Recent content by benjd2016

How long did you take the blood thinner and vasodilator (Hydralazine) for? It would be very helpful to know if this needs to be long term or can be short term. Thanks for this information as it help steer me in what could be the right direction to avoid any further harm to my ears, or possible...

COVID-19 has been an absolute menace. It nearly destroyed my life too. I struggled with severe mental health challenges, even feeling suicidal, because of the ongoing audiological problems it caused me. I believe these issues include Meniere’s disease, which developed shortly after a very mild...

COVID-19 definitely affected your ears—there’s no doubt about it. It did something similar to mine, and I ended up with what is probably Meniere’s disease. Two COVID-19 infections have likely caused permanent damage to me. You might consider trying a short course of steroids to see if it helps...

It sounds exactly like what I experienced before I had a severe tinnitus onset in December 2020. For days, I dealt with fluctuating hearing that would last a few seconds to a minute, and it was terrifying. Then one day, while reading on my computer, it all started. A few months later, the same...

Were you ever prescribed steroids for this? Sudden trauma can sometimes cause tinnitus, and some doctors prescribe high-dose steroids for a week, which can often help. In Germany, they administer 250 mg for three days and then stop without the need for tapering. I’m not sure if this approach...

I have managed to get hold of Hydralazine and Apixaban (the doctor did not prescribe Warfarin, as she believed Apixaban was safer). I also have Pentoxifylline, but that is intended for long term treatment. For now, the initial 4 week course includes 100 mg of Aspirin, 2.5 mg of Apixaban, and 25...

At least you were able to find a doctor. Mine won't and I'm afraid I'm going to suffer another major episode and then end up taking my life because of it. I don't even know what to do now except call emergency services and arrange for them to take me to hospital if this happens again because it...

I guess I am probably going to end up ending my own life because I know this is going to happen again. It will happen again because it has already happened 13 times. Let me explain. I was at the doctor’s office on September 9th, right after my 11th episode. I suggested trying blood thinners...

1 to 2 years? Wow, that's a long time. Mine is still ongoing—it started in 2022 and continues to torment my ears even more. This "active" phase, as my friend calls it, is relentless and feels like it’s attacking my ears constantly. It’s pushing me toward a place where I might do something I...

I experienced these symptoms a few times before my tinnitus became permanent, so please be cautious. See your doctor immediately and try to secure some steroids in case things suddenly worsen, as they did for me. I’m still angry, still on edge, and still desperate to stop this from continuing...

I’m nearing the end myself because I’ve been trying to get a vasodilator and an anti-clotting drug. I’ve explained how distressing and emotionally disturbing my problems have been over the past four years, with no end in sight unless I can either treat whatever is causing this or end things for...

Are you sure this wasn't some form of bizarre high-frequency sudden sensorineural hearing loss? Or maybe a form of Ménière's disease?

Get on steroids ASAP. What you experienced was sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). Please treat it immediately—it is an emergency, and you still have time. Yes, your hearing has changed. Otherwise, how would you have lost your enjoyment of music if it hadn't changed? It did. Get on...

How do you get it to regenerate? You could consider taking a course of very high-dose steroids. I took 250 mg of Prednisolone per day for 3 days to get rid of the "noise" in my left ear, and it seems to have worked for the most part. You could also consider taking Pentoxifylline 400 mg three...

It sounds like my problem almost exactly. However, that bad episode I have yet to experience, but if I did, and the steroids did not work, I'd probably no longer be part of the living world. I've suffered 11 episodes of mild to moderate sudden hearing losses, but many of them resolved; some...