Thank you so much for this article and also for this website.
I have had VM for four years now and have only been correctly diagnosed for a few months, in this time I have lost the job I love in palliative care through absences from work. I was beginning to honestly think my life was not worth living and no one seemed to understand how horrible the symptoms can be. I never associated VM with my hearing loss, vertigo and terrible nausea.
However since seeing a lovely ENT specialist, I have been correctly diagnosed. I had kept a diary of my symptoms and so he could see that they came in clusters. He asked me to take all the trigger foods out of my diet and introduce one each week, well, I did really well for a couple of weeks and then tried to introduce chocolate back, the effect was immediate and I woke up the next day with the horrible symptoms back again!!! which have lasted nearly a week now in one form or another, after the initial vertigo and nausea,’ jelly’ legs, joint pains and a overwhelming fatigue.
However, after finding this website and especially this article, I have realised that if I eat a healthy diet and miss out the trigger foods, cut down on stress, then I can get my life back on track, I have read this article many times since I first discovered it and I must say that I am so grateful to you, it has been a real lifeline for me and when I do get discouraged I read it again !
I am determined to use the knowledge in this article to get better.
Thank you so much.
Debbie x
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