Dan, Thanks for the words of encouragement. I am not
about to give up the fight. Yes, I have Meniere's in
both ears (bilateral). I am trying the low sodium
diet, for about 2 weeks now. When I'm not flat of my
back suffering from an attack, I force myself to
continue to live a good life. I have a wonderful
family, who help and encouragement to go on. You see,
avoiding alcohol and caffeine were no great problems,
but avoiding the salt has been difficult. I live on
the MS Gulf Coast and spices, not herbs, are used to
season everything. A miss the tast of wonderful food.
I am an excellent cook and I love to cook, but now it
is a little more difficult to prepare a meal for my
family and not be aboe to enjoy the food. But,
because I want be "normal" (HA! HA! HA!), I will give
this a try. Oh yea, I've had symptoms of the disease
since I was a child. I would always get sick and have
fainting spells, but no one knew why. The symptoms
abated when I was about age 14 and returned when I was
age 23. I am 40 now.
--- Dan Thompson <danmt@...> wrote:
> Dear Sarah,
> How long have you had this mess ? One ear or two ?
> I think all the medicos tell you to eliminate salt.
> No salt, No
> caffeine, No alcohol,
> No lots of other stuff like stress and irritation.
> Good luck avoiding
> all of the things us
> Meniere's types can't have. Jumping is the only way
> to comply. I am not
> tied of being
> happy. Keep up the fight. You can learn to deal
> with Meniere's. There
> is one lady I
> write has over fifty years of both ears yelling at
> her. Many Many
> folks are fighting it
> out one day at a time. Don't ever quit. Your friend
> Dan Thompson
>
> sjmentore wrote:
>
> > Hello Group!
> >
> > I haven't posted anything of late, because
> frankly, nothing has
> > changed for me. I am not getting any better.
> Last week I went to a
> > "specialist" who placed me on a low sodium (a
> minimum of 1500 mg
> > daily) diet for six months. Have any of you been
> on the diet? If so,
> >
> > what was the outcome? Are you better, worse, no
> different? Please
> > let me hear from you!!!
> >
> > Sarah
> >
> >
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