After a decent May and June and a good July, on August 5 I had moderate dizziness that made me lie down in bed for an hour, today I woke up with also moderate dizziness although somewhat stronger and I had to go to bed and try to sleep praying because when I woke up it would be over. I had a thousand dreams and nightmares, but after two hours I woke up somewhat better and as the hours have passed I have improved a little more. I think my second vertigo attack is coming because the first was on February 15th, but in the previous two weeks I had a couple of mild dizziness while sleeping that woke me up. The truth is that those dizziness were weaker than those of these days, but perhaps they are the pre-warnings to vertigo. Does anyone else have these kinds of pre-warnings before they get vertigo? It's that since I've only had one vertigo attack so far, I'm not quite sure how to interpret the signals from my body either. I have thought that these days may have passed in case something was the trigger for these dizziness. Three weeks ago I raised my salt intake a bit, but I still consume almost everything with no salt or low salt products, except for a whim, for example a bacon sandwich or a bag of salty potato chips in a month. I don't think the salt is the truth. The two main novelties in my diet have been ice cream (we are in summer) of vanilla or cream covered in chocolate. Ice cream has sugar and chocolate is said to be a trigger, but I dont eat so many ice creams, usually one every two days. And I've been eating ice cream for more than a month now... The other novelty and is what I think may be the cause, this week looking for new things to eat without gluten or sodium I bought peanut butter. In the last week I have eaten one or two slices of bread with peanut butter almost every day, I don't know if it's the cause, but Friday was the last day I ate it. If it is my trigger, maybe I will recover in a few days and if not, I hope that at least it is not that I am going to have vertigo again. Has anyone had peanut butter as a trigger? It surprises me because during the months after my vertigo I bought bags of peanuts and occasionally ate a handful of them without problems. It is true that they were small doses and not daily. And no, I am not allergic to peanuts, I have eaten them all my life since I was a kid.
Most of us Menieres people look for what we are eating as a cause. Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with what we eat. I have long periods of remission and eat the same things, so if it was food you would think I would be getting the dizzies and vertigo all the time. Just saying.
I know that I do, kind of. I also feel that what what we consumed (either food, drug or supplement) started a metaphorical fire. If someone was lucky enough to consume something (early enough and for long enough) to put out the fire, they could have escaped with minimal damage. I think that most of us are now trying to consume things that will either reverse the damage, or allow us to function with the damage. I think that the latter is more likely for most of us. As for nuts, I had been eating salted honey roasted nuts heavily for two weeks to see what would happen; nothing did. I've started on the Keto diet because… why not? I'd been on the low fat diet for over twenty five years, so perhaps that had something to do with my Ménière's. Low fat products replace fat with sugar and I ate a lot of sugary and starchy foods as well. So now I'm eating meat, butter (no sodium) and lots of vegetables. We'll see what happens. I'm still eating the nuts to get rid of them (too many carbs), only much less at a time. The only thing I've noticed is that my tinnitus is worse - probably due to the extra sodium.
Right now, I am having moderate dizziness again. On the 5th, 9th and 13th of this month Every four days? I hope it's just dizziness and not a warning that vertigo is coming. Since day 9, I have eaten without any salt, except yesterday when I ate six oreo cookies, but I ate 90gr and according to their packaging they have 0.9g of salt per 100g. In other words, I ate only 0.8g of salt in four days, so I don't think it's because of the salt. In addition, it has been more than 12 hours since I ate those oreo, people whose trigger is salt affects them at the moment, I think. Today I had banana, strawberries, kiwi and a bifidus yogurt for breakfast, the yogurt has 0.1g of salt and the fruit nothing, then I have taken vitamin B, C and E along with betahistine that have no sodium either. Well, I'm going to bed to wait for it to finish.