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Haven't been on the forum for years, but was contacted by a member about PT. So. I've had intermittent PT plus permanent 'hissing' tinnitus since Oct 2014 having contracted a pretty minor upper respiratory infection. Long story short....permanent Eustachian tube dysfunction such that I have...

Maybe I should have called this thread 'Don't give up Hope'. When I first developed my tinnitus (4 years ago in October)....along with deafness, hyperacusis and then essentially Eustachian tube failure I didn't get much encouragement from anyone...."Get used to it" "It won't kill you" "Very...

I haven't posted on the forum for a very long time. About a month ago I received a questionnaire from TT asking as to why I no longer visited the site. It occurred to me that it would probably be beneficial for my reasons to be known generally as most folk who leave forums, well it's never...

Glynis....'tis never too early to rattle your baubles, jingle your bells, decorate your profile and crack out the champagne.

I avoided anything very loud for something like 18 months after my tinnitus started, and it's very unusual for anyone to lose tinnitus after that length of time. Sudden, unexpected loud noises didn't do much to me prior to this, though. So, one day I just decided that I wasn't going to avoid...

At least I speak here from experience. After developing tinnitus 3 years ago, I then had an infection after 4 months followed by 2 ear surgeries and ended up with extremely loud hissing tinnitus and bilateral PT with deafness and hyperacusis. Depression (related to the tinnitus) then hit hard...

crd3, I'm sorry for your problems, and you are painfully aware of the fact that you may have caused your tinnitus to worsen. However, try to stay positive and of the "Tinnitus is a part of my life, not tinnitus IS may life" and remember that the past cannot be changed, but the future is open to...

I've had tinnitus for over 3 years, bilateral loud hissing and occasional PT, due to Eustachian Tube Dysfunction following a viral infection...never resolved, have permanent T-tubes. I still go to places where sound levels are very loud (wearing earplugs) without any deleterious effect on the...

Just makes me wee a lot.

As well as the goosebumps (which I don't get THAT often), there's the flutter in the pit of the stomach, the sharp intake of breath, raised heart rate, flushing, dilated pupils and occasionally salivation. Sounds as though I'm talking about something else, but that's the effect of my very...

Jantine....I also know just how you feel. My tinnitus suddenly worsened with possible sinus problems about 6 weeks ago. Having T-tubes I don't have pressure build up, but left ear feels full of something......BIG. Should you give up? No, No, No, and No. Give in?....sort of.... but only in so...

Never slept for 8 hours and never sleep for more than 3-4 unbroken (usually wake every 2 hours). Though my tinnitus is very loud, it only affected my ability to sleep in the early days......so poll needs re-phrasing.

Never thought I'd say this, but there ARE some advantages of having tinnitus. So, high pitched hissing tinnitus for 3 years and intermittent pulsatile tinnitus both ears over the same period. Severe depression and 'utter failure to cope' initially....eventually habituated. Over the last couple...

Beat guess.....you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome as a consequence of having had a gut infection. Often happens after a nasty gut bug and can take some months to settle. However, you should go to see your doctor who can a) Give you some meds. to calm your symptoms and b) investigate you if...

I would say that habituation is not a steady state, but varies from day to day and even hour to hour. I've had loud hissing bilateral tinnitus for nearly 3 years (24/7, 365) and intermittent bilateral PT and have habituated for about 2 years. Though most of the time I handle it and my life has...

I very much doubt that you will have caused any permanent eye damage from a single dose of prednisone, but prednisone is not usually used for tinnitus spikes. It is exceptional for glaucoma to cause eye pain, hence being called 'the silent sight stealer'. If steroids are used in heavy...

What I didn't say is that the pic was from last year.....she's grown very well. Though still a bit small she is very friendly still, lives out in the fields with her other 'bottle' friends, and will take any excuse to come into the house. Here she is just before Xmas, having managed to get out...

You're very welcome, Christine. The lack of knowledge of some professionals about tinnitus in the various forms often makes things seem worse. At least those of us who have the condition can say how it evolved. You WILL find that it improves. It may well disappear, but, if not, then it will...

LLeila, lamb weighing under a pound, whilst her twin brother weighed a whopping 14, wearing a chihuahua coat .(average weight for this type of lamb around 11). Bottle reared and still as sweet as ever.

It may well go away.(See my post above). Strangely enough, I am have never really been too concerned about PT (maybe because I had 'the full works' related to my sudden onset of regular tinnitus...severe depression etc). A good way to think of PT is this......The carotid arteries, the two major...

I'm as sure as I can be (ante-mortum!) that I don't have vascular disease causing my own PT. I've had a minor episode of infection/inflammation in my left ear over the last couple of days. Not only did my regular hissing tinnitus get much louder but I noticed PT again in my left ear (haven't had...

A lot of us have tinnitus affected by pressure etc. Stretching the skin around may ear when lying my head on the pillow cranks my regular tinnitus up.(I have 24/7 hissing tinnitus and intermittent PT. I don't think my PT is due to vascular disease, more likely inflammation. Anything which...

Well, reassurance in abundance. Maybe things have always been this way. If there's a tumour, almost certainly benign. Please try to settle the anxiety.......it's a bosom-buddy to tinnitus, and you REALLY don't want that. I can't give a precise answer to you as I don't have a tumour, but do...

I doubt if anyone can really give you an answer to the questions you ask as there seems to be so much individual variation. I agree entirely about avoiding overprotection and the converse, not using any ear protection. In situations where you are going to have prolonged or multiple exposures to...

In the Middle of Nowhere in Welsh mountains.....nearest 'villages' are a couple of miles either way and have about 6 houses each.

Alex...thought I'd reply as your story is similar to mine. Things WILL improve. I have chronic ETD (due to persistent/recurrent sinus infection) which has caused severe 'hissing' tinnitus 24/7 and PT both ears (not constant). In my case PT seems to coincide with, and is maybe caused by...

Some of us escaped years of listening to music too loud for our ears' sake and only needed a bit of a virus to end up with tinnitus. Whatever the cause, forgive yourself the past, it cannot be changed , but the future is open to modification. Keep on living life to the full. Wear the earplugs...

Well, Sleepless in Wolverhampton, welcome. Do give more detail so folk can relate and advise. Just to say I was born and bred in Sedgley....which you will no doubt know....and spent my constructive (or should that be Destructive years as a frequent visitor to the Mander Centre and the baths in...

Me neither, Rasmus. However, decisions about ending one's own life must start and end with that person (assuming that they are physically capable of doing so ).Folk who are of essentially of sound mind who decide they want to end their own lives need to be mentally capable of making that...

Does my computer make my tinnitus worse? Only when reading too much about devastating tinnitus.

I doubt that paracetamol is truly ototoxic. Like many common things, somebody takes a tablet, their tinnitus coincidentally worsens and the two are then eternally linked, but are casual and not causal. Much more likely in this case is that the cold which has worsened the tinnitus. If you look...

Danny Boy you are in the wrong bit of the UK (for snow, at least). We have snow every year and usually are snowed in for a day or two. Here's a shot of two days back....all melted away now. Snow does seem to deaden sound, though......but doesn't deaden tinnitus:D Fungus

Had a VERY mild cold....not sure that was the cause....but tinnitus/ETD/deafness appeared and never left.

toddfw2003 , you don't say whether you have deafness, which is part of the trio of symptoms of Meniere's (tinnitus, deafness, vertigo) and the fullness in the ear, pains and increased tinnitus may indicate nothing more than ear infection. Meniere's it may be, but there are other things it could...

I think it's 'different strokes for different folks'. Ketogenic diet probably works for some. Various supplements (many different ones) seem to have good press from others. What works for one doesn't seem to work for another....tinnitus has so many different aetiologies, it's not surprising...

Jason C, 7 months may feel like an eternity to you, but it often takes a while longer than that to come to terms with the changed reality that tinnitus brings. Eventually most of us reach a state whereby we'd love to have silence back, but tinnitus just becomes another part of what we identify...

Jasons.....I feel for you both. I also think it CAN get better for you both. My tinnitus (24/7 high pitched hiss plus intermittent PT) started with a very mild virus in Oct 2014. Eustachian tube dysfunction, grommets, T-tubes, severe depression,panic attacks, deafness, vertigo (unrelated...

LadyDi......I'm SO happy that my sheep (and our snow) were good enough to be your screensaver. No snow here as yet (more just mist, rain, mud and such), but our little lane always becomes blocked by snow for a few days in the winter. I don't feel cut-off, more enclosed in a nest. I love your...

I'm very glad that you have done well, seal, and that dilatation has helped your symptoms I have severe ETD and have permanent T-tubes. These have helped very much with the pressure/clicking/pain side of things. My tinnitus is unchanged (hissing tinnitus plus intermittent PT) Here in the UK...

AuntSally......yes, you'll get there. Unfortunately it takes longer than we'd like, though. I took anti-depressants for 15 months, stopping in March of this year (no relapse as yet!).Like you, no history of mental illness, and, in spite of some pretty awful life events, never any depression...

AuntSally....you WILL get through it, but it will take time. I have PT in both ears (intermittently) and hissing tinnitus 24/7 and my life has returned to normal. Yours will, too. TRY to be comforted by it rather than spooked by it. Blood is getting to your brain regularly....that's got to be...

Whilst stress doesn't actually cause tinnitus, tinnitus feeds on stress. Earwax can cause tinnitus. 'Physiological' tinnitus is present in a high percentage of folk (i.e if you are in a totally silent environment, you will hear something). Pathological tinnitus is very common, related to wax...

Karen, no I haven't. I've not heard of WoBenzym, but will research it now. I've got a bit of an odd immune system. I used to be anaphylactic to wasp stings.I underwent immunotherapy, but couldn't go up to the higher doses as I developed large blisters near the injection site (which the allergy...

AuntSally I think inflammation is almost certainly the cause in my case. When I have viral infections, my sinuses are blocked, or after the two surgeries on my ears, the PT has been much worse. It's likely that your PT will ease if the cause is inflammation, and, if not, you will get used to...

Pulsatile tinnitus intermittently in both ears and high pitched 'hissing' tinnitus 24/7. I would say...yes, you'll get used to (habituate to) the PT just as well as to the other types, but, as others have said, it takes time )longer than any of us would like, but you WILL get there. The more...

The 'flashing lights' are of different intensities and remind me of a visual field test. However, they tend to move and leave a 'wiggly tail', so they are different. I guess the best explanation that I can give is that they are much like tinnitus. As tinnitus involves abnormal firing of (and...

Like most things with tinnitus, it seems, there is a great deal of individual variation. My tinnitus was almost certainly related to a (very mild) virus I had a couple of years back which caused an exceptional degree of 'bunging up'.....blocked tear ducts, Eustachian tube dysfunction (never...

My own Eustachian tube problems were caused by the very slightest viral infection, but never resolved, so you have my sympathies. Are your problems confirmed to be muscle related? I think that in many cases (mine included) the real reason for the persistent ETD is never really established. The...

Not alternative at all, but ibuprofen syrup (the stuff for kids) works wonders for me (classical and ocular migraine)....quick acting and less likely to be rejected by the stomach than tablets.. The only trial I'm aware of using a ketogenic diet for migraine didn't have a control group, so...

Vegetarian, tinnitus for 2 years, classical and ocular migraine (since childhood), Raynaud's (since childhood) and glaucoma (since my 30's), but personally have never found any association of any food with any of the diagnoses. If only there were......

Been taking Sativa strain CBD oil for the last week.....staining teeth black, tastes awful and no effect whatever on tinnitus so far. Fungus

IF prednisolone works, then I believe it only works at any early stage. I also developed my tinnitus after what was a pretty trivial virus infection in all other aspects. (Bit of a stuffy nose and blocked tear duct). This silly little virus managed to gum up my Eustachian tubes permanently and...

If your tinnitus was related to military service, then you are probably due some compensation from the government (not that money it will get rid of the noise). No help for me yet from CBD oil. It DOES seem to be staining my teeth black, though. Still Hallowe'en is just around the corner...

Sorry you are so troubled at the moment. Has something else happened to make the tinnitus affect you more ? Clearly you are well adjusted (habituated) to it most of the time, so if there's an additional feature things should eventually return to their previous state. I would say that I'm...

So, I'm from across the Pond. The NHS? Pretty good for emergency care (but can be patchy).....but 'cold' cases...nah! Trying to be philosophical I would say that the number of diagnostic tests, potential treatments and patient numbers is increasing exponentially, such that healthcare for ALL...

Just found out you are in hospital and catching up on what you have had done. MRI/MRA.....like you ,I have some neck arthritis and that table is SO painful on the neck(let alone the 'clunk,clunk, whirr, whirr, thud, thud, thud and that fact that there's only about an inch of space around)...

I was taking gingko when I developed tinnitus and have stayed on the same dose since. No change at all for me. Fungus

I was taking Ginkgo (for eyes) when I developed my tinnitus. I have continued to take it. No influence whatever on my tinnitus. Fungus.

Welcome June, and I agree with the need to read up on forms of management and what may work for you. The reason for my quoting you? Well, it made me smile as my hair colour has been (and continues to be) different month on month! Fungus

I don't have to remove my hearing aids when I talk on the phone (means I sometimes poke them right into my ears). The best tip I can give is to concentrate hard on what they are saying as it is only when the other party is speaking that you will be much troubled by your tinnitus. Fungus.