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Thank you lord of the Ring...I guess you're right...sigh.

 

Thank you Roan ,Karen and Paul ,I'll read up about Adrenal Fatigue. Thank you all for being here, with so few people in real life who really understand what you're going through, it feels very lonely at times.

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I think alcohol exacerbates my tinnitus. Sometimes I have a glass of wine at night, and the next morning my noise is worse.

Although I didn't have any alcohol last night, and today it is SOOOOO LOUD!!!! Ugh!!!

 

Hi Karen, thank you so much for asking. I was so much better after a month of gingko biloba,b12,zinc, etc. but unfortunately I have to travel a lot and flying makes it worse , last time it took me 2 weeks to get back to normal, then I flew again and that too on small 8 or 10 seater planes, I used ear plugs, still I got very worse v depressed once again.

 

Sorry to hear that Roan, hope it gets better soon. Last night I just couldn't fall asleep, it was so annoying, cried all night. Trying to be brave, but not sure what's going to happen.....

 

Thank you so much Karen, so kind of you to write this, makes me feel better and gives me hope, yes I do keep some white noise on at night and sometimes use the water sound from you tube videos. Today all day was not too bad, but suddenly it's loud now, just before bedtime, feeling sad once again. Thank you all for being here, feel lonely as family and friends really don't understand the pain I'm going through. Does sugar make it loud ! I did have one small piece of some sugary sweet after supper. Thank you xx

 

Yes of course sugar makes it worse, read online.

 

Sherri and Karen,

Sugar and diet DEFINITELY set mine off, although I have wondered if that isn't a bit either blood sugar related (adrenals) or blood pressure related. I have had my blood pressure checked on multiple occasions and my sugars, and I do not have high blood pressure and I do not have diabetes. But, still, I notice that too many sweets or even too much bread, baked potatoes, etc. can make mine seemingly worse.

Mine this morning was quieter than usual, and I cannot detect any real pattern to my tinnitus. It is at its absolute worst, however, in the mornings, when it is bad. Other mornings when it is not bad, I barely notice it. I love noises, like the air conditioner, that drown it out. But, I find that other noises irritate it. For example, my fiancé had an action movie up real loud in the man cave the other day. I decided to join him. Could hardly stand the pangy, twangy sounds. They really irritated me. I had to leave the room. Sometimes a toilet flushing can irritate my ears on days when my Tinnitus is bad.

Hang in there, guys! Sherri, we will figure this thing out. If not how to cure it, then how to handle it, for sure!

 

Thank you so much Karen , Roan. It's always great to hear from you both xox. Yes mine is always worse in the morning when I wake up then gradually it gets better, but these days I'm seeing a different pattern it's same all day long since I travelled and am in Montreal for a month, being not at my own place and own routine plus the noisy planes have made it worse. Before after a very long walk in the evenings it would get much better, I've been too tired to walk last 3 days, will start walking soon and see if anything changes. I've been reading up about adrenal fatigue. I know when the T started that week ad been very stressful and tiring for me and I had taken too many aspirins. My bp has never been high. Thank you for suggesting Adrenavive or Siberian Ginseng will start taking it immediately. I don't know about tv I never watch it anymore all spare time is spent researching the darn T thank you so much for your kind encouraging words this forum is keeping me alive. Will keep you updated, this Tuesday I'm going for Acupuncture and see a naturopath , she's Chinese, a friend suggested I go to a Chinese Acupuncturist. I had 5 sessions of acupuncture two weeks back too, no change other than that it relaxed me so much as long as the session lasted. Thank you so much , Karen, Roan xox just want my life back take care xx

 

Lord -

Love the title. Belgium? Tinnitus is in Belgium, too?!?! Is there no rest for the weary!??! LOL

Know any French or German? OOOH.... or Dutch?!? (I may be showing my ignorance. Perhaps Dutch is not a dialect of Belgium. If so, please forgive.....)

 

Hi there.
I must say I am so relieved to know there is actually a name for what I'm going through. I have only been experiencing PT for a week now. That is enough for me. I have seen my GP who referred me to a hearing clinic where I was tested today. My hearing is perfect and there is no problem with pressure in my ears. I then went to the walk-in clinic for a different opinion. He checked my ears, listened with a stethoscope and heard nothing. He basically told me it was something I would have to "learn to live with". I wasn't about to settle for that answer. I told him what I thought I was going through which was PT. After reading so many peoples stories, it feels like I'm reading about my own experiences. I have another appointment with my GP in 4 days. I don't know how to make it much clearer to her about what I'm going through. I would love to be able to get in to get some more tests done to look at my arteries. I cant handle my whoosing sounds much longer. I don't want to learn to live with this. I want my silence back and be able to sleep normally! HELP

 

Hi Olivia sorry to hear about your PT, Karen wrote an excellent reply. Wanted to let you girls know my Acupuncurist had a cancellation and called me in this evening, as usual it did relax me a lot, but ofcourse I need to go few more times....which I cant as the place is far from my daughter's place just the cab cost me $40.00 and the first consultation and Acupuncture was $75.00
She gave me a traditional Chinese medicine called ' An Shen Bu Xin Wan''to nourish the heart and calm the nerves and for better sleep I guess.she said I probably have a deficiency of Yin Blood whatever that means.the medicine has 12 different herbs. Karen I hope you are right and the damage due to the plane noise is temporary, sometimes I start feeling very suicidal, but I have to live for my kids even though they're all adults. Thank you so much Karen , for being here, you're an angel, greatly appreciate your presence xx

 

Hope you all are feeling better and have a good nights sleep and a good day. Stay strong everyone, and lets beat this horrible thing.

 

Hi Karen thank you so much. Yes I am sleeping better thankfully, but ummm the crickets are back I did walk a lot today ,usually after walks the T used to get better by bedtime, but no difference yet, maybe by morning, hopefully. So the one good day I had with the hissing instead of the crickets may have been due to the Acupuncture, so this Tuesday I'll go again. Omg three years, Karen, sigh....but you did say it gets better....or one just habituates. Good to hear that yours is quieter , will send healing thoughts for you xx.

 

Okay. So, this weekend I ordered Super Green Food powder, Coconut Milk, Uddo's Essential Fatty Acids, Organic and Unflavored Goat's Milk Whey protein, and Stabilized Rice Bran Powder. These are going into my super shakes each morning in an effort to give my body a shot of nutrients each morning and repair the adrenal glands.

I'll keep you posted.

 

Thank you for the update, Roan, hope the supplements work for you pls do keep us posted, thank you. Yesterday I decided to go back to what I had been taking in the beginning when I had gotten T and it had helped me so much....B12, 1000 mcg,gingko biloba 180 mg,zinc chelate 25 mg twice.and at bedtime magnesium 125 mg and 4 pills of An Shen Bu Xin Wan. The crickets have gone and the hissing is back which is not too horrible, plus I've been walking 2 hrs every evening. Thank you Roan and Karen.

 

Thank you Karen, for the update. I've noted down your supplements, thinking of adding these to the one million i already have no not taking the full dose of An Shen, just the 4 pills. Today am bit sad again , the crickets are back, I don't know what happened, except that I walked 1 hour and not 2. I do feel I'm better the day after the Acupuncture, but still confused, wasn't the walk or the Acu that made the T better the other day ? Got a book on Reflexology, will try that too. Karen , Roan my email is shireenhh1@gmail.com just in case we ever lose contact here. Roan, Karen, have you ever gone on a Gluten free diet ? Was reading online that it helped some people. Take care and thank you !

 

@Sherri786, @Karen

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Hi ladies!! I have never tried a gluten-free diet; however, I have always had fairly severe hypoglycemia, and so I typically stay away from gluten-containing products. It never mattered much to my body whether it was a brown noodle, or a brown rice, or a 100% whole wheat bread......it all turns into psycho-sugar in my body and makes me sick as a dog! Shaky, hungry, nauseous. Eating brown rice for my body is no different than eating a cake as far as sugar and chemical reaction. Since I've never been able to enjoy those foods, I have never eaten them. I just do a carb in a black bean, things like that. I would think that, in the view of adrenal fatigue - which is something we all probably suffer from to one degree or another - getting rid of gluten-causing foods for the mere fact that they are also sugar-imbalancing foods making the adrenals work on overload, would be good all the way around.

I like the idea of the B-12 vitamin, Karen, because I have read on the internet that there is a definite, plausible link to tinnitus and a B-12 deficiency! I have also read, though, that with age the B-12 vitamin does not break down in the body, and so if we are over a certain age we should take sublingual B-12. Once we pass that age, we should take liquid B-12 or B-12 injections.

I have all symptoms of adrenal fatigue. I went to my doctor thinking something was terribly wrong with me. He ran a zillion tests. Nothing wrong, except that I do have an ulcer. Bacterial, which they treated me for. I then stumbled upon adrenal fatigue, and its symptoms. I have not been tested, but I believe adrenal fatigue is at the root of my problem, and that all the other things I have been experiencing are symptoms of adrenal fatigue.

Sherri, my fiancé studied reflexology for a while, and he swears by it! I think you'll enjoy learning about it and, who knows?!? It might just help!

Wouldn't it be something, ladies, if one of us found a cure? How cool would THAT be?!?!