My doctor had put me on.dose of Prednisone he said was for poison ivy. I felt pretty good on it. When the script was finished the dizziness and vertigo came back with a vengeance. I called and they increased the dose. I am now done with the increased dose and the vertigo is returning. Can anyone what clue that provides? I know prednisone is for inflammation. Does that mean inflammation is causing the vertigo? What is causing the inflammation? Any insight is helpful. I.am.going to start taking the Monolauren that was suggested. I can't live like this. I have responsibilities and obligations as you'll do.
The inflammation prednisone suppresses in Meniere's results in most cases from an active, replicating herpes virus infection in either the inner ear proper or associated nerves thereto. Stop the virus from replicating and the body can begin to heal the damaged, inflamed tissues. Won't happen over night. Right now there is evidence that antiherpetic drugs (acyclovir, etc.), lysine, and perhaps monolaurin, can suppress herpes activity. Concentrating on any other therapies, including prednisone, can only be only a stop-gap approach, as nothing else stops the causative virus. Do we want to stop the causative virus, or merely become symptom-free for the duration of steroid and psychoactive drugs? Symptom-whacking can work for only minimal periods, only when the powerful, lot-of-side-effects drugs are being taken. At the start, when symptoms are whacked down, all seems well. We want a more permanent solution, with minimal side effects. Gotta nail the virus. --John of Ohio
Thank.You for that easy to understand explanation. Interestingly, my doctor is aware of Dr. Gacek study. He says he has not had the success rate Gacek did. So he obviously believes inflammation causes vertigo, but he doesn't beiieve it is caused by a virus. I will ask him what does he think causes the inflammation?
If the good doctor hasn't had the success rate of Gacek, he simply hasn't followed ALL of Gacek's instructions, which include increasing the size and duration of the drug if symptoms aren't suppressed. He, like so many patients, might be evaluating "success" on quick, short-term dosing durations; say, in two or three weeks or so. For many, it can take weeks or months before the virus is suppressed. That's the case with those using my regimen and the lysine in it which nails the herpes virus, as with the antiherpetic drugs. Gotta do it long and strong. --John of Ohio
I know many have benefited from Anti-viral and I guess that is proof that a virus is the culprit in your case. I just wish there a more definitive way of making sure a virus is the reason for symptoms before starting on meds. Again, I know many have gotten relief from Anti-virals and start getting symptoms if they scale back, I would like to know before.
I can very much relate to how you feel wanting to know if you have the virus before starting the meds. In most cases I am extremely cautious about taking pharmaceutical products. What got me to go ahead and do it in this case was learning how low the side effect rate is for with anti-virals. This is because they are disrupting something that is very specific to the virus. The other thing that got me to go ahead and try is that my hearing was deteriorating and the disease was truly stopping me from being able to do what I needed to do for my family and for my own happiness. The drug clearly worked for me. It was like a miracle. Not only did it stop the hearing loss, but I got some hearing back, enough that I can carry on conversations with people on my left, when there was a time when I could not. And I became able to participate in my life much more fully because I had less dizzies, more energy, quieter tinnitus (which meant better rest). Now I look back and realize this was how I found out I have the virus.