Tinnitus More or Less Gone

[LionHead]

Hi there

I was taking some antibiotics for treating my acne when I suddenly got tinnitus in my ears. Starting in the right ear it later primarily appeared in my left ear. In the early days I would have sudden pain in the ears and my ears would sometimes feel warmer than rest of my head. The pain and feeling of warmness went away after the first week.

The first few days were VERY depressing. The suffering in my ears everyday maybe permanently made me think that all the goals i had had in life, would now become unachievable.

Now after about a month I think my life is 98% like before I got tinnitus. I still hear it now and then but it does not bother me at all. It neither affects my studying or much else. I have no problem falling asleep or having a good sleep during the night.

Right now as I'm writing this text my tinnitus is more noticeable, but generally it does not bother me at all and I'm very confident that by time it will go away, and if it does not, eventually I will think less and less about it and in the end forget that it is there at all. Sometimes it does feel like it is not there, which is nice, but I think its more the thought of relief and not the silence in it self that enjoys me, because the tinnitus does not bother me anymore.

I'm not sure if my tinnitus got less severe during the time or if it is because I just stopped caring about it. It could be either, I would say.

I'm neither 100% sure what caused my tinnitus. Most likely the antibiotic (tetracycline), but the chance of having tinnitus as a side effect of tetracycline use is VERY low (0.01-0.001%).

I have been listening to music in earphones for several hours a day many days a week previously. Usually when I was reading my books at the university I would listen to music to cancel out the background noise. I studied like that for up to 8 hours a day 5 times a week. Usually at a high volume.

I did this for at least 7 months. That can be the cause of my tinnitus too.

Now I use earplugs when I study and want to block the background noise. I listen to music in earphones again but at lower volume.

I think overall, getting tinnitus is a good thing for my life.

It has made me realize how valuable a healthy body is.

Of all sufferings existing to man, tinnitus is far from the worse. It is not a pain, it is not a dysfunction. It is merely a constant sound in the ear, which will eventually lessen for everybody. The moment I stopped caring about my tinnitus, was the moment I got my life back. I stopped taking notes about my tinnitus and deleted all previous ones. I stopped researching my tinnitus. I went to a doctor and get my ears and hearing function checked. It is all perfectly fine.

The final task for me now is, to forget about tinnitus completely. This is my first and last post here.

Farewell. I will not be back to reply messages.

 

[LionHead]

Okay I come back to make an update. When i wrote my first post (1 month ago), my tinnitus was more or less gone, the next two weeks it disappeared totally. I thought the illness had healed. Then suddenly it appeared again 2 weeks ago. The first week was kinda tolerable. The last week has been a bit severe, especially the last few days.
I forgot to write in my first post, that i was taking zinc supplements when my T initially broke out. But when it got better, I stopped taking the zinc supplements. This might have been the reason behind the return of the T.
So yesterday i started taking zinc again, and today the T is at a very tolerable level.
When i woke up it was kind of gone for 1 hour.
So zinc might be helpful. Or maybe tinnitus has a very cyclic nature where the severity goes up and down, and im hitting the down turn now. Anyways I will try to be more compliant with zinc supplementation so that hopefully the T stays this low or goes away again. Ultimately i think my T will still go away within this year. You have to remember, that the ear is a very delicate organ with low blood flow, so the healing process takes a lot longer than other tissues, that we usually damage.


Take care.

 

[LionHead]

Right now in this moment, my tinnitus is 95% gone. I just noticed, it feels very good. I had some tinnitus from the morning and through out the afternoon, but now suddenly it just turned off. Hopefully it continues like this. Again zinc might be helpful. Though i prefer to think that it is the slow natural healing process taking place and improving the symptom.

 

[Ron Robles]

How did u get your tinnitus and how long have you had it . Does zinc really work how long have you been taking it , I
Have had my t for 22 months is it to late

 

[LionHead]

Today again I notice improvements.
My T started after 5 weeks of taking oral tetracycline antibiotic for treating acne. I was taking zinc at the same time as it should be beneficial for the skin. When I got T i stopped taking the antibiotics, but continued with the zinc, as i found it beneficial to my skin. One month after appearing the T stopped again and for some reason i stopped taking zinc. T reappeared 18 days ago. Now i have been taking zinc for 3-4 days and T has improved.
I would like to point out that my tinnitus might be a lot different from most people here, as it is most likely caused by the tetracycline drug, which is not ototoxic but has a VERY LOW chance of causing reversible T, so it might just be the healing process, which is going on.
I have also noticed, that sometimes my T is induced if i increase pressure "oral cavity and Eustachian tube area" e.g. when couching or burping.
Also my T is not a constant sound but more of a ringing with a completely random frequens. I initially thought it was caused of IC hypertension, but the ringing does not follow my heart beat, it is completely random.
The other thing is that my jaws are weird and I bite teeth while sleeping.
And I used to use headphones many hours a day.

So I'm not really sure what has caused it. If it does not improve in the next month I will go to my physician to get some more tests. So far i have only visited an ear doctor, who didn't find anything wrong with my ears.
This will be the last update for now. Hopefully my T will disappear again and I will forget about it, so I don't have to comeback here to make an update again. ;-)

 

[Greg Sacramento]

You live in Denmark, but on the West coast in the USA, the emergency rooms have been full with people during the last mouth with Eustachian tube problems. If you bite your teeth, then I would have that looked at by a dentist. Oral tetracycline can could your teeth hurt.

 

[LionHead]

Hello friends.
My life is pretty much back to normal. I have not been taking zink the last 7 weeks and the tinnitus has disappeared completely now. So this T illness had a four-five months duration for me. Good luck to everyone else.

 

[cviechec]

Hello friends.
My life is pretty much back to normal. I have not been taking zink the last 7 weeks and the tinnitus has disappeared completely now. So this T illness had a four-five months duration for me. Good luck to everyone else.

Hey man, I figure you're gone from the site (I don't blame you at all, I wish I was) but, I was just curious as to the loudness of your T?

I got my T from meds as well.