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I am visiting one tomorrow for my first treatment. He did x-rays and my spine and atlas are totally unaligned. I am willing to try anything.

Sadly in my acute stage I turned to ativan. I am already dependant but I don't care because it helps

yup, I use it every night. My T is so loud right now nothing will mask it

Thanks, I dont think there was any permanent damage so this must be a spike. My spikes have never lasted more then a day and I am now on day 5 and I just cant sleep. Even sleeping pills arent helping. I guess I will have to start my yoga and deep breathing again and do everything I did when I...

Hey all, I have mild to slightly loud tinnitus that I have gotten used to. It spikes at night so I use masking you tube videos on my laptop and I can mask it no problem. About 5 days ago I started feeling a bit sick and my ear that has T (from a ruptured ear drum) started to hurt. I called...

So how do we unite and put pressure on the doctors and politicians to do something about it. We are strong in numbers but we need to figure this out together and do something about it.

This is exactly what my doctor and pharmacist told me yet my tinnitus went through the roof. I am going to try it again in a few days.

Probiotics are not recommended when suffering with SIBO.

Yup I found out very quick that it will. I am not taking it anymore and I hope this spike subsides. Now I have a serious dilemma. How to cure the SIBO without Rifaximin?

Well my question got answered only a few hours after I took it. My tinnitus spiked from 4/10 to 8/10 with major crackling and fullness in the ears. Sadly I really need to take this medication and I hope to god my tinnitus goes back to baseline when I'm done. I've only taken one pill out of 28...

Hey guys! Does anyone here suffer from SIBO or IBS and take Rifaximin? If so, did it affect your tinnitus? I'm having the usual anxiety we all have when trying a new medication. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Not the slightest bit bro. Pretty sure its a sinus infection and it caused the spike. I'm not taking any antibiotics unless I absolutely need to. In the meantime I will deal with this spike, I'm just hoping its short term and not my new baseline.

Thanks as always Glynnis. Ive been steaming 3 x a day the past two days. I have SIBO(gut issues) and antihistimines really rev up my symptoms. I'm going to try it anyway as my T is really driving me crazy. Thanks again

This spike is really pissing me off. My T hasn't been this bad in a long time and its not quieting down. I have had a lot of sinus pain the past few days but I don't think I have an infection although it wouldn't surprise me if I did. I am pissed off and angry and really hoping it goes back...

Thanks all for the replies. I feel better about this trip. I can always count on the good people on this site to reassure me that I need to just live my life

Hey friends. I'm planning a family trip to Myrtle beach but the drive has lots of mountains. I'm concerned about my ears and my tinnitus. Do you think this will be an issue? I should also add that I developed tinnitus from a ruptured ear drum 5 months ago that I think is fully healed

@Mike L I'm looking to quit and change to vaping. Any suggestions on which liquids are safer?

Hey friends, Looking for some feed back on vaping or any other alternatives for quitting smoking. Aside from T I have anxiety and now my GERD has amped up and is out of control. After 25 years of smoking its time to quit, I just have too. I am currently tapering off of ativan so I don't need...

Hi @Richard zurowski .Normally sleeping quiets down my T. The level has gone down and now is the fun part figuring out what the heck caused the spike and how it settled down so quick. I'm still a few notches higher then baseline but the original spike was the loudest I've ever heard my T

@Samantha R thank you for the response. Yes thankfully it quieted down. Not back to baseline but not as bad a s last night.

Back to Square One? 4.5 months now with T from a ruptured ear drum due to an ear infection. The past 2 months my T has been tolerable after many changes to my diet and lifestyle. I cut out caffeine,alcohol, junk food, salt, sugar you name it. I stopped taking Nexium and any other meds I was...

Wow I needed to hear this. I am currently tapering off of benzo's and look forward to the day I am off. I am expecting insomnia and anxiety but fk it. I'm so sick of being dependant on a medication to sleep. Its only been two months on ativan and I dont really feel messed up or anything but...

Thanks friend. I cant say I'm looking forward to this but it needs to be done

@stophiss thank you. As of right now my tinnitus is mostly a non issue. It rarely bothers me but I don't know if that's the ativan keeping me calm or if thats the state of mind I am in right now. In the beginning tinnitus was hell, I couldn't sleep, it controlled every aspect of my life. Since...

@fishbone yikes this scary. I've been taking 1 mg for 3 months and am willing to take as long as it takes to taper. I'm sorry u suffered so much.

@Kelvin Thanks for the positive words and support. I know it will be very challenging at times but I think I am ready for it. Hard to say I'm ready because I dont know what to expect but I will take it one day at a time.

Thanks all, starting my taper tomorrow. I'm gonna stick to the devil I know and stay with ativan, if it gets too hard I will switch to diazepam. I appreciate all the advice

I took it on and off when needed for two weeks and have used 1mg steady for 1.5 months now. I tried just stopping a few weeks ago and that didnt go well. I also tried taking .5 a week ago, that didnt go well. Then I did some research and had no clue it could happen this fast.

@Cal18 no guarantees it is the benzo I guess. My doctor is 100% going to support me on my taper but she isnt convinced its from the benzo. She thinks it could be psychosomatic but agrees its never a good think to be on meds for sleeping. My doctor is an unusual and great doctor who doesn't...

@PaulBe The mind is a powerful thing, I'm sure it can be convinced into anything including being dependant on a med or that the med has no hold over you

I hope it doesnt affect you in any way. We are all different. My doctor has had a patient whos taken it for 40 years and stayed at the same dose with no issues.

Well the fun has turned to turmoil. The reason this all started was I developed loud and very intrusive tinnitus causing me to panic,insomnia and to just about lose control. I turned to an old friend ativan for help and things changed instantly. I started sleeping therefore my T went down...

I think you are correct @DebInAustralia. Based on my own personal experience having lost my hearing from a ruptured ear drum due to an ear/mastoid infection and now having most of my hearing return and the level of the T going down a lot. I'd say that there is certainly cases where it is related...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112122504.htm Tinnitus appears to be produced by an unfortunate confluence of structural and functional changes in the brain, say neuroscientists. Did anything ever come out of this research?

I'm happy to hear that. I am starting cognitive behaviour and mindfulness in march. I am so looking forward to putting these negative thoughts behind me and enjoying my life with T

Melatonin not f More importantly , how do you feel? Do you feel less stressed or down? Is it helping take the edge off?

With hesitation and concern I took Ibuprofen for ear pain in my good ear that might be caused by TMJ(still not sure the cause) and it reduced my T for about an hour. My ENT says I have a ton of inflammation in my T ear still from a bad infection that ruptired my ear drum.

@GregCA I got it checked out at thee hospital and they said ears are totally clear. He pressed a spot on my jaw and it seems the pain is coming from there so I might have TMJ. I will still get a second opinion from my ENT tomorrow to make sure its not the ears and make an appt with Oral Surgeon...

It wasn't constant, it came and went but was more painful when I would swallow. I went to emerge last night because I was freaking out and the doc said ears are clear but it might be TMJ. I don't know if that's a positive or a negative.

The first month my T was out of control but as I started to get my hearing back and started taking meds for the anxiety the T slowly died down. My ear is still not fully healed and I still have a lot of inflammation. Now most of the time my T is mild but I avoid everything that might spike my T.

I Think I'm feeling the same thing right now in my good ear. Did it just pass?

Yes my perfectly good ear. I dont know if I can get an appointment at the ENT in the next few days. The only thing I can do is go to emerge but I'm not sure what they can do for me st the hospital. I guess they can check my ear to see if its an infection.

@GregCA you are always quick to help and I appreciate it man. It seems the pressure subsided a bit or it comes and goes and the hearing is better when it goes. The pain is also less when the pressure is less. I think this is probably pretty normal and because of what I've been through I freaked...

I don't know what the hell just happened. My good ear just started feeling full of pressure with pain and my hearing is impaired. Anyone know what is going on? Since I ruptured my ear drum in my left ear the right ear was significantly better but as of about 15 mins they are about the same...

Based on research I have done ativan seems to be the "lightest" of the benzo's but who the hell knows. Seems like once you get T all these other medical problems physical and psychological seem to come with it and we worry about trwating those conditions because we are more scared of T then the...

Yup me too. It's actually stayed at that level too for the most part. I also made some serious changes to my diet and so far so good. The past 2 weeks have been much better then the first month.

@Jake007 did it help? I know you've been having a rough go from our conversations. I hope it did its job and calmed you down

My doctor prescribed Ciprolex 5 weeks ago and my psychiatrist recommended I take it. I stuck it on the meds shelf and look at it every day wondering if today is the day I start taking it but I don't have the balls to. I am going to try to get through it the way I am right now, burning...

Get well soon Glynis.

I started seeing a therapist last week. I look forward to seeing him again.

When my T started it ripped my life apart. I was losing my mind, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, no one could talk to me or I'd freak on them. I isolated myself from the rest of the world and I wouldnt leave my house, I pretty much sat here and cried all day and night. I would leave the house...

Ear drum hasn't healed, that takes a while. Hearing has improved and so has tinnitus. It was unbearable at the beginning, so loud I couldnt mask it and now its a lot quieter. After reading the forums here and getting tips on diet, supplements and seeing a psychiatrist and taking anti anxiety...

Not sure if that link worked. Go to youtube and search "how to aim nasal steroid spray" with doctor gerard o'halloran

Here u go bud. May we all have silence again one day!! cheers

Yesterday I posted about crinkling in the ears when I swallow. I reached out for some answers but it seems not too many people in the group have experienced it or know much about it. I did some research and all the symptoms seem to be related to Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. I found a remedy...

I have never heard it before 2 weeks ago and its pretty loud. If its normal that's great but its pretty damn annoying

*taking nexium for years

I was taking nexium for ears but went to see a naturpath and he gave me licorice root. It worked well for about a month but now my reflux is going crazy again.

My left ear crackles every time I swallow. This is my ear that has tinnitus which came from an ear infection/ruptured ear drum about 1.5 months ago. If anyone has had this how do you treat it?

I took a claritin allergy/decongestant with pseudo. The spike only lasted a day it was unbearable. I'll stick to regular claritin and steam relief