I Just Want My Tinnitus to Go Away! It Started All of a Sudden After Drinking Wine

[Redd09]

Hi I am new to dealing with Tinnitus.

It's the most annoying drive me bat ass crazy thing that's ever happened to me! It all started last Monday night, me and my husband was drinking a little bit of wine right before we went to bed and all of a sudden I get this loud buzzing ringing noise in my right ear and then in my left ear.

Tuesday morning I woke up and it was louder than ever and I cried all day, it stayed liked that for 3 days, then the buzzing stopped in my ear and it started sounding like crickets chirping 24/7 in my head and it's driving me insane!

During the day sometimes it doesn't bother me at all but at night it gets really loud until I fall asleep and in the morning it's the same way! Lord knows I just want it to go away!

 

[JohnAdams]

I feel you man. This is wearing me out. I think I got worse yesterday talking to a coworker outside yesterday while leaf blowers were going.

 

[Redd09]

It's the worst thing ever @JohnAdams

 

[coffee_girl]

Did you have any noise exposure at all? Hopefully this is an isolated incident and will go away within a month or two.

 

[JohnAdams]

Yes it's bad, and there's like 10 potential cures out there but they arent going anywhere with them, except one that's in clinical trials and they are going very slow and it will be years before its released. Theres also this electronic machine that can lower the sound but they are also going really slow to even release any info.

 

[Redd09]

No not that I can remember but my son who has ASD can get very loud at times! @coffee_girl

 

[Redd09]

Ugh I don't have the patience for those I just wish it will go away I am about ready to scream! @JohnAdams

 

[JohnAdams]

Ugh I don't have the patience for those I just wish it will go away I am about ready to scream! @JohnAdams

Go to the doctor. You may have earwax.

 

[NeuroNut]

@Redd09 : I am so sorry. I know how awful this is, or at least how awful it was for me.

First thing's first: get checked by a doctor. There are medical conditions which can cause this weird, sudden onset. If you have one, you might find that treatment alleviates the noise. There's no need to worry about this yet, because the scary stuff is rare, but you've got to rule it out anyway.

Next: it sounds like you can sleep, which is a blessing. But if that changes then take action fast: drugs, drugs and more drugs. When your house is on fire, you've got to take action quickly.

It sounds like you're really suffering from distress though. And I can relate to that. When it starts, T can be so awful that you simply can't believe anyone can live with it. Crucially: you're absolutely right. People don' live with it, because the prognosis is good. The stats say that 5-10% of people have some sort of persistent T, which is 3-6 million people in the UK alone. Now imagine that all of these people felt like you do now; the country would collapse overnight. It would be a medical emergency unparalleled since the Black Plague. It isn't an emergency because almost everyone with T is basically OK - and that's because almost everyone's T becomes either quieter or more manageable (or both) over time.

That said, you've got to get a grip on the panic. It will make you feel worse, feeding itself. Again - take loads of drugs. They work. You might get nasty side-effects from one or a few, but you just change it up until you find what works. You may be someone who can meditate, or breathe, or somehow 'think away' the distress. I am not. I used drugs and they worked.

Finally, give yourself a break. If your T does not go away - and it might well - you've likely got about 4-8 weeks at the bottom of the ocean before you start to come back up. If you can control your fear, your brain will start to reclassify this noise as irrelevant stimuli over roughly that timescale. You may always hear it when you listen for it, but you will learn not to listen for it so much, and find that you don't hear it all the time any more, and that it's quieter even when you do hear it. Yes, there are exceptions, and it's different if you've got something awful like brain cancer. But for almost everyone in your position, it does get better: a LOT better. During the first 8 weeks, I didn't stop working, but my work is pretty forgiving of periods of low productivity. Tell your boss. Tell the colleagues you like. And know you will almost certainly be back to 'fighting fitness' soon - but probably not tomorrow and probably not next week.

Also - in case I haven't been clear - take lots of drugs so you don't sit there tearing your hair out.

 

[coffee_girl]

No not that I can remember but my son who has ASD can get very loud at times! @coffee_girl

If yours isn't noise induced you have a very good chance of it going away, but it will require patience and protection of your ears. Try not to get too stressed out, it will raise the pitch of your T and make it worse.

If you do scream, make sure to scream into a pillow...don't scream in an enclosed space,it will reflect and amplify...making your T worse. Distract yourself as much as possible, in most cases of T it will fade.

 

[Contrast]

Yes it's bad, and there's like 10 potential cures out there but they arent going anywhere with them, except one that's in clinical trials and they are going very slow and it will be years before its released. Theres also this electronic machine that can lower the sound but they are also going really slow to even release any info.

dude you are kinda spreading false information.

There are several methods used to reduce tinnitus working their way in the medical world.

brain stimulation devices
hearing restoration
GABA uptake
epilepsy drugs

Currently there are two active clinical trials of interest which should reduce tinnitus.

University of Michigan signal timing device
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/new-university-of-michigan-tinnitus-discovery-—-signal-timing.2805/page-35

Frequency Therapeutics cochlear hair cell regeneration
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/frequency-therapeutics-—-hearing-loss-regeneration.18889/page-71

Two bio-companies Decibel Therapeutics and Otonomy in 1-2 years may join the bio race for novel medicine to restore hearing which should reduce tinnitus.

 

[billie48]

I agree you need a thorough check of your ears by the doctor to rule out infection inside, wax buildup, ETD, TMJ, etc. If they can fix the cause, your T may fade. In the meantime, try masking your T so you won't be so distressed as stress and anxiety can aggravate T.

 

[JohnAdams]

dude you are kinda spreading false information.

There are several methods used to reduce tinnitus working their way in the medical world.

brain stimulation devices
hearing restoration
GABA uptake
epilepsy drugs

Currently there are two active clinical trials of interest which should reduce tinnitus.

University of Michigan signal timing device
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/new-university-of-michigan-tinnitus-discovery-—-signal-timing.2805/page-35

Frequency Therapeutics cochlear hair cell regeneration
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/frequency-therapeutics-—-hearing-loss-regeneration.18889/page-71

Two bio-companies Decibel Therapeutics and Otonomy in 1-2 years may join the bio race for novel medicine to restore hearing which should reduce tinnitus.

That's why I used the word potential.

Drugs/methods shown to regrow hair cells.
1.Ly411575.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573859/
2. DAPT.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197578/
3.EGF and 4.Reprogrammed virus to target the ERBB2 receptor.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181015132953.htm
5. EGCG
http://www.cyagen.com/media/uploads...otoxicity_by_Inhibiting_Notch_Signalling..pdf

Other methods that may restore nerve synapses and correct hearing loss.
6.7,8 DHF/biphosphonate
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29485861/
7. Stem cells.
http://med.stanford.edu/hearinglosscure/stem-cell-therapy/
8. Umbilical cord blood
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23165382/

Okay I said 10, my bad. But I'm not spreading false information at all and I dont appreciate your accusation.

 

[Lola808]

Searching wine posts as it's what brought on mine. I will never drink again.

 

[Flyingsheep]

Drinking is also what caused my tinnitus, and occasional hyperacusis. It started super mild and gradually got worse to where I get NASTY spikes some weeks and other weeks it's like 1/10. I recently started having instances of pain while it's spiking so I'm seeing an ENT now. No sign of hearing loss whatsoever.

However the ENT is being very helpful and trying to figure out what's going on, so I'm grateful for that. Right now she's doing a process of elimination and having me use fluticasone nasal spray to see if I'm experiencing ETD, even though she did have me get a tympanometry which showed no signs of ETD. Not sure if it's coincidence or what but so far after day 1 using the nasal spray the pain and tinnitus has reduced significantly.