I remember noticing tinnitus first in the early 80s when I was in my 20s...
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Tinnitus: I remember noticing tinnitus first in the early 80s when I was in my 20s. I remember marveling at how loud silence is. Near that time, I had a sudden onset of violent vertigo, even when supine, that led to a diagnosis of Meniere's. Mostly I had a fullness in the ears that was very unpleasant and made several frequencies and intensities of sound intolerable to me. I learned to treat episodes of Meniere's with a single dose of fluorsimide (diuretic) and that worked well. As a child I had had numerous middle ear infections in both ears, but by age 7 these cleared up.
I had tonsilitis, but did not have a tonsilectomy. As a teenager my dental occlusion became class 3 (underbite) due to a growing lower jaw bone. This was never corrected and my bite is unstable to this day, leading to severe bruxism (grinding of teeth) in sleep. In the mid-80s my chin hit the steering wheel of my car when I was rearended by another car. This led to TMJ symptoms and 2 years of stint therapy to retrain the muscles to protect the joint.
I do exercises to offset the effects of bruxism. In the early 90s I suffered head trauma from a bicycle accident. My ears did not seem involved, but I did injure my C7 vertebra (neck) and to this day have quite a bit of trouble with my neck that may be interacting with the TMJ and the 2 cm Spondylolisthesis between L5 and S1. Also in the 90s, I was diagnosed with rosacea (adult acne of the face) and treated for 10 years with low dose erythromicin (333mg/day). This stopped being effective in the late 90s, and several years ago I was put on low dose Accutane for about 2 years (50mg/week). Since having total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, the acne has disappeared and I have been able to stop any further medication for that. Last summer I noticed particularly loud tinnitus. I had learned to hear past my tinnitus most of the time, but this was loud like cicadas, sometimes milder like crickets, but always present. I was diagnosed with labile high blood pressure in September (that I have likely had at least since being a teenager), and am currently trying to find effective treatment for that. Currently I am taking hydorchlorothiazide and quinapril.
I haven't been a coffee or tea drinker for several year, and haven't imbibed caffeinated coffee since the mid-80s . I quit green tea a few years ago when it seemed to be causing lots of vertigo. I never salt my food and rarely eat processed or prepared foods, but now am further trying to watch the sodium contents of the foods I do eat. I have almost eliminated chocolate (sadly) but occasionally still eat licorice (maximum of a few small pieces every few days). I've trying to reduce sugars and fats from my diet, get more exercise, and lose 10 pounds. My body mass index is 25.4, which is on the light side of overweight.
My tinnitus is bilateral. It seems to me like a combination of hiss in several pitches and tinkly ringing (like a brass angel chime), with lower pitched buzzing sometimes. I wouldn't exactly call it pulsatile, but it is varied, like an undulating chord at very high pitches, like a squeal you might get from microphone/speaker feedback. Often I can ignore it or hear past it. But lately the intensity has prevented me from being able to hear speech accurately or attend classical music concerts.Sometimes the tinnitus is just louder than the music!. I'm not otherwise exposed to loud noise, although the fan in my laptop is quite loud and high pitched.
Our response:
Hello Tina,
I thank you for the detailed description of your tinnitus and the history behind it. Detail such as this makes it so much easier for me to recommend the correct tinnitus relief remedy, in order for you to get effective tinnitus relief. There is no doubt that you are suffering from cochlea damage induced tinnitus, which could be a result of the many problems that you have experienced. The middle ear infections, the car accident, Meniere's disease and or TMJ.
Meniere's disease and TMJ are always accompanied by cochlea damage induced tinnitus. In normal circumstances I would not only recommend our tinnitus relief remedy for cochlea damage induced tinnitus but as you seem to have overcome the Meniere's disease and the TMJ it seems that you need only take our type 4 tinnitus relief remedy for cochlea damage induced tinnitus.When an external sound is heard the many thousands of small hairs in the cochlea are stimulated.
When a sound gets discerned by the ears and these minute hairs start moving, impulses go streaking through the nerve which your brain interprets as a noise.
Agition then cause a movement of all those minute hair nerve cells, much like a field of wheat on a farm moving in time with the wind.
The hairs in the inner ear are easily damaged from the pressures generated by sudden bursts of sounds. Obviously those that are unfortunate enough to work in a very loud environment or visit loud places over a period of time will experience further damage.
These sensitive organs can also be damaged from a knock on the head. If damage happens and the cilia are broken or bent they can send random signals to the brain which are interpreted as noise even though none is present.
Tinnitus from noise (cochlea damage tinnitus) is also caused by scuba diving accidents, swimming incidents, ear wax removals etc.
Hearing loss is most certainly not reversible nevertheless the tinnitis remedies have been very successful at reducing the tinnitus levels from a damaged cohlea.
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