Hello, I'm french. I'm 57 years old. I had first time tinnitus in the army (military service) because of strong gun exposure. It was cured in military hospital. I think that i listened too loud rock music too in my twenties and thirties but without any special problem. At this time, there was no advise about danger for the ears. In 2000, i decided to go to my last rock concert in Glasgow (Iggy Pop) but I was in a bad emotional state because I had eyes problems at this time (floaters which depressed me) and i didn't know that you shouldn't be exposed to have noise when you are tired, stressed.... because ears are very sensitive.
So I had a tinnitus because of the concert and I didn't consult a doctor before coming back to France: too late to be treated with corticoids. The tinnitus was very loud during the night and it vanished away after 3 mother thanks to a therapist (energetician who also cured my floaters) or may be thanks of the time. Until last year, I lived with a very low tinnitus (1/10) and H (very low) avoiding rock and jazz concerts, listening music not too loud. It was ok, no special protection (only for noisy works). The t and H was in my right ear with only a loose of 30db at 4000HZ.
Last year, it suddenly came back during one night and became slowly worst with H. I consulted 5 ears specialists (2 said they were T specialists) and they all said I was ok, nothing to do. One said I had a psy problem and that I had no H!! It became suddenly worse at the end of july, and I felt desperate and had suicidal ideas. So, I went to psy emergencies and after one week sent me to a psy clinic where I stayed 6 weeks. The psychiatric told me the T would vanished away with his treatment (aD, anxiol., sleeping pill,s and neurol.) I had no more desesparate ideas and the T was lighter. I left the clinic in september but couldn't come back to work.
In october, idem. At the end of october, it became worse and when I discovered how dangerous are neuroleptics, I stopped them: very dangerous; I had to go for the second time (T was so loud) in hospital and I stayed 2 weeks in the public psy hospital (terrific place). I refused neuroleptics but went on with sleeping pills, AD and anxious. (giant doses which made my T vanished away for 4 hours . but I didn't know) because of a stupid psychiatric. My wife could see I became a (legal) drug addict.
We discovered at home on internet that AD, neurol and anxiol. (I had been taken anxiol. for one year 2 or 3 times a week to sleep because I had anxiety crisis because of new eyes problems) were potentially ototoxic and they were for med.
So, Xanax woke up my T in may 2016 and AD and neural increased them (but not sleeping pills). None of these doctors (ears specialists, psychiastrics, generalists) did' know it: stupid people: they waste my health! I stopped easily sleeping pills and AD and I'm now in anxious. withdrawal: you must go slow in order not to damage the brain. I've got rid of 90% of anxious. but it's a nightmare: T and H are worse every day or week: it's a classical symptom of withdrawal with anxiety, black ideas. I have no other symptoms.
But I can't work any more and can't do many things: my T and H are very heavy and even going out with big ears protections is difficult. I just drive less than 5 miles with my protection.
Going in a shop is a nightmare and my T (4 noises) rings all day. A shower is now too noisy and I just live day after day. I must stop these drug but I'me not sure T and H will decrease after the end of the withdrawal (post cure symptoms). It's such a misery!
So I had a tinnitus because of the concert and I didn't consult a doctor before coming back to France: too late to be treated with corticoids. The tinnitus was very loud during the night and it vanished away after 3 mother thanks to a therapist (energetician who also cured my floaters) or may be thanks of the time. Until last year, I lived with a very low tinnitus (1/10) and H (very low) avoiding rock and jazz concerts, listening music not too loud. It was ok, no special protection (only for noisy works). The t and H was in my right ear with only a loose of 30db at 4000HZ.
Last year, it suddenly came back during one night and became slowly worst with H. I consulted 5 ears specialists (2 said they were T specialists) and they all said I was ok, nothing to do. One said I had a psy problem and that I had no H!! It became suddenly worse at the end of july, and I felt desperate and had suicidal ideas. So, I went to psy emergencies and after one week sent me to a psy clinic where I stayed 6 weeks. The psychiatric told me the T would vanished away with his treatment (aD, anxiol., sleeping pill,s and neurol.) I had no more desesparate ideas and the T was lighter. I left the clinic in september but couldn't come back to work.
In october, idem. At the end of october, it became worse and when I discovered how dangerous are neuroleptics, I stopped them: very dangerous; I had to go for the second time (T was so loud) in hospital and I stayed 2 weeks in the public psy hospital (terrific place). I refused neuroleptics but went on with sleeping pills, AD and anxious. (giant doses which made my T vanished away for 4 hours . but I didn't know) because of a stupid psychiatric. My wife could see I became a (legal) drug addict.
We discovered at home on internet that AD, neurol and anxiol. (I had been taken anxiol. for one year 2 or 3 times a week to sleep because I had anxiety crisis because of new eyes problems) were potentially ototoxic and they were for med.
So, Xanax woke up my T in may 2016 and AD and neural increased them (but not sleeping pills). None of these doctors (ears specialists, psychiastrics, generalists) did' know it: stupid people: they waste my health! I stopped easily sleeping pills and AD and I'm now in anxious. withdrawal: you must go slow in order not to damage the brain. I've got rid of 90% of anxious. but it's a nightmare: T and H are worse every day or week: it's a classical symptom of withdrawal with anxiety, black ideas. I have no other symptoms.
But I can't work any more and can't do many things: my T and H are very heavy and even going out with big ears protections is difficult. I just drive less than 5 miles with my protection.
Going in a shop is a nightmare and my T (4 noises) rings all day. A shower is now too noisy and I just live day after day. I must stop these drug but I'me not sure T and H will decrease after the end of the withdrawal (post cure symptoms). It's such a misery!
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