I ate badly, 3 pizzas on Friday and 2 bags of chips on Saturday. Then I got my first episodes of vertigo. 3 so far in 2 days. The vision starts to move around and I start to sweat a lot of cold sweat. A lot. Within a minute I am covered in sweat as if I had ran for 30 minutes. My hands started to tremble and one time they got kind of stuck for some seconds. It was horrible. I have been locked in ved bed for two days. I am afraid to even move my head. I am afraid of going to work tomorrow. This kind of life sucks. Do these details coincide with your episodes of vertigo? Do you think the bad eating was the trigger of it? Is there something I can do to fix/diminish this? What if this thing happens today at work? I had like 4 showers yesterday to get off all the cold sweat.
hi Lucio, so sad to hear that. please try adjusting your diet immediately. pizza and chips are a nightmare for our bodies with menieres. basically gluten +cheese+ meat (?) + salt +oil! the worst combo possibly in the world to put into your precious body, all those ingrediants virus' LOVE! don't feed the virus...feed yourself fresh whole fruits and veggies. its hard gathering will power to change your diet, but you can do it! feeling better will convince you. you don't have to suffer this much...its hard to give up these yummy foods but they make us feel miserable. please read my other threads, check out Medical Medium book Cleanse to Heal, I wish you good luck.
Hello Lucio, very sorry for your bad episodes of Vertigo. Simular to my experience. Who told you have MD? I would highly recommend to see a doctor. A Dr. must exclude other conditions like a stroke first. In Germany, it takes four proven episodes of Vertigo - fulness of ears- hearing loss and the typical rapid eye movements, before doctors speaks of MD. Everytime I had been in hospital they took the stroke tests first. Vertigo can have many reasons and we can't diagnose what you have. After three Pizzas it could have been also hyperglucosis. Which is dangerous. Driving? to work in that condition is no good idea, you could harm yourself and others. Please try to get (ENT) medical help in your physical surroundings. Wishing you the best Lilja
Hi Lucio! I agree with Lilja on the fact that you should consult a doctor to diagnose your situation. Nevertheless, I had the same exact symptoms when I get hit hard by an MD episode. - Intense Vertigo - Nausea - Hard Cold Sweats - Vommiting - Ear fullness / inflammation - Tinnitus - Drop in body temp I definitely think that diet plays a big role in how you feel and that it can contribute to the symptoms. But it may not be the primary trigger. Everyone is different. For me food has been the least triggering so I tend to "get away" with eating junk food from time to time. But it may not be the case for you. However, cleaning up your diet completely will definitely put you on the right path regardless of whether it's a primary trigger or not. Healthy food = healthy body. I hope you feel better and hang in there!
Was the room spinning? Did you vomit? Disequilibrium? Ear fullness and tinnitus? You seem to have poisoned yourself with loads of salt. Your body was purging all of that fat and sodium. Are you drinking lots of water to help it purge? Good luck!
The doctors told me I had idrope cocleare, which is a precondition of meniere, basically the tinnitus and the fullness without the vertigo, because I never had vertigo before. But now it happened so it could be a full on meniere or something in between the two. Yes, I'm trying to drink a lot and to eat a vegan diet, hopefully it will never happen again. Yes the room was spinning. I didn't vomit because I had barely ate anything, I closed my eyes and waited for it to go away. I don't know about disequilibrium because I was already in bed and I remained in bed for two days after that, but I'm sure I would have falled had I been standing. I have been advised a pill by someone who also suffers from this, it's called microser, it contains betahistine. Should I go around with this pill in my wallet in case of a vertigo episode?
As others have stated, when you are in this compromised state.....poor diet can be a very rapid trigger to vertigo attack. Before I made the connection, I had two separate full-blown vertigo attacks after a high salt meal. Sodium is not your friend when you are in this state. I went to eating fresh salads, green smoothies, really healthy low sodium diet to reduce chances of vertigo attack happening. At the time, my mostly useless ENT did give me one thing that was useful, low dose valium (2mg Diazepam)...if taken soon enough, when I started feeling the dizziness but before all out vertigo (room spinning to throwing up) kicks in, it was helpful in cutting off the progression from a little dizziness to full on vertigo attack.
I went to the ENT, he confirmed the meniere and tested that my hearing got worse. He gave me a heavy dose of cortisone (50 mg a day per 5 days, then 25 my a day). My mom keeps telling me that cortisone is too strong and I shouldn't take it this often and this much (I already did two cycles with 25 my a day per 5 days). Is she right or should I follow the doctor? My mother even told me that my aunt lost her hearing due to cortisone.
I ended up doing a cycle of cortisone to help mitigate the symptoms of MD because nothing else the ENT was prescribing was working. Cortisone is technically bad for you, this is why doctors typically give it as a last resort and for a short cycle. If I'm not mistaken, it weakens your immune system.
In Germany the so called "Stennert Schema" starts with a much higher dosage in hospital. Infusions with 500 mg the first day, 250 the second, 125 the third and so on until you take 5mg for some days. (The fourth day you leave hospital and get tablets.) Cortisone of course can be harmful, for example if you are diabetic and your blood sugar spikes. For me it was very exhausting because I could not eat normal for a week because of high blood sugar levels. Or if you take Cortisone for a long time it can weaken your bones. I get 7,5 mg per day since two years early in the morning and I'm fine with it. Just take six extra units of Insuline, that's all. My immune system works quite well. I think what your doctor described was reasonable and helpful for your condition. Listen to your mother if she is a ENT specialist Dr. I think you will find other areas of life where your mothers' recommendations will be free of doubt. Hope you'll soon be better. Lilja
Damn 500 mg of cortisone? My mother was going crazy for 25 mg. I don't trust much the word of this ENT for two reasons: 1. I've already tried the cortisone and it didn't work. 2. He himself sounded very defeated, he repeated more times that there's no cure for it and that it fluctuates, it sounds like he gave me the cortisone just to make me go away and hope for the best. Unfortunately there's no point in going to another doctor because other doctors before him gave me the same exact prescription: diuretics and cortisone.
I found this study about the Stennert Schema, it seems to be working, so thanks for mentioning it, I'll try the cortisone then. [The Stennert antiphlogistic-rheologic infusion schema in treatment of cochleovestibular disorders] - PubMed Unfortunately it doesn't talk about what happened later on, so I think it only fixed the temporary event. How often one can do this cortisone cycles though? 12 times a year?