Surprising amazing response to cinnarizine (vasodilator)
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 6 months
- Published
- Jul 2019
Summary
Cinnarizine at half a 25mg tablet twice daily - 12.5mg in total, well under the usual 75mg - produced a response within hours of the first dose, with tingling in the hands, feet and fingers and a sense of life coming back into the body. Pressure in the head and behind the eyes fell by roughly 80%, the pounding heart and chest heaviness lifted, and she could sit and eat without struggling to breathe, after six months of post-dengue illness marked by severe headaches, motion-sickness-like nausea, palpitations and a resting heart rate never below 80. She planned to obtain a prescription and titrate the dose upward from there. Her account covers only the first days of use, so whether the gain held is not established in it.
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Gut problems, Headaches & migraine, Heart symptoms & palpitations, Neuropathy & tingling, Pain & fibromyalgia.