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Yes, I have found mindset is key. The more you dwell on our symptoms, the worse your symptoms seem. I finally had to just tell God one day, I don’t understand why you’re not healing me but I trust you. I have to keep telling myself that. I just wish it would stabilize somewhere, so I can move on. That’s what’s frustrating for me. Luckily, I do not have any pain. Occasionally I’ll get a sharp shooting pain, but thank goodness it doesn’t usually last but a few seconds. Thank you! I will pray for you as well! I will let you know when I find that special Dr.
Accepting that the specialists are not able to "fix" anything to do with tinnitus, and learning to live with it, is the best option until the puzzle is resolved. It is a disability, usually unrecognized by anyone because we sufferers are the only ones who " hear" it. ENT docs are unable to help, and I believe it is nerve damage but as a neurologist told me, you can't really see that on any test or fix it with any drug. So you cope with living with the dizziness, noise, and trying to hear over it. I find that having a project or two going on all the time and a houseful of pets to distract me from myself help more than anything. Sort of: where there is will, there is a way.