The Past Week

The past week was challenging but I didn't bail out of anything.
Balance issues re-emerged, this time they came with little or no warning. Very anxiety provoking. I blame it on a variety of things, seems I change my mind every day. Maybe diet failure. Maybe pinched nerves in the neck, and I'm leaning towards that.
But I think it's mostly allergies. The pollin is so thick everywhere, on my rear car window so thick I couldn't wipe it off. It just swished around.
Zyrtec helps.
I made the Wed. nite dinner and Bible study, so good to eat fried chicken I've had so little of it. Did a workout in the fitness room yesterday morning. Did something after that, I don't remember what.
Made church today, all of it.
I'd like to go photograph the azalea trail but it's just too pollinish out there and my allergies will kick in and more balance symptoms.
That's it for this week.

Oops

I was reminded today that I can't play fast and loose with my diet. Yesterday for dinner I had a meal prepared by the deli where I work. Chopped steak with gravy, macaroni and cheese, and carrots with green beans. I dispensed with the green beans because I despise those anyhow. I have no way of knowing how much sodium is in something like that.
Today I had a variety of dizzy attacks accompanied by nystagmus. Not the dreaded vertigo that drags me helplessly to the floor, but I do have to be still till it goes away which is only a couple minutes.
I took a dizzy pill, aka meclazine hydrochloride, and went right on to Wed. nite church dinner with my little old lady friends, and followed through with Bible study. I wasn't defeated.
I try not to take many meclazines because it interferes with brain compensation but I don't get this much anymore.

l-lysine

Could this be true? Could this be it? Over in Japan studies show a link between Meniere's disease and herpes virus. The way they study this is with autopsies. An MRI or CAT scan can't detect herpes attachment to the inner ear. Autopsies reveal herpes attachment to the cochlear structures in the inner ear of Meniere's patients.

L-lysine is a cheap, OTC non-prescription substance available at all grocery stores, drugstores, Walmart, wherever. It is an amino acid, something we have in our bodies anyhow. Taken in large doses it can suppress the replication of herpes. I have been taking large doses (3000 mg a day) on an empty stomach since mid-December. I think I am experiencing improvement. No major attacks. Since the first of March only small off balance spells. I am eating Big Macs and Fries, Whoppers and fries with no after effects. Last Sunday after church I ate in an Italian restaurant with my singles group, spaghetti with meatballs and mushrooms and it was very sodiumish. No after effects. I have put on 7 1/2 pounds. Maybe I am onto something.

I have been screwed before. I hope it doesn't happen again. I never thought it was herpes. Hopefully it is and hopefully I can eliminate or greatly reduce symptoms and get my old life back.

Pipeorgan Concert

I went to the pipeorgan concert put on by our new organist today. She's from Chicago and she is a rare talent. I missed the first selection because I was a little late, but I heard her play through Bach's Prelude & Fugue in D Major. She did some variations on a hymn, and then Samuel Barber's levitating Adagio For Strings. For this she attached a digital device to the organ to enhance the sound of the pipes. She concluded with Vierne's Symphony # 1 with the fiery and thundering Finale that rattled everything. She really knows how to squeeze everything out of our instrument. Glad I went.

I missed church so it was nice to go out to this. A good packed house for it too.

Praise the Lord.

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