This is my first post here as I am feeling completely lost.
My partner of two years broke up with me two months ago, and I have been incredibly distraught. I was so happy and content, and now my life feels like it has been thrown into turmoil.
I have a young child that I am now a single dad to (she is not the mother), and everything is just becoming too much to handle.
I have had ringing in my right ear since 2010, when I was 16. I am not sure what caused it. I also developed a hissing sound in my left ear last year, but it seemed to subside and could only be heard if I really focused on it. Unfortunately, it seems to have increased recently. I do not know if it was triggered by a child at a playgroup banging a plate on a table (he only did it twice, but it hurt, and I was maybe ten to fifteen feet away) or if it is stress-related. I have never felt this stressed in my life. I feel empty and hopeless every day.
To make matters worse, I have now developed what the doctor thinks is folliculitis on my beard area. I just cannot handle any more setbacks. I am already on the edge, and I feel like I have nothing left to offer anyone. My ears already limit me in so many ways, and I constantly have to wear earplugs wherever I go. Now, it feels like my appearance is being taken away from me, too, which makes me feel fundamentally unlovable.
I am 31, and I have been dealing with all of this for too long. I do not know how this folliculitis started. Maybe it was from trying a new barber, maybe it was from my own razor, or maybe it is all stress-related. I have no idea, but I need to get my life back. I can feel it slipping away from me, and I am scared. Really, really scared. I feel like I want to cry all the time, and I just do not want to do this anymore.
Does anyone know what I can do about this problem on my face? I tried salt and water, which I saw recommended as a natural remedy, but it has not done anything for me. The doctor prescribed a moisturizer with chlorhexidine in it without even seeing me. We spoke for five minutes on the phone. I have been reluctant to use it because I have read that chlorhexidine can be harmful if it gets in the ears, and I worry about my body absorbing it and causing more issues. I also used this stuff a few years ago when I was struggling with acne, and it made me break out.
I ordered some clotrimazole because I saw people had success with it, but then I read on this forum that someone experienced a spike in their tinnitus that they believed was related to this cream.
I also purchased some 70 percent isopropyl rubbing alcohol after seeing success stories on Reddit, but I am too scared to try it because I do not know what effects it might have.
Can someone please, please, please help me? I am begging at this point.
My partner of two years broke up with me two months ago, and I have been incredibly distraught. I was so happy and content, and now my life feels like it has been thrown into turmoil.
I have a young child that I am now a single dad to (she is not the mother), and everything is just becoming too much to handle.
I have had ringing in my right ear since 2010, when I was 16. I am not sure what caused it. I also developed a hissing sound in my left ear last year, but it seemed to subside and could only be heard if I really focused on it. Unfortunately, it seems to have increased recently. I do not know if it was triggered by a child at a playgroup banging a plate on a table (he only did it twice, but it hurt, and I was maybe ten to fifteen feet away) or if it is stress-related. I have never felt this stressed in my life. I feel empty and hopeless every day.
To make matters worse, I have now developed what the doctor thinks is folliculitis on my beard area. I just cannot handle any more setbacks. I am already on the edge, and I feel like I have nothing left to offer anyone. My ears already limit me in so many ways, and I constantly have to wear earplugs wherever I go. Now, it feels like my appearance is being taken away from me, too, which makes me feel fundamentally unlovable.
I am 31, and I have been dealing with all of this for too long. I do not know how this folliculitis started. Maybe it was from trying a new barber, maybe it was from my own razor, or maybe it is all stress-related. I have no idea, but I need to get my life back. I can feel it slipping away from me, and I am scared. Really, really scared. I feel like I want to cry all the time, and I just do not want to do this anymore.
Does anyone know what I can do about this problem on my face? I tried salt and water, which I saw recommended as a natural remedy, but it has not done anything for me. The doctor prescribed a moisturizer with chlorhexidine in it without even seeing me. We spoke for five minutes on the phone. I have been reluctant to use it because I have read that chlorhexidine can be harmful if it gets in the ears, and I worry about my body absorbing it and causing more issues. I also used this stuff a few years ago when I was struggling with acne, and it made me break out.
I ordered some clotrimazole because I saw people had success with it, but then I read on this forum that someone experienced a spike in their tinnitus that they believed was related to this cream.
I also purchased some 70 percent isopropyl rubbing alcohol after seeing success stories on Reddit, but I am too scared to try it because I do not know what effects it might have.
Can someone please, please, please help me? I am begging at this point.
