- Nov 8, 2021
- 1
- Tinnitus Since
- 09/21
- Cause of Tinnitus
- NSAID Medication (Believed to be so at least)
Hi everyone,
I'm a 20-year-old college student (just turned 20 about a month ago), and I've had ongoing/intermittent tinnitus for about six weeks now.
As many of you on this feed understand, tinnitus can be a very debilitating condition to many. For me, these last two months (more specifically, the last five weeks) have been a nightmare that I feel as if I can never wake up from. A little bit of background history: around three months ago, I started having eye pain. At first, it was tolerable, but then it got so bad I could barely sleep at night, and I couldn't see straight in front of me. I went to a variety of doctors who told me that my eyes were perfectly normal. There was nothing wrong with me (later, I found out that my eye pain was primarily caused by the overnight Ortho-K lenses I was searing in my sleep, and my optometrist didn't tell me the whole truth about them
). One day, my eye pain as so. I decided to go to the student medical center at my college. The doctor there told me I had ocular migraines and decided to give me a shot of pain medication. She never told me the name of the drug or what the side effects of it would be. I later found out that the medicine she gave was called Toradol/Ketorolac (30 mg of it in total). I'm extremely sensitive to NSAIDs, and Toradol is basically a much stronger version of this type of medication. However, I was dumb, and in so much pain I forgot to ask her for the name of the medicine she was about to give me.
Around four days after I got the Toradol shot, the high-pitched wheezing sound started in my ears one night. I still distinctly remember the night I got it (just one day before my 20th birthday). The ringing got worse within a few days. Within one week, I had about 3-4 panic attacks. I remember laying on the bathroom ground with my fingers in my ears; I cried so much, I physically felt my heart hurting. For about the next two weeks, I physically couldn't function. Getting out of bed was hard, and I had a hard time listening in classes and focusing on conversations. What makes it harder is that I'm in college, so I naturally have a lot of work to do. I started falling behind in class and missing classes due to medical visits and the anxiety caused by the ringing. Despite having formal medical accommodations from the school, my teachers are still not very understanding of the situation. The good news is that over the next few weeks, my tinnitus got better slightly. I used to have the ringing sound in both ears, but now it's mostly in my left ear. The sound has changed from a high-pitched wheezing sound to mostly a white noise sound. I don't have much trouble sleeping or anything. Some days I might not even hear it at all. However, sometimes my tinnitus will spike, and it will get much louder for a few days, and I start worrying, feeling as if my tinnitus hasn't improved at all or that my tinnitus will never go away.
I've seen one ENT and an audiologist during this time period. The audiologist told me that she believes it will go away since I'm young and mostly healthy. I've had a history of tinnitus in the past. Once when I was 11, the tinnitus lasted for two months, and another time just a few months ago after a micro-suction earwax cleaning. My tinnitus lasted for around three weeks after the earwax cleaning. She says that my history of tinnitus disappearing is promising as there's a good chance my tinnitus can disappear this time around as well. I did an extended hearing test with the audiologist (250 Hz all the way to 20000 Hz) She said I have no hearing loss, even in the upper frequencies; she believes it should go away. However, if there's one thing that is certain about tinnitus is that it's unpredictable, so no one can pinpoint whether or not or when it will go away. My tinnitus has persisted for quite some time now, and I'm getting very worried.
I really hope that there's still a chance my tinnitus will go. These last few weeks have been a living hell. Every night I go to bed, I feel so much at ease because I'm dreaming, and in my dreams, I'm laughing and dancing. I feel so free, and nothing is burdening me. However, when I wake up, I snap back into reality, and the nightmare starts again. It's even harder because I'm in college pursuing music. IF this tinnitus persists, it can definitely affect whether I stay in his field or not. I've been so desperate for help. Most of my friends have never experienced anything like tinnitus and are either too busy to listen to me or completely unempathetic. People who have never experienced tinnitus will never understand the pain unless they ever, hopefully not, get it themselves. I've been lied to by quite a few medical professionals at this point, so I don't know who to trust. I've gone to psychics to do medium readings and sought help from random strangers.
I was wondering I anyone has ever had experiences with tinnitus, more specifically, drug-induced tinnitus. Did it ever go away? If so, how long did it take, and what did you do to help it leave? In your experience, do most tinnitus sufferers ever have their tinnitus go away?
Thank you so much for your time.
I'm a 20-year-old college student (just turned 20 about a month ago), and I've had ongoing/intermittent tinnitus for about six weeks now.
As many of you on this feed understand, tinnitus can be a very debilitating condition to many. For me, these last two months (more specifically, the last five weeks) have been a nightmare that I feel as if I can never wake up from. A little bit of background history: around three months ago, I started having eye pain. At first, it was tolerable, but then it got so bad I could barely sleep at night, and I couldn't see straight in front of me. I went to a variety of doctors who told me that my eyes were perfectly normal. There was nothing wrong with me (later, I found out that my eye pain was primarily caused by the overnight Ortho-K lenses I was searing in my sleep, and my optometrist didn't tell me the whole truth about them
). One day, my eye pain as so. I decided to go to the student medical center at my college. The doctor there told me I had ocular migraines and decided to give me a shot of pain medication. She never told me the name of the drug or what the side effects of it would be. I later found out that the medicine she gave was called Toradol/Ketorolac (30 mg of it in total). I'm extremely sensitive to NSAIDs, and Toradol is basically a much stronger version of this type of medication. However, I was dumb, and in so much pain I forgot to ask her for the name of the medicine she was about to give me.Around four days after I got the Toradol shot, the high-pitched wheezing sound started in my ears one night. I still distinctly remember the night I got it (just one day before my 20th birthday). The ringing got worse within a few days. Within one week, I had about 3-4 panic attacks. I remember laying on the bathroom ground with my fingers in my ears; I cried so much, I physically felt my heart hurting. For about the next two weeks, I physically couldn't function. Getting out of bed was hard, and I had a hard time listening in classes and focusing on conversations. What makes it harder is that I'm in college, so I naturally have a lot of work to do. I started falling behind in class and missing classes due to medical visits and the anxiety caused by the ringing. Despite having formal medical accommodations from the school, my teachers are still not very understanding of the situation. The good news is that over the next few weeks, my tinnitus got better slightly. I used to have the ringing sound in both ears, but now it's mostly in my left ear. The sound has changed from a high-pitched wheezing sound to mostly a white noise sound. I don't have much trouble sleeping or anything. Some days I might not even hear it at all. However, sometimes my tinnitus will spike, and it will get much louder for a few days, and I start worrying, feeling as if my tinnitus hasn't improved at all or that my tinnitus will never go away.
I've seen one ENT and an audiologist during this time period. The audiologist told me that she believes it will go away since I'm young and mostly healthy. I've had a history of tinnitus in the past. Once when I was 11, the tinnitus lasted for two months, and another time just a few months ago after a micro-suction earwax cleaning. My tinnitus lasted for around three weeks after the earwax cleaning. She says that my history of tinnitus disappearing is promising as there's a good chance my tinnitus can disappear this time around as well. I did an extended hearing test with the audiologist (250 Hz all the way to 20000 Hz) She said I have no hearing loss, even in the upper frequencies; she believes it should go away. However, if there's one thing that is certain about tinnitus is that it's unpredictable, so no one can pinpoint whether or not or when it will go away. My tinnitus has persisted for quite some time now, and I'm getting very worried.
I really hope that there's still a chance my tinnitus will go. These last few weeks have been a living hell. Every night I go to bed, I feel so much at ease because I'm dreaming, and in my dreams, I'm laughing and dancing. I feel so free, and nothing is burdening me. However, when I wake up, I snap back into reality, and the nightmare starts again. It's even harder because I'm in college pursuing music. IF this tinnitus persists, it can definitely affect whether I stay in his field or not. I've been so desperate for help. Most of my friends have never experienced anything like tinnitus and are either too busy to listen to me or completely unempathetic. People who have never experienced tinnitus will never understand the pain unless they ever, hopefully not, get it themselves. I've been lied to by quite a few medical professionals at this point, so I don't know who to trust. I've gone to psychics to do medium readings and sought help from random strangers.
I was wondering I anyone has ever had experiences with tinnitus, more specifically, drug-induced tinnitus. Did it ever go away? If so, how long did it take, and what did you do to help it leave? In your experience, do most tinnitus sufferers ever have their tinnitus go away?
Thank you so much for your time.
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