Recent content by Gareth Davies

Not like how it was in the beginning. Inflammation is still meh. I'll try to pop in more often. Just took a break from the site; you know?

Nothing serious. Just good old ibuprofen. I toyed with the idea of taking stronger items, but the possible side-effects worried me :S

My eardrums were healthy. You can have ETD with healthy eardrums - mine are fine for example. The test was offered first thing with my private ETD - didn’t have to ask. Definitely look for a different private hospital in that case! It was around £100-200 I believe for the test and initial...

Oh, and I can sleep now. Which…which I’m very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very grateful for.

Yep - I regularly feel soreness and movement in my affected ear - like a living piece of clay. I’m convinced it’s just stubbornly inflammed tissue - it’s just difficult to “get at” and treat due to the skull being in the way. Darn skull :S

Yeah, I wouldn’t waste your time with the NHS. You wait for months for a 5 minute phone call - never even met my NHS ENT. Go private if possible. My private ENT did a ear pressure test last year - confirmed the pressure was off, etc. (My NHS ENT even told me ETD does not cause tinnitus! My...

Very true. 13 months at this point :S Slowest year of my life.

Perhaps some minor improvement? Very much a waiting game.

Thanks for the advice :)

Tinnitus is one of the worst. But it makes other bad things seem...less bad by comparison. Not as important to worry about or get scared over. It’s difficult (not impossible, but difficult) to ‘up the ante’.