The benefits of valuum

The directions on my Mec are one 4 times a day. Should I be taking it more frequently? I just got it from Urgent Care on Tuesday. I don't see my PCP til the 23rd and an ear specialist til the 27th so I'm on my own til then.

 

I knew there was a reason I popped in ever-so-often to get caught up with everyone! These longggggggggg drawn-out posts with Nassman vs. the forum, just make me Laugh Out Loud! I don't mean to be disrespectful to anyone AT ALL, but it's SO repeticious!!!

As far as me......... I've tried Klonapin, Xanex,and Valium. Valium works best for me, if I feel all shakey and dizzy, and feel like an attack is coming on. Valium stops it and I feel wonderful! I might take 5 mg once or twice a week, or not at all. I don't take it unless I need it. I've got the same bottle of 30 pills that I was prescribed in JUNE!!! But, if it helps me function, then so be it!

If you haven't experience a full-blown from HELL vertigo attack, then you wouldn't understand. I've had cancer and I've had babies, and vertigo attacks are WORSE than both of those!!! I'd eat horse shyt to keep them away! And I'm serious! LOL!!!!!!!!! I've been BLESSED since my ESD surgery in June, 2007, I've only had 1-1/2 attacks, and I thank God for that! Now if I feel like I'm going to have one, I take valium and I'm fine.

It's all individual........... with MM we all are NOT the same and what works for one might or might not work for the other. Some of us are pro-meds and pro-surgery, others aren't. We all aren't supposed to be alike, or it'd be a pretty dull world!

I just do whatever I can, in my power with my ENT and Neurotologist, to keep the vertigo attacks away! And if they come back full force like they were in the Spring of '07, I'll rip it all out! I'll go for the Laby!!! I'm a single mom, a teacher, and I HAVE to work, so disability is not an option for me.

But, I really just dropped in to say HI to everyone!!!!!!!!! Not to really get into this post, but couldn't resist! I do hope everyone is doing well. I can't drop in often b/c school is SO BUSY!!!!!!!!! God Bless ALL of you and here's to vertigo-free days with or without the valium! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Anne-Marie

 

Do you need to take the valium as soon as the attack's coming on or will it also work a few days into it? I mean on the vertigo...

 

vertigo shouldn't last a few days - are you talking about another form of dizziness perhaps? (as opposed to spinning wildly around the room or having the room spin around in front of your eyes....nausea, vomiting, etc.).

I find my benzo (Klonopin) works for other kinds of dizziness as well, particularly dysequilibrium.

 

It's definitely vertigo...the room spins like crazy....

 

For days on end? How do you manage? Don't you get dehydrated and need to get to emergency?

I'm sorry to hear that you are suffering so much. Valium usually works best when you feel an attack coming on. Once you're in the throws of vertigo you're more likely to just throw up the Valium.

 

So far I'm on day 6. Yes, I am dehydrated but drinking as much water as I can, but between the morphine (for my back) and the sudafed I'm very dehydrated.
I haven't gone to the ER because I figure what can they do for me that I'm not already doing for myself? If there is something someone please let me know so I can go and tell them to give me something else.

Good to know about the valium. I hope I don't need it too often, but I do have it in the house if I do. It's the only muscle relaxer I can take and with my back this way I need it once in awhile. I try not to take it now because I'm on the morphine.

 

Ivyj,
Being it's so bad for so long tends to make me believe that you are eating something or breathing in something that you can no longer tolerate. Living among and with an offender(s).  That happened to me, first with dairy foods, then with environmental issues with what I was breathng in.  I got worse and worse until I figured it out through experimenting and started eliminating stuff.  It took time but I had no other choice. 

My doc figured the dairy thing out right away though, each day the symptoms perpetuated and were building intensity over a span of a few months, I was on the path to major vertigo attacks, but when I quit it all, within 2 weeks I felt improvement, within a month all my symptoms were gone, and stayed gone for many years unless I ate something I shouldn't and then it would take only once to set it all in motion again.

A couple of decades later I got hit hard again, this time it turned out to be my body no longer tolerating fragrances, dustmites, dust, chemical fumes, fumes offgassing from new stuff, mold spores, pollens, smoke, animal dander, etc. anything in the air that isn't air. That was a much longer journey to figure out and I got waaaayy sicker than I did previously. Figured it out, one thing at a time, bit by bit, made changes, and was good overall for a couple of years, until it flaired big time last winter.  Back to foods again.  And the awareness it wasn't meniere's after all but MAV, discovered with my own research, experimentation, and observations.  As right as rain it proved to be MAV.  Hindsight proved to be 20/20.  I can now look back and see it was MAV ever since I was a teenager.  The body chemistry keeps changing.  But I figure if it can change in a bad way, it can also change in a good way too.  I'm doing OK though.

 

burd, I'll definitely take that into consideration. This definitely feels like Meniere's though, not MAV. Have the fullness and ringing in the ears etc.
I do have numerous allergies...the first thing I can eliminate is my husband lol (just kidding, sort of, lol).
I'll definitely look into it though. I'm also curious to see what the new ENT has to say but that's about 3 weeks away. I'm praying this is gone by then.
Thanks for the info burd!
ivy

 

If it may be of any help in figuring this out for you, do know that MAV causes fullness, tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, dizziness, and a long long list of other possible symptoms,many often misdiagnosed as other things like allergies, sinus problems, eye strain, bppv, menieres, etc. etc.

 

No I didn't burd. I really don't know what MAV is, I'm just so used to having the Meniere's I'm assuming that's what it is. Where can I get more info on MAV and what does MAV stand for?
thanks for your help!

 

Nice to see your pic, vertigeaux! Lisa B.

 

It's not the best in the world, but all I have on the computer at this time! LOL!!! It's always nice to put a face with the words, I think! LOL!!!

 

It's a very nice face!!!!! Lisa

 

Books. 
One I highly recommend for everyone even remotely suspicious:
Heal Your Headache, by David Buchholz

I have one coming that I just ordered recommended by another MAV sufferer here:
Living Well With Migraine Disease and Headache, by Teri Robert

Both are inexpensive.  A worthwhile investment.  You won't get this info from any doc even a specialist.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, you're sweet!!! Thanks!!!

 

I only take it when I feel an attack coming on. If you're having attacks for days, you need to see your doctor! I became so weak from lack of food and dehydration in '07 that I thought I was dying! You might could take a low dosage each day. I just take them when I feel an attack coming on b/c I just don't want to take them every day.