I will try to buy another pillow. It's worth trying.
I don't know what you mean by a dark place.
Pete, I'm sorry. I have multiple tones too and my tinnitus is unbearably loud. Nothing can really mask it today. Try to hang in there and hope for better days soon. I battle these dark feelings too.
Researchers aren't getting money, it's all going towards CBT and TRT. Not science.
I'm suffering bad too but threads like this might push some people over the edge. Just my opinion. I would guess most support forums, chronic pain forums for example, don't have suicide threads.
I don't feel more suicidal from someone else's post. It's 100% based on my own tinnitus and nothing else. Reading something here won't send me over the edge. I think that applies to anyone else and people just don't know how to handle reading people's expressions of how bad their tinnitus is and that it can be bad enough they want to end their life just to stop their tinnitus.
Hi Guys,
I'm sure if ENT's had access to effective IT injections or pills for tinnitus they would help us. Are you eligible for Lenire? If you have jaw issues you could try a TMJ appliance and/or trigger point injections of lidocaine.
I feel the same or even worse actually. It's been 8 months now and I know there is only a little bit of hope that we will see a working treatment in the coming years. I follow all the neuromodulation threads and hearing regeneration threads and I really hope we're on the right track to have a working treatment, but I remain skeptical. Tinnitus is a complex neurological condition.
Not just neurological but probably auditory damage. I am skeptical of people who say stress or meds caused their tinnitus. Auditory 'impact' or damage seems to be a major factor that is not understood. It's like the brain cannot deal with it or doesn't know how so there is a 'malfunction' in the brain.
2 GPs, 3 ENTs, 2 ophthalmologists and 1 neurologist.
Well sure, it's likely some neurological consequence to the damage in your auditory system. So far however we aren't 100% sure and it remains a (likely) hypothesis.
A lot of medication is the cause of tinnitus. It does direct damage to the auditory system. All the rest that happens is likely indeed a neurological cascade due to the afferent situation. Your brain lacks input and causes maladaptive neuroplasticity. Question remains however why some people have profound hearing damage, but no tinnitus. Others have seemingly no damage, but very intrusive tinnitus. I know our hearing tests are archaic, and what hidden hearing loss means, but this still remains a mystery as to why some people develop tinnitus and others not at all.
Likely. Probably. We don't really know anything for sure.
It's more than likely sitting on a shelf somewhere. The Hough Ear pill could certainly heal us but it isn't even being tested. It's just sitting there waiting for an investment group to take on the cost of more FDA trials.
Exactly, google PLF and SCCD for example. A lot of mild PLF cases are just walking around misdiagnosed with vestibular migrane, anxiety etc. Their "head"ache and "head" pressure actually comes from ears. Their derealisation is not a psychological disorder. It's just middle/inner ear affecting their eyes. The same goes for their dizziness/vertigo.
I used to subscribe to ototoxic drugs being a major factor but I have questions about that now.
I feel you. I too was ambitious, now I've lost almost all hope. Every day is an absolute challenge. I gained weight to 300 lbs, I lost all my money, my relationship fell apart and now my second one is doing well but still my girlfriend suffers every day hearing to me moan about this, school is difficult due to this, work... idk. If I didn't have help from my family, I'd be homeless.
For me it was ototoxic meds that made my tinnitus severe, and I just took half the daily dose of lexapro(Escitalopram in Sweden) for five days, and Phenergan(Lergigan in Sweden) for two nights to sleep better, it was sadly enough to give me a really bad reaction. You don't have to take it for many months, it's just like acoustic trauma, some people never get tinnitus, even if they play the drums for 50 years, when others can get it from just one club night, a single gunshot, or taking a sleeping pill for the first time. Bad genes or bad luck I guess? Maybe it's the combination that is really dangerous, that many of these meds can amplify preexisting tinnitus, and the risk for severe damage is a lot smaller if you don't have broken ears to begin with?
It's hard to draw a line here, the only truth seems to be that some people are sensitive to medication, and the medical industry must know this, that at least somebody will get these reactions, and bad enough to get there lives destroyed. But there are always casualties in war, and to make an omelette you have to crack a few eggs. In the big picture maybe these meds save more lifes than they destroy, but it's not so funny to be one of the cracked eggs, it actually makes you feel like an egghead, and even more when many doctors, friends and familymembers don't even believe meds can have these side effects
I'm also unable to get past the part, where our very own brain creates this unbearable and completely pointless condition.
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