Recent content by aimeealex

Hi everyone. Firstly sorry this is going to be a long post. I don't know where else to turn and feel all the anxiety I did when I first got tinnitus. I've had tinnitus since May 2014. Both ears. Started off as ringing and it was noise induced. During my pregnancy I had an awful head cold and...

Thank you, I had the procedure yesterday and was fine :)

Hi all, looking for a bit of advice please. I'm due to have an endoscopy next week and have to choose between just a throat spray or conscious sedation. I contacted the hospital and asked which drug they use for this and was told Midazolam. I've looked at a bit of info online which is very...

Refered me* and referral letter* stupid phone!

No I didn't I freaked out and refused to take it my doctor revered me for an emergency endoscopy too which is this coming Monday due to the fact I've been having problems swallowing food and feeling like it's stuck in my throat for a couple months now. The federal letter said cancer on it about...

I've just been prescribed Omeprazole by my doctor but too scared to take it! I'm having such an awful spike right now really not coping well and am terrified I could make everything worse. Info booklet states vertigo as a side effect but not tinnitus? Did you end up taking the lanzoprazole?

I think I've got this too. For the last month or so I've been having trouble swallowing food. Been backwards and forward to doctors with no diagnosis yet. But for the last week my T has sky rocketed. Now have a loud crickets noise that I cannot mask. Along side the 3 other noises I have in my...

Haven't listened through headphones since my T started so almost 3 years. I do always try and work out what I have done which could be related to it when I have a spike, so I can then avoid in the future, normally it will be a cold that's caused it but sometimes I can't for the life of me think...

Hi Michael, thanks for your comment, I'm really careful (and paranoid) about my ears and always protect them, never go to clubs etc. have never had a spike related to noise exposure it's always been totally random no explanation or a cold/sinus infection that's caused it. Same this time, no loud...

So as the title says, how long can a spike last? I've had some last a few hours and few last a week or so, having one now and it's coming up for 2 weeks could it still be a spike? Or just a new noise to try and habituate to?! It's a high pitched noise in one ear that comes and goes every few...

Natalie I just wanted to reach out to you after reading this, I have the same thing it started a week ago and it's driving me insane. I've had tinnitus since April 2014 and was feeling like I'd started to turn a corner with it after developing a new noise some months back and going right back to...