10 days on propranolol

Hey! When I was researching meds in this group for dizziness relief I saw a lot of people bring up propranolol and most people talked about it negatively. I just wanted to post a good post about it and say it’s starting to change my life for the better.

I’m a 33 year old female and my severe dizziness is down to maybe 1-2 times a day, and brain fog has gone down slightly. I am able to sit in a sun lit room again without wanting to throw up. I started at 10mg twice a day, then 20mg twice a day and now 20mg three times a day. I expect to have to go a little higher as my HR is still high enough, and I have high BP as well. I also still take .25mg of Ativan once a day but that’s just in the mornings when my symptoms are the worst. I expect to wean off that very soon. I was able to do VRT without throwing up for the first time, and started doing little at home workouts again. My appetite is slowly returning, but I’m still doing the migraine diet for now.

So far so good. I will continue to update but I was about as severe as it gets the last 4 years with the 24/7 dizziness, extreme vertigo spells that sent me to ER countless times, bedridden for months, photophobia, etc. I went from 5-10% of what I used to be able to do before migraines, and now I’m back to about 50-60% after only 10 days!