Over my lifetime I have had episodes of ringing in my ears hi pitched- you know tinnitus.
Recently several times a week it has turned to hearing a distant radio baseball announcer, or like a cb radio far away. And no the "voices don't tell me to put foil over my head..........:
My cousin has temporal seizures and hears full opera type music, she is totally deaf in that ear.
My internist says this is also tinnitus and I have a neuro appt in MARCH. shoot! The baseball game will be over by then.
My son's friend developed this but because his wife is a MD she caught it in time to get steroids etc and he got his hearing back. He had faced losing his job as a cop because of this.
I'm not asking advice obviously, but it seems odd to me that in the last 3 months I have come across 3 people who have this. Anybody else have it?
I developed tinnitus after using Timoptic for a week about 5 months ago. The buzzing was horrible. I was changed to Travatan, but still have tinnitus, not as bad but it's still there. Sometimes it's worse, esp. if I'm tired & it's only in my left ear. I keep praying it will go away eventually - but doubt it will. It mostly bothers me at night. What has helped most is sleeping with a loud fan AND a ceiling fan that makes a small high pitched clanking noise (the pull chain rhythmically hitting the fans light globe). There are white noise machines, I may look into that if the tinnutis really bothers me.
I've read a couple of interesting articles about tinnitus lately. The only things I've ever heard of (pun intended) being effective from patients with tinnitus are acupuncture and ginkgo biloba.
Yes! I have cochlear hydrops, tinnitus, and hearing loss on my left side. I find it's something that I pretty much just have to live with. I'm getting my tonsils out in January (after 8 courses of abx for my ear and tonsils) finally! I'm hoping it helps!
BreeLPN2RN
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I developed tinnitus after using Timoptic for a week about 5 months ago. The buzzing was horrible. I was changed to Travatan, but still have tinnitus, not as bad but it's still there. Sometimes it's worse, esp. if I'm tired & it's only in my left ear. I keep praying it will go away eventually - but doubt it will. It mostly bothers me at night. What has helped most is sleeping with a loud fan AND a ceiling fan that makes a small high pitched clanking noise (the pull chain rhythmically hitting the fans light globe). There are white noise machines, I may look into that if the tinnutis really bothers me.