Please Help!! Freaking Out!!

Hi guys, totally new to this so please bare with me.

Right so basically, I've had a coldsore outbreak (usually get at least one per year, most commonly around this time of year), but this time it's come with a friend, tinnitus.

It seems to pulsate along with my heartbeat, like a kind of whooshing sound, in my right ear. My ear also feels full, like a fluid like sensation, but there's nothing there. The noise is driving me insane.

Also my vision is rather hazy, like a snowy effect. I have to squint my eyes to watch TV or read anything that's more than 10 feet away from me. My vision has been this way for months, getting progressively worse, but now I've started reading up on my symptoms it seems connected. My ear often goes through phases of feeling fuzzy, and I occasionally take dizzy spells sometimes. But this is the first time I've ever suffered from tinnitus.

Can anyone advise me on anything I can do to reduce it whatsoever? Or just some general information needed what may be the matter with me, I'm quite worried about it to be honest.

Kind regards,
SlinkinJesta

 

You need to go see your doctor and an ENT. Pulsatile tinnitus can usually be treated. Have you not seen any doctor about this yet?

 

Hello from a fellow sufferer in scotland. I know its not much help but I have had similar syptoms for past 4 and a bit months. So I know how you feel. If its any help I went to my gp and got referred to a ENT specialist and had an MRI scan. It didn't show anything. I'd just like to reiterate what karen said. It's good advice. Keeping calm and keeping blood pressure down is probably key. Today I drank a strong brew of chamomile tea and strangely it kind if helped calm the wooshing as well as calming the anxiety a bit.
Have a nice calm evening and don't forget to put your clocks back

Aunt Sally

 

it might be cholesteatoma. before i had my first surgery on my right i had a wooshing noise in my ear after an infection. i told myself that it will go away on its own. but after a few months i saw an ent dr and eventually had surgery and it stopped but still had T.

not long after second surgery on my left ear in 05 i ended up with chicken pox while i was still healing and had PT for 5 months and messed me up emotionaly for that time. but thank god it stopped.

 

Having pulsatile tinnitus now for 5 years, I seem to be the perfect storm for it. Sinus and ear problems for long time. I ran out of lisinopril fall of 2017 and the noise stopped. But getting back on blood pressure meds, another kind, it resumed. It is the pressure in the right ear and pain on right side of head that is hard to live with. I am from a small town. How to find a doctor who even knows what I am talking about? Just went to my third ENT because right sinus burns and hurts. They all say TMJ, so I went to treat TMJ which still didn't help the ear. I have to pop open my ear all day long to open it. Just going in circles it seems.