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It's been 10 months now with tinnitus. As stated in a earlier post the perception of tinnitus, is it pain that I'm hearing. Since May of last year I've been in pain with back problems. Doctors at first didn't know what was wrong with me and had me doing physio for a hamstring pull when in fact I had pinched nerves in my back. Since Sept, 2011 I've been doing physio for this nerve pinch in back and have much more movement than I did last year. A long the way I noticed that the pain has decreased along with the perception of tinnitus. Also I had hearing test done both with doctors and online sites. During these test I had trouble hearing anything over 6000 Hz. Was it the tinnitus that was blocking my hearing?? Now doing the hearing test online I can clearly hear 8000 and over. It's my belief that chronic pain can change the way our brain works and cause our nervous system to do strange things, like tinnitus. Chronic pain can stress out your body's nervous system and we know what stress can do to one's body. This then can cause the perception of ringing ears as the chronic back pain causes the back and neck muscles to tighten up. With chronic pain your always looking for relief and so is your body and mind. Find out what has happened to you before the tinnitus started and you may find the relief from tinnitus.
As for me I'll be having back surgery very soon. I'll inform you all if my tinnitus stops once the pain is gone.
Tonyf
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Hi Tony,
I reckon that in most cases where a high-frequency 'hearing loss' is diagnosed, it is indeed just the tinnitus tone preventing you from hearing the external test tone. If the tinnitus gets less, you will hear the external test tone better again. So there is actually no damage at all.
Tinnitus and pain are both nervous conditions, so it is plausible that they can be related to some degree (as can be the perceptions of other senses).
Thomas
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Thomas wrote:
Hi Tony,
I reckon that in most cases where a high-frequency 'hearing loss' is diagnosed, it is indeed just the tinnitus tone preventing you from hearing the external test tone. If the tinnitus gets less, you will hear the external test tone better again. So there is actually no damage at all.
Tinnitus and pain are both nervous conditions, so it is plausible that they can be related to some degree (as can be the perceptions of other senses).
Thomas
Yes I agree with you 100%, thats why I'm advising people to question their Doctors. Don't take just live with it. Your body is telling you there is something wrong, find out what it is and you may stop your tinntius, or at least control it.
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Hi Tony, hope you have a successful back surgery. Vic
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Vic wrote:
Hi Tony, hope you have a successful back surgery. Vic
Thanks Vic, It's this Friday I'm having the back surgery. I'm a little worry since its my back that they're working on. Doctor has to clean up a couple of disks that are compressing my spinal cord. They tell me its a simple surgery to perform and have given me a 90% total success that everything will be fine. Although the doctor stated he didn't think it was causing my tinnitus. What I do know is back in the summer of last year I was very depressed because the Doctors didn't know what was causing all the pain I was in. I had trouble sleeping at night, and was taking all kinds of pain killers. Some mornings I would wake up knowing that I was biting down hard on my teeth. It was the stress during my sleep, this was going on every night. Then one morning back in Aug of last year I woke up with this buzzing feeling in my head. It never stops and is quite painful at times. At first the tinnitus was very loud and the pain in my legs and back were unbearable. When the doctors finally found the cause of my pain and started treatment the pain & tinnitus deceased.
SO ARE THEY RELATED?? Doctors say no, but I think they're wrong and am keeping up hope that when the pain is gone and the nervous system has time to relax that my life will be back.
Tonyf
Last edited by Tonyf (26-06-2012 11:42:59)
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Good luck Tony, and wishing you well
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Well I had my surgery yesterday and all seem to go well. As for my tinnitus there is some good and bad news. When I was under the medication from the surgery I didn't notice the tinnitus, in fact my head felt clear of any noise and pain. When I woke up this morning I notice some tinnitus again. I'm experiencing a lot of pain right now as I'm not taking any pain killers. Not one to keep taking pills if I can live without them. The nerve was caught in two locations and one disk was worst then the doctor originally thought. I'll keep in touch to see if the sounds decrease as my surgery heals.
I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Tonyf
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I hope this information helps you to find the reason you have tinnitus. My tinnitus started 10 months ago. I was under a lot of pain do to pinched nerves in lower back. Last week I had surgery to fix the nerve compression. Since the surgery my tinnitus has come and gone several times. I find when I wake up in the morning my head feels clear of any pain and noise. Only after I get out of bed do I find my tinnitus returns a bit ( a long with the pain from surgery ), nothing like before. It's only my belief that the reason I had tinnitus in the first place was do to the constant pain I was in.
Here are some of the reason I believe tinnitus & pain are connected. When you're in pain you seem to tighten up your back and neck muscles. This then compresses down on your spinal cord and may stress out your nervous system. Just the stress itself can cause tinnitus. I went to many Doctors who told me to live with it as it was due to loss of hearing. I don't believe this is true as my hearing has improved since I last tested it.
My wife is now complaining about tinnitus, why? Is it just the perception that has brought on the tinnitus since that's all I talked about for the last 10 months. It could be the fact that she has been under a lot of stress because of what I've gone through. She complains that her neck is stiff and she is in pain all the time. I've advised her to start treatment to relieve the tension on her neck and see if the tinnitus stops. I'll let you know if it stops.
I'm not trying to state that hearing loss doesn't cause tinnitus, I'm sure it does. What I am stating is stress could be what is causing your tinnitus. You may state you're not stressed out but that doesn't mean your body or nervous system isn't. Look into any thing that may be causing you pain or stress and try to release it through pain killers, physio, or other methods.
The Doctor's will tell you to live with it. I say B.S., take matters into your own hands. Relax, take walks, stretch out every morning, and relieve any neck or back pain.
Tonyf
Last edited by Tonyf (06-07-2012 13:48:22)
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