Hi, I don't really know how to start here.
But after suffering real bad with the onset of tinnitus a couple of years back and trying to find some sort of reassurance on the internet (which is very hard to find!)
I said to myself that if the noise ever went away I would return to some forums to try and give anyone who's struggling hope.
I don't know how it happened, never had any medical issues that I can remember... one bout of vertigo about 10 years ago but it went within days.
So about 2 years ago I was under a lot of stress and working night shifts, I was playing loud music in my car to keep me awake whilst driving home on the motorway and one morning I got home, jumped into bed and noticed a loud electrical type of noise... hissing.
I thought there must have been an electrical fault somewhere in my house that's how loud it was, I was walking about the house trying to find a fault lol.
Anyway after about an hour of me realising it was a noise in my own head i got a massive sinking feeling. Panicking about it I looked online and you know what happens from there... Dr Google tells you your doomed and I s**t myself.
I went to the hospital after a couple of days and was told it would go away by itself within a week or so, but it didn't it only got louder. I read more online which only made me feel ten times worse.
After a month I paid privately to go to see an ENT specialist.
He said my hearing was above average for a 25yr old and that there was a tiny dip in my hearing on the side which I was in the ear that I was suffering with but nothing that would suggest I'd have persistent tinnitus.
He said he thinks it might go, but for a lot of people this is a life long condition.
I know how scary this is, I felt sick.
And it's something I couldn't really come to terms with and there was a number of dark days where I literally wanted to get into my car and drive it into a wall because I couldn't cope anymore.
It never stopped, day or night and nobody could hear it but me.
This was constant for well over a year, the volume sometimes would fluctuate and the noise would sometimes be screaming.
I then noticed one night that it had started fluctuating between both ears!!
Something that hadn't happened before as it was only my left ear.
This went on for months and I swear to you I thought things would never change, I was convinced I was stuck with it for ever, I know how anyone must feel who has this because only once you've had it you can appreciate how lonely or scary it can be.
Anyway, this persisted for 18-20 months... It then started VERY SLOWLY to fade away.
I noticed that if I'd stretch my neck or the right muscles in my traps, and shoulders the noise would get louder or quieter. I don't know if any of you have noticed this.
As time has gone by it's literally faded away and I rarely hear it at all anymore.
It's not gone completely so I'm not 100% free of it yet but I can promise you it's more than bareble now.. I never notice it and in total silence I don't really hear it which is unbelievable compared to a year ago.
I do feel now that this might go completely, but either way I just want anyone who reads this to know that this is not always permanent, they will very likely find a cure for this on the next few years anyway.
But my case was so bad I wanted to end it all, and now I only hear it now and again so it's going in the right direction.
I don't know if this helps but just understand that most people who have this and that it goes never feel the need to come onto these sites to leave comments. So most of what you read are people suffering. The ENT specialist told me a massive amount of cases do fade away.
Hopefully mine will, and so will yours.
Things do change, no matter how bad it is things do get better.
Dan
But after suffering real bad with the onset of tinnitus a couple of years back and trying to find some sort of reassurance on the internet (which is very hard to find!)
I said to myself that if the noise ever went away I would return to some forums to try and give anyone who's struggling hope.
I don't know how it happened, never had any medical issues that I can remember... one bout of vertigo about 10 years ago but it went within days.
So about 2 years ago I was under a lot of stress and working night shifts, I was playing loud music in my car to keep me awake whilst driving home on the motorway and one morning I got home, jumped into bed and noticed a loud electrical type of noise... hissing.
I thought there must have been an electrical fault somewhere in my house that's how loud it was, I was walking about the house trying to find a fault lol.
Anyway after about an hour of me realising it was a noise in my own head i got a massive sinking feeling. Panicking about it I looked online and you know what happens from there... Dr Google tells you your doomed and I s**t myself.
I went to the hospital after a couple of days and was told it would go away by itself within a week or so, but it didn't it only got louder. I read more online which only made me feel ten times worse.
After a month I paid privately to go to see an ENT specialist.
He said my hearing was above average for a 25yr old and that there was a tiny dip in my hearing on the side which I was in the ear that I was suffering with but nothing that would suggest I'd have persistent tinnitus.
He said he thinks it might go, but for a lot of people this is a life long condition.
I know how scary this is, I felt sick.
And it's something I couldn't really come to terms with and there was a number of dark days where I literally wanted to get into my car and drive it into a wall because I couldn't cope anymore.
It never stopped, day or night and nobody could hear it but me.
This was constant for well over a year, the volume sometimes would fluctuate and the noise would sometimes be screaming.
I then noticed one night that it had started fluctuating between both ears!!
Something that hadn't happened before as it was only my left ear.
This went on for months and I swear to you I thought things would never change, I was convinced I was stuck with it for ever, I know how anyone must feel who has this because only once you've had it you can appreciate how lonely or scary it can be.
Anyway, this persisted for 18-20 months... It then started VERY SLOWLY to fade away.
I noticed that if I'd stretch my neck or the right muscles in my traps, and shoulders the noise would get louder or quieter. I don't know if any of you have noticed this.
As time has gone by it's literally faded away and I rarely hear it at all anymore.
It's not gone completely so I'm not 100% free of it yet but I can promise you it's more than bareble now.. I never notice it and in total silence I don't really hear it which is unbelievable compared to a year ago.
I do feel now that this might go completely, but either way I just want anyone who reads this to know that this is not always permanent, they will very likely find a cure for this on the next few years anyway.
But my case was so bad I wanted to end it all, and now I only hear it now and again so it's going in the right direction.
I don't know if this helps but just understand that most people who have this and that it goes never feel the need to come onto these sites to leave comments. So most of what you read are people suffering. The ENT specialist told me a massive amount of cases do fade away.
Hopefully mine will, and so will yours.
Things do change, no matter how bad it is things do get better.
Dan
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