery and run away as fast as I can. I would take being dizzy over the horrible things he has done to my ears any day! Do not trust all the positive reviews. He falsely inflates them by asking the patients, myself included, to complete a review on an iPad, right after your appointment. He does this in the beginning, before surgery, when you are happy someone was finally smart enough to find what was wrong with you. He preys on desperate people, who are looking for an answer. Little did I know that he would ruin what I have left of life and take the fun loving wife and mom my husband and kids used to know away from them. Stay away from this evil man, please.