Recent content by mknature

Lucky me, I got VSS! In the cool club. Light sensitivity, floaters, negative afterimages, starbursts, BFEP. Frontotemporal headaches. Yay.

How did this play out for you?

I'm curious if @Baker could go through with the MRI? Did it go well? I'm in North Carolina and willing to travel to a quiet MRI machine. Does anybody know of one? I might have to do a brain MRI, and that will require a feat of mental fortitude plus some research, prep, and prayer. As far as I...

I am BACK to Tinnitus Talk because I thought my life was over when I first got here in 2020. I really couldn't see myself being someone writing "tinnitus doesn't bother me" on this success stories thread. But HERE I AM! This makes me pretty happy, and I want to share to give hope to others, as I...

I'm going to weigh in here. Neil Bauman's was the first site to show for me that EYE drops of Gentamicin or Neomycin can cause hearing loss and tinnitus, mainly because he was compiling accounts of folks who reported it to him. Non-doctors can't report (other than VAERS) on adverse reactions...

@StoneInFocus, looking forward to your report of how it's going for you. I thought I'd chime in with my own internet findings as I'm looking into things (other than red wine!) that will modulate my tinnitus (one theory is the GABA-agonist, glutamate-antagonist thing for alcohol; in thought, CBD...

In case anyone was curious, following up on the end of my story. I did enter BLET (Basic Law Enforcement Training) in July 2022 after testing my double-hearing protection at the audiologist. She basically vacillated between "it's a risk" and "you'll probably be ok." The director of the BLET...

Hi! Can I ask, what do you mean by "made my body go bonkers?" My TSH is currently sitting at 2.87, subclinical, but my TPOAb are around 800. Considering thyroid meds.

Thanks for sharing your story. I, too, am in the "hearing loss plus tinnitus" group. I used to scour the Success Stories to try to find someone who still had hearing loss but their tinnitus went away, not just habituated. I don't think I ever found one, unfortunately. I'd love to hear one, just...

Hi @Tisyuck, can you remember where you read these accounts? I am having trouble finding lots of accounts of this (just so many more from shooting without protection, I think). Especially interested in the double hearing protection one. Thanks!

Thanks, all, for your replies. If you read/hear from anyone else who has experience with doubled-up ear pro on an outdoor range, please send them my way! I know everyone is different, but I want to just hear how they got on.

Yeah, that one's tough. Did you ever get an audiogram for possible hearing loss? To me, that would help confirm what happened. My left ear is now worse than my right, which Neil Bauman at the Center for Hearing Loss Help pointed out would make sense if the eye drops that I used in my LEFT eye...

Hi, I've recently rejoined and posted about a spike I experienced/am experiencing. I am wondering, now, mostly about my future in the law enforcement and park ranger field. The training I have coming up is BLET (basic law enforcement training), firearms (with protection), and chainsaw safety...

JoeC100, are you still in law enforcement? Did you get through firearms ok without tinnitus issues? Trying to think through next steps in my career (taking BLET soon) and worried, even with protection, my tinnitus will flare up.