Thanks, @Greg Sacramento. I'll follow that and read those steps. I appreciate it!
Thanks, @Greg Sacramento, I appreciate the help! I will look into applying all that. The zaps are accompanied by sounds of zaps, too. So it's a sharp zing (like the sound of train breaks squealing) and then I feel it, too... like a burst of sharp electricity. I dunno if that's just a bad case of tinnitus or something more to it, like what you're describing. I haven't had any vision problems and had an eye exam a month ago. I haven't taken silver in 3 months, but the symptoms are still happening. It's like high frequency tinnitus that is also felt — feels like steam escaping or electrical currents, and then the zaps, too.
This can be caused from occipital nerves at the brain stem and this should also be temporary.
What an awful situation. People shouldn't have to live like this in this day and age; there should be more help and support for tinnitus and hyperacusis sufferers. Even a supportive and acknowledging tone from our doctors would be a start, but most of us don't even get that.
Hi there Ed. Just wanted to let you know I've read your post and I appreciate it. Right now I simply don't know how to apply any positive small change in my life. I feel completely frozen in my pain and suffering. I am going to the doctor on Thursday to get checked regarding my body tremors. I hope I will eventually find some relief from it, because this has taken away my last ability to do much of anything. I have to resort to lying in bed many hours a day cause I very often get so easily winded and dizzy just from standing up.
I often use foam earplugs now, under a winter hat aka toque - didn't do it often enough, I guess - and when I don't, I seem to experience an acoustic trauma.
I just sport earmuffs everywhere. I don't even care anymore, earplugs are an annoying to put in and out anyways.
I don't really understand the connection between the ability to wear earplugs and winter. Are you ashamed of them? If so and you can't get over it, there are transparent earplugs which barely can be seen. Offers less protection than foamies, but better than nothing.
I'm not sure where in the world you live, but my experience here in the USA is to go to university doctors. They are much more interested in novel types of cases and have more of an interest in the academics of everything. Some may even discuss your case with the other doctors/professors at the university. Maybe you have already tried this, but just my experience so far.
Damn, too late. Unfortunately one of the ENTs that I believe was university affiliated and involved in research just moved to California a few months ago. Had high hopes for her but didn't get to her in time. Dr. Konstantina Stankovic to be precise. So I'm not sure who is left who will fit the bill, but I will keep this in mind, thank you!
I may just be fortunate that the school near me has physicians who have taken interest in tinnitus. Unfortunately, they have not been able to help me so far, but they at least take me seriously.
Was it the Tramadol that caused your spike or the Acetaminophen in it?
@Greg Sacramento, thank you! Reassuring. The journal sounds valuable to have. Yeah, definitely will avoid those. I'm sorry you are suffering from CRPS too. That and tinnitus at the same time is horrific. How have you been dealing with it all?
@danielthor, are you still getting the piercing drills that are intrusive? Were they like shrill, electrical feelings? Good to see you've improved.
They were all-encompassing, like waves of electrical drilling, piercing, high pitch, multiple tones, one of them musical / hallucinatory where the sound of stuff from the TV and even people from real life going off in a loop in my head at all hours.
@danielthor, thanks for the info and help. Did your tinnitus ever physically hurt at its worst? I have a tone that's so piercing in frequency that it literally hurts; feels like electrical currents running through the ear. It also screeches/zaps/sounds like train breaks squealing intermittently. It does that a few times a minute at least and it causes what feels like an electrical shock. I also have the steam escaping sound that feels that way, too. Did any of your tones feel like any of these sensations?
Silence helps mine a lot too. I don't mask and even sleep in complete silence. And try to mitigate noise as much as possible without completely blocking out sound.
Sometimes if I imagined the sound to be real, coming from outside of me, it would give me needle-stabbing pain like hyperacusis.
With mine, I can be not paying attention to the tinnitus if I'm engaged in something, but then that feeling and sound of a sharp zap brings it to the forefront of my mind, like an electrical shock that is sudden. I hear it and feel it. It happens often, a few times per minute on average. And its intensity is random. So I dunno what that means in my case. It's maddening. It happens whether I'm attuned to it or not. I'll tell ya, as smart as the human brain can be, it also can be dumb as a rock when something goes wrong. Why it endlessly tortures itself over a sound that isn't real is a big mystery. Like a dog chasing its tail in circles... truly moronic.
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