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That's the plan-try to habituate to the T wail a small part of me still holds out hope that it could just be temporary. I got the hearing aid, and it's really nice for giving my poor left ear a break, but then I hear the damn T in the right ear. My audiologist says that since the noise in in my...

Thanks for the replies. I read your thread billie, and there is a lot of good stuff in there. And I really hope it does go away, but I'm trying to learn to deal with it like it's going to be a life long thing.

where do I begin? So I'm new to this tinnitus thing but I'm no stranger to ear problems, mostly ear infections. I had tubes in my ears as a little baby, and I've been prone to ear infections my entire 34 years of life. Then this past December I had an episode of vertigo that sent me to the...

Congratulations to you. My T started a month ago from an ear infection, hopefully I'll have the same end result as you...

Some days are better than others, but it's still early on.

Thanks, I really hope the ENT is wrong and this living Hell will eventually pass. I guess on average I would rate my T between a 5 and a 7...

Thanks for the reply. I went to the ENT last week. Turns out I have some minor hearing loss in the upper range, and thew ENT said that was what caused my tinnitus and that it was for life. I left the doctor in suck a despondent state of mind that day. Thanks for the encouragement John, I need it...

Thanks for the good info. The possibility of a hearing aid has given me a ray of hope so I hope it all works out for me...

It sure sounded like he was reading from a script...

I'm actually talking to a hearing aid place as I'm typing this. I hope they aren't too far out of my price range... EDIT-So the hearing aid place has some tinnitus specific devices. They're expensive, and I don't know if my insurance will cover it (they cover hearing aids, but I don't know...

LOL thanks. That;s why I've decided not to go.

Lifelong history of ear infections and the one vertigo spell.

So I spoke with someone at my local university's ENT clinic. I explained my whole history to them, and they were actually able to pull up my chart as well. They said that the ENT I saw yesterday was right, tinnitus caused by mild hearing loss. I'm welcome to come in for a second opinion, but...

Thanks. As it turns out my local university has four neurotologists on staff, I'm just making sure that my insurance would cover the appointment. If I do go there I'll defiantly emphasis my history over the T, and truthfully even if the T went away right now getting my ears checked out by a...

My mistake, thanks for the correction. :)

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into a neurologist.

Thanks, thst's what I thought. Is there anyone out there that can offer any kind of help?

I've had tinnitus for almost two weeks now and it's driving me insane. It started with an ear infection. I took antibiotics and all the infection symptoms, including the ringing, stopped. Then the day I finished my ammoxacillin the ringing in my left ear came back and has been there ever since...

I'm still trying to find a happy place. I'm still reeling from my ENT visit yesterday and it's hard to accept that the tinnitus is a permanent thing for me.

"There's my tinnitus, and I hate it!" "There's my tinnitus, and it's making me loose my mind!" "There's my tinnitus, and I can't deal with this for the rest of my life!" Are those good responses?

This method is simple, but hard. I've only been awake two hours so far this morning and I've already noticed my tinnitus 25 times. And since all the feelings I'm having are anxiety, anger and despair, focusing on them is difficult to say the least...

Thanks for the encouragement, I need it right now. Hopefully I can climb over the tinnitus rock and get some peace and quiet back into my life.

Thanks, Paul. I told my ENT about my history, told him about my distress and played down the T a bit. After my hearing test the ENT looked in my ears, told me everything looked good, and that I have T for live and to go home and learn to live with it. Very discouraging...

My thoughts and prayers are with the family. Tinnitus really s an incedious thing, more research into more treatments/a cure is defiantly needed to keep this kind of thing from happening.

Thanks. I'll check out the success stories.

Thanks for the reply. The only ray of hope in this is that I might habituate and learn not to hear the T. Hopefully that will happen for me sooner rather than later. I've already noticed that when I'm really concentrating on something else I don't hear the T. Those periods typically don't last...

Thanks. I haven't had T for very long, about a week and a half. I hope I habituate fast because I'm really having troible dealing with this and seeing how I'm going to deal with this for life...

So I just got back from my first ENT appointment. I have some slight hearing loss in the higher ranges in both ears, and the ENT thinks that is what is causing the tinnitus (which is only in my left ear) and that I'll never get rid of it but I will learn to tune it out. I'm just feeling so...

I hear you. I was just told that my tinnitus is for life and it's really hard to deal with. I just want peace and quiet again...

So I just got back from my appointment. I have some slight hearing loss in the higher ranges in both ears, and the ENT thinks that is what is causing the tinnitus (which is only in my left ear) and that I'll never get rid of it but I will learn to tune it out. I'm just feeling so hopeless right...

Thanks, Eric. I'm going to tell the ENT everything, and hope that it is a eustation tube problem and that once that problem is taken care of the tinnitus will go away. I've had a difficult time dealing with tinnitus, my personality is such that I need a certain amount of peace and quiet every...

Thanks for the replies. Since I'm so new to tinnitus and I've never been to an ENT before I don't know what I should ask and/or tell him. Any suggestions on that front would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks. That kind of scares me, my regular doctor looked at my ear drum and said it looked fine except that there "might" be a little bit of fluid trapped behind it. I really don't want this tinnitus to be permanent...

So I got tinnitus about two weeks ago from an ear infection. The infection has cleared up, but my primary doctor diagnosed me with eustation tube dysfunction and refereed me to an ENT. My appointment is this coming Wednesday. I'm really hoping he finds a eustation tube problem that can be fixed...

Thanks for the encouragement, I need it right now. I was actually hoping that the doctor would find something wrong with my ears, something that could be fixed, but he said that me ear looked good except for a little bit of fluid that "might" be trapped there. I have an appointment with the ENT...

So I first got the ringing in my left ear a week ago, just as I was finishing taking antibiotics for an infection in that ear. I went to urgent care over the weekend and was given azithromycin, and still the ringing persists. I went to my primary doctor this morning. He said that my ear looks...

So I barely got any sleep last night. I'm trying to stay positive but this tinnitus thing is driving me crazy. My doctor doesn't want me to come in until I have finished taking my azithromycin (tomorrow is my last day on antibiotics) but so far the azithromycin hasn't done anything to help me...

Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to stay positive, but it's hard. My personality is such that I need my peace and quiet, and I'm not getting that right now. I'm afraid that I'll never know silence again, but hopefully this infection will completely clear up, the fluid will drain, and my tinnitus...

I’m 34 years old and have been prone to ear infections my entire life. The way I typically know that I have an ear infection is when my eustachian tube gets clogged up. Usually I just take about ten days’ worth of amoxicillin and the infection clears right up. About a week and a half or so ago I...