Progress??

That makes me happy.

LOL. Yeah, roger low. There was pretty much ZERO added salt in anything I ate. Only what was naturally occurring in the food. I ate almost completely natural foods. Which was very healthy, but dang it's hard to live that way. I need a little flavor in my life!

 

It's now been 2 months since my last vertigo attack. I've gone back to a nearly normal lifestyle. I eat almost what ever I want and do what ever I want. I was quite overweight prior to my life falling apart last summer, and the attacks and subsequent nausea caused me to loose a lot of weight, so I am not going to allow myself to gain it back. But my dietary salt levels are normal now. I still have off balance days, but I was eating a bunch of raisins, which I've since learned have a high arginine content and low lysine content. So that might have been causing the balance problems by encouraging herpes growth. We'll see in a couple weeks if cutting them out solves the problem.

This forum has saved my life. Literally. I was contemplating suicide prior to embarking on the journey suggested by JOH, Vicki and others here in the database.

In some ways, my life is better now than it was before. This season of my life has forced me to rethink what is important in life and reevaluate my priorities.

Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart.

 

That is my wish as well.

Thanks Serbian. With the unfortunately broken state of much of modern medicine, this place is a godsend.

 

Migraine associated vertigo. There is a post about it in the database that Vicki wrote.

 

3 months and counting. We had a very rainy, cloudy, dreary day here in Colorado yesterday. I could tell that my ear wanted to make my day suck, but it just couldn't quite find the gumption to do it.

I've upped my acyclovir dose to 2 a day for a while. I think my ears need a little more help for a while. I'm hoping that I can eventually go down to just once a day, but the last time I tried, I had a number of dizzy days. The more pronounced dizzy days have stopped after going back up to 2 a day acyclovir.

 

How long... that's a difficult question to answer. I first became symptomatic in my mid 20's. I'm 37 now. However, in my mid 20's, the only symptoms were tinnitus and only very occasionally, vertigo. My vertigo back then was VERY short and gone quickly, so I never saw the doctor and didn't think much of it. Then 3.5 years ago, I had a very bad bout of allergies that seemed to settle in my ears. I lost some of my hearing and my tinnitus got worse. I had an MRI done to rule out a tumor and was subsequently diagnosed with Meniere's disease. I still didn't think much of it at that point. I had lost 30% of the hearing in my bad ear, but the vertigo hadn't started in earnest. Then last August came and all hell broke loose. 6 hour extreme vertigo attacks that happened to me @3-6 times a month. I lost 80 pounds in 4 months.

So I've been fighting hard against this disease for almost a year, but realistically, I've had it for at least 3.5 years, and probably much longer. It just wasn't all that active until this last year.

Vicki is the one you want to ask about meds for MAV. She is the most knowledgeable person on the forum when it comes to MAV.

 

Thanks Lisa. So am I!