Menieres and High Blood Pressure

I am on Diovan 160 mg and also Atenolol for A-fib and high b/p. Have ongoing dizziness--but didn't have it until I was hit with Meniere's. The atenolol was just added --due to the a-fib. Now I'm wondering if that's the cause of my increased dizziness. Keep blaming it on an anti-depressant I was given to try for all this stuff causes. Hmmm!!! Never had the bad dizzies when just on the Diovan but that was prior to MM. Anyway, hoping you find a good med you can tolerate for your B/P==that's important to get it under control for sure.

 

I'm sorry to hear you are going through that. I hope you get some good ideas for the BP medication. That is not an area I know about, but want to mention for low-level persistent dizziness and nausea, both I and a friend of mine with similar issues find acupressure wrist bands super helpful. For me they take the edge of the dizziness/nausea. These are the ones I use: http://www.sea-band.com/.

 

So sorry your bp meds are making you ill. There are many kinds maybe one won't make you feel ill.

There is a study that shows taking a probiotic lowers your bp, and I believe it. I have been on 100 mg of metoprolol for a few years. About a year or so ago I started taking a daily probiotic and in the beginning of this year or end of last my pulse and bp were getting so low. So my dr said take 1 50 mg a day and its fine now. I am sure it is the probiotic that lowered it.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/Probiotics-May-Lower-Blood-Pressure-268335462.html

Research now shows that taking good bacteria — probiotics — can do more than increase immunity.

A new study in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension shows that taking supplements and eating foods like yogurt that contain the live microorganisms could lower high blood pressure by as much as three points.

"Even with a small reduction like that, it can show a 22 percent decrease in heart attacks and strokes,” said Bryan Bradford, a certified nutritionist at the Sunflower Shoppe natural foods store.

The research was a retrospective analysis of nine studies involving more than 500 patients. Patients with positive outcomes used probiotics routinely for at least eight weeks.

Probiotics work by increasing the number of good bacteria in the gut, Bradford explained. That improves digestion, which — in turn — increases the absorption of nutrients.

"When you absorb nutrition, it requires a lot of that good bacteria to break this down to get your calcium, your iron, your vitamins — like vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E," Bradford said. "They're all broken down through good bacteria, and this helps us with healing throughout the body."

 

here is the abstract-I am taking a multiple dophilous
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/early/2014/07/21/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.03469.abstract?sid=da3d2ef5-497f-42a2-8012-c812150a4edf

Abstract

Previous human clinical trials have shown that probiotic consumption may improve blood pressure (BP) control. The aim of the present systematic review was to clarify the effects of probiotics on BP using a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials. PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library (Central), Physiotherapy Evidence Database, and Clinicaltrial.gov databases were searched until January 2014 to identify eligible articles. Meta-analysis using a random-effects model was chosen to analyze the impact of combined trials. Nine trials were included. Probiotic consumption significantly changed systolic BP by −3.56 mm Hg (95% confidence interval, −6.46 to −0.66) and diastolic BP by −2.38 mm Hg (95% confidence interval, −2.38 to −0.93) compared with control groups. A greater reduction was found with multiple as compared with single species of probiotics, for both systolic and diastolic BP. Subgroup analysis of trials with baseline BP ≥130/85 mm Hg compared with <130/85 mm Hg found a more significant improvement in diastolic BP. Duration of intervention <8 weeks did not result in a significant reduction in systolic or diastolic BP. Furthermore, subgroup analysis of trials with daily dose of probiotics <1011 colony-forming units did not result in a significant meta-analysis effect. The present meta-analysis suggests that consuming probiotics may improve BP by a modest degree, with a potentially greater effect when baseline BP is elevated, multiple species of probiotics are consumed, the duration of intervention is ≥8 weeks, or daily consumption dose is ≥1011 colony-forming units.

 

Have you tried Verapamil? I and a lot of others take it,for some reason it can help with Menieres while also reducing BP.