Well, I waited an extra day to post hoping I would have something more concrete to say. I’ve done the 800mg 3x/day for 3 weeks now. Today I’ll taper down to 800mg 2x/day. At this point, I can’t really tell much difference. I am still having problems with dizziness and my tinnitus is still really loud. The only area in which there MIGHT be some improvement is hearing. The distortion seems to have cleared somewhat and some noises seem louder in my affected ear. Of course, I am hopeful it’s the antivirals working but it could just be normal fluctuation. Also, if my tinnitus was, for example, a 10 on the loudness scale, it might be a 9 now. Again, hard to tell if it’s normal fluctuation or if I’ve just gotten used to the new level of loudness it had reached. I was really hoping my balance issues would’ve, er…”balanced” out by now, but no such luck. It’s still a good day here or there with mostly bad days.
I wrote on Monday about my awesome hiking and camping trip (yay!) and I am still recovering from that. Really tired and dizzy from it. So I feel like that could be interfering with results too. You play, you pay…I guess. Still worth it in my opinion.
So sorry to report, no exciting news yet. But I’m not giving up hope that something will change soon! I will continue with the 800 mg 2x/day for at least the next 2 weeks. Then I have to decide whether or not to go ahead with the one time gent injection. I’ve thought about postponing it but my problem is if I postpone it, it puts me in the summer when I’ll be home alone with my kids and this summer, I don’t have a lot of help that I can fall back on. (no pun intended) I’m just thinking of the worst-if I get really sick one or two days from the gent, I don’t want to be home alone with the kids. I know some people get really sick for a day or two and some people don’t. Usually, if there’s a chance of a bad side effect, I get it so I have to prepare for it. It would scare my kids to death if they witnessed a full-on vertigo attack and if I can protect them from that then I plan to. I’ve got two more weeks to decide and that’s good news and a lot of time for something to change. I’ll post on this in another week and see if there’s any change. Hopefully, there’ll be no sicknesses or other factors to interfere and I’ll better be able to tell if they are working or not.
I wrote on Monday about my awesome hiking and camping trip (yay!) and I am still recovering from that. Really tired and dizzy from it. So I feel like that could be interfering with results too. You play, you pay…I guess. Still worth it in my opinion.
So sorry to report, no exciting news yet. But I’m not giving up hope that something will change soon! I will continue with the 800 mg 2x/day for at least the next 2 weeks. Then I have to decide whether or not to go ahead with the one time gent injection. I’ve thought about postponing it but my problem is if I postpone it, it puts me in the summer when I’ll be home alone with my kids and this summer, I don’t have a lot of help that I can fall back on. (no pun intended) I’m just thinking of the worst-if I get really sick one or two days from the gent, I don’t want to be home alone with the kids. I know some people get really sick for a day or two and some people don’t. Usually, if there’s a chance of a bad side effect, I get it so I have to prepare for it. It would scare my kids to death if they witnessed a full-on vertigo attack and if I can protect them from that then I plan to. I’ve got two more weeks to decide and that’s good news and a lot of time for something to change. I’ll post on this in another week and see if there’s any change. Hopefully, there’ll be no sicknesses or other factors to interfere and I’ll better be able to tell if they are working or not.
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