- Jul 6, 2015
- 59
- Tinnitus Since
- 05/2015
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Most likely due to antibiotics after a major operation
I feel very humbled writing this introduction, because I know I'm in the company of giants ... people who have had to contend with their T in such a courageous way for much longer than I have. Please forgive me for not paying any thought as to what you were suffering, each day, whilst my hearing was fine. Now I'm experiencing the cruel reality of what T can do to people, and my heart goes out to you!
It was in March 2015 when I had a total hip-replacement ... I chose to have an epidural so that I could be conscious throughout the operation, and all went well. A truly fantastic operation ... (even when I heard the words: 'Circular saw and mallet, please.'). But it was that night when I started to realise that something was wrong ... it turned-out that I had caught an infection in the post-op room.
I was only in the hospital for 3 days, so it was my GP who gave me the antibiotics for my infection which was getting worse, each day. The first course had no effect, but when the next type of much stronger antibiotics was given to me, my T started within a few short hours and has never left me since. My GP says that it might just be a coincidence, which I'm ready to accept, because I was also very stressed-out with the effects of the infection.
But more importantly, what I want to say is that my heart goes out to you all ... every one of you, for what you are going through, and how I wish to thank you for your truly encouraging stories that are helping others ... especially me!
As a teenager, I wore an emboidered badge on my denim jacket which said: 'Even the longest journey begins with the very first step.' .... And many years later when I heard my GP's Nurse sound-out the words: 'most likely permanent; there's nothing we can do' ... it was just like an earthquake taking place inside my whole being ... a sense of inner panic ... a sense of just wanting to escape from my T ... an understanding that my life had changed completely. I knew that I was on the longest journey of my life ... but each small step, each breath, each moment would carry me through it ... for as long as it takes!
If you get the chance, please say a prayer for me ... because I truly promise you, that you are all so very much in my prayers!
It was in March 2015 when I had a total hip-replacement ... I chose to have an epidural so that I could be conscious throughout the operation, and all went well. A truly fantastic operation ... (even when I heard the words: 'Circular saw and mallet, please.'). But it was that night when I started to realise that something was wrong ... it turned-out that I had caught an infection in the post-op room.
I was only in the hospital for 3 days, so it was my GP who gave me the antibiotics for my infection which was getting worse, each day. The first course had no effect, but when the next type of much stronger antibiotics was given to me, my T started within a few short hours and has never left me since. My GP says that it might just be a coincidence, which I'm ready to accept, because I was also very stressed-out with the effects of the infection.
But more importantly, what I want to say is that my heart goes out to you all ... every one of you, for what you are going through, and how I wish to thank you for your truly encouraging stories that are helping others ... especially me!
As a teenager, I wore an emboidered badge on my denim jacket which said: 'Even the longest journey begins with the very first step.' .... And many years later when I heard my GP's Nurse sound-out the words: 'most likely permanent; there's nothing we can do' ... it was just like an earthquake taking place inside my whole being ... a sense of inner panic ... a sense of just wanting to escape from my T ... an understanding that my life had changed completely. I knew that I was on the longest journey of my life ... but each small step, each breath, each moment would carry me through it ... for as long as it takes!
If you get the chance, please say a prayer for me ... because I truly promise you, that you are all so very much in my prayers!
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