Just Got My MRI Results Back and...

IMPRESSION:

1. Unremarkable MRI of bilateral internal auditory canals.

2. Unremarkable MRI of the brain.

So at this point I am getting pretty discouraged. It’s one of those things where I was hoping to find something but understood that if they found something it could be difficult also. I am not 10 months in and my emotions the last month have been all over the board. I have been depressed and suicidal since my onset. I am in control of the suicide thing and see therapists etc.

Here are some of the things I am still doing:

I am just starting to do acupuncture, competing 3 session. So far no effects. I obtained my own acupuncture needles so I may play with it myself also

I am going back to my chiropractor Monday to talk about options. My tinnitus is heavily somatic and the onset of my tinnitus was during lots of shoulder and neck pain. My c2-5 have arthritis and mild stenosis from all the running I do. If lean my head to the left (tinnitus is on left) I can almost make the tinnitus go away completely but once my head goes back to normal position it goes up from a 2/10 > 8/10. It’s a huge difference. Moving my head to the opposite side of tinnitus does nothing at all. I keep coming back to these next and jaw movements even though I know it may be grasping at straws. I am always thinking pinched nerves or something but x-rays show the bone only and have not had an mri of the neck.

If anyone has suggestions on my neck movement stuff please let me know

Thanks all for listening to me ramble on. I just needed to talk to people that know my pain. I really appreciate it.

 

All the research I've done into somatic tinnitus seems to show that if you can make a movement or put pressure on an area that makes your tinnitus lessen a lot or even go away then there's good odds that there are methods to get to that state more permanently.

Trigger Point Therapy has shown to be effective for this. Stretching and working on postural exercises can also help, I know in my case this would give me relief and over time I have felt improvement. If seeing a chiropractor doesn't show any remarkable results over time then you might want to try seeing an Upper Cervical Chiropractor, think I read that some people having their Atlas corrected showed improvements. Apparently here in the UK there is only 1 UCC in the country but in the US there seems to be more dotted around.

I'd probably continue to see a masseuse for your neck if you're feeling a lot of neck and shoulder tension. But for your own benefit and good practice I think that keeping up with stretches and even yoga will continue to help over time, try not to let yourself sit with bad posture for too long and try to relieve tension if it ever gets too much.

 

Thanks for the response. I have a trigger point therapy appointment set up. I will let you know how it goes.

 

do you have a hearing loss?

 

Hang in there, your T will hopefully fade in time. Try to relax, live every day like normal and try not to over stress, the paranoia will likely increase your T even more.

 

My T is also heavily somatic- well the high pitch hiss is anyway. Look up isometric neck exercises. Any reaction when you press on your jaw/nose? Can you try something for me? Bend your neck to increase your T and press behind your ear-does the sound increase?