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Overall my tinnitus has gotten quite a bit better (either that or I have gotten better at dealing with it). I hear it in both ears. Since the initial onset, the tinnitus has been going up and down mainly because I seem to get sick a lot and when I am sick it gets worse but then it goes back...

Hello. First off I want to say that I don't think my tinnitus is that bad. I can go to sleep without masking it without a problem. The problem occurs when there is background noise and I try to focus on the tinnitus. When I do that it feels like I can't really pick up on it and it feels likes...

They told me that I need to call on the 10th to book an appointment but the appointment itself will like be later in the month. I was honest with the ENT. I told him that I don't think my hearing is worse, just that my tinnitus feels more intrusive and that when I blow my ear drums it feels like...

A second opinion would be good but the problem is that in my small provincial town he is the only ENT. There will be some other ENT who is also a Professor who will be visiting but they told me that I needed to call after the 10th to book an appointment. The tinnitus itself is doing better I...

He didn't. He only looked at my eardrum. He told me that the same thing happened to him a long time ago and that he also has some tinnitus because of it. My tinnitus is doing a little better I think, knock on wood. One of them is a vitamin and the other one is Betahistine.

He looked at my ear drum and told me it was fine and if any damage had been done it would have been to the hearing nerve and nothing could be done about that.

I went to him. He didn't prescribe me steroids. He prescribed me some supplements.

@billie48, this post really is a gem. Today a firecracker blew up 5 meters away from me and might have caused hearing loss. Will know for sure tomorrow but right now I am really depressed and this made me a little happy when I read it.

Trying to not let depression get me.

Today a firecracker blew up about 5 metres away from me. I was clustered with a group of 20 other students in front of school and someone lit up a firecracker out of nowhere and it blew up without most of us knowing it was lit. At first I didn't feel anything so I didn't go to an ENT but now the...

I will try to.

Thank you for the kind words. My family doesn't know how much I am struggling as I try to keep my complaining to a minimum.

I know a person isn't supposed to have these thoughts. It's just that I don't see a way out of my current predicament.

And if that something doesn't happen?

Thanks for the cheerful response! You don't come off as unempathetic at all! It's just it keeps getting worse and when I am used to it being at one level it becomes harder to ignore.