Greetings from Sweden

I thought it was about time to say hi. Although I've lived in Sweden for 12 years, I actually come from England. Anyway, I developed tinnitus suddenly and for no apparent reason last October. I've done the rounds of ENT specialists and audiologists but the damn T just gets worse and worse. The audiologist suggested I tried a Widex hearing aid as she claimed that often helped people. For me that has just increased the intensity of the T yet again. When I saw her again today she just said that that can happen sometimes. Now I appear to be beyond the capability of the health system in Sweden to help me and I'm getting desperate. I'm supposed to be starting a new job in a couple of weeks after 4 months unemployment but have no idea how I'll be able to focus for more than an hour or so at a time (I'm a software developer).

That's enough of my troubles and I look forward to getting to know you.

Ian

 

Hello and welcome to the forum.

 

Fellow software developer here - Ian, you came to the right place. Seems like us software developers get it at the same rate as most musicians - go figure!

Tinnitus is a tough subject, since many of us on the forum have it, and many of us are still living our lives the same before and after. That's not the case for everyone, and especially not the case for those afflicted at the onset - such as yourself. Just hang around here for a bit, realize that you can still live normally, and realize that right now tinnitus is just something your body is doing.

What kind of software do you make, if I may ask?

 

Thanks all for the replies. I think thus great resource will be hugely helpful to me.

I'm mainly a web developer using Microsoft (I love C# and linq) and mobile technology. Although during the past 30+ years I've developed software in everything from assembler (operating systems for IBM) to Cobol. And just about everything in between. From some time in May, I'll be working for an organisation within the Swedish State and I'm not 100% sure what I'll be doing.