- Mar 23, 2019
- 3
- Tinnitus Since
- 2014
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Fullness in head/Ears.
Hello all:
I am a 57 yr old male who is a sufferer like you.
My issues seemed to start about 5 years ago when I noticed I was getting a fullness/popping feeling in head and ears. It seemed the only way to alleviate the fullness was to plug my nose and blow out through my ears which offered some relief. Back then my Tinnitus wasn't that bad and the main issue was fullness/popping (kind of like when descending in a plane).
Fast forward to present and I now have a very loud hissing noise in my head which has gotten way worse over the past year. It comes and goes, and varies in loudness, but I now seem to have it present most of the time and the only thing that seems to be a pattern is that some days I wake up without it after a good nights sleep, but it always slowly comes back sometime in the day. By the way, I do suffer from hearing loss in both ears but more in my right ear.
I have it real bad as I am typing this. It's a loud hollow hissing noise that is debilitating as all get out and makes it hard to concentrate, difficult at work, and sometimes so bad it drives me crazy enough to get depressed and feel helpless. I find myself worrying that I will have it just as bad when I wake up the next day and worry what I am going to do to be able to cope. I feel like sometimes I would rather be deaf just to have the noise turned off.
I will be looking at other posts and issues but wanted to give a quick synopsis and say hi. Like many of you, I feel so down from this issue that my quality of life has it rock bottom.
Again, thanks for listening.
Michael
I am a 57 yr old male who is a sufferer like you.
My issues seemed to start about 5 years ago when I noticed I was getting a fullness/popping feeling in head and ears. It seemed the only way to alleviate the fullness was to plug my nose and blow out through my ears which offered some relief. Back then my Tinnitus wasn't that bad and the main issue was fullness/popping (kind of like when descending in a plane).
Fast forward to present and I now have a very loud hissing noise in my head which has gotten way worse over the past year. It comes and goes, and varies in loudness, but I now seem to have it present most of the time and the only thing that seems to be a pattern is that some days I wake up without it after a good nights sleep, but it always slowly comes back sometime in the day. By the way, I do suffer from hearing loss in both ears but more in my right ear.
I have it real bad as I am typing this. It's a loud hollow hissing noise that is debilitating as all get out and makes it hard to concentrate, difficult at work, and sometimes so bad it drives me crazy enough to get depressed and feel helpless. I find myself worrying that I will have it just as bad when I wake up the next day and worry what I am going to do to be able to cope. I feel like sometimes I would rather be deaf just to have the noise turned off.
I will be looking at other posts and issues but wanted to give a quick synopsis and say hi. Like many of you, I feel so down from this issue that my quality of life has it rock bottom.
Again, thanks for listening.
Michael
Member
He said I also needed this done because of a deviated septum. I added this because I know I still need to get this done at a different ENT, and because of added nose issue I am currently addicted to Afrin which is making matters worse with my Eustachian tubes. I also need to get off the Afrin and know that I will go through three days of hell when I do (been there, done that). I wonder if the nose spray is further causing issues related to the loud hissing Tinnitus?
