Hi everyone.
I'm Guilherme. I got this unilateral tinnitus (right ear) for apparently no reason. It rings like a whistle all the time, 24/7. It's not too loud (in a scale, 2/10 during the day and 5/10 during the night) but enough to take off my nights of sleep. I used to wear headphones, but ocasionally, to play videogames and keyboard, but nothing massive, like for a pretty long time with loud volume. Sometimes or another I might have crossed the volume line, but it should be pretty, pretty occasional. My tinnitus started all of a sudden on June, 29th - I could notice it as soon as I woke up - along with an episode of sinusitis (I think so). We went to check it with an ENT and he prescribed the first exams: paranasal sinuses Xray, BERA and Audiometry, and - unfortunatelly, I wish there could be at least something to blame it for - they were all normal... I have no percentage of hearing loss and nothing is structurally wrong in my ear. Yesterday we proceeded with the MRI and keep on waiting for the report (which will be done in 3 days, I think). I'm currently taking Betahistine, which makes me think the ENT is kind of shooting in the dark, because it seems, for me, that I don't have Menière's Disease (he himself told me to chill out about this hypothesis because "I did not have all of the symptoms" for it.
P.S.: I'll make sure I will ask him next time I get to meet him about this kind of 'dizziness' I'm feeling: not sure if due to the medicine or if it's an associated symptom to the T. In many periods of the day my head feels like it's about to leave my neck, no weight and my neck starts to tremble a little bit.
I'm confused. It seems like no doctors in my area knows how to treat it. I'm afraid that my T may be healable but it's not actually being treated rightly; or maybe I'm doing something that triggers or makes it worse (like, bad posture, the current medication, I don't know... there are so many things that can generate this). Having read so little about complete reliefs/cures for T makes me sort of hopeless. I wish it could be temporary.
Thank you.
I'm Guilherme. I got this unilateral tinnitus (right ear) for apparently no reason. It rings like a whistle all the time, 24/7. It's not too loud (in a scale, 2/10 during the day and 5/10 during the night) but enough to take off my nights of sleep. I used to wear headphones, but ocasionally, to play videogames and keyboard, but nothing massive, like for a pretty long time with loud volume. Sometimes or another I might have crossed the volume line, but it should be pretty, pretty occasional. My tinnitus started all of a sudden on June, 29th - I could notice it as soon as I woke up - along with an episode of sinusitis (I think so). We went to check it with an ENT and he prescribed the first exams: paranasal sinuses Xray, BERA and Audiometry, and - unfortunatelly, I wish there could be at least something to blame it for - they were all normal... I have no percentage of hearing loss and nothing is structurally wrong in my ear. Yesterday we proceeded with the MRI and keep on waiting for the report (which will be done in 3 days, I think). I'm currently taking Betahistine, which makes me think the ENT is kind of shooting in the dark, because it seems, for me, that I don't have Menière's Disease (he himself told me to chill out about this hypothesis because "I did not have all of the symptoms" for it.
P.S.: I'll make sure I will ask him next time I get to meet him about this kind of 'dizziness' I'm feeling: not sure if due to the medicine or if it's an associated symptom to the T. In many periods of the day my head feels like it's about to leave my neck, no weight and my neck starts to tremble a little bit.
I'm confused. It seems like no doctors in my area knows how to treat it. I'm afraid that my T may be healable but it's not actually being treated rightly; or maybe I'm doing something that triggers or makes it worse (like, bad posture, the current medication, I don't know... there are so many things that can generate this). Having read so little about complete reliefs/cures for T makes me sort of hopeless. I wish it could be temporary.
Thank you.