Hi been thinking about posting for a while - here goes.
My tinnitus started in the first week of January 2018. I woke up one morning said what is this - ok- must be a virus. A week later -ok- maybe a tumor. So 3 ENT doctors and 2 audiologists later I give up hope - its just tinnitus.
It would vary in tone and intensity from day to day sometimes hour to hour. In late March 2018 it started to dissipate and by May it was completely gone except for hearing my heartbeat in my right ear. I thought ok I can live with this. I stopped going on here, and then......about 6 weeks ago it comes back overnight worse than before.
I was keeping a log of the intensity the first time and using a scale of what was then 1 through 10 I am now a 12-13. This time is is steady and does not go up and down in volume.
Most of the time it sounds like I am standing next to a jet ready to take off and some times a loud tone. Also what I can hear over the noise is often distorted so I don't want to hear anything, music, tv, etc. So I sit home alone and listen to the jet engine.
I am very depressed, I am a 67 year old male and I live alone with my dog. I almost started a fire 2 weeks ago because I did not hear a timer I set after I put something on the stove. I am very distracted, forgetting things and for the most part don't give a s#@% about anything any more.
If a doctor told me I can make you completely deaf so you won't hear ANY noise I would say set my appointment up ...........
My tinnitus started in the first week of January 2018. I woke up one morning said what is this - ok- must be a virus. A week later -ok- maybe a tumor. So 3 ENT doctors and 2 audiologists later I give up hope - its just tinnitus.
It would vary in tone and intensity from day to day sometimes hour to hour. In late March 2018 it started to dissipate and by May it was completely gone except for hearing my heartbeat in my right ear. I thought ok I can live with this. I stopped going on here, and then......about 6 weeks ago it comes back overnight worse than before.
I was keeping a log of the intensity the first time and using a scale of what was then 1 through 10 I am now a 12-13. This time is is steady and does not go up and down in volume.
Most of the time it sounds like I am standing next to a jet ready to take off and some times a loud tone. Also what I can hear over the noise is often distorted so I don't want to hear anything, music, tv, etc. So I sit home alone and listen to the jet engine.
I am very depressed, I am a 67 year old male and I live alone with my dog. I almost started a fire 2 weeks ago because I did not hear a timer I set after I put something on the stove. I am very distracted, forgetting things and for the most part don't give a s#@% about anything any more.
If a doctor told me I can make you completely deaf so you won't hear ANY noise I would say set my appointment up ...........
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