My Meniere’s Diagnosis

Goodbye October

I’m really glad to see October go. I alternated in the month of October between working way to much and then spending the next week sick, then working way to much and the next week sick. The first week I missed I thought was due to a mild case of H1N1, the second week I missed WAS a case of H1N1 (H1N1 log if you’re interested. Anyway, the really unfortunate thing was that I had decided to try and wait three weeks between my allergy shots again. So…. after the three week gap I got a shot and the next week I had all sorts of symptoms (along with H1N1). I had started on prednisone two days before I came down with a fever, that day I had spinning, and kept the stuffy ear and tinnitus for a bit better than a full week with it culminating in not one but two spins towards the end as the flu was going on it’s merry way.

So, in other news…. I’m still trying to decide if I want to add in mold allergy for my shots. When I was first diagnosed with allergies mold and dust mites were the culprits and apparently they set me up for shots for the dust mites. I’ve procrastinated on deciding for a while and thought I’d try pushing things back a week with the shots to see if that would work. (Nevermind..)

Sometimes Health can be such a challenging thing to manage! Anyway, I think I’m mostly over the flu at this point and my tiredness is back down to the general cyclical fatigue that I get due to the allergy shots/meniere’s symptoms and the benadryl which I’m afraid to miss taking for the symptoms. To roll the clock back to the beginning of my bad week with symptoms that was the only stretch for a while I haven’t taken the benedryl regularly as I was afraid of mixing it with the other cold/flu cough medicines that I was taking. I suspect some people may wonder if I have a non-prescription drug addiction in the benadryl, but really it does seem that two at bedtime and then one or two during the day depending on the amount of ear pressure really has seemed to keep things at bay. When I finally resumed the benadryl after the flu was subsiding it was only a day or two before the symptoms subsided.

So…. I am glad to see October go. It was NOT a fun month and at this point in time I’m looking forward to somewhat of a break in the coming month or two. I am greatly looking forward to some rest around Thanksgiving and then Christmas. Hopefully I will have caught the last bug for this calendar year!