Tinnitus Forum - Mytinnitus

Hello all,
When google got me this forum I instantly registered and am writing without really reading up all threads yet. I shall do so in a moment. First I want to write to share my experience with you all. I hope that I can give you with this a positive feeling, a feeling of hope. On many sites, the tendency is so much of dispair (which I totally understand) and I hope that with these few words, I give a positive stimulus to those who have given up hope.
Last April I went to a concert. No heavy metal band or hard core stuff, just a sweet concert with a nice singer behind his piano.
Ever since that concert, the hissing noise in my ears has not left me. It came together with hypersensitivity to sound. It got so bad that on most uncool days, turning a page of a book would drive me mad. I could also not attend public events because of the sound overload. Social isolation...
At night I would wake up because of the sound variations.
After a few months I seeked medical advice. My general practicioner (a homeopath) said: "What a bummer, I can't do anything for you."
So I went off searching on my own. Internet, hospital, specialised centre...
I have spent many hours in waiting rooms, have undergone many tests, seen many doctors, spent many euros... and I am still stuck with tinnitus in my left ear.
I'll try to be brief about my tribulations until now...
After the discouraging words of the GP I seeked advice at a university hospital. I was tested but not really listened to (as a patient of homeopaths I guess that one gets used to that). Went home with a nootrope (medication given to enhance brain activity basically for the elderly - no proof that it relieves tinnitus), a steroid nose spray, a see water nose spray, zinc and magnesium (was not tested on lack thereof). This made me sick after 10 days and I stopped everything. I came down with sinusitis and angina.
I went to a homeopathic nose-ear-throat doctor with whom I am in therapy since some 2 months. We work on tinnitus together. I have had one set of powders and am taking the second set now.
In parallel, I took 2 sessions with an osteopath (cranial osteopathy) but as the osteopath and nose-ear-throat doctor both predicted, given that the tinnitus is caused by excessive sound, it did no good and I stopped it. Nevertheless, it was well worth to try!
In the meantime, I have prescribed myself vitamin B complex (I am a vegetarian and therefore could lack this - you probably know by now the relation to tinnitus) and also ginkgo biloba, and I am not allergic to them thank god.
My specialist approved this initiative.
I will soon try acupuncture.
And now the good part: over time, my tinnitus got less loud and I am now able to concentrate and even read a book in silence.
I do not play tv or music loudly because that costs me too much in suffering, but apart from that my situation seems overall bearable. I can not cut down on sugar, salt, coffee or alcohol yet
People, please do not give up, and try to find your solution. If it helps you to join a forum than do that. If it only makes you depressed than please limit your visits to fora. Read up on conferences and research.
A specialist at hospital said that she could do laser on me and also electric pulses but I declined it. She agreed to my approach, which I found wise for a staff member of a strongly anti-homeopathy environment.
Please do not get discouraged when you read a tinnitus sufferer that you will always suffer it so better get used to it. This is not true! I know several people who "spontaneously" (what is spontaneous?) no longer suffer from tinnitus, so there you have it! Also, when you read that ginkgo is nonsense, please don't give up that easily. If you have enough funds, please do give it a try for a couple of months.
I hope to interact with you soon and I shall keep you posted of my future experiences in my combat against tinnitus.