How Does Tinnitus Impact Your Relationship?

[PeteJ]

Just wondering, does tinnitus make finding love harder? Does it impact your relationship?

Yes. Especially if you have severe tinnitus, right?

 

[Scruffiey]

Yes. Especially if you have severe tinnitus, right?

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As for my opinion on the matter, yes, but depression is likely the biggest obstacle; home-bound people with chronic illnesses manage to get married quite often.

 

[PeteJ]

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As for my opinion on the matter, yes, but depression is likely the biggest obstacle; home-bound people with chronic illnesses manage to get married quite often.

That's really sad. I'm sorry, I didn't realize.

I also have depression, and on top of that, I'm incredibly frustrated. I live in a noisy area and I can't move. I can't work, so I'm on disability. All I can do is wear earplugs, and I bought a pair of earmuffs. But I also have pain in my ears and ear canals. It's not always caused by noise—sometimes it comes from frequently inserting and removing the plugs. Other times, it just happens because my ears have become extremely sensitive, especially the nerves in them.

I also wonder if custom plugs might help a little, but I can't afford them.

What does this have to do with relationships? Well, I'm alone and isolated, like a hermit. I can't find much enjoyment in life, so I don't have a chance to meet anyone. People usually don't want to spend time with someone who can't even go to normal places. My physician won't prescribe any pain medication. I thought, or maybe still think, that if I could be a little numbed out, then at least the pain in my ears might feel more bearable.

The combination of pain and depression, especially while being alone, is just too much. Some people here have tinnitus, but at least they have someone. I'm homebound, and I really don't know how people manage to get married or have any kind of relationship. It feels impossible unless the other person also has a chronic illness or tinnitus themselves, so they could understand and do the same things.

 

[Scruffiey]

That's really sad. I'm sorry, I didn't realize.

I also have depression, and on top of that, I'm incredibly frustrated. I live in a noisy area and I can't move. I can't work, so I'm on disability. All I can do is wear earplugs, and I bought a pair of earmuffs. But I also have pain in my ears and ear canals. It's not always caused by noise—sometimes it comes from frequently inserting and removing the plugs. Other times, it just happens because my ears have become extremely sensitive, especially the nerves in them.

I also wonder if custom plugs might help a little, but I can't afford them.

What does this have to do with relationships? Well, I'm alone and isolated, like a hermit. I can't find much enjoyment in life, so I don't have a chance to meet anyone. People usually don't want to spend time with someone who can't even go to normal places. My physician won't prescribe any pain medication. I thought, or maybe still think, that if I could be a little numbed out, then at least the pain in my ears might feel more bearable.

The combination of pain and depression, especially while being alone, is just too much. Some people here have tinnitus, but at least they have someone. I'm homebound, and I really don't know how people manage to get married or have any kind of relationship. It feels impossible unless the other person also has a chronic illness or tinnitus themselves, so they could understand and do the same things.

Apart from not living in an overly noisy area (although the garden is still a risk, with the neighbors seemingly always having some kind of work done), and the fact that I do not currently have to work, I am in exactly the same mental and reclusive boat.

I do not enjoy anything anymore, and I cannot see a path toward improving my circumstances or building friendships or relationships.

Six months ago, despite all the adversity and stress I was facing, I could still find a way to smile. No matter how bad things got, I believed they could get better, that everything would pass. That is no longer the case.

My life dreams have now mostly shifted toward the idea of widow-maker heart attacks or brain aneurysms, sooner rather than later, so I can go quickly and painlessly, without causing too much damage on the way out.

 

[delta784]

That's really sad. I'm sorry, I didn't realize.

I also have depression, and on top of that, I'm incredibly frustrated. I live in a noisy area and I can't move. I can't work, so I'm on disability. All I can do is wear earplugs, and I bought a pair of earmuffs. But I also have pain in my ears and ear canals. It's not always caused by noise—sometimes it comes from frequently inserting and removing the plugs. Other times, it just happens because my ears have become extremely sensitive, especially the nerves in them.

I also wonder if custom plugs might help a little, but I can't afford them.

What does this have to do with relationships? Well, I'm alone and isolated, like a hermit. I can't find much enjoyment in life, so I don't have a chance to meet anyone. People usually don't want to spend time with someone who can't even go to normal places. My physician won't prescribe any pain medication. I thought, or maybe still think, that if I could be a little numbed out, then at least the pain in my ears might feel more bearable.

The combination of pain and depression, especially while being alone, is just too much. Some people here have tinnitus, but at least they have someone. I'm homebound, and I really don't know how people manage to get married or have any kind of relationship. It feels impossible unless the other person also has a chronic illness or tinnitus themselves, so they could understand and do the same things.

I feel the same as you. Why do we have ear pain? Is it noxacusis?