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  • Candida Diary #11: What Now?

    May 24

    Today was not a great day.  My dizziness came back with a vengeance.  I recently suffered from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) first in October of last year.  It is a terrible condition where a bit of crystal breaks loose in your inner ear disrupting your sense of balance.  It makes walking, standing, and moving about very difficult as you feel like you are completely drunk on a ship caught in a storm.  My last episode lasted until the end of the year when I used a home ear cleaning kit to remove a massive wax plug that had built up in my ear.  I thought that the problem was long gone until today when I awoke to a spinning room and funhouse floors.  I was actually thankful that my morning appointment did not show up.  It gave me time to regroup and figure things out.  I did the Epley Manoeuvre a couple of times and cleaned my ears out with the kit, but no luck.

    As I am on the candida cleanse, I have a tendency to attribute every single positive or negative change in my health to candida.  So, now I am wondering if I am suffering because on the weekend I had barbecued chicken and beef that was marinated in soy sauce.  This cleanse is definitely bringing out the paranoia.  Can such a small quantity of soy sauce cause such drastic effects?  The quantity of yeast in soy sauce must be negligible.  Would breaking my cleanse by such a small bit reverse all of the sacrifice that I had endured the previous 4 weeks?  If that was the case, I need to consider options.

     

    Edit:  A week later, I talked to Dr. Lee Know, the naturopath at Inno-Vite and he assured me that any effects from breaking my cleanse that one time would have been much smaller and gradual.  In other words, the return of BPPV was due to something else, not that one slip up.  Whew…

  • Treatment of Dizziness or Vertigo

    Dizziness or Vertigo due to Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is fairly common but can feel debilitating.  It can be difficult to walk, stand or sit without dizziness or sometimes nausea.  It is caused by a piece of crystal in your inner ear coming loose and positioning itself incorrectly.  The good news is that it is a relatively harmless safe condition and it can be effectively treated with certain exercises.

    The first step to treatment is a visit to your doctor to diagnose the condition.  Your doctor may even be able to treat you by performing the Epley Maneuvre or Canalith Repositioning Maneuvre.  If you doctor can’t perform the maneuvre, be sure that they diagnose which ear is affected and visit a physiotherapist that can perform the maneuvre for you.

     The Epley Maneuvre or Canalith Repositioning Maneuvre

    The Epley Maneuvre or Canalith Repositioning Maneuvre puts the patient in a series of positions in order to encourage the crystal to float back to its normal place in the inner ear.

    The Epley Maneuvre:

    – pillow under back to give 30 degrees extension of the head
    – Start facing the affected side.  Face left if the left ear is affected
    – wait 30 seconds after symptoms subside to change positions

    The general procedure is:

    1. lie on your back with a pillow under your shoulders.  Your head is 45 degrees rotated towards affected ear and 30 degrees extended
    2. head is 45 degrees rotated away from the affected ear and 30 degrees extended
    3. roll onto your side away from the affected ear with your head rotated so that you are looking at the floor
    4. come up to a seated position and look straight ahead

     

    Home care:

    – Do not sleep flat for 2 days.  This can be done by sleeping in a reclining chair at an angle of about 45 degrees.
    – For one week try to avoid moving your head in ways that might provoke another reaction.  Avoid the hairdresser, sports, looking up or down while working.

    It  is quite slow and gentle as you can see in the following videos.  This first video shows the Epley Maneuvre for BPP Vertigo of the left ear:

    The next video shows the Epley Maneuvre for BPP Vertigo of the right ear

     

    Brandt-Daroff Repositioning/Habituation Exercises

    After you are treated, you can do the Brandt-Daroff Repositioning/Habituation Exercises at home on your own. The following video explains the Brandt-Daroff Exercises:

     

    Hopefully these exercises will help you get your life back to normal.  A word of caution: This condition often reoccurs after a few years and treatment may need to be repeated.