When the people who are on the JOH and b5/b6 feel everything is working and not attacks, do you do back to drinking like you did before? ( if you did) I’ve been floaty and attacks like I never have before these past three months. (It usually only happens 2-3 times a year and goes away) not sure what’s up with 2020. and im really hating not being able to have beers with hubby or friends. I did just drink 3 weekends in a row and seemed to be ok. But lately since more spinny alcohol is not my friend.
I used to have at least two drinks a night. Now I'm back (after almost two months of no alcohol) to at most a single beer. Frankly I'm afraid to try more. My last big attack came after a margarita. I sure miss margaritas....
Been 3 years since I've had a drink and last month had a reason to celebrate so a cocktail was in order. One vodka later, I didn't feel good and had to go lay down. No more alcohol for me.
Each Meniere is unique, there are people who are "lucky" that when they drink something they clearly feel bad and then they know what is hurting them. Others, for example, do not notice anything quickly and when you get dizzy or dizzy, you have to remember everything you did in the last weeks to find something strange that could be the cause. I'm still not sure what my triggers are, when I drank some loose beer at home I did not feel bad at the time, neither when I tried to eat something salty like potato snacks nor when I tried to eat ice cream over meals for if it was the sugar. But after doing those things in a week or two then I had severe dizziness. Was it because of my diet or because it was going to happen? No idea. The same thing happens with the things that I feel give me relief. Do they really relieve me or is it that I would be fine even if I did nothing? I am clear that CBD oil makes me feel bad because it did me a lot of damage in the maximum dose and in the minimum it raises my tinnitus. The rest of things I have no idea, for example now I have four very good days, the best I have had since February because even the tinnitus has dropped to the same level as in December when it started and I have recovered a large part of my hearing, barely I have had dizziness just a slight sensation in my head for a few seconds if I get up or change position quickly. What have I done this week differently? The only thing I've eaten again with almost no salt, I bought an olive oil with chilli and garlic that I use instead of salt. I was scared because spicy was still bad for Meniere, but not for now. Apart from that I have started taking one or two infusions of mint, collagen of all kinds, vitamin D3 with calcium and sea pine extract. And I keep taking vitamin B, C and E. Could the mint, collagen, D3, etc. have produced this improvement in a week? Or was I going to get better anyway? This is Meniere's problem that you have to try and find that it works for yourself and then spend a long time taking it until you are sure that it works or not, I would not confirm that something really works for me until it has been at least 2 years well. There are lots of cases of Meniere that get better on their own, some patients even "heal" after their first attack of vertigo and in 20 years they have Meniere again in a strong way. What I do believe is that even if it does not heal, some of the things we do have to influence the improvement or worsening of symptoms, the frequency of attacks and their duration. It is impossible that absolutely nothing has no effect on this disease, it is something that occurs in the inner ear and like any other part of the human body is connected and affected by what we eat, our blood pressure, medications, etc. We simply are not sure what it affects, there are experiments on animals that point to very different causes, but for example, related to food, this is an extract that I recently read: Hydrops has been produced experimentally by intravenous injection of horse serum, tuberculin, egg albumin, or horseradish root peroxidase and, also, with the injection of human serum through the stylomastoid foramen in animals. In the same text, it indicates that the cause could be an allergy, but it also comments on other experiments carried out on animals that would point to an autoimmune disease or viral cause, etc. It is not known for sure, it is possible that the cause is actually a multi-cause. In any case, we cannot investigate and guess, the only thing we can do is collaborate and seek support so that it is investigated, contact a Meniere foundation that collaborates with researchers, becomes a member or gives a donation, ask how you can help although at least In general, becoming a member and paying an annual fee is usually sufficient.
Maybe it makes sense to quit drinking alcohol at all; we can't be sure what backsides its effects. We know that mechanism: alcohol changes brain chemistry by reconstructing levels of neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are chemical agents that transmit the signs throughout the organism that control thought processes, behavior, and emotions. Also, alcohol raises the effects of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA inside the human brain. GABA makes sluggish movements and slurred speech that often occur in addicted alcoholics. And there are only several parts of alcohol impact; we never know how it can work with our stresses and genetic predisposition. Maybe it will be better to learn more about this on special resources as AddictionResource.com and call the therapist.
A glass of wine or a shot of bourbon has proven to relax me. I have never had an adverse effect from drinking alcohol.
I have had no issues with drinking and Meniere's, but I don't drink nearly as much as I used to. For the beer lovers, I have discovered a really good non-alcoholic beer. Run Wild from the Athletic Brewing Co. It is getting very easy to find around here. I tried the stout, it wasn't great, but tolerable. I have not found the other variety yet. Jim