Archive for October, 2009
Don’t you just love the fun little clicking noise in your ear every time you swallow when you’re sick?
Posted by Barb in Why Your Ear is Clicking on October 29, 2009
I know I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strange person. I like that you are strange.
Can a person go crazy or whatever with tinnitus?
Posted by Barb in What is Tinnitus? on October 29, 2009
For the past 15 years now I have had tinnitus or ringing in the ears which seems to be getting worse. Are there any known cures for tinnitus?
Tinnitus can pose such a problem for the sufferer that surgery is done to cut a nerve to relieve the ringing in one’s ears but, you would lose your hearing. That is a serious decision. Control your sodium intake and consumption of alchohol as it can contribute to the severity of your tinnitus. Some may disagree but, since my husband has been mindful of his sodium intake it has helped. Use a machine that creates white noise. Check with your doctor also to see if you have menierres disease or hearing loss. Sometimes these conditions are also associated with tinnitus. My father and husband both have these conditions and they are bothersome. Good Luck.
Is there any treatment for Tinnitus?
Posted by Barb in Tinnitus Treatment on October 29, 2009
There is no cure for tinnitus, but there are treatments that give patients some relief.
Treatments might include:
Hearing aids. Many people with tinnitus also have a hearing loss. Wearing a hearing aid improves your ability to hear the outside world and can mask the internal sound of tinnitus. The better you hear other people talking or the music you like, the less you notice your tinnitus.
Maskers. Maskers are small electronic devices that emit a "white noise" to make tinnitus less noticeable. Maskers do not make tinnitus go away, but they make the ringing or roaring seem softer.
Medicine or drug therapy. Some medicines ease tinnitus. If your doctor prescribes medicine to treat your tinnitus, he or she can tell you whether the medicine has any side effects.
There have been a number of over-the-counter herbs and treatments such as gingko biloba that have been touted as being useful. None of them has been proven effective in clinical trials
Tinnitus retraining therapy. This treatment uses a combination of counseling and maskers. Physicians and therapists can help you learn how to deal with your tinnitus better, and the maskers can make the tinnitus less noticeable. After a time, some people learn how to avoid thinking about their tinnitus. It takes time for this treatment to work, but it can be very helpful.
Tinnitus remedies can anyone recommend one that really works.?
Posted by Barb in Tinnitus Remedies on October 29, 2009
It is just too sad to stand by and witness my daughter battling to cope with the ringing in her ears! The tinnitus is not the worst though, because she find it hard to get to sleep her overall health seems to be deteriating. It seems to me that because she is always so tired and up tight, she doesn’t get to sleep much and nowdays seems to pick up every sickness that is doing the rounds. Can this be resulting from her tinnitus? I am searching for a tinnitus remedies right now.
What works for one person will not work for another so I will list several strategies here. However, one that seems to provide relief long enough to sleep is white noise so you might want to invest in a white noise machine. Static will often work just as well so you can try a radio set on a static station…no music, just the static.
If your daugher’s tinnitus is untreatable, there are several things she can try to make it less bothersome:
avoid caffeine
avoid nicotine
zinc supplements may help
use a white noise machine or a ticking clock
avoid loud sounds, music and noises
exercise daily (improving her circulation can help)
avoid fatigue as it will intensify the ringing
try to ignore the ringing (easier said than done at first)
if she has a hearing loss, a hearing aid with a "tinnitus masker" may help
The susceptibility to illness would probably have no correlation to the tinnitus itself but it might to the lack of sleep. When we sleep, our bodies rebuild and without adequate rest, her resistance is impacted.
My husband has had tinnitus for years and he said it eventually becomes so much a part of you that you hardly notice it. He had a terrible time in the beginning but now it is just something that is "always there". Good luck to your daughter and you!
Chronic Burning Rashes with Tinnitus. 6 months, 6 doctors later, no diagnostics, no answers, no relief.?
Posted by Barb in Tinnitus Relief on October 29, 2009
Hello. I’d like anyone with any input on any of this to please reply. My story is very long. I will condense it considerably.
BACKGROUND:
I am a 38 year old white male with fair skin of mostly Irish and Cherokee decent. Until last year, I’d say my health had been really great, and I have had little need for doctors or medicines over that period. I have gone to more doctors and more frequently in the past 6 months than I have the previous 37 years combined. The greatest health problem I have is genital herpes which I contracted Sep 01, 2002 (a day I’ll certainly never forget, and not fond memories). Apart from that my only other complaint is "piles," which I do not see a doctor for.
Prior to August 1997, I’d had 3 sexual partners in my life, and all activities apart from oral were protected, even though all 3 were in committed relationships. From August 1997 to August 2008, that number rose to somewhere around 50. Most with whom I had unprotected sex. All were heterosexual. I count myself very lucky and fortunate to have made it 11 years of living that way without contracting very dangerous and even deadly diseases. August 1997, I decided to give up sex, likely forever. After all, I think I have had enough for several lifetimes.
Since ~Sep 01, 2008 (about the same day of year as my HSV infection but 6 years later), I began itching profusely on my inner thighs very near my crotch. I immediately tried treating it at home as jock itch. When this failed I tried simply Hydrocortisone. I then tried Permethrin (for scabies, crabs, mites). I then tried Neosporin. I then tried Benadryl cream and pills. After all of these failed, I decided to go to the doc. I initially went to the GP that had years earlier diagnosed the HSV. She gave a 14 day course of TRIAMCINOLONE topically with Doxycycline orally for 2 weeks. After this failed, she told me to go see a urologist. I went to a urologist that had diagnosed me with phlebothrombitis of the penile vein a few years earlier from too rough of sex. That resolved about 2 weeks later. He said he had no clue. He told me to see a dermatologist. I went to a dermatologist that I’d seen a year earlier just out of curiosity about a funny little bump that had been in the center of my chest for ~8 years. It was totally painless and was only an object of curiosity. I think she said it was Lipoma and that nothing could be done about it. I was ok with that. By the time I’d gone to see the dermatologist, my entire scrotum, crotch and upper inner thighs were beet red. She took one look and diagnosed it as erythrasma which she treated with Vtyone (Iodoquinol+Hydrocortisone) topically and Azithromycin orally. This improved things considerably. After this 2 week or 10 day treatment, only my scrotum remained red and it merely burned instead of itching. The crotch and thighs looked fine. She didn’t schedule a follow-up. At the end of treatment, I called to inform her that my scrotum was still red and was burning. She couldn’t see me for ~3 weeks. Since by this time, I’d been wrestling with skin difficulties in this general region for nearly 3 months and since I had "great balls of fire," I went to another (new) GP (I’d never liked this lady who’d diagnosed me with HSV and who treated me with TRIAMCINOLONE+DOXYCYCLINE). She came across rude and apathetic and seemed to enjoy making me wait for no reason at all). I like the new GP, he is friendly and at least projects a caring image. He treated it as a male yeast infection with Diflucan orally and Ketaconazole topically.
Ok. I am getting longer and more detailed than I wished. Anyways, when the yeast infection treatment from the new GP failed, I called the dermatologist again. This time, oddly enough, she could see me the next day. She treated it as chronic jock itch with Oxicanozole (all these "zoles") topically. This failed. Holidays came. She couldn’t see me. I went to new GP again, he gave me a cream with betamethasone and clotrimazole. This didn’t help. After the holidays, I go see dermatologist again. She gives me PROTOPIC (She didn’t say much. She didn’t say why. She didn’t even inspect things.) I applied it immediately. 2 hours later I was LITERALLY in tears from pain (burning). By this time it was 6PM Friday. I wasn’t going to call her. I immediately washed the area. Washing was painful. After a few minutes the pain was still off the charts intense. I took 800 mg of Ibuprofen. A few minutes later, the pain was off the charts. I tried applying some Lidocaine cream. A few minutes later, the pain is still of the charts. It then dawns on me to try an ice pack. Within minutes the ice pack relieves the pain considerably, not completely. However, I find that the entire night until the wee hours of the morning I had to keep an ice pack on it to keep from balling my eyes out from pain. The next few days, the pain was back to manageable, but constant, as it was before
Hi Mags.Thanks for the response.I am thankful for anyone who takes the time to read my concern & attempts to provide insight.I have not checked those symptom checkers yet.I may do that soon.I had tried webmd’s version & healthnet’s.I even paid a dermatologist on that site to answer my question.As with my real doctors, he was useless.He suggested something like, "it may be a rash in the seborheic dermititis/eczema family" or something & suggested I try steroids.I’d already mentioned I’d tried 3 steroids.With regards to the Valtrex.Ever since my 1st outbreak,I have taken 1g daily for prevention & even 4g daily for one day for outbreaks.About 6 weeks ago, I resolved to take NOTHING at all, not even Valtrex or Tylenol or Clariton or a vitamin.I did so to see if perhaps I am experiencing a side effect that perhaps noone has ever experienced before.I now simply wash only once every 2 days & apply no lotions or powders.The rash has improved modertaely at best,if at all, since this post.
I’m not a doctor, nor have I had your symptoms.
I’m going to provide the links to some decent Symptom checkers:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/symptom-checker/DS00671
This one allows you to enter the symptoms and combine them.
http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/
Here’s a third:
http://www.healthcentral.com/symptom-checker/
I think your docs aren’t putting the whole picture together.
You are on meds for HSV – could this be a side effect
Check side effects:
http://www.drugs.com/
http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp
Could your primary symptoms: the rash or itching and the tinnitus be unrelated?
I’m sorry that I can’t help more but the window for answering is closing and I just noticed your question.
Try the symptom checkers – they might help. – Hope you’re feeling better by now.
I really need to find a tinnitus cure!?
Posted by Barb in Tinnitus Cure on October 29, 2009
I’ve been going crazy the last three years as a result of these continual ringing in my ears. Is this tinnitius. Where do I go for advice?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tinnitus
How to stop a clogged and ringing ear?
Posted by Barb in Stop Ear Ringing on October 29, 2009
I was slap boxing my friend and i got hit on the ear. Its been 10 hrs and it still has not gone away. PLEASE HELP.
I can only hear my right ear and i feel all the vibrations. My left ear feels like an air tunnel.
You need to go see the doctor to have the ear examined. The symptoms you describe are similar to those caused when the eardrum is perforated- meaning it has a hole or tear somewhere. It is not difficult to treat, but it would need to be treated properly to preserve your hearing. It is not an emergency, so if you can get to the doctor within a day you should do just fine. You might give that friend a gentle reminder that it’s not a good idea to slap box somebody upside the head, even in play.
How can I treat tinnitus?
Posted by Barb in Ear Noise Treatments on October 29, 2009
Is there even a treatment? For me, it’s not a constant ringing, and my mom’s friend thought it might be my problem because her husband had it, but I’m seeing a specialist on the 22nd. I looked some stuff up about it, and it did say constant exposure to rock concert could cause it, and that’s me in a nutshell, haha.
It’s not the ringing that bothers me, it’s the way that I can’t be around arcades because the vibrations bother me. I can’t be in churches or movie theaters because the noise levels also get to me. I miss going to concerts, and I have one coming up on the 29th which I think would probably be my last if I were able to go without feeling lightheaded or having a panic attack because of the noise. I’m only 17, and I think I screwed my ears over going to so many loud concerts. Blah, this sucks.
Thank you letting people know just how much damage loud music does to young ears; it’s an increasing problem.
There are treatments (not cures) for tinnitus: some of the most promising seems to be exposure to white noise and pink noise, but some vitamin and mineral supplements are recommended too.
Here’s a link you might want to read:
http://www.causeof.org/hypera.htm#HyperTinnitusHyper
What are the chances that my tinnitus (ringing in the ear) will go away?
Posted by Barb in About Tinnitus on October 29, 2009
I started to get a pretty bad beeping noise in my ear about 4.5 months ago after attending a loud concert. The sound is much quieter now than it was when it first started, and I can usually only hear it when I’m in bed at night. What are the chances that it will fade away completely?
It may never go away. Try to adapt to this condition, listen to music at night or get a noise machine of some sort. But just in case this is something serious, consult a physician.
I have an ear problum "clicking when i do thangs"?
Posted by Barb in Why Your Ear is Clicking on October 26, 2009
I am new to this, I will try to be as clear as i can but I don’t realy understand it myself. For the past 4 or 5 years when I swollow, yawn, and Idk umm.. Pop my ears (Kind of the same as poping but not the same) my ears click or pop or make some wiered noise. also my hearing changes offten when I "pop" them. I have wierd urges to "pop" them everyday, 3 or 4 times a minit all day and all night. I had 3 majer ear infections when i was a kid. The last time was 9 years ago, and I couldent hear well for years after that. Then after 4 years, in a pool my ears poped and thay have ben like this from there on.
so my qustion is, What is rong and what can i do to fix it?
I thought it might be watter but if that were true why didnt it go away after a few months?
A clicking sound can be caused by many different things, and there is no way to know without seeking medical advice. I would suggest an audiologist, and they should be able to tell you weather it is a hearing problem, something in your ear, or anything else. There is a hearing problem that can develop that will give you a constant clicking sound but it is usually developed much later in life. See a professional, and feel better.