Most Benzidiazepines, are not ototoxic, they however ALL disrupt your auditory cortex to some degree, which is arguably (a lot) worse, and while such symptoms aren't permanent they can last years.
I am not saying severe tinnitus isn't bad or anything (I've had it, I should know), I just wanted to point out how there is no actual treatment (other than palliative) for mild tinnitus sufferers either, while mild tinnitus thankfully isn't anything to die about, it's still a constant annoyance.
It can indeed, especially if it stops the blood supply to the cochlear, in which case you may really want to look into a cochlear implant as it would alleviate your hearing loss and quite possibly lower your tinnitus.
It's new still man.... I'm not saying your life will ever be the same.. but it gets easier...
I am so tired of people with mild tinnitus telling me it's early or it will get easier.
Then stop fucking talking to me it's pretty simple. You quoted a post that was not even to you. You really are a miserable mf... the energy your putting off smells like shit
You have had t for a few months dude.. it still might go away. Mild? Its mild because I can live my life with it? Not really. I worked for years to accept it. And you are shitting on me because YOU cant deal with it. I'm proud of where I'm at because of where I started when my ears started ringing. I went from suicidal to stronger willed than I ever was before. The glass is half full dude. But go ahead and keep being miserable and see that getting you no where fast. You're an asshole so I'm going to be blunt with you, a cure is no where to be found. Wont happen soon. The sooner you "give up" trying 10 different home remedies a day and countless doctors visits leading no where the sooner you will accept it and live your life
I am "shitting on you" because your posts and replies to me are useless and annoying.
You made a big announcement 3 days ago saying you're going to commit suicide in 2 days.
Attempting to die isn't easy. The intrusive tones makes it even more difficult. I am scared of messing up and being physically disabled or brain dead and still having this tinnitus. I have trouble concentrating. I'm mad that our euthanasia laws are so inhumane. Switzerland and Netherlands have more reasonable laws.
No cure? Tell it to @BigNick (I seemed to respond to it very quickly and have definitely had some quieter periods. I have had some fluctuation but I'm feeling pretty hopeful after two weeks. - Did you experience such quiet time in the past? - Not that quiet no)
I believe you bud.
Not so sure bud, I regularly swim with amputees from the Lao national team and often have thought I'd trade a limb to be free of hyperacusis and tinnitus, so that I could sleep, go anywhere without the fear of being damaged by sound, and not be tormented 24/7.
It's great that you can still live a fulfilling life with tinnitus and have found a way to accept and cope with this condition. But there are people who are more debilitated than you are due to tinnitus and/or pain-hyperacusis. Accepting their conditions alone won't necessarily allow them to be able to cope like you are. There are people who can't work anymore, who are (mostly) homebound, who lost their friends, partner, and so on. Trying to live your life as normally as possible is, of course, ideal but not possible for everyone.
Mine got louder progressively and baselines after a little over a year. I'm clearly crazy from it, but I am happy again, and I never thought I would be and I honestly have no idea how. But if you don't kill yourself. It'll be "okay" at some point.
I just dont agree with that way of thinking I feel like everyone is so much stronger than they think. You gotta find the beauty in the bullshit. Both of my parents are dead. I've lost my wife and mother of my children because of how I reacted to the ringing on the begining. I had to change careers. My ears hurt more than they don't. I have a constant high pitch ring slicing through my every thought every second of the day. I'm fuckin crazy but I'm happy and crazy and I know there are people who have it worse than me. But I still believe 1000% that we all can have some quality of life again. It'll never be the same but shit we only have one shot and then it's over. No matter what happens I wanna keep breathing. I hope everyone finds it in themselves to man the fuck up and cry when you need to. But just try to be happy. One day at a time, one hour at a time. Hopefully one day a cure will be found but don't let that be the end all be all.
Depends on how you define "some quality of life" but there will always be people who, for example, can't work due to tinnitus. That doesn't have to mean there's no quality to their lives anymore. Not sure you understand what I'm trying to say and I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean. Tinnitus and hyperacusis can be debilitating and not everyone can live a normal life with those conditions. That's all. And there are people that are so debilitated that they don't feel like their life has much quality left.
If its fucking with an individual that severely then I think they should be given enough money to live comfortably. Honestly though. Tinnitus made me switch jobs and I'm so happy I did. When I was suicidal I decided I really needed to do more things I enjoyed in my day than not or I wouldnt do anything at all besides sit in my dark house researching tinnitus for 1000000 hours. I started making money from creating. I read alot more. I'm more health conscious. Yeah I'm mentally tortured everyday but I feel like the more I suffer the better of a person I become... maybe this was the lesson I was supposed to learn this time around
Does everyone have to share your life philosophy?.......No.
Not to sound overdramatic, but when I had severe tinnitus, I would rather have had both my legs amputated than severe tinnitus, at least after the amputation you still have the option of reeducation and prosthetics, with tinnitus, you don't have much options but to wait it out and hope it gets better (which you have no way to know for sure).
Exactly. We all have different opinions of what we want to tolerate in/from this life.
They "should" does not mean it actually happens, disability income from tinnitus is very much not a thing in most (if not all) parts of the world, whereas tinnitus can become debilitating enough that you indeed can't work or even leave your house.
Err... Not to sound too obvious, but you technically can't hear anything (which would include your tinnitus) if you happen to be brain dead or in a vegetative state, you do need brain functions to interpret noise.
Just to mention, a good number of people with missing limbs experience "phantom pain" (another invisible illness). From my understanding, taking pain medication doesn't touch it, as it's "phantom". But it is apparently extraordinarily painful. Different kind of pain than tinnitus/hyperacusis, but from what I can gather, in many cases, just as difficult to deal with.
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