Monolaurin/lauricidin could well have the same effect. I recently got doxycycline online with a prescription as protection for malaria while I'm travelling. I'd pay very close attention if you are starting either as the release of endotoxin can potentially do the damage you're trying to inhibit. Naringenin and other citrus flavonoids, and the antihistamine cyproheptadine provide some protection from endotoxin.
Newbie here and to be honest not sure WHAT i have exactly. Just wanted to comment on the antibiotics thing. Whatever I have (and I could go either atypical MM, since I do not have true "vertigo" or MAV), I can say that my absolute worst period is when this started a year or so ago. I was just about housebound for two months. The off balance dizziness was very frequent. I was exhausted but couldn't sleep. It was there, but it got to the very frequent stage, AFTER... drumroll please... taking antibiotics. Bactrim DS, for UTI related to kidney stones. Only 3 days but I would say that it probably took me a good 4 months to get over having taken the DS. I also find in general that medications are now having the opposite effect of what they are intended for. I want to try supplements but am terrified since everything I take is backwards. Like I took prednisone.. ended up with horrendous GERD. I only took a few days worth but the reflux was unbearable so I stopped. Every PPI made it worse except Gaviscon (which interestingly is Magnesium). During the terribly bad period.. I had trouble being out anywhere. Forget Walmart.. lightheaded, off balance, headache. But not a pounding can't cope headache. RiteAid. We had to leave a restaurant on a busy Friday night because I just couldn't take it. Too much activity, noise, light. Got our meal and packed it up to go. I do find now that I have headaches more in general. That's what got me on the prednisone. Excrutiating on and off for two days. I have neck muscle issues already and with the headache they were screaming. I do find my symptoms tend to roll with my cycle. I am 47 and likely perimenopausal as well. I'm leaning towards MAV for me? Another "tell" might be that my daughter, who is now 10, started with a periodic vomiting syndrome called aptly enough Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. She started at 18 months after having ear tubes put in for chronic ear infections. At just about 3 years old she had a bad episode that landed her in the ER by ambulance and labeled "blue and nonresponsive". Transferred to another hospital (since that one didn't deal with kids) after narrowly dodging a Munchausen's accusation (since no one really has heard of CVS and if the doctor hadn't seen the transition OUT of an episode with her own eyes I suspect I'd be seeing a social worker). I had already come up with CVS in my own research and after 2 1/2 days and every test imaginable, 5 different specialists reviewed MY research and concurred.. Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. Why the long explanation? Because what is CVS now more strongly tied to? Right.. migraines. Which.. tend to be hereditary. Sooo.. my thinking is that I may have MAV vs Meniere's.. hormonally triggered by change of life. And exacerbated by antibiotics. And sorry if I'm not in the right group but reading through found this to be the best site I've seen on ANY of these issues.
Two major causes of migraine are hypoglycemia and estrogen dominance. I'd look into dosing bio-identical progesterone (like progest-e). I think initially you need to dose every 15 minutes or so, tissues can become more sensitised to estrogen using progesterone so the situation can become worse if under-dosing. Much of what's sold as progesterone is not, you don't want progestins or progestagens as they act much like estrogen. I've had a few women tell me this cured their migraine, the dosing would be too much for me as a male. I'd use penicillins or tetracyclines, most others are unnecessarily dangerous. There's always a situation where they may e the lesser of two evils however.
I haven't been here in a while, but I can, with 95% confidence say that my MM/MAV is/was caused by two major infections, one in the gut, the other dental. Neither were detectable with the normal medical tests. I'll post a longer explanation later
I am better, but not quite "well". I'm writing it up now, but it's taking longer than I anticipated Later this week.
I wonder if almost everything that gets out of hand can assault the immune system and an immune system under assault is at the root of mm.
One theory is that "something" triggers an immune response in the inner ear, namely the endolymphatic sac. It goes into overdrive and causes the symptoms. Think of it as arthritis of the ear.
I haven't forgotten, and I have been working on writing it up, but I've been hit with a severe case of procrastinitis Soon
I was told by more than one spcialist that having had acoustic neuroma surgery (which i had had) in one hear is a known risk factor for mm in the other ear because the surgery releases sequestered proteins from the first ear to which the immune system creates antibodies which then affect both ears. I believe something similar is known to happen with eyes and sequestered proteins. I translate this to everything is connected to everything else and any attempt to pin down either the cause or solution to one thing is fruitless. We have to have our thinking caps on and see what works for us.
I will try in my very uneducated way. I believe it means that there are proteins in the body that are hidden from our immune systems, sequestered. Some of these are in the ear and eye. The body's immune system has never heard tell of them. When an injury, accidental or due to surgery releases these proteins to the body, the immune system sees them for the first time and treats them as foreign invaders. It makes antibodies to put them down. The antibodies not only attack the ear or eye which was injured but also attacks the other one causing whatever problems are caused when the body lets loose an autoimmune response. So, the 'good' eye or ear (the uninjured one) also is attacked since apparently its proteins match the ones in the other eye or ear. Perhaps someone with medical knowledge can clean up this explanation. This was my understanding of what i was told. What i am sure of was that i was told my mm/hydrops was a 'known' complication of acoustic neuroma surgery in the unoperated ear. There was 10 years inbetween the operation and any mm symptom flareup sufficient to get my attention so i didnt buy it at first but thr doctors did. Over time i have come to accept it.
Cool - thanks! I agree with you. When I stop procrastinating and write it up,, I'll share my "sequestered proteins" story. Sequestered proteins are what are keeping me from being "well" even though I am "cured".
I take Lysine. 2 of my kitties have feline herpes virus so I suggest the vet put them on an antiviral treatment and give them lysine everyday. Now occasionally they get a flare up and need eye drops because that's the first sign. I have antiviral drops too. If it weren't for this site and learning the correlation between Antivirals being used the vet would have given them antibiotics. What's the best way to treat the auto-immune system?
Despite all this being fact in my case, i did respond to antivirals and allergy treatments. I think in my case, the reaction was not enough to put me over the edge til i was exposed to cmv, a herpes virus or perhaps more than one. A perfect storm.
Who knows. Steroids are sometimes used. Allergy shots were an attempt to take a load off the immune system which seemed to work for me. I guess it depends which things are adding to the load on the immune system for a particular person. Anything that removes stress from the immune system helps, i was told. Somif you have a virus or bacterial infection and you treat that, it probably helps, but if you dont, it doesnt. I think that is what makes it different for everyone.