The John of Ohio Regimen --- Updated

It can take months for antivirals to help? Is that right?

I'm not 100% sure I have Meniere's, it has come in attacks that presented more as vestibular neuritis. Once in 2022 on the right ear and then every 2-4 months in the left since October. After the 3rd attack I tried antivirals but stopped them because I didn't tolerate them well (they raise my heart rate and make me nervous). Then like 3 weeks later I noticed workouts were making me WAY too tired. Tried taking them again, maybe didn't take enough, now I'm miserable. Brain fog and easily fatigued. Prednisone is helping for these 2 weeks but I'm worried how bad I'll be once I finish tapering off.

Still, I'm not sure I can handle more than 250mg famcyclovir 3 times a day, one with each meal. Should I try to up the dose?

 

Speaking from experience here...after 3 days on valacyclovir the fullness in my head started to subside but it took 6 months till the vertigo ended. My last vertigo episode was October 1st 2019 and I've been vertigo free since then. I continue to take valacyclovir. The take home is it takes time.

 

Hi John was the Lemon Bioflavonoids removed from the regime?

 

Thanks. I've been on the regime for over a month now. I've heard good things about Bioflavonoids from my ENT and hoped that the Natures Life Lemon Bioflavonoid brand would work.

 

I see that the MSM is also removed.

 

Thanks John. That's 2 less pills to take.
One question - do you know how effective Pycnogenol might be? Its based on the pine tree. I see a favorable review of it from way back in 2014 but not much since.

Again, thanks for your help.

 

Thanks a lot John, I appreciate it. Hope that you have been keeping well.

 

FWIW, I saw one of those studies, and immediately noticed it was sponsored by an industry group related to the exploitation* of those pine trees

*in the economic sense, I don't use that word with any moral connotation

 

Hi John, I asked my ENT Menieres doctor (great credentials) about Anti-virals. He dismissed them by saying no evidence of virus in ear tissue cadavers with Menieres. I asked him about Vitamins and he said D and B 6-12 are the ones to take. Just FYI. I am taking your regimen by the way.

 

Does anyone know if lysine helps the general daily “floatiness” and what I call mini drop attacks where it feels like your brain does a somersault real quick and you grab hold of something?

 

They HAVE done the necropsies. The donors who had Meniere's disproportionately have high levels of HSV-1 or other herpesviridae in the ear nerves. Up to statistical significance. This is part of how Gacek came up with his theory.

I mean there are lots of people who have similar in the necropsies who didn't have menieres, but still, looking the other way around, selecting out the ones who didnhave menieres, there is more often herpesviridae in those nerves than in the general population.

Remember that this is a multifactkrial complicated disease , so why only some people react to the infection this way is more complicated and yet to be known.

What is undeniable is that a lot of menieres and vestibular patients get relief from antivirals.

Herpesviridae and viruses in general are nasty buggers. Which is why antivirals have also helped women with certain forms of infertility, MS patients, and ME/CFS patients.

 

Ive been taking 2000mg of Lysine in the middle of the night when I get up to use the bathroom. Not during the day, I should be alright doing that do you think?