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Past month or so have had tinnitus in my left ear and low buzzing sound. If busy and out shopping or going to an appointment I can forget about it. Then when sitting quietly looking at my phone notice it again. I’m hoping it clears up soon with ear wax removal, limit loud music, limit taking aspirin and control TMJ symptoms when they worsen.
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You should make an appointment to see ent doctor . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
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Thanks and it’s better and now have appointment to get ears cleaned since they seem to get wax buildup, and usually get it done once per year or every few years. The buzzing sound is better as much less noticeable and have used over the counter ear wax softening drops.
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not sure if this is related to your condition but some people got tinnitus after their covid vaccination.
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I have tinnitus including something referred to as Meniere's Disease. (It's actually more of an inner ear condition rather than a "disease" as we usually think of the term.) But I hear a hissing / buzzing sound in my head 24 / 7. As you mentioned, when out shopping or at an appointment I can forget about it. But, otherwise, it's always there... and always will be. I take Clonazapam for it. And although it's not a cure, it does help, at least in my case. Hope your tinnitus is relieved as a result of having your ears cleaned.
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Thank Skeezyks and glad that medication helps your symptoms. Recently had my ears cleaned and tinnitus and my ear feeling plugged are much better. Occasionally get tinnitus when listen to loud music in the car or at home, or when take aspirin.
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I have tinnitus. My PC Doc told me to try white noise. Air purifiers help me sometimes, but nights are tough.
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My husband has this and it’s part of a condition I can’t remember the name
Of but it causes vertigo. He needs to see an ENT doctor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
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Along with my tinnitus I have been diagnosed as having a condition of the inner ear which is referred to as "Meniere's Disease". Perhaps this is what your husband has? My condition is not nearly as bad as it could be though. One thing Meniere's Disease can cause is spin events (not sure if that's the correct terminology.) This is where everything around a person starts spinning uncontrollably. I've had one of these over the years. (That was plenty.) I was standing at the top of a staircase when it hit. Fortunately I knew just enough about Meniere's Disease to know what was happening. So I immediately sat down & just waited for it to pass. (Otherwise I'd have likely fallen down the stairs.) Sometimes these spin events can cause a person to become nauseous. I have balance issues that I presume are symptoms of my Meniere's Disease as well. |
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But so far I've not had the vertigo return. I've had minor dizzy spells and lightheadedness, but nothing as major as the vertigo spinning. I swear that the world was just not stable or real anymore, due to both my dissociation and the vertigo. It was my first and only time having vertigo. I don't know what caused it, but it happened around 7 days after I got the full-dose Moderna vaccine #3. I might be immunocompromised, so they allowed me to get the full-dose series (they don't call that a booster, since I'm supposed to get another one, #4, in 6 months or so). I'm wondering if one of the side-effects of Moderna is vertigo. Some people have reported that, but it's not been an official side-effect listing yet, I don't think. |
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That’s exactly it!! His Pcp wants him to see an ent to Make sure nothing else is going on with his Inner ear. His vertigo is debilitating. We went to the er the first 2 times It happened and they gave him antivert which was a life saver. He keeps it On his nightstand. He had had one episode in two years and that was the beginning of covid. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
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I have minor lightheadedness and dizzy spells too. It's pretty-much ongoing and, to some extent, I don't know what's causing what anymore. I take Clonazepam for the tinnitus. It's not a cure. But it helps keep the tinnitus down to a tolerable level. Plus it helps, somewhat, with my anxiety which can become so intense (when my tinnitus is bad) that I start to feel actively suicidal (again.)
I had one really bad experience that nearly sent me over the edge. (I seriously credit my psychiatrist with saving my life by first prescribing the Clonazepam, which I had not taken previously.) At that time, I had been feeling as though my right ear was "stuffed up". And so I went in to see one of the GP's at my clinic. She misdiagnosed me as having an ear infection. And when the medication she prescribed didn't help she sent me to see the clinic's ENT. The ENT I saw put in an ear tube. Suddenly my tinnitus exploded. It was like I had a freight train running through my head 24 / 7! I contacted my psychiatrist (because I was seriously suicidal) and he gave me a prescription for Clonazapam. It literally saved my life because my tinnitus, with that ear tube in place, was so severe I firmly believe I'd have killed myself if it had continued at that level. Anyway... in the meantime the ENT who put the ear tube in referred me to another ENT who had tinnitus himself & who had made something of a specialty treating tinnitus patients. (Unfortunately he has since retired.) And he was helpful as well. One thing he did was to remove the ear tube which he described as being "the ear tube that ate Chicago"! He also gave my ear a treatment he referred to as a "perfusion". I never knew whether it was this treatment that got my tinnitus back down to a more-or-less tolerable level or if it was simply removing that monster ear tube that did it. But, either way, although I still had, and still have, the tinnitus at least it's at a level I can live with. |
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I have constant tinnitus and I suspect Meniere's, but about the time it becomes intolerable, it generally settles down. I have a friend whose Meniere's episodes can be so severe that he has to stop whatever he is doing and his wife has to go get him - he can barely walk much less drive during an episode. I am nowhere near that severe.
It's honestly been something I can always remember dealing with, so I'm not sure I even remember life without it. But in the last couple years, I've had more issues with vertigo and diplacusis -- where I actually hear a different pitch out of each ear. As a musician, THAT is what is intolerable - almost unbearable - because I am so attuned to tuning so to speak. But again, about the time I can't take it anymore, it generally settles down enough to be bearable. My niece is an audiologist, so she helped me with some techniques to settle some of it down. In the meantime, I just keep an eye (or ear) on it and I'm sure I'll eventually end up at an ENT about it. |
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