Hi,
I am new to the forum, but it's great to read stories with people saying how they learned to cope. Allready stumbled across other forums of people freaking out with Tinnitus, last thing you need is mass hysteria when freaking out yourself.
I am a sailor and got Tinnitus on my last sea voyage. I had experienced about a month of feeling vague and slightly dizzy prior to the Tinnitus. I have had this before, 5 years ago I had a cat scan and was told it was left sided maxillary sinusitis. I was given Nasonex and the problem went away. It has returned temporarily since, and again nasonex worked. I first noticed tinnitus in 2012 at night, but it didn't bother me and went away. I noticed it again in 2013,in quiet rooms. Again it went away. Then last month it came back louder than before and didn't go away. I just carried on, assuming I would see an ENT specialist when I got home and get it sorted. As with so many, the Doctor wasn't interested and sent me away with some antibiotics, which he said probably wouldn't work.
I told him about my sinusitis, which I am sure is related to the tinnitus, he didn't believe feeling I was having was sinusitis , even though I brought the letter in with the Cat Scan result. I am not gong to accept there is nothing that can be done. I am wondering if there are other people in here with symptoms similar to mine and what they did to relieve them. I have a high pitched noise in my right ear, sometimes both. I have a mild pain in my nose, and in the last 2 days a headache that gets worse if I bend over, which feels sinus related. The vague feeling I get comes and goes. It all started after some severe pain in my right side, which was investigated but no cause was found and it went away. After that the vague feeling started.
I am in the UK, does anybody have any advice on how to get the NHS to atleast let me talk to an ENT specialist . The NHS website says that is the normal procedure, but normal procedure is to be told to go away and live with it.I am using Mometasone spray to treat. I stopped that for 5 days as the Doctor said it didn't help with sinusitis , and things got worse.
I am new to the forum, but it's great to read stories with people saying how they learned to cope. Allready stumbled across other forums of people freaking out with Tinnitus, last thing you need is mass hysteria when freaking out yourself.
I am a sailor and got Tinnitus on my last sea voyage. I had experienced about a month of feeling vague and slightly dizzy prior to the Tinnitus. I have had this before, 5 years ago I had a cat scan and was told it was left sided maxillary sinusitis. I was given Nasonex and the problem went away. It has returned temporarily since, and again nasonex worked. I first noticed tinnitus in 2012 at night, but it didn't bother me and went away. I noticed it again in 2013,in quiet rooms. Again it went away. Then last month it came back louder than before and didn't go away. I just carried on, assuming I would see an ENT specialist when I got home and get it sorted. As with so many, the Doctor wasn't interested and sent me away with some antibiotics, which he said probably wouldn't work.
I told him about my sinusitis, which I am sure is related to the tinnitus, he didn't believe feeling I was having was sinusitis , even though I brought the letter in with the Cat Scan result. I am not gong to accept there is nothing that can be done. I am wondering if there are other people in here with symptoms similar to mine and what they did to relieve them. I have a high pitched noise in my right ear, sometimes both. I have a mild pain in my nose, and in the last 2 days a headache that gets worse if I bend over, which feels sinus related. The vague feeling I get comes and goes. It all started after some severe pain in my right side, which was investigated but no cause was found and it went away. After that the vague feeling started.
I am in the UK, does anybody have any advice on how to get the NHS to atleast let me talk to an ENT specialist . The NHS website says that is the normal procedure, but normal procedure is to be told to go away and live with it.I am using Mometasone spray to treat. I stopped that for 5 days as the Doctor said it didn't help with sinusitis , and things got worse.