Tinnitus and Nightmares?

[MuffinMan]

This may sound crazy, but my tinnitus started first time when I woke up from a very intense nightmare.

I visited three ENTs and all laughed when I told them that.

The last ENTs prescribed me Vessel Due F (Sulodexide).... which worked for a couple of weeks; I thought I was cured especially during the day; but I noticed that it comes back mildly after I wake up from an intense dream then it goes away during the day.

Yesterday I woke up from a very intense nightmare again, and my tinnitus been annoying these last two days, I am still taking Vessel Due F.

Isn't that so weird??

 

[Smartone202]

It's not so much the "nightmares", but more the anxiety/stress that was triggered by said nightmares that subsequently caused a spike in your T.

I just had a similar situation twice recently. In the middle of a terrible dream/nightmare. Woke up to my T pulsating.

 

[Manny]

I visited three ENTs and all laughed when I told them that.

That's disgusting of them...

 

[MuffinMan]

^ i have a hate against ENTs ever since, the ones i have seen so far have a digusting attitude regarding T, they were like a combination of "You are just panicked, it is all in your head" and "you just need to forget it".

I have a T only in ONE ear, the right ear, so if it's all in my head then why I don't perceive it in both?
And all of them refused my request to do MRI for ear, head and neck just because their holy-bible audiogramme shows no hearing loss, the last audiogramme i did (which was the most advanced) showed what he called a very mild noise-induced loss, but it is too weak for a hearing aid.
Yeah, they suck.

 

[Smartone202]

Funny wouldn't no hearing loss be more of a reason to do an MRI?

 

[MuffinMan]

Funny wouldn't no hearing loss be more of a reason to do an MRI?

Logically yes, but they were like "all medical evidence in audiogramme shows there's nothing wrong in the inner or middle ear, therefore no need for a MRI".
The 2nd ENT, who had the worst attitude of all was like "we are talking medical science here, not magic".

 

[MuffinMan]

another was like "I am 100% sure you would find nothing in MRI"

 

[Lane]

This may sound crazy, but my tinnitus started first time when I woke up from a very intense nightmare

Hi @MuffinMan,

Doesn't sound crazy to me at all. Some of my worst spikes in tinnitus volume since onset in Feb., 2018 have been after awakening from nightmares or intense dreams. -- Sorry to hear how dismissive and incompetent your health practitioners have been with you. It's the very reason I haven't gone to see any myself. I don't know how they can offer me anything except perhaps increased frustration. -- Best!

 

[Wolfears]

Waking up from one intense nightmare right into another must be a truly horrible feeling...

 

[Layla23]

My T always spikes during and after a nightmare. It's probably your heartbeat triggering pulsatile T. I don't have pulsatile T per say but my ears are so delicate now that nightmares do trigger T in me.


Don't worry you're not the only one.

 

[sky_high]

The last ENTs prescribed me Vessel Due F (Sulodexide)

@MuffinMan In which country do you live? I have never heard of this medicine before, but after researching a bit it seems to be a drug that works really well for tinnitus in combination with melatonin. I wonder if it's an approved treatment in Germany...

Did you have any side effects from the drug?

 

[MuffinMan]

@MuffinMan In which country do you live? I have never heard of this medicine before, but after researching a bit it seems to be a drug that works really well for tinnitus in combination with melatonin. I wonder if it's an approved treatment in Germany...

Did you have any side effects from the drug?

I live in Lebanon, the ENT told me it's not yet a FDA-approved drug.

I am taking Vessel Due F + Melantonin, there is a study on taking both, look it up.

The sad thing, i thought i was almost cured for a week and half; total silence during the day even in super quiet places - but at night i heard it at times every time i woke up from a dream but it went away again during the day.

But now? it's back again since this very intense nightmare; I felt it went away today a bit during the day so I hope it will keep decreasing.

 

[sky_high]

@MuffinMan I did look it up, it looks promising. Is this only a short term treatment? Why don't to start taking the medicine combination again if it worked the first time?

 

[MuffinMan]

@MuffinMan I did look it up, it looks promising. Is this only a short term treatment? Why don't to start taking the medicine combination again if it worked the first time?

Doctor told me to stop melantonin because he thinks it not necessary,
short after my T returned after that nightmare.

I am taking both again no; honestly i shoulsn't listen to doctors to the letter.

 

[MuffinMan]

@MuffinMan In which country do you live? I have never heard of this medicine before, but after researching a bit it seems to be a drug that works really well for tinnitus in combination with melatonin. I wonder if it's an approved treatment in Germany...

Did you have any side effects from the drug?

Sorry I have just noticed now you asked about side effects.

I got no side effects so far, but I have been on both medicines for barely one month; I can't tell yet if it has any side effects in long term.

But doctors said their side effect is so mild ; melantonin is a natural human hormone, and Vessel Due F seems to have little to no side effects according to studies.