Ed's Meniere's Disease Video 6.2: Temporary Drugs to Block Vertigo SymptomsPosted by Groth Greer on June 11th, 2021 Hi, I'm ed Chun again. I have been years, I'm also internal medicine, physician, creating a series of videos. This is video six point two and of all the videos. This is the one you probably want to watch the most where I'm going to talk about temporary drugs to block the symptoms of many years. These are all the classic medicines that are given by physicians for many years during an attack, and so these are all temporary drugs we taking not regularly, but temporarily, they don't treat the underlying cause of many years. However, they do help with the symptoms of the vertigo and the spinning does not do much for the tinnitus. So so the temporary drugs, the blocked symptoms of many years or the vertigo are broken to sort of three large categories number one: the motion, sickness drugs. The second medications, second group of medications are the nausea and vomiting drugs and the third medications are sort of the anti anxiety or benzodiazepine type drugs that calm the nerves so going to the fur again, as I said in the first introduction for the for the medication Series I'm going to talk primarily with naming the generic or scientific names, because there's multiple, multiple, multiple different brand names that are named by the companies who make them. Okay. So going to the first section, the motion, sickness drugs, they're, primarily composed of meclizine, okay, and what the meclizine does is it directly at acts on the inner ear to decrease the information that the brain receives? It is very drying and an example of this would be this little pink pillow right here. It'S called mek. Meclizine you buy it over the counter. It may not be pink, it may be, yellow may be white, it depends on the generic brand maker like, for example, this one's made by the one I bought over. The counter is called by rugby and it's called travel travel sickness pill. Okay, I mean they decided not even to give it a brand name, but it's called meclizine okay and they come in 25 milligram tablets. Ms e c li Zi and e. It'S sort of the other brand names that may be out there. You might hear our aunt overt, it's very classic. A bombing Disney's motion cure mana mean there's probably five or ten other different ones out there also, but the entire scientific names called meclizine again. It directly acts on the inner ear to decreased information. The brain receives my personal experience with it is that it's very, very drying. It leaves me in a fog, it makes you very very sleepy, but it helps some with when you have a very, very severe vertigo attack. So that's the first mend and the motion of super strokes. The second one is diamond hydron mean Hydra Nate dimenhydrinate. Basically, it's an antihistamine, it's very commonly called Dramamine kalmyks, take overt nausea nose actor. All this is an antihistamine now, an antihistamine as these called anticholinergic properties. Where they work on sort of a central nervous system areas again it they have these side effects of being very, very drying, but at the same time, what they do is they sort of decrease the amount of information that the brain receives and they're all very, very They make you very, very sleepy, the third major medicine, the motion, sickness tricks is diphenhydramine. Okay, diphenhydramine is called benadryl. I mean cue drill, benadryl, Benedum, Dan, a pen there's a whole bunch of other, like brand names out there, but I mean this is the liquid form of it again comes in like the solo perform like twelve and half 25 50 milligram doses of it relatively safe To take again, all these are over-the-counter. It'S an antihistamine, very drying. Sedating people actually do take this to help you sleep. In try these out , if you take any of these coffee and cold medicines that they sell out their nyquil p.m. and stuff, like that, the main medications that make you help you that make people sleep are the antihistamines that are in there either diphenhydramine dimenhydrinate at any of those Medications they again I've taken them for they sort of help again with a little bit of the vertigo. I I don't find them that helpful. Personally, but again, each person is different. The fourth medication and the motion sickness drugs is actually a patch. It'S called the scopolamine patch and again the scientific name is called scopolamine is one point: five milligrams, this one's called a trans, Durham, scope, trans, Durham X. Basically, it's a three-day patch. You peel it off. There'S a little sticky about this big. Stick it behind your ear. On whatever side, that's that's giving you problems, has the same side effects. Is that antihistamines very drying a little bit sedating, not as sedating as the other ones, but I'm just going to warn you that you do have a little of pupil dilation on that same side because of the anticholinergic and the antis tamina sort of effects. On that side, and on top you're gon na have a very, very, very dry mouth on that one side after about a day the two days, I find this thing so drying that I have to take it off. I can't tolerate any more. However, I do have to say for me personally, I find this scopolamine patch extremely extremely helpful, because it doesn't just like get rid of the dizziness for me, however, what I do sense or feel with it. It makes you sort of pull back from the sensation of the dizziness and makes this the sense of vertigo and a spinning not as severe. This is actually the classic patch that they give on cruise ships for people who gets emotional stickers he's sick, okay. So those are the main motion: sickness drugs, again meclizine diphenhydramine scopolamine. Now the next, maybe big group, the medicines are called the nausea or vomiting drugs. Okay, and these are primarily composed of phenergan, which unfortunately, I don't have any here with me to show you. But it comes in the liquid IV form or oral form. I find the Fed again if you need to it, needs to be given by prescription somewhat helpful, especially during an acute attack. It feels almost like a scopolamine and again it makes it doesn't make the Disney vision on Z go away, but it's like disinhibited, you sort of feel a little distance from the nausea and the vertigo. It is very, very sedating, and it makes you sort of feel a little off I'll, be honest to you. The next medicine under the nausea and vomiting drugs are compazine or taya or called chlorpromazine. Okay, it's called compazine or chlorine. It'S a week, your nausea medicine, another medicine, that's called Reglan or metoclopramide. This is when I have medical provide these. Usually the compazine is usually a little yellow one. The medical provides a little green one, the tiny little tablets they only last about three to four hours. They'Re very mild, not anti-nausea medicines, they're, not very sedating, they works or somewhat another. One is called tri methyl benzene or tige, and it looks exactly like this green pill. Tiny little one works just like compazine, but the main medicine under the nausea and vomiting drugs that I absolutely absolutely absolutely have to recommend to you and that you need to get a prescription for and you need to keep on hand is called ondansetron. Oh and da NS e TR, o n dance-a-tron brand name in the United States called zofran Emmett Ron andhe met basically again Donna Tron's the scientific name right here. A dance-a-tron comes in these little 10 milligram, 4, sorry, 4 milligrams or 8 milligram tablets see. This is another dance Tron also by a different generic maker ascent and basically these little tablets they're just tiny. This kind of white pill, so I'm gon na show, I gave these tiny white pills. These things are like a miracles of nausea medicine drug I mean literally, these things were initially created for and given for chemotherapy side effects, and they work quite well now with men years. This will not actually stop. The vertigo attacks will not do anything for the spinning, but it does work pretty well for the nausea centers and it actually works. They'Re called 5-ht antagonists and they're very potent. They work directly against the vagal nerve, which is the main nerve in here. That sort of causes or triggers sort of the nausea centers in the center of the brain again does not do anything for the vertigo and the spinning, but helps mark markedly for the nausea. If you're having a very severe attack, it's not gon na may not get rid of the Naza completely, but it does help again. I highly highly highly recommend absolutely physician to get a prescription for it. Keep it on hand. Works works, wonders for anything. Even if you get a stomachache and you get seasick or nauseated from food poisoning works well for that too, relatively safe, relatively low side effects. Now, the third last category that I'm going to talk to you about about temporary drugs, the block of symptoms are all called the benzodiazepines. Now these are all. I guess you got category three drugs in that you need it. It'S called a triplicate prescription port because they have a high potential or not gon na hide, but they have a potential for abuse and addiction. Basically they what they do is they are all these medicines. They calm the nerves and they calm. The nerve nerve potentials are called of the brain and they actually are sedating. They give these things actually to patients who have actual seizures. They actually work to calm the waveforms and the seasoned waveforms, and you know I've taken them during their very, very severe attack and they work very well. They are very, very sedating. They do make you sleep, but the effect a lot of times they give these medicines for sleep for people who have really problems with deep sleep. So the four main categories are days of ham or valium, diet, Pam or invite roll, so diazepam, X, 1 is called xanax and the third one is called the Raisa Pam ativan or at the HUD's bam or colon izip AM or klonopin, okay. So the I'm going to go through sort of briefly the little descriptions or subtleties between all these anti-anxiety drugs. They all work in the same way. Diazepam is actually probably, I should say, the most potent but the longest acting usually coming about 10 milligram tablets. You can break them in 5, milligram tablets to they last the longest, maybe about 8 to 12 hours, pretty heavy sedating was called valium days, apparently pretty common next one's called xanax or alprazolam. I don't recommend this necessarily for the men years. It'S very short, acting only lasts about two to three hours. It'S usually come to 0.25 or 0.5 milligram dose things and usually give this type of medication for patients who have severe anxiety, attacks or to get the anxious or nervous it may help also with them. In years, but mm-hmm it's hard for me to recommend that, because there's so many other medicines out there, that are, I mean other ones that are more potent the next one is called the Raisa Pam or ativan, or saw Prem come to this tiny little motel is The half a milligram tablet works very, very, very well just like that of the Valium, but it's a medium acting one, maybe about six hours of length of duration against the dating works like the other ones, and the last one is called klonopin, which is the sort Of right between the a de mas like right below the ativan as far as the strength, little green tablet comes in one half one and two milligram tablets. Again all these medications work the exact same way, one's not better than the other. As far as the anti-anxiety medicines, I'm talking to the cat aghori group, the diazepam alprazolam lorazepam clonazepam all work the same way. They all have the same effects. They all reduce the potentials and do have a pretty good success rate of sort of pushing down the severity of the above, the vertigo okay. So I hope those helped with the description of the temporary drugs to block the symptoms min years again broke into three large categories: motion: sickness drugs, primarily at the antihistamines meclizine scopolamine patch. Okay, the next ones are the nausea vomiting drugs again the compazine tige and Reglan, but the primary one. Again I highly recommend that you get is the zofran or the unde Ansett Ron and the last one. I do recommend any of these: the valium, the ativan, the klonopin. Again, they have hide, addictive, addictive potential. However, they do work very well, and you know if your doctor will not have a problem, giving you a short small prescription couple tablets of those in case you do have an attack next video six point: three other medsLike it? Share it! |