Hi all. I will get to the history of the tinnitus but I want to tell you why my heading is "who flipped the switch?" Two nights ago, as I'm lying in bed, listening to my buzzing like I have for years, and had the "zip zip electricity" feeling that goes across the back of my head a couple of times a week (or night if it's bad), I had a completely new experience that freaked the crap out of me. During the "zip zip" I twitched in a muscle spasm, but then it felt like someone flipped a switch and my brain went off for 1/2 second. I mean beyond nothing. No noise, no light (not even that dark red light behind the eyelids if someone in the room has their little light on reading a book), no feeling. It was beyond weird. It was scary as hell. I came out of that 1/2 second glad the switch flipped back on. HAS anyone every had this happen?
Ok - now for my tinnitus. I've no clue what type it is. I AM GOING TO THE DR. TOMORROW. I have been diagnosed with tinnitus since about 1995 and that was the last time I went to the Dr. for it.
At that time I was diagnosed with moderate hearing loss in my right ear and minimal hearing loss in my left. And that is the last time I've seen a Dr. for it. I have put up with buzzing for years, off and on. Now it is always on. It gets loud sometimes. I always hear it over "stuff" but never has it been so loud it hurt and for the most part, I can hear outside noises OK. Although my kids and hubby say I'm getting worse.
I feel lots of pressure in my ears most times. Doc looked at it, said they looked fine. He didn't know or seem to care about the "zip zip." The first time that happened was a couple to three years ago. Really scared me at first because it sounds so electrical I wondered if it was a seizure or something.
Lately - I feel like I'm going a little nutty. I'll hear what I think is a small cell phone noise or bells in the distance. I'll ask my hubby or kids if they heard it and of course, they haven't.
I get little bouts of dizziness if I turn my head quickly. Once in awhile I see little silver things with the dizziness. Four years ago, I had two bouts of fall-down-wooshing-tidal-wave-vertigo. It was horrible! My poor ten-year old was told by me that "I'm OK, but you have to help me to the bed and if I pass out, call grandma." HORRIBLE! I never knew and never want to have a case of vertigo again! The doctors said "we don't know what causes it, but it may never happen again."
I dread going to the doctor. I've had weird issues for years and I get sooooo tired of hearing "we can't find anything." I'm afraid they are going to put me in a little white jacket when all I really want is a referral to an ENT.
So - I am writing this with a bit of hesistancy because I'm just drained trying to just live with it. I can't say it's "unlivable", but when I feel like someone "flipped the switch" on my brain... that is when I get really scared! Thanks for listening and any information you can give me.
Ok - now for my tinnitus. I've no clue what type it is. I AM GOING TO THE DR. TOMORROW. I have been diagnosed with tinnitus since about 1995 and that was the last time I went to the Dr. for it.
At that time I was diagnosed with moderate hearing loss in my right ear and minimal hearing loss in my left. And that is the last time I've seen a Dr. for it. I have put up with buzzing for years, off and on. Now it is always on. It gets loud sometimes. I always hear it over "stuff" but never has it been so loud it hurt and for the most part, I can hear outside noises OK. Although my kids and hubby say I'm getting worse.
I feel lots of pressure in my ears most times. Doc looked at it, said they looked fine. He didn't know or seem to care about the "zip zip." The first time that happened was a couple to three years ago. Really scared me at first because it sounds so electrical I wondered if it was a seizure or something.
Lately - I feel like I'm going a little nutty. I'll hear what I think is a small cell phone noise or bells in the distance. I'll ask my hubby or kids if they heard it and of course, they haven't.
I get little bouts of dizziness if I turn my head quickly. Once in awhile I see little silver things with the dizziness. Four years ago, I had two bouts of fall-down-wooshing-tidal-wave-vertigo. It was horrible! My poor ten-year old was told by me that "I'm OK, but you have to help me to the bed and if I pass out, call grandma." HORRIBLE! I never knew and never want to have a case of vertigo again! The doctors said "we don't know what causes it, but it may never happen again."
I dread going to the doctor. I've had weird issues for years and I get sooooo tired of hearing "we can't find anything." I'm afraid they are going to put me in a little white jacket when all I really want is a referral to an ENT.
So - I am writing this with a bit of hesistancy because I'm just drained trying to just live with it. I can't say it's "unlivable", but when I feel like someone "flipped the switch" on my brain... that is when I get really scared! Thanks for listening and any information you can give me.
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