Tinnitus Forum - Mytinnitus

Hi I'm new here, my name is Sander (from The Netherlands)

This is my Tinnitus story

I went to a concert on the 24th of november 2012, the day before I had an argument (well big fight) with my friend since she forgot about going to the gig and planned something else. I actually didn't want to go anymore. I brought the tickets to her place and told her she should go with her sister but she talked me back into going. We were standing 2nd row, but there is quite a lot of room between the stage and the audience. We had a fantastic time and all was forgiven.

After it I didn't experience any trouble, I even went to bed immediately after I got home. It took a week when I experienced my first Tinnitus.

Everyone tells me it will go (My mother experienced it for a year and doesn't have it anymore), but it has now been 2 months in which it has gone down a little. After two weeks I even had to unplug the refrigerator etc because I couldn't handle the ringing it caused, now the sound is not reactive anymore but just 'there' in my head. White noise with the very rare spike of high hissing...

The last half year my family had a very stressful year with my grandmother passing away, and in october my mother got diagnosed with cancer. This all happened in a very short amount of time. I never cry but since then I was/am a hypersensitive emotional wreck. I was in arguments at work/with friends all the time and suffered from depression.

I experienced around 80 migraine attacks, I sort of counted them. I've always suffered from them. I also had a lot of sinus problems at the beginning of that year. I also suffered from extreme anxiety problems (sometimes I had to even leave the train because I was panicking so badly).

On the 29th of november I decided to start exercising again after a few weeks, as usual I over-exercised. Because with almost everything I do, I do it in an extreme way, working, eating, drinking coffee etc. and again got a migraine with aura (blurred rainbow moving vision). I took some ibuprofen. Actually, I took like six of these on the day of the concert because of severe headaches that day, because of tension. I always get headaches with new experiences etc because I tense up. I remember getting a migraine attack just before a concert a few years ago...

After the migraine had gone I woke up on the couch and went to my bed. I lied down and everything was fine, it took me a little while to get back to sleep.

Then I woke up at 4 at night with full blown white noise-ish Tinnitus. I completely panicked, this noise didn't seem to go down and only got worse when I became so emotional. Later I called the doctor because I read about the tinnitus problems people were having and I got scared it would never go. The (ENT) doctors told me I have no hearing damage and the audiograms were fine. Still the doctors seemed very laconic and told me to get used to it and live with it. That I won't I told them.

I since then have cut back on the cafeine and started eating more healthy (I used to eat a lot of chinese, spicy food, chocolate, bags of 400 gr m&ms in a week, sweets in absurd amounts etc).

After two months there is a slight decrease in volume, yesterday was even the most quietest it's ever been, but today (after a bad night of sleep, dreaming very heavily) was a bit worse.

My psychiatrist tells me it's all in between the ears (also literally) and when I sort out certain things in life this sound will fade slowly, a friend of hers also used to have it. She says it's like this alarm bell that is going off in your brain/head which is telling you that your body (and mind) is out of balance and causes you to be on this full blown Red Alert state. That all sounds very magical, but I have to believe it will go.

If someone could tell me it will be gone next year I would be the happiest person on the planet and not be even that bothered about it anymore for the most part.

I will keep you updated if anything changes

Take Care,

Sander

Last edited by Xander21 (27-01-2013 16:44:31)