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    Ear Fullness and Balance

    I have balance issues that are an absolute nightmare. My vision bobs up and down when i walk, and when I'm still the image wobbles a little. I'm going for balance tests shortly :/ I'm aware this is down to damage to the vestibular system inside your ear so it's totally related. You can try...
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    Anyone Else Have Ultra-High Frequency Tinnitus?

    Mines a sheet of white noise at everything above 13khz, it's piercing but can barely hear it in the fresh air, at night or in silence it turns into a monster tho, also moving my neck sometimes brings on a high pitch tone in my left ear that i would kill myself if it stuck
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    My Tinnitus Is Unbearable and Getting Worse

    I'm like you, unmaskable, i also have vestibular problems too which screw my vision up. One thing i found helps is actually do stuff, just concentrate on what you are doing, also using loud masking...If it has to be loud to mask it make it loud but relaxing. Like we can fall asleep in a moving...
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    Help, Can't Seem to Shake Off This Visual Snow Thing

    Mine's is 24/7, non stop what I've found is called 'gaze instability'. When I look at something especially in the distance it's never still...Like it bobs about as if looking at something floating on the water. When looking at the TV or people's faces for some reason they are doubled but not...
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    Help, Can't Seem to Shake Off This Visual Snow Thing

    Hey Dave how would you describe your shaky vision? I have this problem too it drives me crazy, also double vision when I look at the TV...
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    Tinnitus and Visual Snow / Eye Problems

    I have quite dense visual snow, afterimages, dim vision, poor night vision , contrast poor, my vision also seems to wobble and is double, especially at distance. God knows how all this happened but I heard visual snow and T are common together too... if I could put a bullet in my head I would...
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    Tinnitus for Nearly 4 Weeks Now... Scared Mirtazapine Might Make My Tinnitus Worse...

    Sorry to hear :( Mixed reports I personally wouldn't recommend it, I'm sure my hearing loss started with remeron but others say it helped. All drugs are toxic, check the other posts on mirtazapene and remeron maybe theres some help.
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    Who's Stuck on Benzos?

    Yeh the stupid doctors in my case said thetes nothing wrong when I'm sitting there unable to hear and my eyes jittering about all over the place...so stupidly I took matters into my own hands and had oxygen therapy that created lots of nice reactive oxygen species permanently screwing my hair...
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    Who's Stuck on Benzos?

    Thanks for the reply. I was withdrawing from lorazepam during antidepressant withdrawal. The eye wobble thing started when I was coming off mirtazapene. Have you heard of it before? Any success stories? My vision is completely screwed visual snow, dim, wobbling, all seem like symptoms of optic...
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    Who's Stuck on Benzos?

    Why did the doctor die? I was on lorazepam for 3 months pushed on me when my anxiety was high, which was all the time due to not wanting to take anything. I got hearing loss virtually straight away from remeron, seroquel, and lorazepam all ototoxic or side effects... I didn't know what the...
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    Who's Stuck on Benzos?

    Be careful with these drugs - I had my life ruined by mirtazapene, quetiapine and lorazepam... Which one I don't know however turned out to be ototoxic or other I assume. Have hearing loss, Tinnitus, and worse of all eye movement issues where my eyes won't stop moving... I was taking lorazepam...
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    'Cure' for Deafness Discovered by Scientists After Deaf Mice Have Hearing Restored

    Scientists carried healthy DNA into the ears of profoundly deaf rodents using a harmless virus http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/cure-deafness-discovered-scientists-after-9768342
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    Eye Problems

    I'm guessing the hearing loss associated with my tinnitus also affects my balance system. Tho I had a vestibular assessment and this seemed fine, the physio said it was neck problems? As you say I think the visual snow is an entirely different entity, I'm sure I read something about the visual...
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    Eye Problems

    In addition to hearing problems and tinnitus I also have eyesight movement problems. Can anyone relate? When looking at objects, it gets worse with the distance, my vision is unstable like I cannot fix it on a point? Like a home video camera bobbing about. My depth perception also seems off...
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    Reasons Not to Check Out, Are There Any?

    Thank you for all the kind messages. My situation is so utterly devastating and irreversible it's impossible to see any light. I was part of numerous underground music scenes it's such a personal and social thing. and the audiophile electronics design was my life and career, engineer and...
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    "Eye Tinnitus" aka Visual Snow, oh and Tinnitus

    None. I was perfectly healthy, loving life (apart from some bad life circumstances i could of resolved)... I was taking (by force) benzos and all sorts at the time so I don't know where it all came from... Either way I did oxygen therapy and that's what ruined my hearing :( must have been...
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    "Eye Tinnitus" aka Visual Snow, oh and Tinnitus

    I have this. Also poor contrast.... In addition to hearing loss and tinnitus. Great isn't it
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    What's Your Recipe for Tinnitus?

    -have partner/gf involved in your music businesses leave after 4 years as your about to buy a house and have kids with her, have an alcoholic narcissistic mother as your only family 'support', stress, bullying and depressing environment at work, have someone car crash by hit and run, negative...
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    Reasons Not to Check Out, Are There Any?

    I just cannot even get used to the idea of it yet... :( I'm thankful for all your support everyone here, it's nightmare isn't it. I think my blood brain barrier or something was damaged by the serotonin overload, then being forced to take more and more crippled me, then the smoking, I can't...
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    Reasons Not to Check Out, Are There Any?

    I'm trapped, I don't know how to go on really, can anyone give me a good reason to endure this daily torture, what I can do about it, I'm feeling Suicide is the only next step, I don't see much point... I was a very healthy, fit, and intelligent 38 yr old, electronics engineer working for a...
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    Masking High-Frequency Tinnitus

    How can I mask high frequency tinnitus? It's driving me insane, a piercing 13 kHz tone and white noise above that... I'll put the radio on but it's not clear enough to reach those ranges... Does the brain ever give up trying to seek out signals at these frequencies? With old age, high...
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    "Hearing Distortion" "Recruitment" "Reactive Tinnitus"

    How does music sound to you @Capricornus in a bit more detail..thanks
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    "Hearing Distortion" "Recruitment" "Reactive Tinnitus"

    Do you think brain plasticity can restore and overcome the negative effects of recruitment? When I listen to music it sounds like it's being played through a TINNY loudspeaker.... I'm guessing the high frequency loss has caused all paths to centre on a specific high frequency region....much like...
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    Head and Neck Position Changing Tinnitus (And Chances of Improvement with Physiotherapy?)

    So what's the general conclusion here? Treatment would be commercialised how. Unfortunately I'm struggling to watch the whole video here due to viewing on my phone internet connection which is poor, any chance of a heads up? Thank you
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    Head and Neck Position Changing Tinnitus (And Chances of Improvement with Physiotherapy?)

    I've noticed when I push my head down into my chest my T goes from a hiss to a single tone. I also had a physiotherapist check my vestibular system who said it's all in my neck (oscillopsia and balance issues) and therapy would fix all!? I'm highly sceptical... What are the chances of some...
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    I Can't Take It Anymore

    Thank you Lorac, your story is heart breaking, it is unbelievably cruel and I find I'm still in denial at this point, what did I do to make such a mistake, just visit a doctor and put on antidepressants... My doctor also wouldn't help me and it's how I got to the place I am now... I haven't...
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    I Can't Take It Anymore

    Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into these, I have got a mental illness tho, ocd, knowing ill never be the same again is unforgiveable, thanks to my own stupidity of going to a doctor, what is this hell called psychiatry it's just madness. Drugs that have such serious side effects, how...
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    I Can't Take It Anymore

    Exactly, that's the horrific mistake I made, going with HBOT, I had hearing loss prior to that but no tinnitus, therefore could if been no damage, it's too late now :( and I only did one session for 2 hours...now in stuck in an irreversible situation that I'd rather commit suicide for, and I...
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    I Can't Take It Anymore

    I think mine was from carbon monoxide and mirtazapene and seroquel, all ototoxic all at the same time, I had no idea. I got fluctuating hearing loss then had HBOT after, straight after HBOT session tinnitus and hu frequency hearing loss.... I know that's irreversible, it's like falling in a pit...
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    I Can't Take It Anymore

    I want to murder the psychiatrist that did this, how is it possible that curing depression involves putting me in HELL for the rest of my life?? Suicide isn't easy at all! It was mirtazapene. I complained immediately about hearing problems and the doc just ignored it....
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    I Can't Take It Anymore

    Please help me. How the hell does someone cope, I tried Prednisone and now my T has gone from a hiss to a piercing 14k pitch that's cutting through me every second of every day! I go on Facebook and see all my musical friends (I was a music lecturer and producer and audiophile and researchrt in...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    I can't even begin to know how to cope, music was 90% of my life, there's no movement in life without music, sometimes I find distraction works, bt then it's 90% of my skills and knowledge and experience dying withering away. And noone understands, they can't see it. The balance issue i have is...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    I feel self hate too, it's hard to deal with, I guess sometimes you don't know what you're walking into. In my case, taking antidepressant, but then excessive smoking causing poisoning? I know ppl who chain smoke, but now I know it was the combination with the antidepressants...a double assualt...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    It's been a month now, sure obsessive thinking isn't helping, it's just new to me and catastrophic, I took oxygen to try and cure hearing loss and it wiped out my high frequency response and gave me T... :( how did you handle it's progress?
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Life sucks doesn't it, all I had to do too was nothing, I was adamant I wouldn't take antidepressants because of the side effects then take one, guided by family and friends and now here I am 8 months later with eyesight, hearing and balance problems, my quality of life now is so poor I know I...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Same here, exactly 1 year ago I was in perfect health, all started after taking ONE antidepressant pill, I just can't handle it, all my life music non stop now I'm struggling to hear across the table...like a perpetual cold blocked ears. Been like this only for a few months but T only for a...
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    How High Can You Hear?

    I can't hear above 12k...but 13500 in test onlinr
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    How High Can You Hear?

    I can't hear above 12k.. Terrible
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    It's impossible isn't it. This morning, starting 2017 with no hope, I had this inflicted on me with the fear of drugs and noone is accountable... Suicidal today, what is there in life without music or sound... How does one cope that's my question. I feel like hiding in a cave until it's better...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Im trying Prednisone, probably way too late but I'll try anything :( my T is bad now, a hiss, wakes me up at 5am and I can't sleep. Has to be the worst year ever I would rather have died :(
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    The doctors told me i was making it up...it's too late to treat, I keep meaning to give blood but I don't know if this will help, i already screwed up badly doing the oxygen therapy, I cannot believe that, I'm going to try to get some steroids from the doc but think it's far too late, life is...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    RaZaH I see a few of us in the same boat, I was offered a job working on designing the latest analogue synths and didn't take the job, but went to doctor for antidepressants instead to try and get myself in a better frame of mind before doing it, then this happens. I literally hate myself, hate...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Do you think 3 weeks is too late to do anything about this dxcess oxygen I took, did I kill the cells or are they shocked. Coming to terms with this is impossible, music was literally my life and although some ppl can accept it, I can't see me eber being happy again without some sort of...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    I'll look into that thank you, I'm sceptical how it could work however? I honestly just feel like ending it, everyday I wake up in physical pain, I just don't know how ppl cope with such a loss, how can I stop the Suicidal thoughts, life is now without colour it's hell :(
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    I find it sounds like I'm listening through a low quality stream, there's a hard cut off at 12k and nothing above and yes a high frequency resonance/hiss where all the highs seem combined. Although that doesn't seem so bad, it makes listening to music horrible, no air or depth, like a sharp...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Bobby can you elaborate on LLLT? I (am/was) an electronics engineer so would try this, whats the method, how does it work?... Carbon monoxide is ototoxic, it damages the nerves through oxygen deprivation hypoxia... :( I read a lot about this, although apparently it's not the hypoxia that causes...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    This breaks my heart, that you mentioned about being severed is exactly it, images music created for me were far more real and beautiful than reality, now we are stuck in a bland world I don't want to be in, the only thing I can think is indeed distraction and maybe something like video games or...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Prednisone but I think much too late and I've heard the side effects are terrible.. The same with antidepressants, in fact I was taking mirtazapene at the time of the carbon monoxide poisoning, and that masked the symptoms of the CO poisoning, dizziness etc, I thought it was the drug...also I'm...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    I'm taking antioxidant astaxanthin or something, thing is I learnt too late..if I'd have known HBOT oxygen therapy would cause more damage... I read it was the cure for SSHL and CO poisoning. A catastrophic mistake :( Is there much success with LLLT?
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Exactly the same I've been building the same for over 30 years, over 3000 tracks, , I couldn't dare to look at the moment, I programmed and published software for playlists, now over a million downloads, it's unbearable. I wake up everyday with a song in my head from that playlist, I can't...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    We share similar situations, only difference is you have somehow managed. If I imagine a piece of music from the past the thought of never being able to listen to that again causes a manifestation of actual physical pain... It was so important to me, i wonder can the brain fill the gaps? Get...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Thank you for the responses. I blame myself too so I feel your pain :( the cruelty of it. The oxygen therapy I did myself with a machine because I couldn't find HBOT locally, I consulted a toxologist, who recommended it then bang, first session and tinnitus arrived in a high frequency hiss...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    Yes I've had a hearing test, the problem is, I'm OK upto 8k, it is now louder at 4k due to 'recruitment' I think... the horror is the carbon monoxide wasn't my fault and because the doctors only use the standard hearing test at speech frequencies, I apparently have no damage, apart from it...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    I had the career in Music already :( all my life...I can listen to music butbit sounds so tinny now and dead and flat. The hearing loss was from carbon monoxide poisoning, which made everything go quiet, then I had oxygen therapy and developed hearing loss after that, I think the extra oxygen...
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    Career in Music — Now Hearing Loss & Tinnitus — How to Cope

    I don't know how people cope or what strategies people use... I physically live in pain, I have high frequency hearing loss above 13k and loud hissing tinnitus at 10k. The upper frequencies in my hearing are now louder making everything TINNY and distorted, and I can't hear well in noisy...