Hello Everyone, What Is Wrong with My Ear... and Eye?

This is the first tinnitus board I joined, I figure I mine as well, given the impact it's having on my life.

I would describe my tinnitus as severe sensorineural hearing loss due to a loud metal concert, February 2012 when I was 19. Over the past almost two years, my condition hasn't been improving, but getting worse little by little. About five or six months later I started to get hypercusis and a weird whooshing sound sometimes after I or others talked. My ears would then pop and the whooshing would stop. That started happening a few times a week, but over the past three or four months it has maybe happened once. Every so often I get pulsatile tinnitus, but it's rare and lasts very shortly.

Recently however (past few months or so) I'v been getting a "morse code" pitch.. Faint and rare at first, now it's very noticeable over my existing tinnitus and happens almost every day. It is only in my left ear (which is noticeably more damaged). So there's that.

In late October, I was on my computer and felt a sudden pain in my left eye. While I have not felt anything like it before or since, it has left me with a number of annoying ailments, such as dimming in low light environments (imagine flashes of light, but not flashes.. it's like my vision darkens for a split second) , the presence of floaters in bright light environments, excess tearing and a feeling of weakness around my left eye. I went to the ophthalmologist after I started getting the flashes, she said I was fine. On the day I saw my first floater (early december), I went to the emergency room ophthalmology. They did the exact same thing, checking pressure, dilating my eyes, and said I was fine. Promise I am not a hypochondriac - I am not fine.

Today I just discovered Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, which describes all of my ocular symptoms as well as the morse-code tinnitus over my normal tinnitus. I am considering getting an MRI, honestly I feel like it's the only thing I can do at this point.

If that's what I am diagnosed with, I suppose the question is did my sensorineural damage cause the IH? It's curable/manageable at any rate, so that's good.

As far as the normal tinnitus goes, I'v learned to cope. Within the past year or two I have seen so much research being started in nanotechnology, cell regeneration, nerve therapy, and it's all making me very optimistic, so keep fighting the good fight everyone.

EDIT: I should also mention, there is slight spike in my left-ear tinnitus when I see a flash..

 

I have right eye and right ear pain to from time to time...its from my nevralgie,,,,thats what the doctor said it was....oh well...suggested i have an MRI Scan 2...oh well...

 

Sounds pretty intense man, looks like we'll find out soon eh?

 

I would have guessed a partial vitreal detachment. That would have created flashes in the vision and floaters. I have a bunch of eye floaters and they don't bother me anymore.

As far as Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, I had to Google that. Update us on what your doctor says, sometimes some things are explainable?

 

That was my first guess, but the dialated test checked for that.. Anyways, I'll be putting stuff for the MRI in order.

Thanks Karen

 

Hey guys, I after a bit more research I think I found the common link - labyrinthine fistula:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinthine_fistula