Tinnitus Caused by Walking and Driving — Suicidal Thoughts

[Daniel Lion]

I have always had higher pitched tinnitus which was noise induced a long time ago and it never got better, always worse but still coping, up until this...


I had to quit a job which I enjoyed a few months ago due to a new loud lower pitched humming one of my ears, (the ear which was always the worse for tinnitus), caused by road noise/vibrations, although I did have a wisdom tooth removed from that side of my mouth and a drill forced into my jaw drilling away which may have messed up something in my ear more.

I have had to quit a job in the past, about 2 years ago because my tinnitus was worse from walking around all day (that humming sound I just mentioned), I have started a new job and I am walking on hard concrete all day and I am wearing trainers/sneakers so they are comfortable, the floor is obviously just too hard.

After doing some research myself online it seems that my walking and driving is causing the cochlear to vibrate continuously which is causing the liquid to move about constantly and perhaps constantly go through the hair cells in the ear, I think this is how noise induced tinnitus is caused, basically I am ****ed for life and am limited to local drives and a job where I will have to sit down all day which isn't physically healthy and I don't want to do that but I have no choice, people say to not let tinnitus ruin or control you but for me it is and the evidence is there.

I have only been in this job a few weeks and I find myself losing sleep and sometimes crying to myself, I am miserable and not enjoying life, I don't see any point to life when you can't enjoy it and you can't even do the simplest of things like walk/drive/work, I will have to get a boring crappy desk job, I don't even like the people in the office environment.

I have bills to pay and am buying presents for Christmas but I know that each day I go to work, I am making my tinnitus worse and worse.

Is there really nothing they can do for tinnitus caused by vibration in my ear, something is obviously loose in my ear somewhere for this to happen as it never used to be like this, I could drive for hours, now I can't drive on the motorway as it makes the humming worse.

There is not help for people with tinnitus as it is not recognised as disability where I live.

I would most likely of ended it by now if I didn't have a family.

Dr. Silverstein's round window and stapes reinforcement. It's maent for hyperacusis but it may stop the vibrations you are experiencing.

Perhaps you could contact these people. The doctor is radical and has taught at Harvard in the USA.

Google Silverstein hyperacusis surgery in Sarasota Florida. Maybe you could talk to them, it sounds to me that the surgery is all about reducing vibrations and occlusion.

Good luck, it's worth a try... you never know.