12 week dizzy nightmare

hi marlene thanks for replying quickly its nice to know that people understand about dizziness and are willing to try anything,i must add that the big bottle of 7 up has lasted me 4 days as i have only been sipping a bit at a time, needless to say i made sure i ordered 2 big bottles on my shoppung list today  thanks again  mary

hi anne i will  mention to my docter next week if i could be short of pottassium or magnesium i was thinking it was something to do with my body needing a sugar boost as fizzy drinks are known to have lots of sugar,,it feels strange not feeling dizzy when i stand up but for now i feel great and cant wait to see if its the same tommorow, thanks  mary

 

Hi Anne just going to PM you with Mary's post ,told Darren Pm 

  Just going to E Mail Gill.

   I eat bananas for the BP ,maybe potassium needs to be upped ,another thing worth a look at .

  How things with you ,I'm sat swaying away ,all normal hey .

  I'm still coughing away ,but bit brighter than last weekend .

  So bug working it's way out .

Hi Marlene

thanks.  I don't eat bananas much,  can't remember when i last had one but will be getting some along with more peanuts and some 7up too.  I've been eating more peanuts this week and felt less dizzy so who knows, but it's all worth trying.

Hi Marlene what do we take for magnesium and how much is it a pill!? Xxx

Hiya Travis ,hope your weekends lot better,and you've got out even to take the dog for a walk ,get some fresh air ,blow the cobwebs away,.

   Magnesium chloride 500/ 1000 mgs a day .so I will get them .I eat bananas but maybe I need more potassium, think Dried apricots ,potatoes,cantaloupe,spinach,salmon,carrots,mushrooms pears,apples they all contain along with the bananas 

  Magnesium - brown rice,avocados,halibut,broccoli,bananas,,raisins so again bananas Travis .

  See how we go on .Have a good Sunday xxx

Hi Anne ,I can't eat peanuts or have peanut oil. Gives my IBS a problem . I do eat cashews regular ,I'm fine with them and walnuts .

  Getting some 7up later on .

 My ears are low today ,not good for me ,get the anxiety twinges today ,always when ears are low ,can't understand it at all .

Dont take meds for it just struggle on through today with it .

   When loud ear days ,and it's loud ,loud if I nod off then when I wake up it's dropped,again weird ,I'm bload if I know what's the answer full stop ,one of the women on TT site has same prob with it as I do ,she says if she nods off  hers change ,she takes Magnessium Cloride ,every day . Got her BP down to .Our weather  again is that the problem to our balance ,I've said yes to this from the start of my balance .weve all on these balance issues ,got to have 1 or 2 connections to it .Hope your okay ,your know what I mean .

   Be of interest to the 7 up ,told Gill by EMail ,she's having it rough past week with her balance ,she's said those Balloons waste of money ,done nothing for her ,E mailed me earlier . No doubt Darren will read this Anne 

  From well fed up Marlene xxx

Hi Marlene

any nuts will do apparently.  I have been looking all the foods that contain magnesium and potassium, there are a lot, mostly fruit,veg, grains and nuts. 

Yes it will be interesting to see the results of the 7up trial by other posters.

Thanks for the update on the otovent balloons, i haven't got round to ordering them yet, but think i will just stick with ear plugs for my flight at the end of this month.  My ears will be buzzing for days so think it's worth a try.  My tinnitus has been loud pitched lately.

I agree the weather is a factor perhaps we are human barometers.

I don't normally drink fizzy drinks but will try the 7up.

I don't take any meds for the dizzies cos' none of them worked for me and were just a waste of money on prescription charges but i think i may start taking some antihistamine before flying.

I had IBS for a few years and then it disappeared as mysteriously as it arrived, hoping the same will occur with this dizziness.

Hope in the search for our needle in the haystack we come up with somethingxx

Hi Anne ,so yours are high ,when mine are high if you can nap for a bit Anne they can drop down ,not easy when you work ,but when at home try it  just 20 mins will do it .

 On the TT site I'm on ,yesterday they were talking about M S G foods  I got that up another interesting read . 

  Yes Gill says balloons a waste ,at least  7 UP is cheap to buy .

  I've only had this IBS since virus I got 9 yrs ago ,never had that in my life .Go figure that out ,Weird how yours just stopped??? Glad it has ,that wears you down ,my food stuff is very bland ,stick to what I know is okay .

  What a way we all have to live ,never right all of this.

  Maybe this holiday will give you some respite ,Darren said he felt better when he went to see his brother in Malta few months ago,ear plugs your be fine on flight a must with Tinnitus .Just stay away from loud music or noise of any kind without them .Treat yourself on holiday for just going on holiday Anne . xxx

Hi Marlene

A consultant on tv said the best diet for IBS is chips. 

When i initially started with BPPV last september  i think it knocked my balance system so off whack that it took me almost a year to get my balance back, because i also had a couple more episodes of BPPV in between.  In the first days/months when it started sometimes I couldn't stand up resulting in having to take a month off work after about 7 months from onset.  Since then i have tried all sorts and now, please God, so long as it doesn't come back as severely as it did originally, i think i can continue working.  I have to keep remembering to do things more slowly, like getting out ofbed, getting out of the car, turning round, bending over, looking up, walking round supermarkets, basically any kind of movement,  resting from computer screen every so often, changing my diet, cutting down on caffeine, chocolate etc., Don't drink alcohol but gave up smoking, think a combination of changes may be gradually making a difference, of course if it all comes back full on then none of that has made any difference, but hopefully it won't.

The last bout was in April following a flight and some over extension of my neck whilst trying to hold something up over my head.

All part of learning what not to do

 

 

Chips Anne things I learn every day ,never a chip person ,or pots in general,so hey in for a penny saying goes ,nothing to loose ,chips tomorrow .my cousin has said mash pots help her ,so your saying the same thing .

   As for balance ,I don't eat chocolate ,never drink alcohol ,only 1 tsp coffee a day ,rest of day it's just water ,

 only thing I can place my onset was 2 days prior was going to Osteopath for my rhinitis ,had this neck ache from start 9 yrs ,was the osteopath visit my kicker to my now balance ? My gut feeling says yes .maybe turning my head to both sides treatment wise do it . 

 Like you Anne ,I'm slow to getting up out of bed,then I do all what you do now .

im fine driving ,don't feel swaying ,just sat in armchair ,and walking  plus standing in one spot ,feels like need to prop myself up against something to stay upright .really uncomfortable to say the least .

  I wonder why others say with tinnitus don't have this balance ,but some ,another puzzler ,look at Darren ,got the balance but not the tinnitus ,others say the same ,the balance on its own ,but Darren like us has eye probs ,and neck ache ,again our eyes have been checked and rechecked ,another lady Brenda has this but with tinnitus ,not living in UK .

 So we've got tinnitus ,neck ache ,eyes, ear fullness ( with and without hearing hearing loss ) all with balance issue.

  Were all different in ages  ,live various places ,so no connection there . And seems to be more females than men affected ??why .Need some Brain wave to figuring this connection out in all of us  and as to why it's been over various time span.In UK it goes from Scotland to here down South of the UK 

  If we've got all these ,there's maybe a dr out there having the same .

 I know they get tinnitus ,insomnia ,and the flu ,so why not this .Cant just happen to us lay folk .Oh and I know 1 audiologist with Tinnitus .from my last hospital hearing test ,she had it testing me .

  My ears quiet today  but tomorrow will most likely to be roaring Anne again driving me nuts .

  Husband just brought me in 7 UP .popped out to get it for me .So off we go again ,will let all know if anything changes over next couple days ,

   Hope you got feet up Anne xxx

Yes similarly i visited a physio the week before all this started who did some massage on my neck and crunched my back.  Sure that is a connection, probably misaligned something, also when i take ibuprofen for my neck pain overall feel better.

Got my feet up

 

So when you visited the osteopath did the ringing begin? I had my head turned both ways and that was my trigger.