My B5+B6 Log

John of Ohio -

I've been on you regimen for a long time. Daily now for about 8 years. In addition to this, I had been taking a diuretic. My doctor recently placed me on Famcyclovir to try to help with some continuing hearing loss. My question is do you think it is okay to stop the l-Lysine since it is intended to act the same way that Famvir does?

 

That should be answered by a physician (who, however, may not be aware of the efficacy of lysine against herpes viruses). Personally, I'd continue with both, at least until the targeted symptoms are suppressed for some good time. Why limit the antiherpetic activities of both? With both, a therapeutic double whammy.

--John of Ohio

 

Glad to hear it Steeler.

 

I'm glad to hear its working for you. I started the B5/B6 on March 6th. I haven't changed at all so when these bottles are finished I'll try stopping and see if anything changes.

 

G’day Bennyhill, I managed to get 100mg pills of both B5 & B6 online in Aus at iherb.com. I assume the reason for the 125mg dose is because it’s a quarter of 500.

 

I am newly diagnosed with MD and just started doing JOH last Tuesday. After reading some of the comments about B5 and B6, I decided to go ahead and add Coenzyme B-Complex Caps to my regimen. it contains 50mg of B5 and 80mg of B6, so I took two of them. I took them for the first time this morning and wow. I was surprised by how quickly the fullness in my ears died down. As a matter of fact, it seemed to have cleared up my stuffy nose as well.

 

Well, I felt some relief from the pressure at about 9:00 AM, about an hour after taking my B-Complex. Sadly both the pressure and the ringing returned by about 1:00 PM. Still going to stick it out, but at least it seems to demonstrate a connection between the pressure/tinnitus and B vitamins.

Cheers.

 

Source Naturals, Pantothenic Acid, Vitamin B-5, 250 mg, 250 Tablets

 

Correct. Actually, the doseage I was originally told about in 2010 was 150mg of B6, which was not available in Australia. I used to buy 250mg B5 and took half (125mg) and that is my dose since. That went out of production last year, so I now purchase 500mg and break it into four pieces. If you have 100mg B5, take 1 1/2 to give you 150mg. 100mg B5 may not be enough.

 

Hi Bennyhill Thank you so much for all your helpful posts! I talk a multi that has, among other things, 75 mg of B5 and 20 mg of B6. Since that isn't enough per what you are taking, I'm looking at a vitamin B complex. Do you think this one is ok? Here is what it has in it:

• Thiamin - (As Thiamin Mononitrate) 100 Mg

• Riboflavin 100 Mg

• Niacin - (As Niacinamide) 100 Mg

• Vitamin B6 - (As Pyridoxine Hci) 100 Mg

• Folic Acid 400 Mcg

• Vitamin B12 - (As Cobalamin) 100 Mcg

• Biotin - (As D-Biotin) 100 Mcg

• Pantothenic Acid - (From D-Ca Pantothenate) 100 Mg

• Inositol 100 Mg

• Choline - (As Choline Bitartrate)

 

100mg of B6 is the dose I take. The 100mg Pantothenic Acid (B5) is lower than the 125mg that I take. Certainly try it. It's better than the previous doseages which are too low. I don't take any other vitamins.

 

I have ordered these Solgar, Vitamin B6, 100 mg, 100 Tablets
and these Source Naturals, Pantothenic Acid, 250 mg, 250 Tablets
I halve the Vitamin B5 tablets which is very easy to do with your hands FYI.

 

Update from my end. I've been on a pretty good roll. JOH plus B vitamin complex plus Coq10 and magnesium plus monolaurin. If I get to feeling cocky, I can still throw myself off by eating/drinking too much crap and/or not getting enough sleep, but I'm definitely on a good upward trend. I think that adding the B vitamins indicated an additional improvement over what JOH had done (which was significant).

 

That looks similar to what I bought on Amazon last week and I think I'm seeing improvement. Unfortunately, I'm doing a lot of new things at the same time, so it's hard to say.

 

I had my one and only episode of total deafness after taking zyrtec for a few days. It is a type of antihistamine and i wonder if it dried me up similar to dehydration. Scary as hell but long ago. Needless to say i have never taken zyrtec since.

 

It sounds like it would be extremely difficult given your love for coffee but have you considered trying to cut out caffeine entirely, or at least cutting back further?

I know everyone's symptoms are different but when I was initially diagnosed with hydrops I cut my coffee consumption to half caff coffee and lattes, and chai lattes. It was tough to not be able to order my normal full strength brew but I noticed that even when I drank about 6 oz. of fully leaded I'd get fullness in my ear.

Once I was diagnosed with full-fledged Meniere's I cut out caffeine completely. It sucks, but drinking decaf is much better than feeling dizzy. If I feel like I have things under control for a long time I may go back to half caff.

I wonder if you'd see any improvement between trying that, JOH, and the B5/B6.