Noise Trauma, Suicidal, Help

[Nathalie]

Yup like a damn bucket.
Noise trauma is like the worst thing because there are not great odds for you to recover from it. It is so sad that the hair cells cannot repair themselves. I think if I haven't recovered by now it is most likely permanent damage No wonder, the thing was unbelievably loud. I don't even wanna think about it how many decibels it could have been. Holy... I cannot believe this is happening to me being under 20 years old. My life was robbed from me before it even had the chance to properly start.

 

[Michael Leigh]

Yup like a damn bucket.
Noise trauma is like the worst thing because there are not great odds for you to recover from it. It is so sad that the hair cells cannot repair themselves. I think if I haven't recovered by now it is most likely permanent damage No wonder, the thing was unbelievably loud. I don't even wanna think about it how many decibels it could have been. Holy... I cannot believe this is happening to me being under 20 years old. My life was robbed from me before it even had the chance to properly start.

With all due respect. You could be worrying unnecessarily as your situation may not be as bad as you think.....

 

[Michael Leigh]

@Nathalie The onset of my tinnitus 20 years ago I suffered with noise trauma. My head was completely numb for a while and thought I had blown my hearing completely. Things gradually improved....

 

[glynis]

Let the ENT do the worrying until you get your test results and try look forward to Christmas and enjoying life.
Stay positive for now as it's early days for you and it could go away.
Stressing and anxiety will just make it worse.
Have a relaxing night and good luck for tomorrow....lots of love glynis

 

[JasonP]

After the evaluation you may want to ask for a hearing test and if you lost hearing, ask for them to fit you with corrective hearing aids. This may help you lessen or even not notice your tinnitus.

 

[Nathalie]

Thanks for nice wishes. I'll try and get some decent sleep tonight.

 

[Nathalie]

After the evaluation you may want to ask for a hearing test and if you lost hearing, ask for them to fit you with corrective hearing aids. This may help you lessen or even not notice your tinnitus.

I will ask for a hearing test, it would be even better if they could do an audiogram up to the high frequencies. I am scared of the thought of hearing aids. I am so young and shouldn't be dealing with this

 

[JasonP]

I will ask for a hearing test, it would be even better if they could do an audiogram up to the high frequencies. I am scared of the thought of hearing aids. I am so young and shouldn't be dealing with this

Yes, that is what it is and ask for an extended audiogram (one that goes to like 12khz or beyond). The Siemens Primax 7px can actually be programmed that high but if you only have loss up to 8khz you wouldn't need something that high end. Don't worry about hearing aids right now if you need them. Since you are a girl your long hair will cover them. I have been wearing them for like 3 years and most people don't even notice because my hair covers the back of them. They make really small ones now and I can't even feel them when I am wearing them! (I wear open fit RICs) Don't worry though, perhaps your hearing will heal and you won't need them. I feel for you and know how the bad feelings go. Once I got on a medication that helps me with depression (I had it before T) and some time, and some hearing aids, I have calmed down about T a lot. Like right now I just listened to it but I am so calm about it and when I was hanging out last night with friends I didn't even notice it. Hang in there and hopefully the doctor will be able to help you quite a bit.

Also, this all could go away too. I know a woman that had got in a car accident that got T and months later it did go away. Tinnitus though can also disappear much sooner than that.

 

[JasonP]

Also, its quite possible that Xanax could drop the volume of your T and help with panic attacks. It is something people can take. (It shouldn't be taken long term though). Hopefully though, your T will have dropped or diminished and you won't notice it. Worst case, if you do need hearing aids, today's ones are really cool. Many hook up to smart phones and can do all kinds of neat things. Hopefully, you won't need them but you know you have that option.

 

[Nathalie]

@JasonP In what frequency do you have your hearing loss? What caused it?

 

[Nathalie]

Help everyone what does it mean when there are sudden spontaneous different pitches and frequency sounds in my ear? Does it mean I am losing these frequencies?

 

[Fangen]

Help everyone what does it mean when there are sudden spontaneous different pitches and frequency sounds in my ear? Does it mean I am losing these frequencies?

No. It is most likely just your brain acting a bit weird. I ger that too from now and then, feels like the brain is testing my ear or something. Nothing dangerous at all, so don't worry!

 

[just1morething]

I don't know what to do

Yeah, get some benzos like someone said so you can calm down and think straight. Don't think about self destruction at all.

 

[JasonP]

@JasonP In what frequency do you have your hearing loss? What caused it?

I have several losses at a lot of frequencies. I am not sure what caused it but the T was caused by anti depressants and increased after long term klonopin use.

 

[Nathalie]

Hey everyone. Today I had a bunch of tests done including the audiogram and OAE test to evaluate outer hair cell functioning. Everything came back normal, hearing in the normal range and OAEs the max results it can be. I trust the OAE more than the audiogram because it is designed to evaluate the state of the cochlea by recording the outer hair cells emissions. My doctor said that if there was a severe noise trauma or damage then the OAEs would have shown at least something which they didn't. The outer hair cells are said to be more vulnerable to noise damage than inner cells so logically if the trauma had occurred it would have damaged the outer hair cells first and if the test came out good, I guess there isn't real severe damage. Of course you never know, my doc said that there are many forms of so called hidden hearing loss and the tests cannot obviously detect all. However, they calmed me down a bit. At least there is no detectable damage, that would have been way worse, also psychologically. I guess if these tests came back normal there is not any bad damage. Even if there is, the tests aren't showing anything. I don't know. I feel like something has changed but maybe I am overreacting. I really don't know. I guess the best thing to do now is to try my best to move on with my life. I am not sure how I am going to be able to proceed. On January 3rd, I will go to the hospital and I will be staying in there for a few days so the neurologists can run some additional tests on me. My MRI is perfectly normal. Lets see how that goes.

 

[glynis]

Good news Nathalie,
TRY look forwards to Christmas now and reassurance we will be here if need support over the festive season...lots of love glynis