Hi everyone, I finally signed up to the forum because I've reached my 5 month Tinniversary since I started hearing it and hoping it would go away.
I was hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19 because I have had heart palpitations in the past and I knew I would be likely to have issues with the vaccine, so I've lived a very secluded life during this pandemic instead. Loneliness got the better of me in about June 2021 when I knew I had to start seeing friends because I was miserable.
I got COVID-19 in August and it didn't even surprise me, I was devastated with a positive test result. I decided to work through my illness from home, thinking that acting normal would make me feel normal. At about day 5 after that I broke, I had to rest, I was feeling symptoms like hypoxia, neck was sore from being hunched over at the screen coughing. I had tinnitus among the hypoxia symptoms, it didn't worry me because I had no idea that something like that could last.
I rested for a week or so, slowly recovered, slowly managed to get stamina for walking back, took every supplement under the sun to speed my recovery. Vitamin D3, Bromelain, Quercetin, Zinc, Magnesium. On my first day out after that I got new braces fitted to my upper arch.
Everything was slowly recovering, but heart rate was still always over 100 and tinnitus persisted. I went to A&E twice worried because I hadn't slept with the tinnitus. I think I went for around 6 days without sleep at one point. Eventually got given Zopiclone and Mirtazapine for mood and sleep.
5 months on and I still rely on these things to sleep. Every day that I wake up and it's still there is depressing. My neck feels like unoiled machinery, every movement is a crunch.
I am at a point now where I don't know what to do next. I've had so many GP appointments to no avail. I don't know if I should remove my braces and hope that it'll help. I don't know where to turn next. Recently it has started to give me strange eye movements, when it's very loud my eyeballs start twitching, some lights hurt my eyes and look flickery when they didn't before.
I've somehow held onto my job, but I do feel like my real life ended in August and this has all been a bad dream ever since. Can't concentrate on anything, ears, face, neck always all feel hot. Every day I think of giving up but I've lasted for so long.
I was hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19 because I have had heart palpitations in the past and I knew I would be likely to have issues with the vaccine, so I've lived a very secluded life during this pandemic instead. Loneliness got the better of me in about June 2021 when I knew I had to start seeing friends because I was miserable.
I got COVID-19 in August and it didn't even surprise me, I was devastated with a positive test result. I decided to work through my illness from home, thinking that acting normal would make me feel normal. At about day 5 after that I broke, I had to rest, I was feeling symptoms like hypoxia, neck was sore from being hunched over at the screen coughing. I had tinnitus among the hypoxia symptoms, it didn't worry me because I had no idea that something like that could last.
I rested for a week or so, slowly recovered, slowly managed to get stamina for walking back, took every supplement under the sun to speed my recovery. Vitamin D3, Bromelain, Quercetin, Zinc, Magnesium. On my first day out after that I got new braces fitted to my upper arch.
Everything was slowly recovering, but heart rate was still always over 100 and tinnitus persisted. I went to A&E twice worried because I hadn't slept with the tinnitus. I think I went for around 6 days without sleep at one point. Eventually got given Zopiclone and Mirtazapine for mood and sleep.
5 months on and I still rely on these things to sleep. Every day that I wake up and it's still there is depressing. My neck feels like unoiled machinery, every movement is a crunch.
I am at a point now where I don't know what to do next. I've had so many GP appointments to no avail. I don't know if I should remove my braces and hope that it'll help. I don't know where to turn next. Recently it has started to give me strange eye movements, when it's very loud my eyeballs start twitching, some lights hurt my eyes and look flickery when they didn't before.
I've somehow held onto my job, but I do feel like my real life ended in August and this has all been a bad dream ever since. Can't concentrate on anything, ears, face, neck always all feel hot. Every day I think of giving up but I've lasted for so long.