Recent content by Samantha R

There is certainly a lot of tinnitus in my family. Dad and one sister both have it, which is why I jumped to the worst-case scenario with my daughter. Fortunately, for now, her issues are middle ear related, but it was a good opportunity to talk to her about noise, etc, and caring for our hearing.

Thanks for asking. We went to the Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne after the doctor said he saw no earwax or issues with her middle ear. The ENT at the hospital started her on Prednisolone for sudden sensorineural hearing loss that night, given there was no earwax and no recent upper...

Thank you both @Michael Leigh and @slc. I did wonder about SSNHL. This seems quite rare, but it is still a possibility that needs to be ruled out. Given that it’s been two days, I will ensure we see someone today.

Hi All, It’s been a while since I last posted. My cochlear hydrops and tinnitus are largely under control, and life has been 'normal' for me. Tonight, my heart broke when I found my eight-year-old daughter in the bathroom, crying and saying she could hear a noise in her right ear. After...

Hi! I take 1 mg of LDN.

Hey my friend! I’m doing great, super well, basically no tinnitus anymore! No I’m not taking Curcumin anymore. I take low-dose Naltrexone which has the effect of almost silencing my tinnitus. I definitely think it’s an inflammatory / hormonal thing for me. I feel like I have my life back...

Hi! Sorry for the late reply. No real flare ups of note. My Hydrops seems to be hormonal. I have birth in June and stayed on the diuretics and LDN during pregnancy. Towards the end, I had some MEM (Middle Ear Myoclonus), but that has settled and stopped for about 2 months. I haven’t tried...

Hi @Zach777, sorry to hear what you are going through. I have Cochlear Hydrops. Indeed low frequency hearing loss, tinnitus and ear fullness are symptoms of this condition. My experience with the hearing loss was horrific. I had diplacusis, so I had a robotic echo in my right ear usually...

Why doesn’t Dr. Bance think you have MEM? I do know of Dr. Bance, and have connected with several of his patients. Many who’ve had him perform surgery to cut their middle ear muscles. What you have sounds exactly like what I had three episodes of now, which I have linked to hormonally driven...

@Ben Winders, my honest opinion is this low drone, at least for some, and particularly for those that can stop it by plugging their ear, is that this is middle ear myoclonus - i.e. the tensor tympani or the stapedius muscle in spasm. Particularly if it stops and starts. More so if there is a...

Hi and sorry for my late reply. No, I haven’t stopped the LDN. I have given birth just 2 weeks ago, and at times during the pregnancy my tinnitus spiked. I’d blame hormones and inflammation and the LDN couldn’t help, even when I increased the dose. Things are now back to normal and the only...

Sorry for my late reply, I’ve had a busy time having a baby! I stayed on the diuretics. I think the diuretics cured the Hydrops. I had a tiny recurrence at the end of my pregnancy, but all is well now, 2 weeks after the birth. I’ve cut the Moduretic in half so I can breastfeed and all...

The LDN basically cured my bothersome tinnitus, but before that, I’d say I wasn’t habituated. I was ok with things, but still not habituated. I’m cured now I’d say.

Thank you! I had gotten used to my tinnitus, so it wasn’t the main focus of my life BUT I still needed to mask at night and it irritated me when trying to watch TV at night. I barely think about it anymore and I feel like myself again, or at least 95%.

I wouldn’t go to a GP. They know little about Naltrexone at low doses. It’s just not mainstream sadly. I’d seek out an integrative doctor. I can recommend Jenny Bromberger. She’ll do a phone consult I think, her practice is in Woolloomooloo, and she sends her scripts to Kingsway compounding...