Vaccine-induced worsening may not be a temporary spike unfortunately. It may have done some damage permanently. I'm at 2+ months (getting slowly worse?) and others I know are 4-6 months into this with no relief.
I was trying to relate to the OP, showing that we are facing these challenges together.
Risks of bad outcomes exist everywhere in life. Do we sell our cars because 40,000 people a year die of vehicle crashes in the US? Is a fear of flying rational when only a few planes ever fall out of the sky in a year making it the safest mode of travel on a passenger mile basis?
We all had to make our decisions about the vaccine. I held off while I did research and talked with my cancer doctors and other cancer survivors. The reported cases of tinnitus in the US side effect data base are 0.03%. Assuming a 10x underreporting rate that's still less than 1%. I read about it here where some of the worst cases reside and saw a mixed report so I decided to get the vaccine.
The chances of tinnitus from getting COVID-19 is also reported in catastrophic terms, I will refrain from those stories. All three possibilities are on the table: no effect, permanent increase, and temporary increase. Many here speak in terms of years for recovery so someone a few months in with a spike may not know the outcome yet. Once we make informed decisions it does us no good to focus on the slice that turns out bad or is bad so far, it just stands to makes us sicker to decide that the worst of the what ifs will be us.
Some paraphrased quotes from a survey thread on this forum on this subject:
Injection at 2 PM, spike by 5 PM, back to baseline by 8 PM.
Didn't notice any difference.
I did not notice any change.
He woke up free from tinnitus after the vaccine.
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That's just partially down the first page.
This is a serious and debilitating condition which like most pain conditions is impacted by our emotions and attitudes about it. We are better served by doing our research, being content with our informed decisions and improving our outlook on our future.
I am happy about being vaccinated and now look forward to ending my year of isolation able to see my grandkids again after getting cancer and losing my wife to the same horrible disease. As far as my tinnitus is concerned, that's going to get better because there is no reason why I can't be in the group that either manages it successfully or has it disappear completely. I have decided that I have no better approach than to believe that, believe that I deserve that outcome as much as the next guy and learn how to attain that outcome.
One can focus on many catastrophic outcomes but to what end? Hell, in the US , 150,000 deaths a year are the result of medical error or drug reactions but I see people here taking all kinds of powerful medicines which is good if that's what is right for them and I support their decision but there are risks everywhere. All we can do is get informed, decide what trade-offs are best for us and then be satisfied with our decisions visualizing the best outcome possible. I have read 100s of stories of people coming back from the impossible while having an unwavering positive attitude. I just read a story about Stevie Wonder who went blind after a premature birth and too much oxygen in the incubator. He told his mother as a young boy not to cry because being blind did not make him sad and was not a problem. He went on to write some of the best songs in pop music history. Some might see his story as having gotten royally _____ed but he chose not to see it that way.
I once talked to a heart surgeon that told me that doctors hold great power and the wrong words can actually kill someone once that fear is implanted in them. Powerful words. He also told me that the opposite is true.
All the best to you brother, I hope you get better. I hope we get better together. We have to work together to get our heads right, so to speak. The brain is after all, connected to the ears. Or is it the hip bone ...? LOL.
George
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