Tinnitus! UGH!!! ** Whine time!

I've had tinnitus for many years now - another lovely gift from our dear friend Lyme. At one point it got pretty bad, interfering with my hearing, but it eased up quite a bit just a few months into my 1st round of Lyme treatment back in the beginning of 2011. Guess what???? Itttt'sssss baaaaacccckkk!!!! And just as bad as it was!!! ACK!!! I want to bury my head, but it doesn't help!
Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!

The stupid stuff doesn't ease off no matter what I do - silence only serves for me to have a full understanding of just how loud and irritating it really is, and with a radio on, it's hard to hear the radio unless it's kind of loud for hubby! AAaaaaaaaaaack! And the headaches it keeps triggering aren't any fun either.

Okay, enough whining - thanks for being here for me to whine to someone other than poor hubby!

Oh Trav,

Whine away to your heart's content !

I'm so sorry that you're suffering,have you been under any additional stress recently?

Is there anything that you can take to ease it?

Sending you "silent" strong healing vibes from across the pond

Tickled

I'm starting a liver detox tomorrow! Nothing crazy - just some tea. Hope you feel better soon! And your emoticons turn to happy ones!

Oh man, I know how annoying that can be! I hope it goes away FAST!

Hi Traveler,
I've had tinnitus since year 1. Nearing 4 years with LD now and I sympathize. I can barely hear over it sometimes.

I've had it constantly for over a year...I can empathize. One thing that helps me a lot at night is sleeping w/ a fan on low. Otherwise, it drives me nuts as I try to fall asleep.

My challenge is that I do not like mechanical sounds like fans, AC, etc. I miss the sounds of the crickets during the summer - that was just right to drown out the sound.

Thank you, Mystery! I promise I'm doing my bestest!!

I'm sorry! That is really crappy, I had no idea you were feeling symptomatic. Big hugs

I've had on and off tinnitus since we moved into this home in 2008. Even now when I am otherwise feeling quite normal. When I was ill I was quite sensitive to wireless emissions and would have palpitations when it was on in the house. That's why the wireless is now off and wireless phones are gone. I would also have palpitations is I went into a mall with available wifi or into a museum. Our daughter is still sensitive to these places and will ticc and become fatigued, where outdoors she can cycle/walk for miles, put her in a mall and she fades quickly and starts ticcing.

I gave in yesterday and had an EMF home inspection done.

They found everything was super - the wifi is off and only used to download, then off again. I got rid of the cordless phones. We are not too near cell towers, and the neighbours' wifi is not too strong. The smartmeter isn't even really emitting much in the way of RF or causing dirty electricity in the in-home wiring. I

There is an issue with the dimmer switches which we have to change out (they and CFL bulbs emit huge amounts of dirty electricity when turned on). I've switched all bulbs back to incandescent.

The one thing they did find with a gauss meter is that there is an increased magnetic field running through the circuit that crosses the wall at the head of my bed, and which extends out to the middle of the bed. Nothing was picked up on Radio frequency or dirty electricity. This circuit continues into my husbands room and across the head of his bed as well.

There are two circuits in my/my daughter's bedroom, one of which I turn off at night. This turns off all the outlets in both rooms, but apparently doesn't turn off the second circuit that is producing the magnetic field. This second circuit energizes my husband's bedroom and he watches TV 1/2 the night so I can't turn it off.

The inspector said that the wiring problem causing the magnetic field can easily be remedied so this is not a big problem and I will have it fixed. The only other sources of magnetic fields in our house are running motors (fridge, furnace, computer). The fields don't extent too far, about 3 feet, but I have been inadvertently sleeping in one, even with the electricty off in my room. This problem doesn't effect our daughter's room, fortunately.

When ever I spend too much time on the computer (and apparently within the motor's magnetic field) my tinnitus gets worse. Just something to think about.

http://www.emfsolutions.ca/sensitivities.php

http://www.magdahavas.org/

 

I am so glad this is an old post...I felt so bad when i read you were restarting lyme treatment, so I am really glad that is not the case.

Freaking tinnitus drove me start raving mad...sorry to be graphic but I can remember thinking I needed to shove ice picks in my ears. I know that is crazy. lol

Hope things get less stressful!

It's interesting how this topic has looped back around again! I still have constant tinnitus since the posting last year. Fortunately it is usually pretty low level though it does go up and down a bit. My Lyme has been very stable - minimal to low symptoms maintained by herbals since May 2013. But the ringing lingers. My ND has me doing heavy metal treatment in case that will stop it. Am about 7 months into that with cadmium back to "normal" but still working on lead. I'm hoping when that gets down the ringing will finally stop. This mid-March will make 2 years straight for me.

I kind of panicked at that point in my life. My FIL was moving in with us and he had advanced Alzheimer's. I had just barely finished my Babesia treatment and we were working hard to finish a bedroom for him to live in.
Then he went downhill quite quickly - 3 months later we were saying our final goodbyes.

It was quite a proving ground for my healing!! But I wouldn't have had it any other way. he was a wonderful man to me.