Noise Trauma, Suicidal, Help
- Thread starter Nathalie
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MemberNathalie,
You need to seek help. You are in a dangerous place right now but you need to understand that tinnitus does get better. If you are having suicidal thoughts, please find your way to an emergency room. They will help you relax provide a safe environment while you recover.
Once again, you are nowhere near the window of chronic tinnitus and you need to give yourself time to explore your circumstance.
You need to seek help. You are in a dangerous place right now but you need to understand that tinnitus does get better. If you are having suicidal thoughts, please find your way to an emergency room. They will help you relax provide a safe environment while you recover.
Once again, you are nowhere near the window of chronic tinnitus and you need to give yourself time to explore your circumstance.
I can't understand how these people didn't give me any ear protection like earplugs. I will sue them although it won't help me regain my hearing.
- Jan 26, 2016
- 245
- Tinnitus Since
- December 2015
- Cause of Tinnitus
- one week after leg surgery plus hearing loss in higher freq.
You are young and my bet your ears will return to normal within a week or two. See your DR getsome drugs to calm you down. Soon as you panic everything seems worse. You are going to be alright so dont do something destructive to yourself. IM sure others have got the procedure you got and if there were alot of problems his business would be shut down. See an ENT at your local hospital and deal with this responsibly. You are going to be alright !!!!!!
Lovely Nathalie,
Many of us have been there. I have. See your doc for some benzo's like Ativan or Xanax to restore your brain chemistry to a more normal level. Nobody can will good mental health. Forgive yourself. Your spike is likely largely due to your anxiety level. No way your hearing can work ok with your brain chemistry in a state of panic. Everything shuts down.
Ask your parents or a friend for a sleeping aid or a valium. Get to the doc. Take a benzo short term for panic. Give yourself time to recover. Protect your ears. You are young and even if your hearing is impaired there will be help in the future.
Many of us have felt the sheer terror of this or another disorder we have no control over. Love yourself.
Rings-a-Bell
Member
I think there will but we will need to find the strength to wait about 5 years for it.There is no cure for inner ear damage...why? There has to be a cure upcoming in the future...
TRUST ME! Dont do anything stupid.
Ye true the future looks good for us tinnitus people right now. There is alot of Research going on right now
Rings-a-Bell
Member
BTW... some people say predisone only works within the first 48 hours but there are other opinions that can still work somewhat within the first 7 days (I've even seen 14 days but I think that is pushing it). Since it only happened on Tuesday you might want to get on it. Even if it doesn't help, by doing something proactive you might feel less guilty, then less anxious and that can help your T seem less loud, even if it hasn't changed.
Yes I did but the idiot who performed the procedure didn't give me any protection or warning. Of course it is also my own fault to have continued despite realizing how loud the noise was.I'm sorry that you're going through this. Did you do the TMS to try and help your tinnitus?
Nathalie
I remember having a similar regret after having MRI scan without proper protection. They wouldn't let me wear my own plugs and gave me fake ones that did nothing as they thought I was anxious and they wanted to communicte to me through a speaker. Too rightt I was anxious as MRI can go up to 120 decibelds right next to your head in an enclosed space.
After MRI, I got hyerpacusis when I woke up the next day. My wife was unloading the dishwasher and the sound was painful. Wearing white noise generators helped settle it down over time. I was kicking myself for not insisting I wore my own decent plugs but dwelling on past makes you feel worse. You need to focus on getting better now. Your ears will recover over time and won't be as bad as they are right now. Just hang in there.
I've had a few other noisy experiences since then and undrstand it makes you panic and be angry with yourself. A car park alarm went off right next me in a stairwell at work. My heart was pounding, started sweating and felt panicky. Over few days the ears recovered.
Your ears will improve. Just try to take one day at a time. You can do it. You are young and more chance of ears healing. There will be a cure coming one and you day and you will still be young when it comes. Hang in there.
Dear Nathalie, it will get better. You need a little time to adjust. And thats gonna happen. Trust me. I live a normal life with screaming tinnitus. I accepted the fact its there and moved on. You are strong enough to do the same.
I challenge you to reveal your true identity, because you are by far the worst member ever here. Either you are just plain stupid or you enjoy giving people the worst advice ever. I even prfer you leave this forum, because you give absolutely no support. You are a big pain in the behind.
- Aug 14, 2013
- 2,455
- Tinnitus Since
- Resolved since 2016
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Unknown (medication, head injury)
"@gotyoubynuts in images" (they say a picture is worth a 1000-words - well, that seems to be true)...
- Aug 14, 2013
- 2,455
- Tinnitus Since
- Resolved since 2016
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Unknown (medication, head injury)
FounderI'd be inclined to remove the above posts by @attheedgeofscience purely because -
a) more or less off-topic, has a high likelihood of railing this thread from its tracks and is unlikely to benefit the original poster;
b) inciting hatred, no matter who the target is, and no matter if they well deserve it, is always counter-intuitive to our mission.
However, given that @gotyoubynuts has received multiple bans before, and has yet to be sincerely apologetic and willing to correct their attitude, I'm going to leave the posts in place (unless @Nathalie requests it to be removed).
It is appalling that what should be somewhat a tight-knit community, there still can be individuals who seem to get pleasure from the misfortune of others, and who are more interested in making others feel miserable than anything else.
I'm sorry for the distress this one caused, Nathalie (and any others impacted).
a) more or less off-topic, has a high likelihood of railing this thread from its tracks and is unlikely to benefit the original poster;
b) inciting hatred, no matter who the target is, and no matter if they well deserve it, is always counter-intuitive to our mission.
However, given that @gotyoubynuts has received multiple bans before, and has yet to be sincerely apologetic and willing to correct their attitude, I'm going to leave the posts in place (unless @Nathalie requests it to be removed).
It is appalling that what should be somewhat a tight-knit community, there still can be individuals who seem to get pleasure from the misfortune of others, and who are more interested in making others feel miserable than anything else.
I'm sorry for the distress this one caused, Nathalie (and any others impacted).
- Dec 17, 2015
- 577
- Tinnitus Since
- December 2nd, 2015
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Acoustic trauma (loud concert for 1h)
@Nathalie
I have encountered many loud sudden noises that have almost given me a heart attack. I tend to be quick to blame myself for those mistakes but truly, it is something we couldn't foresee at all. It is easy to blame yourself for those things but please don't. It will get better, I promise. Come here when you need support and we will help you the best we can!
I have encountered many loud sudden noises that have almost given me a heart attack. I tend to be quick to blame myself for those mistakes but truly, it is something we couldn't foresee at all. It is easy to blame yourself for those things but please don't. It will get better, I promise. Come here when you need support and we will help you the best we can!
- Aug 29, 2015
- 7,069
- Tinnitus Since
- 2004
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Meniere's Disease
@Nathalie ,
How are you feeling now?
The symptoms you are getting leads me to think the problem is not due to the neck procedure you had.
Vertigo, dizzy,sick,hearing problem and fullness and tinnitus etc
Leads me to think you may have got a virus and labyrinthitus that would explain everything your going through and causing you to panic and get anxiety that will increase the tinnitus.
See your doctor asap and see what he says.
Don't do nothing silly and keep posting for support.
We are here around the clock so your never alone ....lots of love glynis
How are you feeling now?
The symptoms you are getting leads me to think the problem is not due to the neck procedure you had.
Vertigo, dizzy,sick,hearing problem and fullness and tinnitus etc
Leads me to think you may have got a virus and labyrinthitus that would explain everything your going through and causing you to panic and get anxiety that will increase the tinnitus.
See your doctor asap and see what he says.
Don't do nothing silly and keep posting for support.
We are here around the clock so your never alone ....lots of love glynis
Thank you everyone who have been so kind to me regarding this matter. I will see an ENT tomorrow and she will run a bunch of tests to evaluate the state of my inner ear. I am so scared and anxious to find out the results. I will keep you guys posted how it went. Unfortunately my symptoms haven't subsided at all, some of them have gotten worse. I have to wait until tomorrow to get a professional opinion. All the best!
I am truly grateful for this forum. If it weren't for you, I'd have probably done something bad to myself already. So again, many thanks to everyone here.
And the posts can stay, no problem. I don't mind them being present here.
I am truly grateful for this forum. If it weren't for you, I'd have probably done something bad to myself already. So again, many thanks to everyone here.
And the posts can stay, no problem. I don't mind them being present here.
Hi Nathalie, may I ask you some question? If you got the T just few days ago why you are a member of this forum from 30 oct? Did you experience T before? Stay calm steroids could work even if the acoustic trauma happen more than 36 hours ago even if some days passed
Get to your closest emergency room and get something.we can all wish we hadn't done things hindsight is wonderful.There are loads of things that can help hearing now unlike tinnatus and believe me I am going mental with it wish it had been my hearing so stop over thinking and panicking get help and find out what if anything has happened and then what they will do if anything has happened you have no reason to beat yourself up your human like the rest of us love will be here as I'm struggling x x
I have had tinnitus since October 25th. It started basically right after ultrasound therapy for my facial nerve. I got the therapy and bam, 30min later the tinnitus creeped up. It is just that after that TMS incident the T spiked tremendously and I feel like my hearing capacity has reduced and my hearing is muffled/distorted. The noise was extremely loud for several minutes and since that terrible occurrence I have had these scary symptoms which don't seem to be fading at all. Tomorrow I have an appointment during which tests will be done to assess the current state of my inner ears. I only pray that it will be fine and my hearing thresholds are the same although I can definitely feel that something has changed and not in a good way. Hence I am so frightened because if it will confirm damage in any way then I will feel even more guilty and I can't honestly imagine how will I ever come to terms with the fact that the incident was 101% preventable if I hadn't been so so damn stupid.
I guess I only have myself to blame after all ...
I guess I only have myself to blame after all ...
Tinnitus was already driving me absolutely mental and now my hearing is messed up as well, let alone the awful tinnitus spike
It is no good beating up yourself over what has already happened because you cannot change anything. You can only deal with the here and now and look to the future. Hopefully the ENT tests will show there are no problems and in time things are likely to get back to normal. For the future, I advise to be careful of loud noise exposure and that's all one can do. It might be a good idea to start using sound enrichment at night however the choice is yours.
Michael
Yes you are right and so is everyone else when it comes to not being able to change the past. I can't undo what has been done. I also hope the tests will not show damage but one can only hope. I'll get answers tomorrow and then it is time to move on. I will certainly ask my doctor to prescribe me some benzos for similar situations and panic attacks in the future. I feel like I am gonna have an attack right now. I surely need them for short-term solution. I just feel like I am so vulnerable to such emotions and thoughts at the moment. I guess it will get easier as time passes. I will keep everyone here posted regarding my tomorrow's hearing test results. Fingers crossed.
One of my eustachian tubes (probably the tube) is also not functioning properly. It feels as if it was open all the time and everything echoes into my left ear. My ears are like plugged but open at the same time. Feels extremely strange :/
You may have what is called a patulous Eustachian tube. Does everything sound like you have a bucket on your head?
Definitely something to mention to the ENT. I'm not sure that could be caused by acoustic trauma, though. I have a form of Eustachian tube dysfunction, but mine is always closed and thus makes it so my eardrum is retracted all of the time.
I understand all the concerns that you have about your auditory system after the noise trauma. If I were you, I would either go out with a friend and have a glass or two of wine or have it at home and try to relax.
Michael
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