Anyone Else? Tinnitus Started After Doctor Nicked Spinal Sac During a Cervical Injection

In May I had a Cervical Injection between my C6-C7.

The Dr nicked my spinal sac.

The tinnitus started about 2 days after.

Long story short after 3 weeks of he** a blood patch finally worked but the tinnitus never went away. The Dr said it could take a couple week...so here we are it's not gone.

It is like a vibrating/humming noise. Weird thing if I shake my head or close my eyes really hard it goes away for like 5 seconds. It's driving me crazy and I feel like the dr's are blowing me off.

ANY ADVICE....

I appreciate this forum as a new member. Nice to not feel so alone.

 

Hi @Bri, Welcome.

I am sorry to learn of your tinnitus. Also, I'm sorry it took so long to respond, I don't know how your post was missed for such long time.

Mine does not change with movement, but I found the following posts here that reference head movement altering the tinnitus symptoms.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/not-sure-if-its-tinnitus.21714/#post-249205
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/somatic-tinnitus.812/#post-16431

And a couple links outside our forum.

http://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/why-does-my-tinnitus-change-in-volume-when-i-turn-my-neck/

I hope these help.

 

@Bri
How are u Bri? Any improvement? What was the initial injection into your spine for?