New and Struggling

HI All,

Let me start off with history, I am 35 a teacher, I work overseas. Have had an amazing and wonderful life! Have been blessed to be honest. Every-time I fly my ears have always bunged up and I take some pills and sniff my ear to clear hearing.

2 weeks ago now I boarded a flight thats changed my life not for the good to be honest. I was flying into HK, had the over ear headphones on listening to the entertainment unit and realised my ears felt full no pain etc. Didn't worry about it. Landed attempted to blow out nope. Oh well boarded next flight, and fell asleep awoke on landing.

2 day slater in shower ears popped and all was right with the world. Listened to some music (albeit a little loud but not killer) in my heapdphones and went for a run (trying to lose weight as im fat as), got home slept. Awoke to blocked ear and pain! Ringing constantly (a low hum).

Living here in Asia I went straight to an ENT he said blocked ears gave me some antibiotic and ear drops both levofloxacin, 2 days later no better, Tried using my eustachi device and maybe made it worse

Went back got prednisone 3 * 4mg twice a day and sent on my way said it'd be fine by Friday! Welll surprise its not. I have popping clicking nosies when i yawn, fatigue, clicking ears muffled breath in ears when I breathe through my nose and a high pitched hum that kills me. I feel dizzy and off balance!

Im losing sleep, am stressed, am not going out, Have lost the part of me that makes me the extroverted person. Im used to partying and having fun now Im at home. My partner is amazing but doesn't understand.

ENT said "listen" to music! Ive booked an appointment with a specialist ENT in HK on Monday. God I hope this is fixed. Am losing weight (guess thats a positive huh) and am just a ball of shit!sorry to unload here but i don't really know what to do and am all confused! And if I'm honest super scared! Am doing acupuncture but no help really!

 

If you don't experience any more traumas, most likely your tinnitus will fade and even disappear. But it might take many months before that happens...

Check out the thread below where I summarize everything (27 tips) I learned about managing tinnitus after reading the posts on this forum for the past year.
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...eone-else-who-has-tinnitus.26850/#post-307822

 

Welcome to the forum. Bill is right that when the ears are unstable with ear fullness and/or pain, they may take time to heal and the ringing may take months to settle down. So to a new sufferer of intrusive tinnitus, it can be scary especially when the doctors pronounced no cure and 'live with it'. So your reactions are quite normal and common as a new sufferer of T. Try to understand that this is part of the process of the 'grief' of suffering the loss of silence and having to deal with a new, alien and perhaps non-stopping scream in the ears or the head 7/24. That is why T is such a tough challenge during the initial period. Like many of my fellow members, I know it full well as many of us have been where you are during the initial suffering.

So if you kind of mentally prepare that this is part of the package of T journey, you won't be too anxious and stressed out which are bad for T. If I had known this, all the nightmarish sufferings I went through could be spared. I lived through hell and was in a mess when my ultra high pitch T started years back, and when severe hyperacusis soon joined in the misery, I was totally overwhelmed emotionally and physically with relentless anxiety and panic attacks, being that I have prior conditions of anxiety and panic disorders and PTSD too. I couldn't sleep, lost weight, lost interest in life, distanced myself from others and with suicidal depression. I never thought I could recover and see good life again. But never say never. Today I live a normal, productive and absolutely enjoyable life and none of those horrible things I initially dreaded about my future ever materialized. I even wrote my success story like others did and shared some helpful strategies which have helped me turnaround my sufferings. You can check it out below. Also try read up as many success stories as you can to give you hope and comfort that all will be well. Don't lose hope nor despair. Good life can be back. Believe it. Take good care. God bless.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...w-i-recovered-from-tinnitus-hyperacusis.3148/