Struggling young mum
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im so glad I've finally found a forum. I've struggled with meniers ever since I was 17, I'm now 26 and have a 7 month old boy. This last attack doesn't seem to be going after having it for two weeks, feeling dizzy everyday, having naps, going to bed at 7pm. I have been taking Betahistine 16mg three times a day and water tablets which don't seem to be working. I have gone back to my doctors who gave me buccal tablets which I've been taking for a few days which I'm still dizzy and sick with.
In the past I could sleep it off and wake up feeling normal. However, it's not like that this time. I'm tired all the time,I wake up in the night feeling really hot and the room spins and I have to be sick.
I dont drink alcohol and never have, I don't drink caffeine, I have a low salt diet. I take my medication.
im seeing a ENT specialist on the 14th January, but I'm really struggling this time round as it's not just me. I'm on maternity leave with my 7 month old and I'm too scared to leave the house in case I get an attack and can't stand. Does snyone have any suggestions or has been in a similar situation? I wish there was a better way to cope. Thank you
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fil39169 melanie40858
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I really feel for you, because three weeks ago that was me, stuck on flipping betahistine and having attacks every couple of days. Then I went to my GP (too ill to wait for my next consultant visit in March) and she prescribed me two other medications and I am heaps better. Cinnarizine 15mg, two tablets three times a day, and Ondansetron, one 4mg tablet twice a day. Cinnarizine is an anti-histamine (who would think histamines and antihistamines could both be used for one illness?) and is also known as Stugeron, for sea sickness. Ondansetron seems to be given for people who have bad reactions to anaesthetics. My life has totally turned around. I still get attacks, but they are much milder, so no more crawling to the loo shunting my sick bowl. I have to lean on walls etc for support, but I even can stay in the sitting room on the settee, rather than having to go lie down in the dark. I'm not sure which medication is working on me, or if it is both together. If I get an attack I still take some stemetil, but not nearly so often as I have been doing. Go and ask your GP for alternative medication, because it is out there, they just like giving you the betahistine which is nothing more than a placebo in my opinion.