Tinnitus Forum - Mytinnitus

Thomas

I should say thanks for all your great advice and tips on your websites, thank you I am following your tips. I have taken some paracetamol, cut out caffeine, alcohol etc.  Its great to know you have reduced your symptoms. I am trying to stay positive but it is enormously difficult not to spiral out of control with stress and fear. This obviously makes it worse. I'm at that stage where I will try anything to reduce the symptoms.

Rob

Thanks again for your response.  I stopped using the hearing aid as soon as I notice the initial spike, the ringing increased in intensity over a week and I would say it seems to have peaked now.  Strangely it has also effected my left ear too, even though the hearing aid was in the right ear. What worries me is that it seems to change and shift in pitch. I then think I hear other sounds too, which makes things worse.  I too now also carry ear plugs around just in case of loud environments. I need to get to grips with this soon so I can try to live a normal life.

Cheers,

Nick

Goldfinger wrote:

Thanks again for your response.  I stopped using the hearing aid as soon as I notice the initial spike, the ringing increased in intensity over a week and I would say it seems to have peaked now.  Strangely it has also effected my left ear too, even though the hearing aid was in the right ear. What worries me is that it seems to change and shift in pitch. I then think I hear other sounds too, which makes things worse.  I too now also carry ear plugs around just in case of loud environments. I need to get to grips with this soon so I can try to live a normal life.

It is right that you take some measures to get things under control, but don't expect an improvement very soon. For most people it takes 3-6 months before things start to improve. So don't get impatient or depressed if things are still unchanged in a few weeks time.Try to address the problem on a day to day basis and don't think so much about the long term future. It is likely to take a long time for your nervous system to adjust to the situation, but eventually it will.

Thomas