Hello tinnitus sufferers.
I injected Licocaine into myself. Let me tell my story first.
I work in the ER service, on the 5 of August 2015, I was working and suddenly felt that somebody pulled me backwards. It was very strange. I thought it was because I had swum too much and didn't eat immediately afterwards.
I've been all my life a triathlete, eaten well, haven't smoked etc, good blood pressure etc etc.
Half an hour later I felt the same and an hour and a half later, I was extremely dizzy, I couldn't walk.
I know it was the inner ear but didn't know what was the cause, at first I believed it was barotrauma from swimming.
The ambulance took me home and I stayed in bed hoping the next day all will be ok, but to my surprise it wasn't.
And I saw an ENT and a Neurologist.
"It will last one week, don't worry".
At the end of the week I was more dizzy.
At day 10 I developed ringing in my left ear, not bad but enough to worry but honestly with the dizziness I didn't think about the sound.
I started to take steroids by myself. Dexamethasone did the trick of keeping the dizziness away a little, meanwhile I traveled to see an otoneurologist and he told me "labyrinthitis, you will have this condition for 6 to 8 months".
And he gave me the same steroids I was taking and at the end of the third month told me start to take Betahistine, but a minimum of 48mg a day. No problem taking over 100mg but it's too expensive.
The dizziness lasted 5 to 6 months.
Steroids did a very good job in keeping the inflammation down.
But little by little the tinnitus started to show its ugly head...
And this week I thought I was going crazy.
First time in my life my mind said "better to be dead than live with this noise."
I mean seriously, I had to go to the drug store at 12.30 am and buy Xanax XR. I took 2.5mg to calm myself down.
During the weeks before I had literally tried everything because of working in the health field.
Yesterday I was working in the E.R. and said, "what the hell", I'm going to try Lidocaine.
I took one Lidocaine ampoule of 100mg/5ml, diluted it in 15cc of saline solution and with a butterfly needle injected it into myself IV very, very, slowly.
The tinnitus immediately went down.
If level 10 tinnitus is connected to suicide, I used to be at level 7.
After the Lidocaine injection, the tinnitus diminished to level 3.
The next day I repeated the injection, but this time with slow perfusion and 300mg over a period of 3 hours.
The tinnitus is now at level 1.
I'm not recommending this to "try it out yourself" of course, but I was lucky that I work in the ER and have all the stuff there.
I just wanted to share with you this experience.
It's been two days of normal life and I was going literally crazy.
Please ask anything.
I will try to do my best to answer because I know the pain that tinnitus causes.
I injected Licocaine into myself. Let me tell my story first.
I work in the ER service, on the 5 of August 2015, I was working and suddenly felt that somebody pulled me backwards. It was very strange. I thought it was because I had swum too much and didn't eat immediately afterwards.
I've been all my life a triathlete, eaten well, haven't smoked etc, good blood pressure etc etc.
Half an hour later I felt the same and an hour and a half later, I was extremely dizzy, I couldn't walk.
I know it was the inner ear but didn't know what was the cause, at first I believed it was barotrauma from swimming.
The ambulance took me home and I stayed in bed hoping the next day all will be ok, but to my surprise it wasn't.
And I saw an ENT and a Neurologist.
"It will last one week, don't worry".
At the end of the week I was more dizzy.
At day 10 I developed ringing in my left ear, not bad but enough to worry but honestly with the dizziness I didn't think about the sound.
I started to take steroids by myself. Dexamethasone did the trick of keeping the dizziness away a little, meanwhile I traveled to see an otoneurologist and he told me "labyrinthitis, you will have this condition for 6 to 8 months".
And he gave me the same steroids I was taking and at the end of the third month told me start to take Betahistine, but a minimum of 48mg a day. No problem taking over 100mg but it's too expensive.
The dizziness lasted 5 to 6 months.
Steroids did a very good job in keeping the inflammation down.
But little by little the tinnitus started to show its ugly head...
And this week I thought I was going crazy.
First time in my life my mind said "better to be dead than live with this noise."
I mean seriously, I had to go to the drug store at 12.30 am and buy Xanax XR. I took 2.5mg to calm myself down.
During the weeks before I had literally tried everything because of working in the health field.
Yesterday I was working in the E.R. and said, "what the hell", I'm going to try Lidocaine.
I took one Lidocaine ampoule of 100mg/5ml, diluted it in 15cc of saline solution and with a butterfly needle injected it into myself IV very, very, slowly.
The tinnitus immediately went down.
If level 10 tinnitus is connected to suicide, I used to be at level 7.
After the Lidocaine injection, the tinnitus diminished to level 3.
The next day I repeated the injection, but this time with slow perfusion and 300mg over a period of 3 hours.
The tinnitus is now at level 1.
I'm not recommending this to "try it out yourself" of course, but I was lucky that I work in the ER and have all the stuff there.
I just wanted to share with you this experience.
It's been two days of normal life and I was going literally crazy.
Please ask anything.
I will try to do my best to answer because I know the pain that tinnitus causes.
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