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    Is This Tinnitus or Do I Have Something Else?

    Hi all ive had t now since November out of the blue , Ive had mri scan (still waiting for results) Ive had audiolgy tests ... Hearing fine. But I have pain in my ears when I hear certain sounds. It feels like my right ear litrally shuddereds in pain and I can hear a crunch sound echoing the...
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    Bang Tinnitus Just Got Worse

    Hi ive had t now since November 2014... Unknow cause but I had a bad infection and cold , and the t been stuck ever since. Anyways I have several levels of hissing and static noise and now all of a sudden tonight out if no where ive got my left ear doing a horrible loud ring and I have no idea...
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    Asthma Medication and Tinnitus?

    I've had asthma for a few years now but only in the last two year ive been treating it. I was in several inhalers where as now for the last year ive been on symbicort. Now my question is there any asthma meds that are ototoxic . Also ive stopped taking symbicort by accident today by forgetting...
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    Question for the Ladies...

    Sorry to bring up an old topic but yes I think mine has been due to the time of the month setup , but I'm on implant and ive never had issues before but now my implant is due out any time soon my time of the month has been all over and ive noticed my t is far higher and louder than ever when...
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    Health Anxiety

    It does and thanks @LadyDi Ive been up and down for the last few months with t and my anixty hasn't helped at all, but even now I've been for a mri scan ive been I. Tears today and scare stiff of having it done, but I did it and my anxiety has gone down, and it will as now I'm just doing other...
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    Really Scared MRI Scan Today

    Thanks rjc and I'm gunna wait till Monday and call my consultant and see if he can tell me , I have an appointment back with him in three month but that's genral one not for results so he might see me sooner.
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    Health Anxiety

    Hi Lisa, I suffer terribly with anxiety and I mean full blow works. I get so nervous I can't sit still, I have bad tremors and panic attacks and I get the worst feelings in the world like I'm going to die, I have suffered this all my life and I'm getting help via cbt that has helped me keep some...
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    Really Scared MRI Scan Today

    No idea they wouldn't say and hVe to wait till I see the specialist again in three months :/ so maybe I don't know I have to wait
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    Really Scared MRI Scan Today

    Well I got it done, wasn't too Long only 15mins and has ear plugs and these passes wedge tightly to my ears in the machine I could hardly hear any one talking . And I have pressure head ache from the pads so that is a good thing I guess . It wasn't too bad was loud but I've been on trains louder...
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    Really Scared MRI Scan Today

    I dont have any ear plugs if my own as this is all still new to me and I dint know where to get them or what's the best ones. So I'm scared because I don't want this to damage me any more than I am already.
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    Really Scared MRI Scan Today

    Oh I really don't want to be sedated that's even worst as I can't stop the procedure. But I just don't want it to damage my ears any more. I'm fine in small spaces but it's the noise that scares me.
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    Really Scared MRI Scan Today

    Hi all, I'm really scared ive got to have a mri scan today and after hearing all the horror stories I really don't want to go through with it. I don't know what to do and I just don't want to end up with worst t because of it. What can I do ? Is it really bad ?
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    Betaserc (Betahistine)

    hi all , I've been given Betahistinw tablets to help with my dizzy/vertigo spells as the doctor thinks I've got some form of menieres. But I know nothing about these tablets and I'm in a high dose. I want to know are the ototoxic and have any one here taken them or use them and how that they...
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    Results From ENT, Feeling Really Down

    Thanks @Katkin , I know normally I'd be worried but it needs to be done and I've had a few people tell me it's not so bad, my gran even had one done lot too long ago and she said with the head phones and ear plugs it wasn't so bad. But I won't really know till I get it done , I hope it's not too...
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    Results From ENT, Feeling Really Down

    @amandine he told me there have hearing protection for mri scans and it's not that bad , so I'm not sure of the machine that's gunna be used but my scans won't be for a while yet, but this isn't via nhs so I'm hoping IT will be better standard and I still want to go through with it any ways...
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    Results From ENT, Feeling Really Down

    Hi @LadyDi I hate the nose cam ive had it done a few times now and every time it still hurts and make me feel yuk. But glad it was done tho. Well this doctors has been very helpful , he gave me a lot of answers to my questions and he's pointing me in the righ dicrection to what's next. But yes...
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    Results From ENT, Feeling Really Down

    @Jesse Pinkman he said it's very highly menireres but he wants more tests to confirm this, but yes I suffer bad vertigo now for about two years and was told it was anixty and labryirthist ( can't spell) but he said not if its the level I e been having, he thinks it's alot more than that and he...
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    Results From ENT, Feeling Really Down

    Thank you , I had a huntch is all down to the stressfulness of the day, getting to the place had to go on trains and taxis there and back, then having tests done and stressed with the whole day and I suffer anxiety so now I'm home and it's quiet my t is unbearable yet again.,but I hope this...
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    Results From ENT, Feeling Really Down

    Hi all had my ENT consulation today. He was a great doctors answers all my questions. I had the tuning folk test and a camera up my nose to check my tubes. But ive got to go for a mri scan and a audio test So now he told me it's menieres and vestibular migraine virtigo So that's hit me a...
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    Can Tinnitus Caused by a Loud Concert Go Away After 4 Months?

    Hi Gemini81 I've been to over 50 gigs now since I was 16 im now 26 and the first time I had t from a gig it took me months to get used to it and one day it did go away, but then I carried on going to gigs and tbh that's part to blame for my t. But if you have only been to one gig it has a...
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    Ear Plugs Help Needed

    Thanks ladydi :) I won't let t ever stop me from doing what I love to do with life. That's why I want to make sure I just do the best to stop it getting worst. But I don't want to stop music completely. I don't want to spend £££ though as I don't intend to be going to many gigs, so I only want...
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    Do You Always Check If Tinnitus Is There When You Wake Up?

    Yes it's the first thing I normally think of as I like to think oh I can't hear it today but I'm alway wrong. It doesn't bother me though ive manged to not be anxious about it , but just think yep still here and I just carry on. Maybe I've got used to it ? Not sure how as its jet engine level in...
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    Ear Plugs Help Needed

    I can't read German so not sure what is what with those. But thank you. I want something that I onky need to use once in a blue moon, my gig days are other but I still have two bands I love to see when they around. I don't need them any other time as I keep away from loud places
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    Ear Plugs Help Needed

    Thank you ladydi. I will look for that. Also there's never seats at these shows I go to. But my last one I did stay at the back and on,y a few songs at a time and went out and then missed the last half hour as I had enough, but my ears where already had t before this and silvered with a virus...
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    Ear Plugs Help Needed

    Hi all just want to know where can I buy good ear plugs from. I want to go to a concert end of the year and I want to make sure I protect my ears as well normally I don't and that's part of why I have t. I don't know what makes are good or where to buy them, I'm in England if that helps and if...
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    Need Advice for ENT

    Hi Gabrielle thank you for your advice. I've already accepted this is for life and isn't gunna go away. And told from the start that tinnitus can't be cured. But Chances it can go away is slim but it might. Also I would be interested to know where my t is coming from also I'd like an all clear...
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    Need Advice for ENT

    I'm seeing ENT on Thursday and I want to make sure I write everything down I want to ask them about my tinnitus, what should I include? What did you ask for when you went to ENT? Besides the general questions such as is this permanent? But I mean are there other things I can ask for like tests...
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    Tinnitus Originating From Back of Head?

    Yes I have this too, I kinda class it as I have three ts , ones a high pitch ring in my left ear and the other is a hiss in my right and above that that's in my head is a low tone hiss that can drown both the other noise and be the loudest thing ever. But that's in my head, I have suffered...
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    The Positivity Thread

    Thank you billie48 , and oh it's been hard and hell but I already suffer bad axiety on top so it was a huge blow, but I think because I was doing cbt for that before the t came it already helped me to retain my self not to be scared of t. It's still hard it's still there but I just think this...
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    Is There Any Food or Diet to Help?

    Yeah it could be a big cause for me as I do go thru a lot of sugar and when I dint I feel better in mood than when I have sugar so could be a good place to start I think for me , haha hard one but anything is worth a go
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    Is There Any Food or Diet to Help?

    That's a fair point, but some times I do think it could be something so simple like too much salt that might just make it worst. But I think I'm quiet habituted to my t now as I don't really get bothered by it, but just no harm in trying I think to see if it does or doesn't help the t, but as...
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    The Positivity Thread

    Hello all, want to say happy new year! Also Im suffering t and the awful brain hiss , but ive been feeling great lately , it's been 6 weeks with the t and the first month was hell but now I really feel better, it's not gone nor settled down , but I've learnt not to fear it, I'm having cbt to...
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    Whooshing Sounds

    Yes I get this too but mine makes me feel sick when I hear it, but I onky hear it when I move in a strange way, like too quickly and move my head, or dance, but it's a whooshing and feels like somethung scraping on something it's a very strange sensation. I've not actaully thrown up but it makes...
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    Is There Any Food or Diet to Help?

    Thank you for that advice, that's really helpful as I don't know where to start really, and I don't have much coffee only drink tea and that's in small amounts, and I try to avoid any sweetners , but sugar is my biggest downfall and salt. So I might try and cut them back and see if that helps at...
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    First Time Poster Would Appreciate Support

    Hi Alek, I'm also 26 and I suffer t , have done for over 6 weeks now and at first I was exactly where you are now, and I can tell you you will get better, it takes time and I'm still not 100% but you will be ok. It's hard to deal with and in the first few weeks of it , your in and out of mind...
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    Is There Any Food or Diet to Help?

    Is there anything food wise that can make t worse? Like salt or sugar? If cutting them back do they have any effect or slight improvement. Also any vitamins and supplements that can help? I eat a lot of salt and sugar and I always have but I'm wanting to know if I knock them out if it will help...
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    To Use Headphones or Not?

    Well that's one I've never used , I don't like anything that goes into the ear, so never used ear buds. Always normal head phones. But yes I used to listen to the music rather high and I've been to gigs a hell of a lot so I can't say much now thinking back. But it be nice to hear music as...
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    To Use Headphones or Not?

    Hey all, still suffering from tinnitus but I'm coping better, sat here with it ringing away but it really doesn't bother me, it's weird how only few weeks ago I was in a mental breakdown and I couldn't see a way out. But here I am still and getting back to life best as I can. Anyways I want to...
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    Is There Anything That Helps?

    Hi all happy new year from England. I'm having a spike due to the fireworks and my head is still full of a head cold that won't shift. So that doesn't help at all. Just want to know is there anything at all that helps , I know there is no cure. But I mean has any one took any kind of vitermins...
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    Suffering but Feeling More Positive

    It's normalish to how it was before the t, only difference is when I wake up I hear it and then it can either phase out and come back with averagence which usually means time to get up. So it's a bit like a built in alarm clock now. Annoying but I can cope with it. As for at night I hear it and...
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    Suffering but Feeling More Positive

    I think it's all down to how you see things or this case hear things, and teaching yourself to tolerate it, at first i couldn't and I didn't know what to do , it was really bad well still is but my attitude towards it has changed and I think that's a huge step forward in learning to live with t...
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    Suffering but Feeling More Positive

    hi everyone it's been a few weeks since I last wrote here. I've still got the t and it's not got any better, nor worst which I guess is a good thing. Been to ENT and they think it's viral but it's been going on for a very long time , but been to,d it can be for 12 weeks or more. So I guess a...
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    Still No Better...

    That's exactly what I feel a headache with out the pain..., it's so weird and it's just awful ! Nothing stops it :( I wonder if it's actaully the brain thoigh and not the ears as in something like the blood vessels not working or something not sending the signals right any more :/
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    Still No Better...

    I seem to be ok during the day of I reallt keep myself busy , but when I think it's getting better or at least quieting down it strike really loud ... It's a bloody nightmare and mine changes in noises and pitch ears it seems ... But both ears are effected badly with t ...
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    Still No Better...

    I dunno if it's just me but I'm not great at the moment having a bad time with t, wonder if it's the weather ? Also does any one have it where it's in like layers you can hear one tone like for me a high pitch hiss / ring and then under neath a full kinda roaring noise that just fills the head...
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    The Noise That Kills

    Hi Danny, I have been in the same boat as you last night I was very very disturbed and upset and saw no way out . I went to the hospital and they have help me with some meds and I'm getting help. They will help you and it will get better, I know it doesn't seem so now as I don't see any end at...
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    Does Your Tinnitus Ever Change?

    Well tomorrow I'm seeing ENT Nd hopefully will undertsand more of what's going on
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    Been seen ! And have some hope ! Doc feels this is all virus related ! He's checked my temp and symptoms and he feels due to everything it shouldn't be perm. But it could take weeks or monts to settle down! I've been given more Meds and antibiotics and some for sleep and anxiety an told me to...
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    Tinnitus Emergency

    Well he did say it could take months he didn't promise e it would go but he did say he feels this has become worst due to a virus and once the virus is eradicated it should settle down. But will see ! But least some one listen to me and tried to see logic in what it could be
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    Tinnitus Emergency

    Been seen ! And have some hope ! Doc feels this is all virus related ! He's checked my temp and symptoms and he feels due to everything it shouldn't be perm. But it could take weeks or monts to settle down! I've been given more Meds and antibiotics and some for sleep and anxiety an told me to...
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    That's exactly what I've been doing ! Been here at a & e four times .... In scared I'm making it worst by panicking but I just want answers to know this will calm down . Something to help me calm down ... In scared of everything ! Scared this is go ever , scared of the Meds because I fear they...
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    Thank you ! I just feel like in crazy literally feel like My Brain is gunna explode ! I'm a shaking wreck ! I just can't cope I've never had this before ! I've suffered deaths in the family and bad breakouts but never any thing like this ..
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    I'm on my way but I have no hope for me tho .
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    I so hope so I really do , but I know it's highly doubtful ! I jut want it to calm down at least low it self so I can cope ... I'm stressed and have not slept in a good week right and I just can't stop my self from thinking about it I mean my brain is just focus on that even if I think it's...
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    that's what I want to find out is there anything to help me with this stress and anixty and I want to sleep all I want it to be able to just sleep
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    I'm on my way now but there's no ent there but I need metal help And yeah in with my partner so I'm not alone ... I've never felt like this before I feel so down and indispare
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    If I think I have peace I listen and bang there it is ! I've tried to keep busy but I can't keep my head from thinking about it . I'm needing mental help I'm sure . So I'm off to the hospital to see if they will help me with something to calm me down
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    No I'm waiting for a referral ! But I already been told there's nothing they can do for my t . I just can't cope ! I can't take the noise and when it's quiet it's so loud ... When I try breath I just hear it ! I'm so scarred and I just want some peace !
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    Having a Mental Breakdown

    Hi all , tonight I'm really not coping. I feel mentally disturbed from the noise . I just can't cope . My head won't switch off . I can hear the t over everything. I'm in a state and I just feel like no one will listen to me ( doctors) . It's so loud , it's every where. My head is tuned to it...
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    Is There Any Hope For Me?

    I dunno my frequency yet but I have one that's sounds every high pitch , but it tends to go but I dont know if that's me ignoring it or its actaully just coming and going . I'm in a strange state that I can't tell , but I still have a huge loud hissing noise that takes over my head a lot . It...