Hi everyone. I was recently diagnosed and am freaking out about it. Trying very hard to stay positive and find treatments or help.
I am 43 years old and started noticing a ringing sound mostly in my left ear that sounds like a whistling sound around 4 week's ago. Didn't make much of it at first. About a couple weeks ago I went to my ENT and he said the worst thing possible that it is Tinnitus. I was in denial and didn't want to believe him.
I have been taking care of my father who is 81 years old and he has been battling tinnitus for few years and I have seen how it has affected him and how difficult it has been for him made him. I have seen a gentle man become extremely irrational and irritated more and more. I didn't understand it fully until now. I have since been to another ENT and hearing doctor and they confirmed it's tinnitus. They all say to just not focus on it and to accept it.
As the last few days have gone by, I have become extremely anxious realizing that this can be the rest of my life. It seems to have gotten worse each day and I can't focus at work in my office and and consumed by it all day. I try playing music on my phone but it seems to work only at certain times. Then the worst part is when I get home and it's time to get my kids ready for sleep and start to read to them and put them to sleep. The ringing sounds is most loud at night. It feels like it has gotten louder just in the last week and now starting to hear it in my right ear as well. It's only been a couple weeks and I just can't imagine living like this.
I am writing this as I am laying in bed next to my young daughter waiting for her to fall asleep. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. I plan on buying a sound machine that I got my father to help him sleep at nights. I am still hoping it is situational and due to the chronic migraines I have been getting more regularly last few months and also possibly from TMJ???
Feeling so hopeless and scared of the future. I feel like tinnitus is probably the worst for a person like me that has anxiety and OCD about health issues. My focus is fully consumed for now by this and hoping to find some solutions and treatments to help me cope with it.
Any advice or personal experiences that have been helpful with others suffering the same is greatly appreciated.
So far they have said it's probably from my heightened level of anxiety and some hearing loss that is causing it. But I ask why now? I have had same hearing loss which is very minimal for several years and also the same with my anxiety which has been ongoing for 10 years. I have two beautiful young children and a third one on the way and want to be able to beat this.
Thanks for reading and listening to me.
Hope we can all find success. And I will be sharing any information I get in my journey as I meet with drs. I have a special appointment in couple days with a tinnitus specialist that is supposed to give me some advise and an introduction to tinnitus and on how to accept it and learn the basics for now.
I am 43 years old and started noticing a ringing sound mostly in my left ear that sounds like a whistling sound around 4 week's ago. Didn't make much of it at first. About a couple weeks ago I went to my ENT and he said the worst thing possible that it is Tinnitus. I was in denial and didn't want to believe him.
I have been taking care of my father who is 81 years old and he has been battling tinnitus for few years and I have seen how it has affected him and how difficult it has been for him made him. I have seen a gentle man become extremely irrational and irritated more and more. I didn't understand it fully until now. I have since been to another ENT and hearing doctor and they confirmed it's tinnitus. They all say to just not focus on it and to accept it.
As the last few days have gone by, I have become extremely anxious realizing that this can be the rest of my life. It seems to have gotten worse each day and I can't focus at work in my office and and consumed by it all day. I try playing music on my phone but it seems to work only at certain times. Then the worst part is when I get home and it's time to get my kids ready for sleep and start to read to them and put them to sleep. The ringing sounds is most loud at night. It feels like it has gotten louder just in the last week and now starting to hear it in my right ear as well. It's only been a couple weeks and I just can't imagine living like this.
I am writing this as I am laying in bed next to my young daughter waiting for her to fall asleep. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. I plan on buying a sound machine that I got my father to help him sleep at nights. I am still hoping it is situational and due to the chronic migraines I have been getting more regularly last few months and also possibly from TMJ???
Feeling so hopeless and scared of the future. I feel like tinnitus is probably the worst for a person like me that has anxiety and OCD about health issues. My focus is fully consumed for now by this and hoping to find some solutions and treatments to help me cope with it.
Any advice or personal experiences that have been helpful with others suffering the same is greatly appreciated.
So far they have said it's probably from my heightened level of anxiety and some hearing loss that is causing it. But I ask why now? I have had same hearing loss which is very minimal for several years and also the same with my anxiety which has been ongoing for 10 years. I have two beautiful young children and a third one on the way and want to be able to beat this.
Thanks for reading and listening to me.
Hope we can all find success. And I will be sharing any information I get in my journey as I meet with drs. I have a special appointment in couple days with a tinnitus specialist that is supposed to give me some advise and an introduction to tinnitus and on how to accept it and learn the basics for now.