Surfers Ear and Tinnitus

[leigh giroud]

I was diagnosed with severe exestosis of my right ear , I had my ears cleaned by an ent specialist and ended up with infections and a ruptured ear drum as it is so severe that he couldn't see into my ear. I used sofrodex which i now find can be atopic and cause tinnitus. I am booked for surgery and my surgeon tells me the tinnitus may improve.
I have been seeing my chiropractor for cervical adjustments and using an stretch excercise band vertically for my neck and have noticed a definite improvement.

 

[glynis]

A warm welcome to Tinnitus Talk.
Is the opperation to graft a new ear drum in?
Keep posting on the main forums for support where there is round the clock support....lots of love glynis

 

[Olas]

Hi, I was really interested to read your post and was wondering if you were still about. ive had the surgery on the left ear and my tinnitus is raging. I'm interested in these excersises and how you are now. mine is louder than ever and my ear is blocking all time 9 weeks post opp. Why oh why didn't I wear plugs or blue tac.

 

[Olas]

I thought I would update this. I had pretty bad post surgery complications but the issue of the bone over the ear has been addressed and surgery has worked. The ear exostosis (surferes ear) is clear not to be mistaken for swimmers ear has been addressed in the left ear. The left ear canal is clear and now I can hear out of it and the tinnitus has reduced from unbearable to point of stopping me functioning to manageable. For a time I experienced what it must be like to be loosing hearing badly and having loud ringing and I feel for anyone who deals with that every day. Mine is up and down. After surfing with ear plugs it is much worse. Noise of power tools or driving and it is much worse. I sit here now in bed 6.30am and I can hear it over the bird song. Not over the rain. High pitched ring. I Tune in and out of it. It's not great but you know what. It isn't as bad as it can be and I am very grateful for that. Someone on here motivated me by saying their ringing was a a reminder each day to be grateful for what you have. There is always the more unfortunate out there. I think he said something like that anyway.
If any surferes out there have similar problems feel free to get in touch. There isn't much info out there I know. Regards.

 

[Duncan L]

Olas thanks for your update. I have only about a large needle hole left in my right ear canal due to exostoses. I have been really fearful of having "the operation" because the idea of even louder tinnitus simply terrifies me. Having read about your experience has made me a lot more positive about actually getting it done - thank you. A further update would be appreciated.