Hello everyone,
I'm just looking for a little help here. The story is the first time I had tinnitus was when I was 11 years old. I'm not sure why it started, but I just remember a few weeks after a trip to Six Flags Great America, my ears started ringing non-stop. It was especially noticeable during the nighttime, and I had trouble sleeping for months. As many of you know here, tinnitus can be debilitating; you can imagine how truly distressing it was for a child to get it. I went to multiple ENTS, and they couldn't do anything but give me melatonin to help with my sleep. A few months later, my tinnitus disappeared, and I had no more problems with it.
Fast forward eight years, and I'm now in my sophomore year of college. I started developing chronic migraines and took Ibuprofen plus Sumatriptan every once in a while to alleviate my headaches. After a river rafting trip, I noticed that I got some water stuck in my ear. I went to an ENT, and she said that the water in my ear had made my ear wax expand, and she did a simple extraction and sent me on my way. I started getting tinnitus a few hours after my ear wax removal. After eight years, it came back again. I was so annoyed and distressed. However, I could only hear it when I was trying to sleep and not throughout the day. My health has been on the decline over the summer, but I wanted to finish my sophomore year of college, so I moved to New York and started school. My tinnitus disappeared after a few days, and everything was fine. I continued having migraines and went to urgent care, where the nurse gave me a big shot of painkiller meds. My migraines disappeared, but a few days later, my tinnitus started again. This time it was weird; the sound was unlike anything I ever heard. It was very low volume and extremely high pitched, almost like cicadas in the summer. The worst thing is my tinnitus came back a few days before my 20th birthday. I had such a bad panic attack last night; I couldn't fall back asleep. I was crying and had trouble breathing. My panic attack was so bad it woke up my roommate.
I'm unsure what triggered this onset of tinnitus; Is it because I'm in the city, so I'm constantly exposed to loud noises, wearing headphones at medium volume, or painkillers? I did a test with an audiologist, and he determined that my eardrums look fine and I don't have signs of hearing loss. In your experience, can a few loud bursts of noise and migraine medication trigger tinnitus? If so, is it usually permanent, or is it temporary? I've heard a saying that the classic onset of tinnitus is that you get it a few times, and it's temporary, and then after that, when you get it, it's permanent. Either way, I stopped wearing headphones and taking painkillers.
I'm sorry this is such a long post; I just wanted to share my experience here. My grandpa also has tinnitus, and I'm so disappointed that when I started looking for tinnitus treatments eight years later, there is still no cure and so few options. In my personal life, I was dealing with a lot already and came out of a very, very dark period in my life. I just turned 20, and my biggest wish is for both my loved ones and me to experience peace and happiness for once in our lives and me. I am hoping that this case will soon pass and I'll be okay again. Hoping you can share some empathy and not start judging me. Just looking for some help, and if you ever find it in your heart, some nice wishes or prayers would be so greatly appreciated.
I'm just looking for a little help here. The story is the first time I had tinnitus was when I was 11 years old. I'm not sure why it started, but I just remember a few weeks after a trip to Six Flags Great America, my ears started ringing non-stop. It was especially noticeable during the nighttime, and I had trouble sleeping for months. As many of you know here, tinnitus can be debilitating; you can imagine how truly distressing it was for a child to get it. I went to multiple ENTS, and they couldn't do anything but give me melatonin to help with my sleep. A few months later, my tinnitus disappeared, and I had no more problems with it.
Fast forward eight years, and I'm now in my sophomore year of college. I started developing chronic migraines and took Ibuprofen plus Sumatriptan every once in a while to alleviate my headaches. After a river rafting trip, I noticed that I got some water stuck in my ear. I went to an ENT, and she said that the water in my ear had made my ear wax expand, and she did a simple extraction and sent me on my way. I started getting tinnitus a few hours after my ear wax removal. After eight years, it came back again. I was so annoyed and distressed. However, I could only hear it when I was trying to sleep and not throughout the day. My health has been on the decline over the summer, but I wanted to finish my sophomore year of college, so I moved to New York and started school. My tinnitus disappeared after a few days, and everything was fine. I continued having migraines and went to urgent care, where the nurse gave me a big shot of painkiller meds. My migraines disappeared, but a few days later, my tinnitus started again. This time it was weird; the sound was unlike anything I ever heard. It was very low volume and extremely high pitched, almost like cicadas in the summer. The worst thing is my tinnitus came back a few days before my 20th birthday. I had such a bad panic attack last night; I couldn't fall back asleep. I was crying and had trouble breathing. My panic attack was so bad it woke up my roommate.
I'm unsure what triggered this onset of tinnitus; Is it because I'm in the city, so I'm constantly exposed to loud noises, wearing headphones at medium volume, or painkillers? I did a test with an audiologist, and he determined that my eardrums look fine and I don't have signs of hearing loss. In your experience, can a few loud bursts of noise and migraine medication trigger tinnitus? If so, is it usually permanent, or is it temporary? I've heard a saying that the classic onset of tinnitus is that you get it a few times, and it's temporary, and then after that, when you get it, it's permanent. Either way, I stopped wearing headphones and taking painkillers.
I'm sorry this is such a long post; I just wanted to share my experience here. My grandpa also has tinnitus, and I'm so disappointed that when I started looking for tinnitus treatments eight years later, there is still no cure and so few options. In my personal life, I was dealing with a lot already and came out of a very, very dark period in my life. I just turned 20, and my biggest wish is for both my loved ones and me to experience peace and happiness for once in our lives and me. I am hoping that this case will soon pass and I'll be okay again. Hoping you can share some empathy and not start judging me. Just looking for some help, and if you ever find it in your heart, some nice wishes or prayers would be so greatly appreciated.
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