Ear Tinnitus and Pain with Neuropathy

Omg I'm looking this up. I have tinnitus all the time, ear pain all the time, and the ENT had no idea what to do after 3 visits.

I also take Cymbalta/dulozetine and gabapentin, but I can't take NSAIDs. I take a lot of other stuff, too, but your post is interesting.

Have you ever had Mal de debarquement? (Like after a long train trip you always feel like you're on the rocking train?)

You get neuropathy and tinnitis together. They offen go hand in hand. Tinnitis is inflammation of the brain.

I’ve had tinnitus for as long as I can remember (and I’m 73). The neuropathy started much later in my life. So, I don’t think there is a connection, but I am not a doctor. It’s annoying-the tinnitus-but I’ve lived with it for so long I’ve learned how to ignore it most of the time.

For me, it's more the pain that is difficult to ignore. I just wanted the pain to stop.

I'm with you there. I want the pain in my feet to stop. It drives me crazy sometimes.

I don't believe that tinnitus is 'inflammation of the brain'. Go to http://www.hhf.org for more information on tinnitus. The Hearing Health Foundation is doing a lot of research on tinnitus.

Neuropathy is a whole different story.

I think my tinnitus came from years growing up on a farm being around all that loud machinery every day. That's my theory.

Definitely, noise is a cause of both hearing loss and tinnitus. There was a study a few years ago done by researching farmers who drove tractors. They found that the ear most exposed to the tractor noise was affected more than the other one. It had something to do with where the motor was and how the head was turned during the work they were doing.

Noise is definitely a factor. We all need to protect our hearing in noisy settings.

Did you know that tinnitus is the most common debilitating condition reported by veterans who return from combat zones? Hearing loss is second.

Agreed. I also began tinnitus from exposure to loud music.

I have had idiopathic neuropathy in both feet and legs up to my knees since April 2005. My pain is manageable (level 4-5) by taking Neurontin, tramadol and aleve. I also have post tinnitus in both ears, post vertigo and post balance issues that were caused by a concussion in late September 2022. I landed on the left side of my head and the symptoms started in varying degrees the next day - balance issues first, vertigo a week later and then tinnitus a week after that. I did PT and OT. for a month with some improvement. A month before I fell, I woke up one morning and had weird feelings all over from my knees up to the top of my head, down to my fingertips and all over my face including my lips (which just drives me crazy). I saw my doctor who did the pin pricks all over from the bottoms of my feet and up. I wore a blindfold so I couldn’t see her and what she was doing. Needless to say I didn’t feel anything. I remember asking her when was she going to start poking me? She answered that she was already done. During that time I had some symptoms of COVID, but tested negative so we don’t know what caused it to spread all of a sudden.