It kinda seems like over kill I have to wear leg compression stockings for 1 week after a 60 min surgery with a small wound..
On long flights you can always get up once every half an hour and walk around and do squats. I think that if you do that, you don't need any special gear.
I began flying a little over a year after the onset. The longest flight I've been on over the past year was 16 hours long. If one doesn't go on turboprop planes (the ones with a propeller), and wears noise-cancelling headphones (with earplugs underneath), it ought to be ok. Airbus planes are especially quiet (unlike Boeing planes).
I was given some strong post op painkillers and I'm high as a kite. It's not very pleasant, I feel so wired. I don't like this feeling...
Maybe I'll save them for when I feel like a wild night at home, get high on painkillers and dance to Billy Joel. Idk.. I'll think about it.
Home after a holiday and a surgery. Wish I could say I cared less about my T whilst away, truth is I was more neurotic than ever.
@Holly1987 Did you have anesthesia for your surgery? Did it effect your T? I'm having anesthesia on Thursday. It should be for a very short time. I'm hoping for the best.
@SugarMagnolia I did and it actually made my T go away for around 3hrs after, it was crazy. After that it went back to baseline, no spike. Good luck x (I'll tag you in my post about it)
Thanks Holly. I actually asked the doctor if I could have the procedure awake but he said it would be too painful. I'm glad it shouldn't affect my T. But I'm still scared because I don't like to be unconscious. I'll let you know how it goes.
I'm in Sydney, it's such a vibrant place. We are from a small town and not used to peak hour city driving, it was full on!
[This is unfortunate, as lanes end all of the time, so if you don't pay attention and just drive straight, you will eventually find yourself driving in the lane reserved for the traffic going in the opposite direction.]
To change into another lane, you have to steer into the path of drivers in that lane, forcing them to slam on their breaks to avoid a collision. Drivers pass you on your left, as you are making a left turn (causing you to slam on your breaks). I remember screaming literally in utter terror and horror once every minute or so.
Some drivers stop in the middle of the road and chat with pedestrians. These conversations normally take 2-5 minutes (a little longer than waiting for a traffic light to change, but it feels like an eternity as everyone who is stuck behind them is honking their car horn).
Having a minor operation tomorrow, worried I will need antibiotics after. I'm tempted to say I'm allergic, no one takes tinnitus seriously.
Hey Holly, hope everything goes well tomorrow. I had surgery and didnt need antibiotics. I'll pray for you. :)
I agree, but it's a really important 10% because it determines the degree to which lost fat is replaced with muscle vs just flabby skin. But, yes, very crudely, weight is just a calorie game, and if your calorie input is less than what you're burning, you lose weight. My metabolism is insane, though, I can barely gain weight if I try...
Same here, Manny. I got my BMI down to 22.5 and was able to keep it there for years. Once I got T, my weight began to increase and now I am struggling to get back to BMI that is optimal for me - at most 23...
I don't think you will see Dr Nagler at this forum again, not after reading some of the comments he made about TT that I will not mention. Michael
I think he was extremely divisive, condescending, and that his compassion and good advice was at odds with his basically 1970s understanding of tinnitus which he refused to update.
I'm part of one other health forum (not tinnitus related) and the people there are no way near as cool as TT members.
I'm struggling on this trip, the familiar masking noises from home are gone (the crazy old noisy fridge) it's hard adjusting to a new place.
The place we are staying is super quiet and my tinnitus sounds 100 times louder. Perhaps the anxiety of travel made it louder too...
We are on holidays and just drove 8hrs because I refuse to take a short flight *sigh* ah well at least the drive was scenic
> (Massive first world problem) Well, yes, being transformed from first world to third world (and you had described one sign of that) is unique to the "first world." The guiltier people like you feel, the faster we are becoming a third world country. So don't worry, soon there will be many more problems for us to deal with, and the problem you described won't seem so unusual.
Sometimes I pretend my tinnitus is something else, I think "oh no that's just something outside, your T isn't that loud"
I tried thinking like that but I can't seem to make it work :/ I can't hear it as anything else then coming from my head. Sometimes though, I will go to audionotch and find my tinnitus tone and then make it a tiny bit more low pitched and then play it as a masker......somehow "taking the noise out of my head" and playing it from a device helps.
I go outside and pretend it's a bird making the high pitch sound. Sometimes it helps. Winter time don't help because you're stuck indoors.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm one of the annoying people in this forum, I think I am lol. Sorry everyone x
I have quit caffeine and am interested to see if it helps my t. I'm up to day 4 caffeine free and there is no change, perhaps a bit louder.
I've cut soda out of my diet several times. The first 3 days I could barely stay awake. I feel your pain.
Even if I didn't have tinnitus I couldn't think of a worse way to start the new year than fireworks and crowds.
This was a really awful year to be honest, I felt deep unhappiness for a lot of it. I hope next year is better.
I don't know why it's so confronting for people to hear I'm choosing to be childfree because I don't think this planet needs anymore people.
That's so true. I don't want to have children mainly because Like you I feel I would be a bad mother because of this condition and mental problems, but I also think I am doing the world a favour because the planet is way over populated, but people just don't understand these reasons for not having children.....
When it comes to children, for most people, self awareness concerning the subject is curiously switched off.
I dunno what it's like where y'all live but property prices in Australia are insane, I'm going to rent till I die.
The housing bubble 'burst' here in the US around 2010 but it's still tough to afford your first house. There were some government programs with tax incentives, and possibly lower mortgage rates, to try and stimulate the economy.
Spikes are the bane of my existence. You can do everything right and they still happen. Sooooo frustrating.
Randomness is a big component of T (at least of mine). It goes up and down for a myriad of logical and illogical reasons (mostly illogical ones).
Eye floaters are soooooooo annoying, I have 4 new ones. I keep telling myself "at least you're not blind" still sucks though..
Treatments exist but they are very expensive and not all are treatable unless you drain all of the eye fluid and replace. I've had them since I was very young and have learned to live with them for the most part.
"THIS IS INSANE, I CAN'T LIFT 3 TIMES MY OWN BODY WEIGHT WHY DO I LIVE IN A NEST!?" sorry I miss read that I thought it said The Raving Ant.
I wonder if you can go to the "mums and bubs" sessions at the movies if you are childless, would that be weird? It's half the volume.
Decided to cut my long hair semi short to avoid long blowdrying sessions. I underestimated how vain I am, I miss my hair :(
I miss your lovely hair too Holly, but now we can’t see it anyway, now you’ve changed your avatar. (photos are so much more personal - IMNSHO !)
@Jazzer That picture previously on @Holly1987 avatar was not her. You're not vain at all Holly, as it's said a woman's beauty is in her hair....
Yes that wasn't me Jazzer! I did a post about it, it was my favourite character from a TV show. Sorry for the confusion.
It's so awkward when you’re trying to overtake someone on the path and suddenly you are next to them and you have to pick up the pace.
Tinnitus is helping me a lot with my fitness goals, getting up for gym was always hard for me. Now I can't sleep past 4am...
@threefirefour: They always look like that, take bloodhounds and bassets, they always look sad, still I wouldn't want to be on the RD team to have put Tinnitus on that Guinea pig. @Holly1987: Agreed, is there away to do that?