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Ear Tinnitus and Pain with Neuropathy
Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 21, 2023 | Replies (168)Comment receiving replies
If you are able, see an ENT for evaluation & hearing test. I developed an issue in my left ear about a month ago & I don't think it's related to my neuropathy. I am being treated with a sterioid 12 pack & anti-viral meds. The doctor has ordered an MRI, to rule out a tumor. The tinnitus is very unpleasant. I purchased a little "white noise" device on Amazon & it helps a bit, especially when trying to get to sleep. For me, sleep deprivation triggers neuropathy episodes that can last for days, so the tinnitus (and the new meds) were especially troubling. I've been on Gabapentin for a about 18 months, as well. Sometimes it feels like the universe is conspiring to drive me out of my mind.
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Hi cher27
The most important here is for you to not get discouraged, and resign to the fact that you have the most puzzling disease "Peripheral neuropathy".
No cure they say, but I never give up trying everything that may make sense and may help, including R-ALA, and B12. And a few other vitamins.
I just now, about one month ago, developed tinnitus. I will see my ear doctor even, tinnitus is in the brain not in the ear.
Be positive don't lose faith. And in the worst scenario resign that you have to live that way until the end and make adjustments to your lifestyle, OR a cure may surface somehow and we will be saved from this plague.
But the most important to mention here is that there are millions in much worse shape than we are, much, much worse.
So if you switch your thinking in that direction you will accept your situation and deal with it the best you can to suit your lifestyle.
' By the way, I am 84 and still kicking (not with my feet anymore ) he, he.
Pace!
@cher27, You are singing my song. The universe seems to have set it's sights on me. My hearing and audio discrimination tests perfectly; however, I often can't hear my husband sitting three feet away because the tinnitus gets so loud.
Why would the jerk bring me back three times if he knows there is no treating it? That is just ... wrong. Really, really wrong.
I could handle the noise (I now sleep with headphones and meditation music all night to get my 3-4 hours' allotment.... My tinnitus comes with a lot of ear pressure and pain. Nothing shows on the MRI.
I think I've now achieved the unenviable status of having pain in every part of my body. Usually, simultaneously. And my husband wonders why I feel sad and negative all the time.
Constant pain wears down everything about a person. Pins and needles make things worse.
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Curiuos to know what "anti - viral" meds were prescribed and why?