Tinnitus Has Got Worse, Maybe from a Cold? — Caused Originally By Loud Music (Earbuds)

[Backpacker]

some frequencies are extremely louder than what they were before and interfere with life almost as much with tinnitus. As I grew more mentally ill with anxiety, I developed a feeling of light headedness and nausea after a panic attack which takes its toll on me everyday in waves. Also out of no where a few month after tinnitus onset I got visual snow and heaps of floaters.

I don't think you are mentally ill. I mean even if you were, these are all physical sympthoms. You are not the only one. I am just trying to understand why you developed them several months after.

One day I was sitting on a bus which is 70dB and a massive spike just came out of no where.

Was the ride different in any way than usually? Was it a bumpy ride? Were you traveling "up and down the hills" as you mentioned (because altitude can affect some people, it all depends, some people feel worse during the changes in barometric pressure)?

I can barely do school work as I'm hit with the nausea episodes

Lightheadedness, dizziness, nausea etc might all be vestibular issues (poorly understood by most doctors). Are there any patterns? Like for example some people notice drinking coffee or eating salty food makes them feel bad. Some people notice altitude changes or some movements make them feel bad. Some people notice weather changes make them feel bad (not that there would be anything you could do there). I don't know what to tell you except to avoid coffee and salt.

 

[Tommo5]

Sorry for the late response, I've been habituating pretty well so I've started worrying less causing me to not be on this forum as much.

The nauseous episodes started coming in the more I was constantly worried and scared about tinnitus but when I go do things I love like 4 wheel driving with my family it went away all week (also hasn't really come back). I also developed visual snow but that hasn't really gone away.

I notice my tinnitus gets short spikes from certain noises like when I start rubbing my hair on a couch head it will eventually spike sometimes (not all the time) so that could've been why on the bus.

I also think I have really good or better than most hearing in high frequencies so that explains why I hear better.

However I see a physiologist once a week and my dad wants me to see another one as this other ones better. My results for anxiety are often the same when filling out this mental test. Like you said though I don't think I'm mentally ill.

At times my tinnitus is better at times it's worse. I guess it's all part of having this disease or whatever it's classified.

I appreciate the help though . I don't really open up my real reason why I got tinnitus.