Why Do I Have This Bad Luck? Unbelievable

[dipp]

I just can´t believe it. I was starting to cope a little bit better. I was doing CBT with some success. I was starting to feel better.

Anyway, some days ago I noticed some new sounds in my T, but anyway I continued living and trying to do my best.

I was protecting myself from loud noises. I haven´t gone to the cinema for a lot of months, and not loud pubs or loud places, and wore my earplugs when needed.

But last night... oh my God I can´t believe it. I was having the best sleep on the last months, because I kept the windows opened and was very relaxed.

So then, at 4AM, started raining and I noticed it, and it relaxed me even more. But then, suddenly, a extremely LOUD thunder fell and I just panicked. At first I thought it was a bomb. I´ve never heard a thunder like that in my whole life, I´m sure of that. It wasn´t the typical lovely sound of a thunder, which I personally like a lot. It was like an explossion, a very very loud one. Few seconds later, I was having a huge spike like I´ve never noticed before. I kept awake all night till this morning.

This morning my Facebook was full of mentions to the exceptional loud thunder. All funny comments of course, but this has confirmed to me that it was freaking loud.

A quick search in twitter gives me some more results:


Translation: -A thunder wakes up half Pinto (Pinto is where I live)
-You´re right...do we know where it fell?
-I see I´m not the only one... for a moment I thought it was a firecracker or something like that...hahaha.

I went to the ENT and he has prescribed corticoids.
I hope that the spike settles, if not, I don´t know what I´ll do.
I just can´t believe my bad luck. Maybe I wish the thunder could have hit me and put an end to this freaking nightmare.

 

[glynis]

@dipp,
Hope your ears calm down after the loud storm.
Have relaxing music on around you to distract you a little and keep you calm.
Love glynis

 

[dipp]

Thanks a lot Glynis. I´m panicking and I know that´s not good for me. Maybe the spike will settle in some days... I hope so.

I´m thinking that maybe I could try Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy now I am on the early days after this new trauma... any opinions?

 

[Rubenslash]

It's worth a try together with prednisone imo.

 

[Michael Leigh]

I just can´t believe it. I was starting to cope a little bit better. I was doing CBT with some success. I was starting to feel better.

@dipp
People have given some very good advice on this thread so I am just giving my opinion. I think you should do "nothing" Tinnitus and the habituation process has many twists and turns along it's way. Things will calm down so try not to panic. Please click on the links below and read my articles on tinnitus and hyperacusis that you might find helpful.
Hope you start to feel better soon.
Michael
PS: I advise you to use a sound machine at night and not sleep in a quiet room. More about this is explained in my article: Tinnitus, A Personal View.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-a-personal-view.18668/

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/hyperacusis-as-i-see-it.19174/

 

[Bill Bauer]

I think you should do "nothing"

I am not sure why you would be against the author of this thread taking prednisone...

 

[dipp]

@dipp
People have given some very good advice on this thread so I am just giving my opinion. I think you should do "nothing" Tinnitus and the habituation process has many twists and turns along it's way. Things will calm down so try not to panic. Please click on the links below and read my articles on tinnitus and hyperacusis that you might find helpful.
Hope you start to feel better soon.
Michael
PS: I advise you to use a sound machine at night and not sleep in a quiet room. More about this is explained in my article: Tinnitus, A Personal View.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-a-personal-view.18668/

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/hyperacusis-as-i-see-it.19174/

Hi Michael. I aprecciate your time. I´ve read a lot of your posts and I was actually following some of your advices (not wearing headphones, sleeping with a sound machine with white noise at low level, and trying not to plug my ears more than neccesary).

I know that I have to relax but this event has really shocked me. I just want the T to go back to his baseline so I can continue habituating to it. The level I have now is more difficult to adapt to and I wouldn´t like at all to stay like this for life.

 

[dipp]

I´m taking a short course (6 days) of corticoids that I believe it´s the same as prednisone. They´re meant to reduce de possible inflammation.

My only doubt is if I should seek for an Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy now that is not so late...

 

[Michael Leigh]

I am not sure why you would be against the author of this thread taking prednisone...

On the contrary. If one feels that prednisone will help then take it as long as it's in the short term. This drug is a steroid and can raise blood sugar levels: Diabetes. I personally feel it doesn't help to get frightened over a clap of thunder no matter how loud it is! I believe @dipp will be just fine and should carry on with his CBT and not get stressed over this matter.

Michael

 

[Michael Leigh]

Hi Michael. I aprecciate your time. I´ve read a lot of your posts and I was actually following some of your advices (not wearing headphones, sleeping with a sound machine with white noise at low level, and trying not to plug my ears more than neccesary).

You are doing just fine @dipp try not to worry. I am in the process of writing a post on this very subject and you might find it helpful. Thanks for the feedback. Just try and relax and take things easy.
All the best
Michael

 

[glynis]

@dipp,
I'm sure your ears will settle over the next 48 hrs.
Steroids can help reduce inflammation but relaxing and staying calm will help you too!
Take care,
Love glynis