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Walking with Meniere's Disease
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[QUOTE="Anamiri, post: 852041, member: 77779"] My Meniere‘s is much milder than yours. My sister and I both have it, but hers is much more severe, and for her a bout can be completely debilitating for days and even weeks. As I am older than my sister I figure mine will never be as severe as hers. She has found amongst other things that a salt free diet helps - that is almost impossible on a Camino if you eat pilgrim dinners. I havent had an episode during a Camino. I did have an episode during the night during an Oxfam 100km trailwalk event. It was about 1am, and when we got into the checkpoint I was feeling a bit dizzy and queasy and ate only a few crisps. As soon as I tried to stand up again I knew I was in trouble. The night was really black, I need something visual to focus on to help orient myself, the head torch just dissolved into the night. All four team members have to finish for it to be official so I knew I just had to make it, we would have had about 25 kms to go . The other 3 team members walked around me after I nearly fell in the river, and I held my sticks out widely and walked as fast as I could (we achieved more kms/hour than during the day). They were scared I was going to fall off the path, or into an electric fence. (I was too, but I just focused on moving) The momentum helped to keep me upright. Apparently I was stumbling all over the path. They made sure other people took a wide berth around me. It took about 3 hours to ease, to the next checkpoint, and even then I was still sick and wobbly with badly skinned knees through my tights. Looking back I dont know how I did it. My sister thinks my mistake was eating the crisps, and not enough water when I was already experiencing light symptoms. It was terrible, the team knew it was a possibility for me, but in 3 other events I had never experienced it. In fact it was only the second time in public ever, usually it occurs when I am at home. That was about 3 years ago now, and I haven't had another bad incident since. I do take medication with me on Camino, but have never needed it. At home I try to look up and focus on something before getting up. I avoid absolute darkness, at night I always have a curtain open so the light can come in a bit. [/QUOTE]
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