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My update,,maybe some hope

Discussion in 'Your Living Room' started by Rgv, May 20, 2019.

  1. ronven

    ronven New Member

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    I have been on antivirals now, a second time, for 2 1/2 weeks and I see slight improvement. In 2019 , I was on them for 6 weeks before all the symptoms dissipated.
    I was also / still am on lysine, bioflavinoid, b5, b6
     
  2. Brian

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    Ok I hope it goes away for you. I just started Famvir 8 days ago. How is your tinnitus? That’s my most debilitating symptom.
     
  3. Stratocaster

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    Ronven, my journey has been similar to yours. My first attack came out of a clear blue sky. No hint of symptoms at all. That first attack was utterly debilitating. Walking to the bathroom was impossible. I had to crawl, and even then, the entire room was spinning. That day, I broke a 20-year record of no vomiting. And boy, did I break it. Over the next 6 weeks, I would have episodes of varying strength approximately every 2-3 days. I had dizziness, ear fullness that came and went, hearing down to almost zero, only to return a few hours later, plus of course tinnitus. I had a month long trip to Europe smack in the middle of this, and it did take away from the enjoyment of the trip. Anyway, I was in Heathrow Airport getting ready to fly home, and I had an attack. I never knew that this would be my last attack for a long time!
    28 months go by.
    No symptoms, nothing, not even a hint of anything. No dizziness, no ear fullness, no tinnitus. During those 2+ years, I went back to drinking coffee and eating salty foods and living my life.
    Then...
    Once again, completely unannounced. I was on a very stressful phone call and suddenly my office started spinning, violently. I was on a Tilt-A-Whirl. I needed help from my office mates to get outside. I couldn't walk. I told them to call my wife to pick me up. I ran into the bushes and puked my guts out. That attack was the same as the first one, 2 years earlier. At home, I spent the next 4 hours in the bathroom, dry heaving because there was nothing to throw up. I was terribly weak and just went to bed.
    Once again, I had the same pattern. Every couple of days I would feel my right ear stuffing up and the hearing down to almost nothing. If I plugged my good ear, I couldn't understand speech in the bad ear. As the hearing loss dissipated, I would get dizzy. Sometimes really bad, sometimes just mild. Always the tinnitus, though. In the middle of all this, I found this forum and started on the B5/B6 and Lysine. Also Pycnogenol.
    After 6 weeks (just like last time) my dizzy spells seem to have stopped, my hearing fluctuations are not as bad, and I am relatively normal again. The tinnitus is still there.

    So, hopefully this is a cycle and it will run its course for you, like it did for me. I hope so, for both our sakes!
     
  4. Brian

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    Did you try antivirals?
     
  5. Stratocaster

    Stratocaster New Member

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    Not yet Brian.
     
  6. Brian

    Brian Member

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    I’m amazed your symptoms disappeared like that, even the tinnitus…weird.
     
  7. Stratocaster

    Stratocaster New Member

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    Me too. My ENT says definitely sounds like Meniere's and that symptoms can be different for different people, or even for the same person.
     
  8. Brian

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    I don’t get the long vertigo attacks that often but I started getting again what I call tremors. Mini vertigo attacks that last a few seconds and scare the shit out of me. They happen out of nowhere. I had 2 of those there other day. Luckily I was in bed.
     
  9. ronven

    ronven New Member

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    Stratocaster,
    WOW, yours sounds way worse than my symptoms. I had one vertigo attack back in Jan 2019, then dizziness every day, tinnitus was off the charts, could not function. Then I I started the JOH regimen and antivirals, symptoms slowly started to go away within 6 weeks. This time around, it came out of the blue ( dizziness) not as violent as yours. Tinnitus is back as well. Been on the same regimen now for almost 3 weeks and getting slightly better but not there yet. Hope after 6 weeks, it will be gone.. God willing. Glad you're feeling better.
     
  10. ronven

    ronven New Member

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    So , I have another update.
    After being symptom free for almost 3 years, Menieres reared its ugly head. I felt the symptoms in early Oct so I started back on my routine of valtrex, lysine, b5, b6 etc. This round was not as bad as 2019 but bad enough.
    It's been almost 2 months and I'm almost symptom free again. Even the tinnitus has gone down a lot.
    I guess this herpes virus can erupt at any point so I'm just going to stay the course.
    I do have issues typing and making errors, not sure what that means.
    Hope that helps.
     
  11. Punture

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    That’s great news!!
    What was the antiviral regimen you were on?
     
  12. ronven

    ronven New Member

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    3000 mg Valtrex
    I'm down to 2000mg
    will probably maintain at 1,000
     

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