I am reading the book "heal your headache" by David Buchholz which was recommended by someone on this site, I found my little sticky note on the book and decided to order it. My sisters and brother and spouse came to visit and I had a wonderful weekend with everyone and was feeling so good, drank coffee, way too much on Sunday, and of course we ate out at restaurants a couple of times, anyway I started reading the book on Sunday night, and of course, Monday morning woke up dizzy, not a full blown vertigo attack, but I have slept most of the day and am now finally feeling better at 5:00 pm, ABSOLUTELY NO MORE CAFFEINE FOR ME, ever, I should have known better but I chose to ignore it. Disappointed to hear about oranges, bananas and pineapple being triggers, but looking back, some of my worse times last summer were when I was eating a lot of those fruits and then summer storms hit the area. I had just been cutting back on coffee and seemed to be doing okay, but evidently I have no will power so the best choice for me is remove it from my body completely. Spending a day off from payroll work in bed or on the couch is not worth it.
Hi Linda Its a great book. I have read it many times and it saved me a lot of suffering. Of course its a book about MAV but like me people can have MAV and menieres. I discovered through painstaking trial and error exactly what my triggers, are some of the items listed by buchholz I could tolerate. But definately not caffeine or alcohol, soy sauce or orange juice. The chapter on threshold was very interesting explaining that something can not be a trigger one day but on another day it can. All dependent on how many other triggers or levels of triggers you have in your system at any one time.
Hi Jaypr, I have finally come to the conclusion that I probably do have both MAV and Meniere's, due to some days I am just wobbly and then other times those horrible full blown vertigo attacks. After 4 months of eliminating the triggers listed in the book, I will try and start some of the foods, but today is my 2nd day of the 4 months LOL. I definitely eat too many foods that are low in lysine too, I am beginning to wonder what I can eat!
Linda its all about your threshold with MAV, you need to eat foods and the amount of them that keep you under your personal threshold. For example, walnuts can set off a vertigo attack with me. But if I eat a small amount now and then I am okay as long as I am not eating other trigger foods of mine. My suggestion is if you add back trigger foods do so in small amounts
as for MM trigger foods some of them overlap with MAV so it can be a double whammy, be careful with those.