I'm trying to find some treatment answers for my mother who has very severe vertigo -- like a rocking boat.
Sound like lyme? What co-infection do you think this sounds most like? She has a history of lyme, possibly babs and yeast issues.
these are her symptoms right now: rocking vertigo white/yellow tongue tingling sensation in her pelvis depression (but who wouldn't be??)
We are in Atlanta, and she is at a nursing home. Going to LLMD is not an option though I can call one we've worked with in the past to help.
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Hi CamB!
This is a good post. I'm so sorry your Mom is in a nursing home. But all is not lost.
I don't know how to help with "rocking like a boat." I dearly hope someone here can assist you.
Yes, vertigo is a neurological sign of chronic Lyme.
You mentioned calling your LLMD. Yes! I certainly would! Ask about all four of your questions.
It could be a consultation, perhaps. Maybe the LLMD could recommend a course of action IN WRITING. You could give the recommendation by consult to her nursing home doctors.
After all, she has a pre-existing condition: Lyme and perhaps co-infections. She's got Lyme diagnosed! That could be important! Are the doctors then (more) obliged to listen to the LLMD?
Anyone else have a better way?
***White/yellow tongue: Probably yeast (oral thrush.) An LLMD could prescribe Nystatin or whatever to kill yeast. However, she's also going to need good quality probiotics every day and multiple types.
A person can herx on a bad yeast infection and that's a good thing. Prepare your Mom and her doctors for this so they don't stop yeast treatment.
A herx is when all your signs and symptoms get worse, caused by the die-off.
That is, if it's yeast. Maybe it's something else? Here is a very useful thread with a checklist near the end of what else it might be:
***Tingling sensation in her pelvis: Yes, this could be Lyme or a co-infection.
***Depression (but who wouldn't be??): I think everyone would agree with you on that! Who wouldn't be, huh? A bad yeast infection alone could cause that!
In addition, a yeast infection can cause her GI tract not to work right to process food nutrients and meds that she takes. It can cause depression.
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thanks so much Daise, for your response. Mom has also been getting flagyl and oral vancomycin since January for a really bad case of C.Diff she caught in the hospital.
I was wondering whether there is some ototoxicity at play here. Maybe she's had some killing thanks to the abx and it's filling her up with toxins. i saw on another thread for tinnitus that this may be the case. i just wonder if it is related.
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Hi CambB,
I took flagyl twice, for ten days each time, trying to get rid of c. difficile. Finally ORAL vancomycin worked.
Your Mom is taking IV vancomycin. For getting rid of c. difficile, ask the LLMD if oral is called for.
Is she taking IV vancomycin for Lyme? That's one method used for Lyme neurological things.
Boulardii is a supplement that might help her with c. diff. In addition the Nystatin and multiple probiotics I mentioned will also help with getting rid of c. difficile, as well!
As she's been getting oral vancomycin since January, I imagine she's probably herxing. Herxes can last a day or weeks and can overlap with the next herx.
Herx's are good things--it means something is being killed off. They make your signs and symptoms worse.
Anybody know about "rocking like a boat" vertigo to help a lady in a nursing home?
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Vancomycin can be ototoxic. All "ycins" have the potential to be, and gento and van are 2 heavy hitters, IMHO. It way up'd my rocky boat vertigo when I took it years ago.
When my grandmother got C diff a few months ago, I went to a local vitamin store- think it was VitaShoppe- and got a probiotic that was different from others in that a couple of the bacteria spp. in it, and the product itself, were touted as being good for C diff. Sorry, I can't recall the name...
A knowledgable employee at your local vitamin store might be off more help on that one. I think the label might have actually had that claim on it, but I can't remember for sure.
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need to add another symptom: mother also seems to have a lot of hair loss. i can't tell for sure because she has a lot of hair to begin with but it seems like she's losing a lot of hair when i brush it out.
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