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vertigo and vestibular disorders

Has anyone experienced vertigo or other vestibular symptoms as a result of EBV?
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I’d like to know a holistic approach also.
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I keep reading some of your replies and noticed that many of you are on heavy  prescription meds....I refuse to take Rx meds and wanted to know if someone had tried more holistic approach to getting rid of or lessen the Vertigo symptoms?
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Does anyone know if there's an effective treatment for EBV other than heavy drugs...more like holistic healing with supplements, juicing, etc etc
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These books helped me to be about 70% normal (energy wise).  I still have weird symptoms but a lot less than I used to.
Terry Wahls Protocol
Amy Myers Protocol
Google these and I hope it puts you on the right track
I have had EBV for 18 years. The protocol that I've found works for me is a holistic approach. Integrative Therapeutics makes a product called V-Clear. It comes in drops or liquid syrup form. It is AMAZING!!! It was by accident that they realized this product went after the EBV virus, mouth sores, even some types of worts as well as shortening upper respiratory infections. I take this with Adapten-all by Orthomolecular and high dose B vitamins with a multivitamin and have great results! Still have bouts of weird symptoms in eyes, ears, vertigo and such, but this regime shortens the durations to a few days!
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I wrote a lengthy reply which disappeared by the next page. Too tired to rewrite so here's the choppy, quick version.
Yes dizzy. Stand, sit or walk, dizzy intensifies, body turned to mush, legs and neck have the strength of toothpicks, feet feel like round balks, not flat feet, head heavy as a bowling ball, skin heavy as lead. Dizziness makes it all worse, body trembling, hands violently shaking. Finally plop in bed until normalizes. Feel bolted to bed, ears heavy, feel pulled back.
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You most likely have a semi-permanent disorder called Vestibular Neuritis. It is a disorder that affects the nerve of the inner ear called the vestibulocochlear nerve. This nerve sends balance and head position information from the inner ear to the brain.

If you notice that your symptoms worsen after a common cold or the flu, it's most likely due to the varicella virus (related to the chickenpox you had as a child) lying dormant deep in your your inner ear. When you get a virus such as a cold or the flu, the varicella in your inner ear WAKES UP within a couple of weeks AFTER your cold or flu is gone. This wreaks havoc with your BALANCE system and causes numerous problems some of which include dizziness, confusion, panic/fear, sensitivity to SOUND, BRIGHT LIGHTS (especially FLUORESCENT LIGHTS), HIGH PITCHED SOUNDS, CROWDS of PEOPLE, A LOT of MOVEMENT (e.g. heavy traffic wizzing by), etc.

There is no cure, and your symptoms will come and go for the rest of your life. You can control your symptoms with MECLIZINE HCI 25 mg daily, and VALTREX (valaciclovir) 500 mg daily to control the varicella in your inner ear when you have a severe bout or feel it coming on. TRUST ME, NO OTHER DRUGS WILL WORK AS WELL AS THESE TWO! I have been dealing with this for more than 25 years, and these two drugs are the only ones (as of January 2016) which will help you tremendously!
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I have had three severe vertigo attacks in the last three months - each worse than the previous one. My last attack lasted 7 hours of vomiting and immobility, followed by 7 days of imbalance and dizziness. It was frightening..unfortunately, Meclizine (and I am also taking Valtrex) did not help with this last bout or during the days following the attack. So I am hoping to try others; always in fear of another attack. Maybe I am just one of those unlucky ones - here in 2018.
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Shelly,
Most people have a pretty high titer of EBV and so it may not be the reason for your vertigo. I just wanted to say that some types of migraines can cause vertigo as well as a couple of other problems. I have a type of migraine that causes vertigo (with or without a headache) that pretty much knocks me on the ground. I went to a neurologist that specializes in migraine because I know I have them (my EEG is positive) and she first had me tested for Acoustic neuroma in which I was thank goodness negative, and also negative for the benign positional paroxysmal vertigo and I am negative for that since it doesn't happen with movement of my head. So she put me on a drug for migraine called Trokendi and I haven't had one since the drug was at the proper dose. Plus a very lose dose (10mg) of Amitriptyline. She tried also Cyproheptadine first and that didn't work. So it is worth getting checked to see if you have a odd type of migriane by EEG. So, when I first got migrianes in my 20's I never had a headache or aura and had vomiting and stomach pain all night about once a month. It took them 8 years to diagnose me back then. After that my "migraines" changed to headache with or without aura. Then in my 40's it changed again to just the vertigo and also visual flying lights and sometimes double vision. These all happened at different times. So, I just wanted to you let you know that many things can cause vertigo.

What is your vertigo like or how is it started? Is it when you turn your head or constantly etc.? Any pain in the head by the ear?
mkh9
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