Sorry if this has been a topic a million times. I'm kinda new. Having a bad dizzy day. Can still walk around and do chores. I don't want to just lay down. That get boring as hell and makes me think too much about my situation. Anyway, one strategy I'm trying to use is to try and keep my mind off my dizziness, though I'm very dizzy. Try to keep my mind only on the task at hand. What's in front of me. One foot in front of the other, type mindset. I guess it's a form of not feeling sorry for yourself. Any strategies you use? I plan to enter a search on the topic but I'm too unsteady to want to right now or to read much. Gotta go do THINGS. Move my body.
Have you tried low dose valium? I try not to use it but it can help on a bad day... break the pill into 4's.
Xanax helps with the dizzy quite a bit. I track my daily dizzy in school letter grades. And a Xanax can take me down from a C- (distractingly, depressingly dizzy) to a C+, tolerably dizzy with a dash of good mood thrown in. But I'm trying not to do use Xan as much. Someone close to me is a major pill addict. And seeing the state he's in really scares me. I'm trying to move to more mental techniques now rather than the pill. But it's a real option, and right of you to suggest. And I'm VERY thankful it's there in the cupboard if I really need it. Say, on a triple threat day, with depression, brain fog, and dizzy.
When my water consumption drops off, so goes my MM symptoms. Also, it's windy where I live. If I need a break from tinnitus, I go outside and the wind noise drowns out my tinnitus. I almost feel normal at times.
I was just walking around today and out of the blue it hit me that you said "4's". I'm glad I made this thread. Funny how some obvious things just never occur to you. I do break my Xanax in half sometimes. But taking a quarter will make me feel even less guilty (or addicted). Not sure if a quarter will work, but if it takes the edge off my dizzy just a little, that's something. Since sometimes you're on that thin border between uncomfortably dizzy and tolerably dizzy.
I've been meditating most mornings and think I feel slightly less sorry for myself. I've also been treating myself to massage and reike therapies. I ride my bike 5 miles 4 times a week because I've read many times that exercise is imperative for depressive types. I rarely have caffiene.
Here is my thought and i could be completely wrong. But if you're recovering from surgery and your brain is trying to learn to compensate for the loss of balance in one side, then taking a vestibular suppressant like Xanax might actually be slowing down your recovery because it's not letting the brain deal with the full problem.
Funny how you stated that. Looked up Reike and found this: "Most commonly, Reiki is offered through light, non-invasive touch with the practitioner's hands placed and held on a series of locations on the head and front and back of the torso. The placement of the hands should never be intrusive or inappropriate, nor should there be any pressure." funny again But "no pressure"? What the heck? What good is that? Is just a comforting thing? Hmmm. Makes sense. This morning I did try a quarter Xan instead, and it took the edge off the bad dizzy that was creeping up on me. I'll try and keep it small and seldom.
Hi Pupper: Glad to hear that you are recovering but sorry to hear that you are so dizzy now. I hated when I was living with the "daily dizzys" until my ENT put me on betahistine a couple months ago. It has helped me but now he wants to wean me off to determine if I need the medication at all. I was not thrilled to hear that a couple days ago, but I have no choice. He is the one writing the prescription for now. I am not well-versed as the rest of the folks on here about what you can do for the "daily dizzys." As for me, I did a lot of secret crying and reading this talk forum to get me through the worst of it before betahistine. I know I don't ever want to go back there again but if I've got to... well, I guess I can for a little while longer. All I can say is everyone here is a true inspiration to folks like me who don't post often. We quiet ones read and we ponder - then we take your suggestions to our doctors or we find the answers in the direction you point us toward. Why? Because we know in our hearts that all of you are living as the rest of us do and it ain't easy. In fact, most days it takes all the courage I have just to get up out of bed. But I do because I refuse to let MM take my life from me. So maybe my everyday coping method is to get my daily dose of courage and strength from all of you. Thanks for being my MM friends.
RUK, Sorry that you're worried. I'm glad this forum helps you. I know I'll never leave as long as there's people in need. I think many here feel the same. You should make a post about your history with MM.
As I just posted in another thread: Have you tried the acupressure wrist bands for nausea? They really take the edge off dizziness and nausea for me. I use "sea bands" brand. And to answer about the kind of coping I think you were more looking for. I take a breaks and distract myself during the breaks with reading, puzzles, phone internet surfing. If I can't handle anything visual, I listen to podcasts.
::hugs:: we’re here for you, just like someone on this site has been here for us! Put one foot in front of the other(often very crooked, often while tripping) and know you’re in good company.
At my most hopeless, i started biweekly private yoga lessons with an awesome teacher. The yoga was very modified to meet my needs. During that time, i did a daily practice at home for an hour every day. My original hope of course is that the yoga would somehow cure the menieres. Of course it did not, at least directly. What it did do was calm me down which was a big deal when i was dealing with EXTREMELY LOUD tinnitus, terrible distortion, threats of complete deafness and the beginnings of balance issues,and having been told by the neurotologist that there was nothing else he could do to help. The peace the yoga practice brought me was huge and as a side benefit strenghtened my back a little and helped some aches and pains. But the big thing was that the next time i talked to my family doctor, i was calm inside and out. I told her of the things i had read on this forum anout antivirals, that i was skeptical. She told me she could tell the ent was 'struggling' for an answer. We decided together the next step. Pre yoga, i would have been too desperate to have had that conversation in that way. Caveat, my yoga teacher was also an rn, very experi nced in neuro atuff, married to a neurosurgeon (not mine) and her first priority was 'first do no harm' and she instructed me on the first day to tell her immediatelynif any exercise 'did not feel right' and to stop in that case. I would not pop into a regular yoga class with the problems i had then or even now.
I initially went to this highly recommended massage therapist for headaches and stress re. Meniere's and job loss. That's when I found she was more helpful than any massage therapist I've seen. Her Reiki certification hangs on the wall; she didn't mention it. Another thing i started today is peppermint essential oil thru a diffuser. I've been easily stressed for many years - time to chill and take life in stride; have faith that I'll be given the strength to cope with whatever is.