Increased Tinnitus After MRI

[BrStan@]

I wish this Lenire device works. I am very skeptical but deep inside me I have some hope.

 

[Fabrikat]

Sometimes they just don't care. They haven't suffered what we have and they just can't imagine it.

Acoustic Reflex Test is what you had and is a disaster if you have tinnitus and hyperacusis.

Most audiologists and ENT's have no idea of its effects on compromised ears. It's good you just stopped the test and refused to proceed with it.

It's also a test that is not regarded as particularly useful by most ENT's these days anyway.

 

[Manex]

As for the surgery - make sure you research the medications. The antibiotics especially. I'm very sensitive to them, but some are more tolerable than others. Generally a hospital has a few options for everything. Make sure you ask what the options are and research. You can research them here:

https://www.ehealthme.com/ds/propofol/tinnitus/ (example here is with propofol and tinnitus)

and at least get some reports on tinnitus issues if there are any.

Avoid MRI's unless a very serious threat requirement0.. I think in Europe there exists some quiet MRI's but they're not in the US yet.

 

[MRItechssuck]

I am so stupid. My tinnitus from a loud rock band had been actually ok for years. I hurt my back and got an MRI. I have had two previous MRIs years ago and I don't remember them being so loud!

This one was very loud. The tech never mentioned earplugs (Yet they were on the side table!!). I only had the crap headphones and halfway through when I asked to stop the procedure (tech never heard me) I held them as hard as I could against my head. It was loud I felt uncomfortable wasn't having actual pain.

My tinnitus is 5x worse now for the 3 days after. I pray it resolves itself. I'm right back where I was 15 years ago when I first got it.

I feel so stupid....I should have been more proactive. I was thinking... MRI... just a whirring sound right?

So because of a terrible technician that didn't even give me an emergency button....I may have this loud tinnitus again for years. Kicking myself for getting the MRI, or not reading up on it. I have been so careful for 15 years and here I am again. If I could get in a clinical trial for stem cells I'd do that, but that seems years off.

 

[all to gain]

I am so stupid. My tinnitus from a loud rock band had been actually ok for years. I hurt my back and got an MRI. I have had two previous MRIs years ago and I don't remember them being so loud!

This one was very loud. The tech never mentioned earplugs (Yet they were on the side table!!). I only had the crap headphones and halfway through when I asked to stop the procedure (tech never heard me) I held them as hard as I could against my head. It was loud I felt uncomfortable wasn't having actual pain.

My tinnitus is 5x worse now for the 3 days after. I pray it resolves itself. I'm right back where I was 15 years ago when I first got it.

I feel so stupid....I should have been more proactive. I was thinking... MRI... just a whirring sound right?

So because of a terrible technician that didn't even give me an emergency button....I may have this loud tinnitus again for years. Kicking myself for getting the MRI, or not reading up on it. I have been so careful for 15 years and here I am again. If I could get in a clinical trial for stem cells I'd do that, but that seems years off.

I feel for you. Maybe you should get steroids ASAP, i.e. as in today or tomorrow. They may help you.

My tinnitus was made worse by an MRI scan. I too kick myself for having it done. I did ask all the right questions though, had double ear protection, found a quiet MRI scanner and had a buzzer to alert the technician. Still, I went against my better judgement (before I had the scan I had read of a woman who had actually gotten tinnitus due to an MRI scan), but felt I had to take the scan to rule out MS that a doctor had questioningly jotted down on a referral form (that I wasn't supposed to see). I knew the tinnitus and my blurred visions were due to a reaction to medication and not symptoms of something else, but that doctor's preliminary diagnosis scared me, i.e. may be I was wrong. So I went through with the MRI. I was so scared taking the MRI due to the thought of my tinnitus getting worse, and I told the technician on the day. She told me they had never had problems because if they did they would have people suing them left, right and centre. She put me at ease a bit. I shouldn't have listened to her!

I just seem to have gotten bad advice and bad decisions made all the way through the story of me getting tinnitus and blurred eyes. I did my best to ask the right questions, but came up short it seems. I put too much trust in the expert's opinions. I now blame myself for that. I was too naive. I should also have pressed the buzzer sooner to stop the scan. All too late.

 

[MRItechssuck]

Just getting on this board....but yes my MRI was 3 days ago...prayers this goes back to its normal level.

 

[MRItechssuck]

What steroid?

 

[GoatSheep]

What steroid?

prednisone

 

[MRItechssuck]

Thanks oddly enough I had a dose pack of that 2 weeks ago when I had a bulging wont be able to see an ent until Monday...this happened on Thursday. If I could sue I would, but how would I prove it? I see the ortho doc for the mri followup and I will totally throw that tech under the bus!

 

[PolarSun]

I feel for you. Maybe you should get steroids ASAP, i.e. as in today or tomorrow. They may help you.

My tinnitus was made worse by an MRI scan. I too kick myself for having it done. I did ask all the right questions though, had double ear protection, found a quiet MRI scanner and had a buzzer to alert the technician. Still, I went against my better judgement (before I had the scan I had read of a woman who had actually gotten tinnitus due to an MRI scan), but felt I had to take the scan to rule out MS that a doctor had questioningly jotted down on a referral form (that I wasn't supposed to see). I knew the tinnitus and my blurred visions were due to a reaction to medication and not symptoms of something else, but that doctor's preliminary diagnosis scared me, i.e. may be I was wrong. So I went through with the MRI. I was so scared taking the MRI due to the thought of my tinnitus getting worse, and I told the technician on the day. She told me they had never had problems because if they did they would have people suing them left, right and centre. She put me at ease a bit. I shouldn't have listened to her!

I just seem to have gotten bad advice and bad decisions made all the way through the story of me getting tinnitus and blurred eyes. I did my best to ask the right questions, but came up short it seems. I put too much trust in the expert's opinions. I now blame myself for that. I was too naive. I should also have pressed the buzzer sooner to stop the scan. All too late.

What precautions did you take which MRI did you use, what hearing protection?

I just got over really bad acoustic, I still have tentative but I can finally listen to things again. I injured my foot and they recommend that I get an MRI I really want to be able to walk again.

 

[MRItechssuck]

Hi,
Obviously I am no MRI expert, actually feel like an idiot, but whatever. The MRI was a closed type, and Imdint know the manufacturer other than it was a 1.5 T strength.

Is a CT scan not specific enough for you since MRI is better at the soft parts I guess.

Someone posted a newer "quieter" MRI brand to search for, and I'm sure you'll find it scouting the boards.

Get another opinion at least before doing the MRI....the docs think the test is so standard and commonplace that they have turned into village idiots. No offense to the village idiots.

 

[all to gain]

What precautions did you take which MRI did you use, what hearing protection?

I just got over really bad acoustic, I still have tentative but I can finally listen to things again. I injured my foot and they recommend that I get an MRI I really want to be able to walk again.

As said above, I found a quiet MRI scanner and used ear plugs and ear defenders.Ii used the clinic's ear protection, so I don't know how good it was. I had a head scan, so at least having a scan on your foot won't mean your head going in the scanner.

Honestly, I would get a second and third opinion about needing an MRI scan. Just don't take the risk if you don't need to.

 

[Juan]

The choice of imaging tech depends on what you are looking for, or looking to rule out.

If you have single sided hearing loss (and/or tinnitus), you often get told to do an MRI to rule out an acoustic neuroma (even if the odds are very small). You wouldn't be sent to a CT scan for that.

However, if your doctor suspects otosclerosis or something else having to do with bone structure, you would most likely be sent to a CT scan, and not an MRI.

You are sent to the imaging technology that best fits the diagnosis investigation.

Hi Greg, that's what I thought too, that depending on what doctors are looking for they refer patients for MRI or CAT scan. However, at the public healthcare hospital they sent me for a CAT scan to avoid noise.

Recently I went to the ENT and he also said that there is not much to gain, in my particular case, by getting an MRI, so he said that no more tests were needed.. bad thing is, I dont improve..

 

[Juan]

Hi Everyone,

I have tinnitus since long time 1999 from shooting with machine gun. It improved after that and I went on with my life. But it went really bad 3 years ago after another noise exposure by accident (police car passed near me and I did not cover my ears). Within 6 months I improved and moved again with my life but this time I was very careful around noise I was going out with earplugs all the time I was so scared from the noise. My tinnitus is very reactive and that protection made me even more sensitive to noise. Anyway I was habituated to the tinnitus, I can hear it and it will spike from time to time for no reason or sometimes when watching TV but that's just temporary. It was nothing to worry about. I was avoiding noisy places and all was good.

Unfortunately I needed to to do an MRI scan on my head due to health issues. I went on the scan I put my 3M earplugs in ear and another earmuffs on the top provided by them. I was thinking I was safe. But I was wrong, tinnitus screams 3 days now. One hour is OK, the next hour is back it is fluctuating a lot. I could not believe it with 2 types of ear protection it got me again. The scan lasted for 30 minutes and the noise was not constant. I could hear the noise through the earplugs but I did not think is bad enough to cause any damage. As if that was the case I was going to ask them to stop. How wrong was I. I can feel my ears now feel different they are even more sensitive to sound.

I don't know what to do now. My tinnitus was always improving but now I don't think it will. I don't eat any food and I feel very depressed as I have now accumulated further damage already my damaged ears.

I am very curious about your experience. I have also been suffering from hyperacusis for a long time. How did you cope from 1999 until the recent exposure to sound that increased your T?

What were your coping strategies and lifestyle during all those years?

 

[MRItechssuck]

prednisone

Thanks. I was able to so far get the Doctor to get me a 5-day course, I'm going to ask for more... Is 10 days or 14 days preferred?

 

[GoatSheep]

Thanks. I was able to so far get the Doctor to get me a 5-day course, I'm going to ask for more... Is 10 days or 14 days preferred?

idk to be honest. They always have only given me taper packs for like 6 days. Maybe someone else would have more info or do a search for previous threads

 

[mahdi89]

Thanks. I was able to so far get the Doctor to get me a 5-day course, I'm going to ask for more... Is 10 days or 14 days preferred?

Are you better now?

 

[DaveFromChicago]

Quote worth considering:
"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't
let it get the best of you."
Will Rogers, quoted by Amy Dresner in "My Fair Junkie."
Something to consider in attempts to "manage" this atrocious condition.

 

[MRItechssuck]

Are you better now?

Thanks for asking, sadly no... nothing has changed in two months.

 

[Blue28]

I'm pretty unhappy with doctors as a group. My condition was initiated by one of the "harmless" prescriptions they told me to take (megadose ibuprofin), then after it settled down it returned full blast after I was given an MRI. Doctors need to be better-educated about tinnitus risks. It's a common condition and they completely ignore its risks as well as the suffering that it produces.

I was getting yet another hearing test a few days ago (no measurable hearing loss, again- can we stop this now?), and the audiologist put something into my ear for a special hearing sensitivity test which she said would be loud. I said I wasn't comfortable with that due to my tinnitus which can spike from loud noises, but she just kind of looked at me and ignored that & kept going with the test. When it quickly got too loud, I pulled the thing out of my ear and said sorry, but that's as much as I could do. She looked at me like I was a little crazy or immature or something, and just moved on. Sometimes they just don't care. They haven't suffered what we have and they just can't imagine it. Lucky them.

I can't agree more with your views... My tinnitus/hyperacusis/hearing loss was initially caused by an ENT performing a very noisy microsuction procedure to remove a small amount of wax in each ear. Then I was ordered by another ENT to get an MRI (despite me telling him that my tinnitus was triggered by an acoustic trauma), I was desperate for help and he said if I didn't do the MRI then he couldn't help me (he didn't anyway as of course the MRI showed nothing). I used double protection but despite this my ears were worse afterwards. And finally ALL of the audiologists I've seen have absolutely NO IDEA of the further damage they cause with tests like acoustic reflex, LDL test etc... I trusted them, I shouldn't have. It's truly SHOCKING how naive and uncaring these 'so called' health professionals are!

 

[teacher34]

I can't agree more with your views... My tinnitus/hyperacusis/hearing loss was initially caused by an ENT performing a very noisy microsuction procedure to remove a small amount of wax in each ear. Then I was ordered by another ENT to get an MRI (despite me telling him that my tinnitus was triggered by an acoustic trauma), I was desperate for help and he said if I didn't do the MRI then he couldn't help me (he didn't anyway as of course the MRI showed nothing). I used double protection but despite this my ears were worse afterwards. And finally ALL of the audiologists I've seen have absolutely NO IDEA of the further damage they cause with tests like acoustic reflex, LDL test etc... I trusted them, I shouldn't have. It's truly SHOCKING how naive and uncaring these 'so called' health professionals are!

I now only get wax removed by a hearing aid specialist who uses a microscope to visualize the wax, then a very small plastic device to manually remove the wax. He is very kind and effective and charges so little.

When I developed further ear problems (not tinnitus) after a series of flights that was probably caused by all of the pressure changes, he told me about Ear Planes, and when I brought some in, he modeled for me how to use them, and then watched as I also put some in, and gave me the added tip to leave them in for 20-30 minutes after landing, to really give my ears time to adjust to the higher pressure gradually. Very helpful person.

Why can't I find an actual doctor like him!? I know there are actual doctors out there who remove wax manually with the aid of a microscope, but I've never met any in my city. They always want to do it the quick & damaging way: suction, and/or a loud machine. I'm done hurting my ears with all that stuff. I'm very prone to wax, so I irrigate my ears with hydrogen peroxide every other month (another tip he gave me) to reduce wax buildup, and have my ears manually cleaned once or twice a year. They never get completely plugged anymore, because they get regularly cleaned, and the cleanings are non-harmful.

Most ENTs & doctors in general are complete ignoramuses about tinnitus, that's for sure. I never take any medication or supplement without first checking it out on these boards to see what reactions people here have had. I don't trust doctors with my ears. Period.