@KathyH - I'm a proponent of Diazide. It's sure helped me over the years but it's not a cure. I've had to fool around w/ the dose a bit from time to time & I have to make sure to stay super hydrated or it drops my blood pressure too low.
It sounds like MD has been a wild ride for you! I totally understand the frustration of the intermittent, no warning vertigo. Been there. My last big attack was last Oct. when I was visiting my daughter & her family. No fun when I wanted to be playing w/ my grandchildren rather than sitting around, "spinning". I've learned a few things about MD & me since then. One is that prolonged lack of sleep (as when visiting grandkids i.e. days are long & nights short) or physical stress (long hikes or long road trips when I'm doing all the driving) tend to push me into a vertigo attack. Getting dehydrated also does the trick which is curious because my vertigo is also triggered by fluid retention in my feet & ankles (bad genetics...) thus I wear compression socks most of the time. Last but not least, a hard abdominal workout also starts me spinning. As a result, I'm finding it more challenging to stay fit these days. As my husband likes to say, "Moderation in all things." I am learning I must be more moderate w/ exercise where I've been extreme in the past. I haven't tried the JOH regimen but am taking some of the supplements w/o even knowing they are part of that plan. Maybe that is helping moderate symptoms for me?
That is correct. I quit looking for a solution to MD and started looking for something for tinnitus and/or aural fullness. At the time, mine was going up, then down, then up, then down. I'd wake up barely able to hear, and it would clear up in the AM. Then late morning, it felt like a little person in my head just slowly cranking up the volume. It was horrid. I felt like I had to yell when talking to people to make myself heard over all the noise in my head. Then I realized the noise was in my head, and I needed to talk like a normal human. So I came across a couple of instances where people had tried the Inner Ear Balance, and it worked for them. Granted, I found a goodly number of postings about people who took it, and it did nothing. But I figured, why not. What have I got to lose? I'll try it. And within 2 weeks, my tinnitus and aural fullness had stabilized.
I exercise daily and try to get CLOSE to 8 hours a night. The biggest physical barrier I had was that I could almost instantly bring on an attack if I laid flat on the floor or the ground. Beds don't trigger it as I'm not flat. But laying on the floor. Or laying in the driveway installing a trailer hitch. I can almost guarantee I'm going to get hit with some kind fo dizyness/vertigo attack. I found that I could feel it starting to creep in when I started to focus on it. Like when I'm out shopping with the wife. Or sitting in a meeting. I don't know if it's my mind wandering or me getting bored, or both. Or just the MD saying "I'm coming for you". But I had to change my scenery and that helped. If indoors I'd step outside and get some air. Or leave the meeting and just walk around. Sometimes I felt it coming on when I was super focused on something. Like when would be chatting with my boss and it's going too long, I'm completely interested but my mind starts to drift and I start thinking about getting dizzy. So it's probably a lot of mind over matter type stuff that I just can't handle. But it's been better since I started on the JOH regimen. I even tried laying flat on my back with my head on the ground while exercising once or twice and did not suffer any ill effects. I'm still super paranoid to do it though. If I ever need to do an exercise on my back, I always keep my head raised.
It's really great that you've seen such good improvement since starting JOH @bazookaman! I totally understand being paranoid about doing anything that you know has caused vertigo onset in the past. Glad that you're willing to "test the water" now that you're on JOH. That's a good way to learn if you're improving.
I have had occasional vertigo for years. It was diagnosed as BPPV. Then in 2020 I had an attack of vertigo. It started suddenly when I bent over to pick some thing up off the floor. It lasted for over a week. I had to have help getting into the doctors office. I was sent for an MRI and also blood tests for autoimmune diseases. Those showed nothing. The doctor tentatively diagnosed me with MN. Looking back, I think that my first symptom was ear fullness. I’ve had that off and on for several years before that horrible, vertigo attack. Now I know that ear fullness and tinnitis are the first symptoms that an attack is coming. I also have frequent headaches. My neurologist thinks that I also have vestibular migraines. Lucky me!
I have a similar "warning system". My tinnitus, which is always there, gets louder and ear fullness sets in (not always there) before I get vertigo. Sometimes I have those symptoms for several days before the vertigo hits. Fortunately, my last bad vertigo attack was last Oct. For some reason things have calmed down since then. I have found some triggers which I now try to avoid: Too much salt; getting dehydrated; exercising too hard; not getting enough sleep/getting too tired. I also wear compression knee high socks as I get edema in my feet & ankles, especially in warm weather, which can also trigger vertigo if left uncared for.
I suggest she get her upper cervical neck alignment checked by a chiropractor, as this can trigger sudden vertigo, as it does for me, especially if she has a forward head position.