Meniere's and Antivirals - Week Two

First of all, I've been up since 3:30 and it's now 7:30 so I hope this makes some sense.   ;)

Second of all, the basics of the past week...I have continued on the dosage of 800mg 3x/day.  For the past few days, I have been worse.  Especially yesterday.  Dizzier, light-headed, and yesterday including the heavy-headed feeling and some mini-spins.  I'm not sure what to chalk that up to as their as some other factors at play.  Could it be the whole "it gets worse before it gets better" thing?  I sure hope so!!  I know this happens to a lot of people who try antivirals.  I plan to continue for one more week at the same dose before I taper down so still keeping my fingers crossed.  The hearing in my affected ear may be slightly better and slightly less distorted.  My tinnitus is still extremely loud.

But to confuse things a bit, I seem to have had a touch of the sickness my kids have had.  My son had a bad cough due to some inflammation in his lungs and my daughter had a cold and an ear infection.  On and off for the past 5 days or so, maybe more, my chest has been tight and my good ear was hurting.  That has eased up.  Also, yesterday morning, my Meniere's ear had some clear drainage coming out.  It's gone now as well.  So did that make me feel worse?  Don't know.  It was all so mild and variable that I just couldn't say for sure that I was sick.

Just to further add to the mix, I was also very busy this weekend.  My husband had to work very late Friday night and then was gone to a funeral in another state and was gone all day Saturday so I had to do a lot more around the house and care for the kids.  I spent about an hour cleaning out my daughter's toy boxes and closet yesterday and by the end was when I started getting the mini-spins.  So maybe I overdid it?  I don't think so but it's possible.

I'm still having some gastrointestinal problems too.  Mostly very mild but I was woken up at 3:30 with stomach pain and nausea.  It was pretty easily fixed with some Pepto and some Zofran.  But I haven't been able to get back to sleep since.  Feeling pretty dizzy now and hope to take a nice long nap sometime soon before time to go get the kids.

So I guess that's all for now.  Plan to post again in another week or before if something major changes.  As I've mentioned before, I've had this for 12 years so this is probably going to take some more time for me.  Even if this turns out not to work for me, I am so glad that I'm getting to try it.