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Benzos are so dangerous. Please do NOT ever take more than what you are taking now. Most doctors do not know and do not admit how hard and deadly tapering from a benzo drug is. Whatever you are taking, you need to find someone who is really good and smart to help you taper. I had been given...

I am saying tinnitus can get better. I won't say it will get better because as I have seen here, there are so many reasons tinnitus happens. And it all depends on why it most likely happened. If there is injury, damage, horrible noise, disease, dysfunction, and so many things like that--I...

If I have a couple of glasses of wine, the tinnitus totally goes away. Why does this happen and is it a good or bad thing? I am sure my tinnitus is related to too much ibuprofen. But I know I can heal because I have had some interludes of total silence. But I really wonder why drinking wine...

It is Sunday afternoon. I had a wonderful day yesterday. Friday night I took some lorazepam as my doctor said to do-more for the panic I get from having tinnitus and my bp which can vary when I panic. I slept really well and yesterday I woke up to silence and it was wonderful all day. I...

I don't know where to write this so I will continue here. I have some good things to talk about. So it was a little over three weeks ago that I took ibuprofen and woke up with bad ringing in my ears. No reason to think it would happen, no illness, no loud noise, etc. I have seen my doctor...

It is early Friday and an update. The tinnitus is mostly there but it can come and go. On Monday in the ER getting iv fluids, and being so quiet, it went away totally. When I have a few glasses of wine at night it mostly stops. I can see that my changing TSH levels most likely have had...

For me this cold on the neck is a good way to calm the tinnitus. Although I imagine it really depends on the cause. I know mine is not because of injury or loud noise or infection or anything like that. Based on what has happened the past couple of weeks since the tinnitus started, I have...

Another note from last night. I got quite a bit of sleep last night. I discovered that if I put a plastic cold pack that I keep in the freezer on the back of my neck and lay back and try to sleep the tinnitus almost disappears. That helped mem to sleep.

A later note tonight. I have been asleep. The ringing is back but I am not having a panic attack--yet. I have some interesting info for my doctor. That a changing thyroid value could be affecting my blood pressure, also causing ringing. We shall seel.

I just got back from a trip to the emergency room---I have been there various times and they have my records so I trust them---I was so sick from having the ringing and it making my heart race and then having horrible panic that I had to do something. They gave me fluids and did a lot of tests...

Horrible night last night. But then more silence today---but-- Yesterday was Sunday and I walked an hour and a half in the morning and to try to make the ringing go away, I walked an hour and a half in the afternoon. I went to bed and slept soundly for 2 hours but woke up with racing heart...

Redocooking--it is interesting what you mention about walking. I have healed from some problems and from panic disorder by walking. Every morning I walk at least an hour---depending on the season, sometimes more. And during the night, I have been known to walk in the middle of the night to...

How does one know about the nerves and pinching and all of that? I don't feel any different.

For me the worst part of this is that I fall asleep and it wakes me up. I am not the type to consider suicide but when I cannot sleep I want to do that. What do the rest of you do when that happens?

Redocooking, I am curious. You asked the question, what kind of tinnitus do I have? I am not sure how I would know that. I am seeing what everyone is saying here and it seems that so many times it is caused by exposure to loud noise. I have never had that. I have a dear friend whose husband...

It is interesting what you say about the fans. Although I have had to sleep with them for years and years. I need the distraction of the white noise to be able to sleep. I had thought I was strange except my son is this way, too. He needs background noise to sleep. And then I realized how...

It is interesting--if I have a couple of glasses of wine, the tinnitus pretty much goes silent. And I know my hearing is good. I was sitting in my bedroom with two huge box fans blowing--I have a tiny flip phone in my purse that I usually do not have turned on. I heard across the room the...

Thank you so much. My doctor, who has known me for 8 years and has guided me through a lot of medical journeys looked at my ears and considered what he knows about me and told me I would heal. That is hard to hear and hard to take when you are suffering and so miserable. And some experiences...

Thank you so much. The reason I was surprised at getting tinnitus is that I have never been exposed to loud sounds, I have really healthy ears, I am a really healthy person. I know from many experiences in the past 10 years that I will not describe now that it is not my ears but my central...

It was about two weeks ago that I went to bed and woke up with this horrible ringing in my head and I have been miserable. I had no reason to believe I would have this. No loud noise, no damage, no nothing bad--except I do think I had taken ibuprofen for so long. I saw my doctor earlier in...

It is 5 in the morning. I slept a lot last night. As I had just written, I fell into a sleep at 6 last night and was zonked for an hour and a half. I got up for a while and went back to sleep at 8:30. I was up at 1 and was able to go back to sleep and was up at 3, back asleep and now it...

Thanks again. I haven't taken any zinc for years---I only know in the past it made me sick so I have not tried lately. Since I last wrote some hours ago, I have been taking some vitamin c tablets--500 mg each----it is 1 a.m. right now. I went into my bedroom at about 6 p.m.and fell into a deep...

Something that is so hard is that I went through some years of a lot of crap with my health--mostly thanks to doctors. I have an amazing doc who has worked with me for 8 years. It is mostly my own doing with his help, but I am so really healthy now. In great shape, volunteering 6 days a week...

ksbanker--thanks for your words. My doctor who knows me really well tells me it is a matter of time for it to go away. I am trying to figure out how to live through this. I asked him if he had ever had it and he said yes--I asked how he got over it and he said, just time. People have said...

Jack Straw--thanks for answering. I already have a large box fan which I have used for years and years to ge able to sleep. I cannot sleep if I don't have this. I hear so much that I have to have this background, I have turned it up to the highest force----it is sort of soothing but with the...

Well, poop on me as I like to say. I was so pleased to see my doctor and my tinnitus was apparently gone. Then last night I went to bed--as I was trying to go to sleep, all of a sudden the horrible high pitched ringing appeared in my head again. It was horrible. I could not sleep. I know I...

Good news. I will continue this thread or post here---whatever you call it--I am not really good at stuff on places like these. But you have been so open and helpful to me I wanted to share my latest experience. It was only about 11 days ago, on a Thursday night--that it seemed out of the...

That is an interesting thing about zinc. I will look into it. But as a matter of fact, I am truly and horribly sensitive to so many things, so many supplements, so many drugs people think are usual and I cannot take them. I have a fabulous naturopathic doc who is a fabulous medical doc...

DebinAudtralia--you said something I totally get. Alcohol can quickly mute tinnitus. Long story, but I totally understand the gaba receptors and especially what benzos do to them--and then when one tries to withdraw, death is pretty likely. I don't like to use alcohol for a tinnitus, but...

Thank you for all of the replies. One reads over and over that nsaids, ibuprofen etc can cause tinnitus but no real interesting facts. Plus I can only imagine how hard it is to diagnose or live with since it seems that it does not just occur in a vacuum, but probably happens after some sort of...

That is what is strange. I have hearing like a bat. I have really wonderful hearing. No loss at all. I hear things making sounds in my house that my husband never hears!! I am really healthy. I have taken ibuprofen on and off for a long time. A couple of years ago during a health problem...

I am almost 70 years old, really healthy, I walk over an hour each day. I don't understand this. About a week ago I woke up in the middle of the night and my ears were ringing. I had taken ibuprofen before this for pain in my hands---and I wonder if ibuprofen could cause this. I have a...