Greetings! My name is Patrick and I am 64 years old. My son lives in El Salvador and I went to visit him last April.
While there I got dehydrated due to lots of physical activity and the night after a difficult climb through the mountains I got Vertigo 2 days before flying home to North Carolina. The vertigo was really scary and luckily I have a friend who is a physical therapist and she cured me of the vertigo by doing the eply maneuver on me 2 days in a row.
It took about 3 more weeks to be completely cured of the Vertigo, BUT once that went away I got Tinnitus. The first 2 weeks were hell and I had to get anti-anxiety meds from my doctor to calm me down from the stress of the ringing.
Since then I have learned to manage it by keeping a fan on in my bedroom and white noise music playing when I am home. I don't really notice it when I am out and about.
I am now able to sleep and even though the ringing is annoying I seem to be getting used to it. It seems some things trigger the tinnitus and make it worse like certain meds. I had a colonoscopy 2 days ago and the stuff they had me drink the day before triggered it and now it is a bit louder - I am hoping it calms back down soon.. It also seems that early in the morning the ringing is lower and as the day progresses it gets a bit more pronounce.
It sucks that there doesn't seem to be a cure for this. Ear doctor did tests and said I have a big drop in my hearing at certain decibels in left ear and he thinks that is what is causing it.
I am thinking about looking into hearing aids to see if that might minimize the tinnitus. I feel for all of you who have this horrible and annoying condition. Seems like there are many MANY people who have it.
While there I got dehydrated due to lots of physical activity and the night after a difficult climb through the mountains I got Vertigo 2 days before flying home to North Carolina. The vertigo was really scary and luckily I have a friend who is a physical therapist and she cured me of the vertigo by doing the eply maneuver on me 2 days in a row.
It took about 3 more weeks to be completely cured of the Vertigo, BUT once that went away I got Tinnitus. The first 2 weeks were hell and I had to get anti-anxiety meds from my doctor to calm me down from the stress of the ringing.
Since then I have learned to manage it by keeping a fan on in my bedroom and white noise music playing when I am home. I don't really notice it when I am out and about.
I am now able to sleep and even though the ringing is annoying I seem to be getting used to it. It seems some things trigger the tinnitus and make it worse like certain meds. I had a colonoscopy 2 days ago and the stuff they had me drink the day before triggered it and now it is a bit louder - I am hoping it calms back down soon.. It also seems that early in the morning the ringing is lower and as the day progresses it gets a bit more pronounce.
It sucks that there doesn't seem to be a cure for this. Ear doctor did tests and said I have a big drop in my hearing at certain decibels in left ear and he thinks that is what is causing it.
I am thinking about looking into hearing aids to see if that might minimize the tinnitus. I feel for all of you who have this horrible and annoying condition. Seems like there are many MANY people who have it.
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