gentamicin injection- members who’ve received injections

I'm happy with the gentamicin effect - it has mostly stopped the vertigo. Not fun to go through, but I feel like it (so far) has spared me surgery, and saved my life. You can see my experience with it in the thread:

How do you know if the gentamicin has worked?

 

I had one gent shot before deciding on a labyrinectomy. The gent shot stopped the vertigo for approximately 8 months. However during the 8 months I continued with feelings of being light headed and off balance. Ears were still full and tinnitus still annoying. Once my vertigo returned and I started having drop attacks my doctor suggested another gent shot or the laby. Because I had no hearing in my bad ear and the experience with the gent shot was not what I hoped for I chose the laby. Best decision of my life. Good luck with your gent shot. Many people experience success. For me I was exhausted from 12 years of trying to find a way out of the vertigo/drop attack hell. I found it with the surgery. So don’t be discouraged if the gent doesn’t do what you hope for. There is a way out. God bless.

 

I had 3 gentamicin shots at Emory and 3 streptomycin shots at Shea Ear Clinic in Memphis, TN…..It stopped the vertigo but I felt awful with all the fullness, roaring tinnitus and hyperaccusis still going on….it was not until I got the laby that I felt normal.

good luck my friend
Joe/Bulldogs

 

Hi I had 6 gentamicin injection last Jul/Aug spread to going to hospital weekly for 8 hours at a time.
I still had episodes after but consultant said it would take awhile.
I started acupuncture (Weekly)in Nov & between the 2 I have not had any episodes for the last 8 weeks. Prior to this I was having episodes every 5 days.
I wish you the best of luck & hopefully you will get a break from this awful illness!!!

 

First time I had 5 shots, each 1 week apart. It got me 3 years vertigo/dizzy free.
When it returned, we did another 5 shots. Only made it 5 weeks before it returned this time.
I just had 6 shots, the last one a week ago. Ive had 2 dizzy spells this week already, lol. No vertigo yet, but I'm sure in a month it'll be back. The doc said we can do surgery if it doesn't work this time. I'm so ready. The only reason why we even did the last couple rounds of injections is because thanks to Covid, the surgical wait times here are bonkers. It's like a 2 year wait.