Member- Jan 22, 2017
- 87
- Tinnitus Since
- 1/2017
- Cause of Tinnitus
- ear infection
Back to Square One?
4.5 months now with T from a ruptured ear drum due to an ear infection.
The past 2 months my T has been tolerable after many changes to my diet and lifestyle. I cut out caffeine,alcohol, junk food, salt, sugar you name it. I stopped taking Nexium and any other meds I was on with the help of a naturopath who put me on natural remedies for my GERD. I have been on Ativan for anxiety and sleep on a daily basis for 3 months but it didn't increase my T, in fact it helped me sleep which in return lowered my T.
Everything was going good, I even started to taper off of the ativan as I didnt want to be on these pills forever. The taper was going great but I got to a point where I started feeling uncomfortable and my anxiety increased big time and so did my GERD so I updosed a bit to stabilize and I'm good again. I started to work on fixing the GERD by eating lots of apples, I have been taking glutamine every morning for 4 months as well as probiotics for 4 months, I take apple cider vinegar organic from the mother every day but stopped as it was hurting my stomach, I was drinking raw ginger tea but stopped as it was hurting my stomach.
I had no choice but to start with Nexium again. This is my 3rd day back on nexium and it still hasn't really done too much to the gerd but i know nexium takes a few days.
A few hours ago I took my nightly dose of ativan and fell asleep in almost a sitting up position with my neck sightly bent watching tv and I got woken up 2 hours later from ranging T.
I freaked out, I am very panicky right now, what the hell could've happened? Am I having a spike?
Could it be the nexium or could it be the acid reflux which was bothering the hell out of me before I fell asleep or could it have been the sleeping position. UGH!!! so frustrating!! I was really starting to think that my T might actually be temporary and may still go away and then wammo kick in the teeth.
4.5 months now with T from a ruptured ear drum due to an ear infection.
The past 2 months my T has been tolerable after many changes to my diet and lifestyle. I cut out caffeine,alcohol, junk food, salt, sugar you name it. I stopped taking Nexium and any other meds I was on with the help of a naturopath who put me on natural remedies for my GERD. I have been on Ativan for anxiety and sleep on a daily basis for 3 months but it didn't increase my T, in fact it helped me sleep which in return lowered my T.
Everything was going good, I even started to taper off of the ativan as I didnt want to be on these pills forever. The taper was going great but I got to a point where I started feeling uncomfortable and my anxiety increased big time and so did my GERD so I updosed a bit to stabilize and I'm good again. I started to work on fixing the GERD by eating lots of apples, I have been taking glutamine every morning for 4 months as well as probiotics for 4 months, I take apple cider vinegar organic from the mother every day but stopped as it was hurting my stomach, I was drinking raw ginger tea but stopped as it was hurting my stomach.
I had no choice but to start with Nexium again. This is my 3rd day back on nexium and it still hasn't really done too much to the gerd but i know nexium takes a few days.
A few hours ago I took my nightly dose of ativan and fell asleep in almost a sitting up position with my neck sightly bent watching tv and I got woken up 2 hours later from ranging T.
I freaked out, I am very panicky right now, what the hell could've happened? Am I having a spike?
Could it be the nexium or could it be the acid reflux which was bothering the hell out of me before I fell asleep or could it have been the sleeping position. UGH!!! so frustrating!! I was really starting to think that my T might actually be temporary and may still go away and then wammo kick in the teeth.
