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Today is exactly five weeks since my partial hearing loss. My ENT told me there is nothing more he could do.

To be honest, I can deal with the hearing loss I have, but I'm having a really hard time with the tinnitus. The thought of having to live the rest of my life with it gives me great anxiety. I hope it quiets down some.
 
Danny2000 last decade
Danny - sorry to hear that. I'm worried they'll tell me that as well. Some people have mentioned that white noise is a great help with tinnitis. Go to http://www.simplynoise.com/ and try it out.

Suncasa - I'll email you. I guess mine's not in my profile.
 
shortcake last decade
Danny-

You might want to visit this site

http://www.curetinnitus.org/

Julian Cowan Hill has alot to say about tinnitus. He is deaf in one ear and has cured himself of it. He also can be found on you tube.

Also I am taking Vinpocetine and Gingko and I think they are helping. My tinnitus has been much lower the past two days and that even with my hearing going down.

I am noticing that my ear/hearing is being aggravated by different foods.
This is a new discovery. I've decided to start keeping a food diary to see if I can track a consistency. Chicken is the first culprit.
 
suncasa last decade
Suncasa,

I would gladly give up chicken for better hearing.
 
Danny2000 last decade
Danny

I lost my hearing in my left ear in a matter of hours last November. The tinnitus was so loud that I couldn't concentrate to either watch tv or read. I couldn't sleep or function as it seemed to vibrate my whole head. Over time it has calmed down alot, and now I don't really notice it too much unless I have been exposed to noise or stressed/tired.
 
scorpiouk last decade
Scorpiok -

thank you for the post. It makes me feel a lot better. My ENT told me to 'deal with it'.
 
Danny2000 last decade
Danny

Yes that was the attitude I got as well - zero sympathy or advice. Only one private consultant who saw me and actually spent time talking over my hearing loss with me - said that the tinnitus will probably get less as time goes on. It was so bad at that time - I really didnt believe him. I thought Id be living my life on diazapam to cope with it. But thankfully he was right. So fingers crossed for you.
 
scorpiouk last decade
Thanks again ScorpioK. Just curious, how long did it take for the tinnitus to quiet down? Was it a slow decrease in volume or an overnight thing? Been 37 days for me now at full volume.
 
Danny2000 last decade
Danny - it was gradual thing over a few months. It was most intense first 5/6 weeks after hearing loss - then gradually over time has got less. Its always there, but its a background noise. I used to have use a whitenoise sound source to get to sleep every night. I never use it now, even though there is that constant whooshing/hum in my ears. It does flare up with noise/stress and alcohol.
 
scorpiouk last decade
Hi all- I don't know what to say. My hearing was all the way down today and the tinnitus was awful. I am as frustrated as everyone else here. I have noticed that if I stuff a piece of cotton in my bad ear it seems to quiet the tinnitus down a bit. Maybe the nerves get aggravated by noise. I was in a car all day driving on a highway and it may have just been to much noise. After putting cotton in my ear when I got home it has quieted down to almost nothing. I wish something would work consistently. Maybe this will help Danny.
 
suncasa last decade
Sorry to hear that suncasa! I've been doing the cotton in the ear thing too. It helps with the noise sensitivity, and I think it also does help with the tinnitus. Noise definitely increases my tinnitus.
 
shortcake last decade
Well, my hearing is basically at its lowest point ever. The doctor is sending me to a rheumatologist and has also prescribed something called SERC which, apparently, they use a lot in europe. Sigh.
 
shortcake last decade
Shortcake - is your eating loss due to autoimmune problems?
 
Danny2000 last decade
So sorry to hear that shortcake. Mine is almost there too. I am taking Chinese herbs on top of all the other vitamins. I am trying everything I can think of . The tinnitus is what is really getting at me. It's th esound of a car horn going off non-stop. Pretty terrible at night sleeping especially. When it is loud I know my hearing is at it's lowest. This is pretty hard to adjust too but I am trying to stay positive.
 
suncasa last decade
I meant hearing loss. Bad spellchecker.
 
Danny2000 last decade
Tinnitus can be cured with homoeopathy - I have had several patients with particularly bad tinnitus that have recovered very nicely from it. All of them needed different medicines, all were prescribed according the the individual characteristics of their case. For some of them the condition cleared up overnight, for some it took several months of general upward improvement.

Tinnitus does not have to be something you live with, there is hope.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Hi - where are you located? You can email me if you like- under my profile here. I was up all night with very loud tinnitus that is the sound of a high pitched car horn. Pretty awful and nerve wracking. My tinnitus is from hearing loss though. It goes away when my hearing comes back.

Thanks.
 
suncasa last decade
LOL, Danny, my eating is just fine, thanks! :) My doctor still isn't sure what is causing my hearing loss. My bloodwork was kind of ambiguous, which is why he wants me to see a specialist. He is fairly certain I have cochlear hydrops - which is meniere's disease without the dizziness. But apparently meniere's can be caused by an autoimmune condition. He's not too encouraging about that side of things because if it is autoimmune, there are not great treatments for it - the drugs are pretty nasty. But he feels we should find out all the facts.
 
shortcake last decade
I'm new to this site but I've been on another. I had SSHL, just woke up one am in May 2008 with fullness in ear, didn't realize at first I was deaf on left side. I got into Emory in Atlanta within a week, saw head ENT who said they hadn't 'cracked the code' on it but received 4 TM steroid injections with no improvement in the profound hearing loss. MRI was neg. One thing I've noted on the other blog is that TMJ seems to be a running theme with a lot of folks like me. I had braces and bite planes 25 yrs ago for severe TMJ but it has gotten bad again, worse on the side of the deafness. After over a year without any improvement and a worsening of the tinnitus and buzzing/static noises (like someone holding a microphone too close to a high amped speaker) I am ready for a BAHA. Before this though my dentist & I have decided to go through a custom bite plane to see if there is any improvement. This is just a last ditch effort before I have the BAHA. I just have to think the TMJ has something to do with all this but after over a year I don't know if realignment of any type would help but I'm going to give it a shot. I have tended to become more introverted as being in noisy places is difficult. I swore that when this happened I would not be like people who have hearing problems that will just nod their head like they know what people are saying when they really don't but I have found myself taking that easy route. I feel like wearing a sign around my neck telling everyone I'm deaf on my left side. Anyway, just wanted to join in and will certainly inform any and everyone if I see any improvement in the next few months. I never regained any hearing in my ear from the morning I woke up with it, just that the silence seems to have become more deafening with all the in the head noises.
 
martinrd last decade
Glad you joined Martin. I agree, the deafness is one thing but the noise/tinnitus is the worst. I hope the BAHA works out well for you.
 
suncasa last decade
Hey Martin - I'm interested to hear if you have any luck with the mouth plate. I have TMJ also, though not too severe.
 
shortcake last decade
Funny, I have TMJ on the side where my hearing loss is too- not severe either though, thankfully. Just some occasional popping.
 
suncasa last decade
Going into week 8. Hearing loss is the same. I think I'm getting somewhat use to the tinnitus (or it's getting lower). My eyes are still sore and bothering me. I have an eye doctor aapointment in 3 weeks.

Doing some reading on the Internet, I learned there is no real blood test for autoimmune disease. Does anybody know if the symptoms of sudden hearing loss are different if it's caused by a virus or an autoimmune disease?
 
Danny2000 last decade
Hi Danny- I have low-tone loss. I am trying a round of anti-virals - started today but I was finally diagnosed with Menieres. I am really hoping that they do the trick. I was having success with diuretics but they were botherinig my good ear so I stopped them.

Glad you're adjusting. The tinnitus is the worst part for me too.
 
suncasa last decade
Hi Danny, I have Sudden Hearing Loss in my left ear , for approx. 9 weeks now. My Doctor said it was caused by a virus (flu, chicken pox, measles,meningitis) that settles in your ear. I also had problems with my left eye, dizziness, extreme vertigo, vomiting. Now I only have a little dizziness with the hearing loss and the tinnitus.
 
Charlee last decade
Charlee -

good to talk to somebody that is at about the same time frame as me. My eyes ache all the time, and I kind of feel like I'm drunk.

I noticed with the tinnitus if I just didn't react to it at all, my anxiety level has decreased and now I hear it less.
 
Danny2000 last decade

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