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  1. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    @MattL seems like you have got menieres pretty much same time than myself here. Have you tried this http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/treatment/ttg.html It works for vertigos in many cases.
  2. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    Hi there @MattL . thanks for asking. I have worked through this whole Meniere´s thing. i think i have had only a week or so sick leave during these years. Progress... yes in a away that i am still able to work and there hasnt been not a single vertigo attack for over 2 years now. for some reason...
  3. MichaelM

    Folks With Tinnitus for Over Ten Years

    i am 40 years of age soon.... my first memories of tinnitus are from early 90´s. Shotgun range without a hearing protection. One time only and it did it for me: T so loud for a couple of days i didnt hear anything else with my right ear. I panicked but that T disappear after a few days. Lots...
  4. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    Hi there all fellow Meniere folks. Here i am again. Suffering but surviving. more than 3 years now with the this disease. tinnitus is getting worse again after a relatively good 12 months. never give up. gotta say i dont dare to read my old posts in this thread... they are too sad to read. but...
  5. MichaelM

    coping with Meniere´s

    coping with Meniere´s
  6. MichaelM

    I've Given Up on Life

    Hello @Sen have you read about Meniere´s disease?
  7. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    @Teri Hi there. I am here and feeling OK. I have been taking a break from this forum. Too much is too much. Been thinking about a trip to New York next summer. Gotta sell my scooter before that... haha.
  8. MichaelM

    Vertigo & Tinnitus

    Hello, i can recommend this website. http://vestibular.org/node/2
  9. MichaelM

    A Dilemma — Should I Proceed With AM-101?

    hi there. by all means... as i said: it´s me and the needles when it comes to tinnitus. Here we have guys with some weeks of T. what is that? well.... nothing. How can they even know what´s going on and yet they are rushing for some trial treatments. Understandable but also worth mentioning that...
  10. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    Teri i share your symtomps. Constant ear pressure, hearing comes and goes... T. Well, you know me. Luckily you dont get vertigo attacks. It´s a strange feeling i am having right now. Exactly one year ago, new year´s eve i was suffering from a 6 -hour violent vertigo attack. That was my start...
  11. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    @Dr. Charlie Thank you, Doc, for your thoughts. Lot´s of interesting views there. I have to do a lot more reading again. As for myself here I have had the most worst anxiety of my life right before and during my battle with Meniere´s. So if all these symptoms are some weird way of mind and/or...
  12. MichaelM

    What if Tinnitus Is Just a Pain Signal?

    @Martin, You know i know that Whistle. And what it means when you are totally alone with it, just the suffering to keep company. it is too frustrating. i´ll PM you.
  13. MichaelM

    What if Tinnitus Is Just a Pain Signal?

    Find another shrink, Martin. That is ridiculous if he´s being serious.
  14. MichaelM

    If Your Tinnitus Was Softer, Could You Manage Better?

    Easily. i am managing relatively good these days after months and months with ridiculously loud jet engine sound with a twist of Dog whistle from Hell what was to be added with 2 months of pulsatile T-Beast...woosh woosh. i like this basic level T a lot. not enjoying it, no, but this is so much...
  15. MichaelM

    Vertigo! Emergency

    Hi there. It´s important to separate dizziness and lightheadednesss from vertigo. Then there´s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo Vertigo is when the world is spinning around you or you feel like moving while you are not... Vertigo is a bit more serious business...
  16. MichaelM

    Losing My Mind

    It is indeed a depression problem.
  17. MichaelM

    Season´s Greetings!

    Season´s Greetings!
  18. MichaelM

    Dare to Hope or Not?

    Hi there. if it´s an acoustic trauma it might fade away for good, sooner or later. i wouldnt read too much about T now... you can find so many horror stories everywhere and create a huge anxiety for yourself. Give it some time, mate. Try to stress less, and that Guinness might actually do some...
  19. MichaelM

    Is There a Chance My Tinnitus Will Go Away?

    i guess questions are here for people to answer and it´s Xmas.... @Ilija I have some questions which some of you may be able to answer. 1.) Is your T reactive for me when I hear stuff like the bad breaks of a car or a copy machine,or my CPU cooler,or the static sound my TV produces it seems to...
  20. MichaelM

    Just Was Told I Have Tinnitus

    Welcome, @Joseph Harney. Season´s greetings from snowy Finland. This forum is The Place to be with tinnitus problems. It´s OK and natural to feel what you are feeling. Tinnitus isnt the nicest Xmas gift available but it is possible to keep on going with it and live life to the fullest. You...
  21. MichaelM

    Valdoxan Anyone? Any Other Medications That Help? CBN?

    Is it what the doc has told you to take? Sounds kinda lot to me but i am no doctor. i remember i took Valdoxan years ago with some other antidepressant and the doctor back then said to me "this is heavy sh--- stuff, man, but you are going to need it". hard to say if they helped but i got over...
  22. MichaelM

    Fatigue

    @Martin69 Friend.... stress and anxiety and depression can cause almost anything. But vertigo is a bit something else. i recommend you read this http://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/signs/vertigo and discuss that vertigo-feeling with your doctor if you havent done that already. Vertigo has so much...
  23. MichaelM

    Valdoxan Anyone? Any Other Medications That Help? CBN?

    Valdoxan+lyrica+seroquel and mirtazapine... at the same time?
  24. MichaelM

    DAMN AMBULANCE SIRENS — Ruining My Ears AND My Car :|

    Hello there @Rhea , sorry to hear that. about that db reduction: not much. 10 or less. as we know we can talk easily to someone inside a car whether there´s a window open or not. There are nowadays cars that are silent with cabin noise and have acoustic windows and windshields but then we are...
  25. MichaelM

    A Dilemma — Should I Proceed With AM-101?

    You´re welcome, friend. I have had so many "different T´s" during the last few years, in loudness, in tone, frequency, pulsatile one (that was a nasty Beast! Pushed me to me extreme limits mentally), dual-tone, three-tone, fleeting (and these are sometimes ridiculously loud ones)...
  26. MichaelM

    A Dilemma — Should I Proceed With AM-101?

    You should expect, actually. It´s a new thing for you this T business. Give it some time. Most of the folks habituate nicely. And it is pretty normal to hear some easy mild eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee or so. nothing wrong with it. if the sounds from the daily surroundings mask it and you only "notice it...
  27. MichaelM

    Fatigue

    yeah. Thyroid is easy to rule out with a simple blood test. I think i haven taken remeron at some point. Abilify sounds serious stuff to me. Your tinnitus is still quite new, friend. As i´ve been saying to every new sufferer here: that´s a good thing. It´s not chronic yet. It might fade away.
  28. MichaelM

    Tinnitus Loud Enough to Be Heard by Others!

    That´s truly...something else. What is the mechanism of producing your external T?
  29. MichaelM

    Fatigue

    Immediately i started thinking this year and the suffering i have seen. and what did the specialist ask first when i met them? "Can you sleep"? i always said "yes, no problem with that cause i am absolutely tired to the point i almost fall down literally after a day´s work, crash to bed...
  30. MichaelM

    Tinnitus Sufferer Living on Very Loud Street! Anyone Else?

    Hi there. please dont over-protect your ears. It might bring you different kind of problems. Stress levels down, absolutely, as mentioned above. One of the worst T boosters there is - stress. I dont think the road will make your tinnitus worse. it can give you stress though, i know that from my...
  31. MichaelM

    Does Tinnitus Get Worse Over Time?

    Yes, gotta agree with this one, mate.
  32. MichaelM

    Ear Attention & Worse Hearing

    Probably that phantom loss, yes. Feeling stressed? Thinking everything "with you ears first", like i have been doing a lot. Mind can sure make funny tricks sometimes. i started thinking about negative of auditory hallucinations.... is there a word for it, hmm. When you feel you cant hear a...
  33. MichaelM

    Hello Everybody, Introduction & Personal Project

    Hi there, Luka. Welcome. Great attitude you have got there. I liked that "i couldnt eat..." thing. But still a human voice shouting made such an enormous hearing loss? That´s interesting. Could the decibels up to say 80-90 cause that much damage? Gotta do some reading about that one. what were...
  34. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    Happy b-day, Sue. Florida? Omg, like teens say. Must be nice and warm there. One day i have to travel to US again. Ive been only to L.A., Las Vegas and San Diego and i loved every minute. People were friendly, cheap gas, great food, it was warm.... sun shining every single day. 120 Fahrenheit...
  35. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    Havent tried those. I know i have MD and i am now quite OK with it. i dont want any other earproblems. Are you diagnosed with MD, too.?
  36. MichaelM

    A Dilemma — Should I Proceed With AM-101?

    What´s the price tag for these trials like? Maybe it´s just me and the needles but the idea of injecting something into my ear is just about the last thing on Earth i´d let anyone do to me. And i know the fact that it seems to be the only way to control peoples´vertigo attacks when suffering...
  37. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    @Teri @SueR Happy Holidays, ladies.
  38. MichaelM

    A Dilemma — Should I Proceed With AM-101?

    Why would you start treating something you call a minor nuisance yourself?
  39. MichaelM

    Tinnitus Questions — Paranoid Making It Worse

    the specialist was being honest with you. I am not a doctor but there might be some tricks to do with the acoustic trauma if reacted soon enough. With T in generally there´s very little the docs can do. Some might disagree. Some take pills, go to trial treatmens... what you need to do is give it...
  40. MichaelM

    Tinnitus Questions — Paranoid Making It Worse

    Any idea what might have caused your T? Since it´s a two week old issue for you there´s a great chance it will go away. Frankly some might say it aint Tinnitus yet. It is just some sound you have been hearing over the last two weeks. So dont make it a too big of a problem for yourself at this...
  41. MichaelM

    Tinnitus Questions — Paranoid Making It Worse

    Welcome, friend. does 5/12/2014 mean last May or 2 weeks ago? anyway: your life is just about to start. it is definitely not taken away from you.
  42. MichaelM

    To Those With Severe Tinnitus

    @Jesse Pinkman T is so versatile a problem.... Wikipedia´s got some good chapters. I see you are new to this Beast. Being new is good... you have a good chance your´s will fade away. it probably will. Frankly, if you have "problems" hearing your T you aint got one, mate. it aint chronic yet...
  43. MichaelM

    To Those With Severe Tinnitus

    gotta ask what are you wondering?
  44. MichaelM

    No Anxiety... Just Suffering

    Dont know what to say, mate. I was wondering have you considered filing a medical malpractice claim? Your situation should be studied by doctors, definitely. I know you dont trust them anymore but there has to be a way to solve things out.
  45. MichaelM

    To Those With Severe Tinnitus

    Those who say "dont listen to it" dont know about/have Tinnitus. they might have some mild and hardly recognizable sounds in their ears/brains, which is pretty normal for a human being and is easy to cope with, or habituate to, as often called. It aint tinnitus. Tinnitus is something else. It...
  46. MichaelM

    To Those With Severe Tinnitus

    Well... loud. So loud it´s ridiculous to the point i sometimes actually laugh about it. I have hearing loss in my sick ear, in speech/voice frequency. T is in three-four different tones, the loudest is about 16kHz. "The more you have hearing loss the louder the T feels", said one ENT. makes...
  47. MichaelM

    To Those With Severe Tinnitus

    When really loud and severe i cant hear too much normal noises or speech with my sick ear. T is overwhelming and cannot be masked by any other sound during those times. "this one goes to 11", like the old saying goes. During the good phase i´d say T is at 7-8 (scale of 1-10). All this thanks to...
  48. MichaelM

    Cutting the Auditory Nerve Cures Tinnitus?

    Many ENT´s here where i live have said to me chronic T isnt in the ear anymore. You can cut nerves, cut the whole inner ear away.... no one can promise you the cure. And when you go 100% deaf after those operations and the T keeps on going... I think tinnitus is here to stay.
  49. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    9 good weeks now. i feel almost normal... like a human being not a zombie. dont know why but this morning my friend T got from 7 to 7.5 in scale of 1 to 10. 2 full nights with that dental night guard. cant tell a difference but i keep on hoping.
  50. MichaelM

    Favorite Alcoholic Beverage

    Beer. Especially English ales and American Pale Ales.
  51. MichaelM

    Cold Hands & Feet (Raynaud's)

    I hate winter and cold climate. Eveything below 30 degrees Celsius is cold.
  52. MichaelM

    The Thought of Having Tinnitus for the Rest of My Life...

    Let´s see... what have i done about it this year: -Quit my job and now work part time, - visited 3 ENTs´, 2 psychologists, 1 psychiatrist, 1 psychiatric nurse. -I take meds: betahistine (for inner ears) and bupropion (to beat the anxiety and depression) -Sold my car: caused me too much problems...
  53. MichaelM

    I Wish I Only Had Tinnitus

    No it doesnt, unfortunately. I am unable to move at all during the vertigos. Cant focus my eyes on anything. Lying on the floor and waiting... for hours. But that´s MD by its very nature.
  54. MichaelM

    I Wish I Only Had Tinnitus

    Thank you for your thoughts. Meniere´s is surreal and can be brutal on some days, i dont know how to describe it, really. violent vertigo attacks is like being inside a fast spinning washing machine for hours. MD varies so much and you never know what you are going to get when you wake up. I...
  55. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    The genetic side of MD/ear/jaw problems is interesting. Your brother has T and ear pain, my brother has displaced TJM. It doesnt bother him all the time but occasionally. He´s 6 years younger than me. I have to ask him about T. from my mother´s side many of us seem to have some problems in the...
  56. MichaelM

    How Loud Was Your Tinnitus When You First Noticed It?

    Started with 1, now 7. Has been 9-10 most part of this year. Goes to 11 on really really bad days.
  57. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    sure wont hurt to try. after all this suffering i have put lots of hope in that mouthguard. I think it´s possible to habituate to mild or moderate pain. Pain is like T, hard to measure and hard to handle. I have had "feelings" in my right side of face/ear for the whole of this year. The...
  58. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    ha ha.... actually, it needs maintaining like teeths do. brushing with toothpaste. funny. The dentist told me not wait miracles but to be honest i am. There´s a possibility to get rid of the facial numbness and pain in the ear area. Perhaps lower my T.... now i am pushing it!
  59. MichaelM

    Meniere's Disease

    All you, keep your stress levels down and sleep good. 8 good weeks now with MD. The record so far. I gotta say i have bad feelings in my ear. Might be the dental problem, too. Tinnitus feels slightly louder now than during the last weeks. i got my dental night guard yesterday (mouthguard, bite...
  60. MichaelM

    The Noise That Kills

    danny boy, dont do it, mate.