Hello all,
I got t in middle of October (so going on four months now). It happened during a cold. First high pitched in right ear, but then the next day it changed to a morse code type sound that was basically my tone. GP saw fluid, recommended otc allergy. Idk why but the first week my t did go away in themorning , but it always came back and eventually the med had no effect. Then went to ent two weeks after tried the medicine, there was still fluid, gave augmentin, fluid went away but still the sound was there and I was getting nervous that it would be permanent since if the fluid was gone WHY IS THE DAMN RINGING STILL THERE.
I tried sudafed and it lowered the ringing during the day but when I laid down at night it became a loud constant tone.
I couldn't do anything for the next few weeks as I actually needed brain surgery (for avm, not related to this in the slightest, was a planned surgery). The loud tone (which also was a bit more high pitched after surgery) was still there. It broke back into morse code after I went to a check up with the neurosurgeon on the 21st floor and while driving home my right ear popped and everything sounded louder (must have been the elevator).
This is where you think ah this is the uphill! But no, it gets much much worse from here.
The next day when I blew my nose the constant tone came back and I just wouldn't stop crying. I was so depressed for the next month and a half, my parents were probably at their wit's end trying to comfort me. They didn't know what t was before I got it but they never lost faith that it would go away.
ENT prescribes singulair and a steroid pack. The steroids made IT SO MUCH WORSE. Idk why. It was like the sudafed effect but 10x worse. I also seemed to have gotten a tone from it, but that faded away in a couple months.
So now it's the beginning of January and I go to an ENT at Northwestern and boy was she a piece of work. In the beginning of January I would have brief seconds of my ringing dying down, and sometimes my ear would pop, so maybe it's getting better, but should probably check in with the doctor. She said at the end of the day everyone gets tinnitus due to hearing loss, no other reason. But she also said "oh there's lots of research going on that's making progress, like there's one in Kansas." She made it sound like there was a lot I could do, like acupuncture or massages, but it honestly was not convincing. To top it off she said "oh because of how your t isn't always there you don't qualify for anything". Even after telling her several times that even though my t sounds like morse code and maybe FOR ONLY A FRACTION OF a asecond it goes away, she was under the impression that I spent hours in silence. When I asked how likely it was to go away given my age and context she said, "...Do you want me to honestly say?" Like, are you saying you don't always say the truth?
My dad was with me there and I basically just cried the whole way home (over an hour of driving). The ringing was bothering me SO MUCH. I was losing sleep. I was becoming depressed. I was definitely suicidal. Even now my parents are furious at this doctor, especially my mom, for how she behaved. "I'LL GO OVER THERE AND PULL THAT BITCH'S HAIR. I NEED TO TEACH HER HOW TO TALK TO PATIENTS." - my mom (and she doesn't even speak English that well! Was funny)
Of course my parents sometimes got really fed up with my constant crying, but overall they always held the belief that it would get better.
....And then I got another ear infection yayyy! More fluid! (But this time my eardrrum moved) I could tell something was wrong because I got that sharp high pitched hiss I first got but it never went away. This was SO annoying. I heard it above everything except the shower and it was hard to listen to lectures. Campus doc prescribed augmentin and steroids. Steroids made it worse again so I didn't finish my last day. I also had decent hearing loss in the same ear and was so worried about that. That went away in a little more than a week, thankfully.
Then just at the end of January I went to sleep and I woke up in the middle of the night w softer t. But since I was sleepy I was like "whaaa?" And fell back asleep, not truly noticing it until themorning . And, well, it decreased and decreased (though sometimes it got worse, like if I walked in the cold). One morning I woke up to thr loud sound of my ear popping every thirty seconds or so (though that was not when it went away, it progressively disappeared, sometimes got a bit louder). I think the singulair did a lot to help. Oh, and also I stopped using the neti pot. I loved using it cause I have very bad allergies, but I thought it was weird that I go fluid in my ear twice after a couple months of using it (started July, got sick October, then again in January) especially considering when I was little I only got an ear infection twice a couple years apart from each incident.
Now my major worry is my grades. Specifically my English class. I have a 500 wordpaper due tomorrow and my teacher is really vague and contradictory so if anyone here is/was an English major please help. My teacher is giving me a lot of unnecessary stress right after brain surgery, but hey I'll take it over tinnitus. I just wish I could do better in this class. I have yet to find a good English teacher
Sorry for the tangent (SEND HELP). I'll watch this for a couple of days if anyone has any questions. But I most likely will be leaving tt indefinitely soon.
I got t in middle of October (so going on four months now). It happened during a cold. First high pitched in right ear, but then the next day it changed to a morse code type sound that was basically my tone. GP saw fluid, recommended otc allergy. Idk why but the first week my t did go away in themorning , but it always came back and eventually the med had no effect. Then went to ent two weeks after tried the medicine, there was still fluid, gave augmentin, fluid went away but still the sound was there and I was getting nervous that it would be permanent since if the fluid was gone WHY IS THE DAMN RINGING STILL THERE.
I tried sudafed and it lowered the ringing during the day but when I laid down at night it became a loud constant tone.
I couldn't do anything for the next few weeks as I actually needed brain surgery (for avm, not related to this in the slightest, was a planned surgery). The loud tone (which also was a bit more high pitched after surgery) was still there. It broke back into morse code after I went to a check up with the neurosurgeon on the 21st floor and while driving home my right ear popped and everything sounded louder (must have been the elevator).
This is where you think ah this is the uphill! But no, it gets much much worse from here.
The next day when I blew my nose the constant tone came back and I just wouldn't stop crying. I was so depressed for the next month and a half, my parents were probably at their wit's end trying to comfort me. They didn't know what t was before I got it but they never lost faith that it would go away.
ENT prescribes singulair and a steroid pack. The steroids made IT SO MUCH WORSE. Idk why. It was like the sudafed effect but 10x worse. I also seemed to have gotten a tone from it, but that faded away in a couple months.
So now it's the beginning of January and I go to an ENT at Northwestern and boy was she a piece of work. In the beginning of January I would have brief seconds of my ringing dying down, and sometimes my ear would pop, so maybe it's getting better, but should probably check in with the doctor. She said at the end of the day everyone gets tinnitus due to hearing loss, no other reason. But she also said "oh there's lots of research going on that's making progress, like there's one in Kansas." She made it sound like there was a lot I could do, like acupuncture or massages, but it honestly was not convincing. To top it off she said "oh because of how your t isn't always there you don't qualify for anything". Even after telling her several times that even though my t sounds like morse code and maybe FOR ONLY A FRACTION OF a asecond it goes away, she was under the impression that I spent hours in silence. When I asked how likely it was to go away given my age and context she said, "...Do you want me to honestly say?" Like, are you saying you don't always say the truth?
My dad was with me there and I basically just cried the whole way home (over an hour of driving). The ringing was bothering me SO MUCH. I was losing sleep. I was becoming depressed. I was definitely suicidal. Even now my parents are furious at this doctor, especially my mom, for how she behaved. "I'LL GO OVER THERE AND PULL THAT BITCH'S HAIR. I NEED TO TEACH HER HOW TO TALK TO PATIENTS." - my mom (and she doesn't even speak English that well! Was funny)
Of course my parents sometimes got really fed up with my constant crying, but overall they always held the belief that it would get better.
....And then I got another ear infection yayyy! More fluid! (But this time my eardrrum moved) I could tell something was wrong because I got that sharp high pitched hiss I first got but it never went away. This was SO annoying. I heard it above everything except the shower and it was hard to listen to lectures. Campus doc prescribed augmentin and steroids. Steroids made it worse again so I didn't finish my last day. I also had decent hearing loss in the same ear and was so worried about that. That went away in a little more than a week, thankfully.
Then just at the end of January I went to sleep and I woke up in the middle of the night w softer t. But since I was sleepy I was like "whaaa?" And fell back asleep, not truly noticing it until themorning . And, well, it decreased and decreased (though sometimes it got worse, like if I walked in the cold). One morning I woke up to thr loud sound of my ear popping every thirty seconds or so (though that was not when it went away, it progressively disappeared, sometimes got a bit louder). I think the singulair did a lot to help. Oh, and also I stopped using the neti pot. I loved using it cause I have very bad allergies, but I thought it was weird that I go fluid in my ear twice after a couple months of using it (started July, got sick October, then again in January) especially considering when I was little I only got an ear infection twice a couple years apart from each incident.
Now my major worry is my grades. Specifically my English class. I have a 500 wordpaper due tomorrow and my teacher is really vague and contradictory so if anyone here is/was an English major please help. My teacher is giving me a lot of unnecessary stress right after brain surgery, but hey I'll take it over tinnitus. I just wish I could do better in this class. I have yet to find a good English teacher
Sorry for the tangent (SEND HELP). I'll watch this for a couple of days if anyone has any questions. But I most likely will be leaving tt indefinitely soon.
