Tinnitus Wears You Down and Ultimately Causes Other Illnesses

Tinnitus will wear you down and ultimately causes other illnesses. It has to me. Hyperthyroidism, neuropathy and now pancreatitis. I battled and fought yet I can't seem to get a hand up. Insomnia, anxiety and depression are other issues that keep coming.

I'm exhausted. God bless.

 

Couldn’t agree more @ruben ruiz.

People dismiss it as just a phantom sound without realising it has big health consequences. It sucks away at one’s life force both physically and mentally.

 

Ruben Ruiz: Obituary

Hope that's not him

 

It is. Everything matches.

This was his farewell thread. RIP.

 

RIP Ruben. I didn't know you, but I understand your reasons.

 

Very sad! People, please fight the demons and pray for better treatments or a cure.

 

RIP Ruben. I hope you are at peace.

 

I hope he is free of everything that plagued him and caused him so much misery and heartache there is only so much a person can take.

 

How many more people have to die for tinnitus to be taken seriously? I know if the correct amount of funding and energy are given, most of our issues can be resolved.

Rest in peace dear Ruben.

 

Same here. Since getting tinnitus and hyperacusis, my health has been been in a downward spiral

If you re no longer with us Ruben, I hope you are at peace now.

 

Sadly many more will die. I feel my days are numbered with how bad my tinnitus and hyperacusis are. People gaslighting me, doctors giving horrible advice and prescribing benzos are mainly to blame.

RIP Ruben.

 

So sad reading his last post. He was suffering tremendously.

RIP.

 

I wish everyone would announce their immediate passing when they do this. Now I wonder how many go unannounced, unrecognized?

Rest in peace Ruben.

 

You make it sound like tinnitus killed him, when he stated depression/insomnia and anxiety were problems in his life.

 

Tinnitus causes depression, insomnia and anxiety.

Tinnitus killed him.

 

Depression, insomnia and anxiety can also bring on or increase tinnitus severity.

Poor mental health killed him. Being in a compromised mental state is the prelude to drastic actions.

 

I can tell you are new to this condition, and I'll just say this: I hope you get lucky and something comes out for us all so you don't suffer for as long as we did, because if you did, you'd totally understand what Ruben had to do and that it's 100% the fault of tinnitus. There ain't no beating this brotha.

Please don't be one of those guys who think you've habituated to tinnitus lol. That's somewhat a myth. It really depends on your tinnitus and hyperacusis.

As bad as all those things Ruben had, NONE of them were as bad as his tinnitus, and I promise you all his other problems were exacerbated by TINNITUS AND HYPERACUSIS. He got tinnitus one year before me, so I know the struggle and unlike him, I didn't have hyperacusis. And it still was hard. In fact I made an account last year because my tinnitus got worse. Luckily it was due to an ear infection that went away but BOY if it didn't... I don't know man.

Please, for our community's sake, don't go around pushing that narrative that tinnitus can't kill you. IT CAN. I get we want to be technical but tinnitus is a beast for real. I wish it wasn't.

You can live and suffer or get some peace. The human mind can only take so much.

TINNITUS will give you insomnia, depression and anxiety on its own, regardless.

 

I have had tinnitus for 15 years. It has been extremely severe for 8 months. I know the struggle, I know not being able to get out of bed, I know not being able to even talk, I know not being able to sleep for days on end. I know not being able to talk to my partner because I can't hear her over the tinnitus that overpowers the cicadas in an Australian summer. I know the feeling of not knowing if I can go on is like.

Don't accuse someone of being ''new to tinnitus'' because they can subjectively state possible reasons that could lead to a passing. Tinnitus is a nightmare, tinnitus can be absolutely crippling. I understand, I do. All I'm saying is that there are plenty of other factors that can contribute to someone's demise who has tinnitus.

Don't rule that out.

 

@Stayinghopeful, you have a lot to learn. You assume your tinnitus is what we all deal with, hey?

 

To @KoolKat and @ajc:

Thanks very much for this bluntly honest assessment.

I remind myself of how intrusive the stress from this can be when I recall that a few years ago a poster named @Bam reported that the stress from tinnitus actually gave him chest and kidney infections.

Two years ago a lady very incisively said, "I'm not committing suicide - tinnitus is slowly killing me as any terminal, untreatable illness would."

I have been keeping my own mental record of those posters who were very probably driven by this condition to do what prior to receiving this would have been regarded as unthinkable.

I have not posted any such list, because I do not want anyone to read it any say, "If all of them can actually carry this out, then perhaps so can I."

My wife frequently reminds me of how this condition has sapped my enthusiasm for life and made me into a hollow shell of my old self.

As I reported previously, a man I worked with lost 12 pounds in one month and went to the Doctor. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was dead within 6 months.

Without tinnitus, such a diagnosis would have been catastrophic. With tinnitus, I would have been furnished with all of the heavy pain meds to dull the tinnitus sensation and a Final Solution to this would have been taken care of without any action required on my part.

 

Too real...

 

I get facial muscle spasms during the night. I sometimes feel my mid section vibrating when it's really bad.

But hey, we're are negative and it's all in our minds.

My GP is a useless fuck.

 

It might help if you change your bio:

 

Plus @Stayinghopeful stating this:

Err, I wouldn't even be on here with 20 dB tinnitus, let alone 10 dB.

 

i should have stated severe worsening, you’re right.

It’s interesting, because apparently it’s 10 dB but I can hear it next to a busy highway. I wish I wasn’t here and didn’t need to come here to read very sad threads like this, but obviously I feel my tinnitus is bad enough to be here mainly for the research updates.

For the record, I am very sorry to read this and send my condolences to the members of his family.

 

@Stayinghopeful, well you're welcome to the support.

What we are trying to say is we must recognise the issue that tinnitus is. Too many immediately ignore the complaint and blame depression and anxiety. This keeps the real issue out of public mind, lowers awareness and thus funding. The press always almost fail to mention it. It's best that way as far as government reports go, because if people were reported as killing themselves or being disabled from tinnitus, there would be public outcry calling for more funding etc.

 

I can fully understand Ruben. Rest in peace and silence.

 

I 100% agree @Nick47. People who don't have tinnitus, their response is always "well there were also other underlying conditions." I am a 30-year-old young and extremely healthy guy. I have always worked out 5x a week (until tinnitus), ran around 6 miles, and have handled a stressful job with timelines as an engineer. Also being an avid bowhunter walking miles upon miles throughout the woods in the dark.

The reason I say all this is because I've never had depression or anxiety, there are no other underlying health conditions. But I can say with certainty that tinnitus has caused me to have depression and fairly extreme anxiety.

 

I’ve developed other illnesses too. It’s an agonizing life. May he Rest In Peace.