Does Tinnitus ever go away? I dont think so :(

[[Tu...]]

Hi all I'm just past the 2 months off mark and I feel great the past week and half I have improved greatly, I really hate saying I feel good for fear that I jinx it and I know the way symptoms come in waves so I dont think I am out of the water yet. But most have my symptoms have gone away or have gotten significantly better, Headaches have gone, DR is not too bad, fatigue is not as tiring, my obsessive thoughts/fears have gotten greatly better

Except for the TINNITUS this horrible symptom is still with me, It was my first symptom and it at times its not as bad as it can me but never the less it still persists enough to annoy me, five months I have it now!

Is there anyone out there that has had this and it went away??? Or am I stuck with this for life even if all the other symptoms go away?

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Hi all. Tuktuk, I have it too.

Bear 

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I didn't get tinnitus till I finished my taper, and then it became a constant.  But I am happy to say this is one s/x that seems to be gone.  It's been gone since about the 6 month mark.  It will go like all the other s/x, but it can take time.  I hope it passes for you soon. 

 

Hang in there...all the best!

Schatje

[[Tu...]]

Thanks Schatje, its great to hear that it went away for you, it gives me hope, its just do damn annoying 

and Bear sorry to hear you are suffering, I know how you feel and its horrible!

 

[[Ho...]]

I've had it since the beginning and it used to be one of my top sxs. I'm just short of 5 months now and it is starting to really diminish and most days I don't notice it any more.

[[Li...]]

It is not with me all the time- I am ten months out- but if I wake up in the middle of the night, it is SO LOUD! It has definitely diminished since my taper, and I'm pretty sure it might be one of the last symptoms to go. I really only notice it at night, whereas before, it was all the time.

 

Best-

 

Libby

[[Ga...]]

Ive had it for over a yr!! I am afraid I am stuck with it :'(

[[Tu...]]

Thanks for the replies, hope this goes away sooner than later, I hate it so much!

[[mo...]]

My situation started with tinnitus. It's the reason I started taking Zopilcone in the first place. Now I wonder if it would have gone away faster on it's own if I had only stayed away from Benzos. I suspect that zop and then ativan and now withdrawal have all contributed to it persisting these past 6mos.

 

For the most part it is all but gone. I still have a background hissing, that varies in volume. But I am also having more and more days of silence. Sometimes it will flare up when I am having other symptoms and it is more predominent at night, but it does not bother me like it used to or keep me awake. Even at it's loudest it is nothing like it was in the beginning, which was absolutely mind bending!! I think to some degree we habituate to the sound. Perhaps I have just learned to cope with it.

 

I do believe it will continue to fade with the rest of my symptoms. What helped me was chiropractics and ear accupuncture. In my case the original cause of the tinnitus was a neck injury. I think I just made it worse with benzos and stress.

[[Ni...]]

Mine is nearly maddening - like I just leaned on the stage speakers at a Jane's Addiction show. Goes on all hours of the day, like a pesky neighbor's dog that never stops barking. it got worse with new cuts in my taper and more toward the end and now that I'm off it's non-stop. I know in the past it went away so I figure it'll do it on it's own.

 

In reality it's just your CNS getting back at you, not actual damage to you ear so 99.9% it'll go away for you. 

[[On...]]

The labyrinth or inner ear super sensitive to so many issues, tinnitus is sort of the "bellwether" for what's going on in your body. When we were on benzos it was heavily sedated. Those little hearing and balance "hair(nerve) cells" inside the perilymph are very agitated right now, from hyperactivity from the nervous system as well as the lack-of-sleep inducing adrenaline. Excess adrenaline can cause tinnitus. That's why people will often hear a momentary ringing in their ears during or after heavy exercise, it can make you dizzy sometimes as well.

 

There two different fluids (potassium & sodium chloride) inside the adjacent endolymphatic sac that can be compromised as well, as it may not be regulating properly, this can create some pressure in the ear and usually ringing-in-the-ear will follow behind this symptom. It feels like a stuffy ear or some pressure.

 

This may be one of the last symptoms to leave, but it will get better in time once everything get re-balanced in our body.

 

If you can tolerate it, B-complex, ginko biloba and lemon bioflavanoids. However, like all supplements these can exasperate other benzo symptoms.

[[mo...]]

OnTheMend, that is a very good explanation of Tinnitus. And believe me, I've read them all! I've learned the hard way that tinn. can definitely be decreased by staying calm. Not always easy to do when your head is ringing incessantly. What I find esp. interesting in your explanation is the reference to the roll adrenaline plays. My tinn was at it's worst when my anxiety and adrenaline were up. The catch 22 in all of that is tinn caused my anxiety and then the anxiety further irritated my tinn. If I could have only stayed calm at the time and not resorted to sleeping pills, who knows how much quicker I would have recovered. I may have never gone thru any of this. Oh, well, lesson learned.

[[so...]]

 

Congrats on feeling great! That is huge and good news-- great news!

 

I have tinnitus-- some days I don't hear it -- during the day & night it varies from zero to loud ---

 

 

sofar

[[Tu...]]

That was a great explaination On the Mend. It does seem to fluctuate with my anxiety as you say, its like one feeds the other. Great that everyone is optimistic about it going away, I really hope it does, thanks for the replies all.

[[mo...]]

TukTuk, trust me it DOES go away. Even if it only gets to a low grade hiss that you can live with, then that's something. I've had tinn for 6mos now and in the beginning it was the fear of not knowing that made everything worse. I read some really scary things about tinn and my docs were NOT encouraging at all.  If I had been told that I would still be dealing with this 6mos down the road, I don't know what that would have done to me. But, I'm still here.

 

I am telling this to you so that you have some hope. You need to be positive about it. Again, that was a very hard thing for me in the thick of it. I was scared, scared, scared. And traumatized. If I had only had someone who had been through it to reassure me I think things could have been really different. Today I am experiencing complete silence and I am getting more and more days like this. Whether or not my situation is still related to w/d or something else, I do not know. But please try, if you can, to relax (yoga and meditation help, but I found that very hard to do with ringing in my ears - the quieter it got the more I could concentrate on relaxation). Trust me, it will get better. Hang in there. 

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All

 

I understand the explanation for Tinnitus, but what I am struggling with is buzzing, fizzing whooshing in my head. The noise moves around from top to sides to temples to back. What can be causing that, had it throughout my Taper. Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Blower

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Thankfully today its just a low hissssss

I am confident it will go eventually

@monyd Thanks (again) 

[[sa...]]

Every book and manual I've read indicates that it goes away. My tinitus although is different in it's presentation than yours, comes and goes now. It was constant the last year before I decided to get off and then it got worse when I crossed over. About a month ago, it occured to me that it was quiet. It pops on when I feel stressed or an agitated, high emotions, otherwise it's mild to non exsistant. I have been tapering for 5 1/2 mos.

 

I feel my cuts seems like on days 7,8, and 9. Today is day 8. It's been constant today as it was yesterday and I expect it will be tomorrow. this is the most mile of symptom in my book compared to DR, DP, Depression, Anxiety....

 

Tinitus itself is a symptom. There is no tiniuts without a reason. Yours is of course accidental drug addiction. I deal with it like turning into a skid. I hear it, I just try to think of it as background noise. I am grateful when its mild and as I type its getting louder because I'm tired.

 

I did read an article and it's on my page, perhaps I'll take a jaunt over to see if I can find it and post it here, that yoga helps specifically with tinitus. I like to do yoga, and have been negligent. Think I will put that at the top of the list tomorrow.

 

Hang in there blower.

Sarah~

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http://www.tinnitusformula.com/qtimes/2008/02/yoga.aspx

 

I would imagine just a few poses would be good too. It involves breathing, relaxation, stretching, quiet introspection. All good antidotes for benzo recovery. Pick up a dvd at the library for beginners if you are new to this. I think you might just be surprised how something so simple can have such great impact. And for you men out there who think this is skinny girls work, there are all ages of men in my yoga class. I've talked to guys about it who confessed they took the class to meet girls, lol, but then discovered its amazing power. Athletes, body builders, runners. The agility they attain is just another benefit of a very simple, but more therapuetic activity.

 

Sarah~

[[fi...]]

This symptom was non stop all the way through month 9 for me. I am one week away from one year today and it now comes and goes. The times that I do experience it is just as loud and crackly and annoying as it was before but at least I have breaks from it. Everything that I have researched and read and what alot of people have said is that this was one of the last sx's to go.

[[mr...]]

I know this is not related to benzo withdrawal, but I have a friend that is on Zoloft and once she got her vitamin D levels up to optimum (65-80 ng/mL), her decades of tinnitus disappeared and has not come back.

[[Li...]]

Wow, thanks for that tip Mrtmeo! I do take Vit. D but am not sure I'm taking enough. I know I'm low but don't know how low. Maybe I'll get tested so I can rest assured I can take more than I'm taking now.

 

Best-

 

Libby

[[Ho...]]

Tuk Tuk...This is a bit strange, but I posted to this thread on the 23rd saying that it was definitely going away. Yesterday it cranked up to a new level and today is the worst I have ever seen it. It feels like my head is under water and the hearing in my right ear is only about half of my left (I only have it in my right ear).

 

I don't know what to say about this, it's a first

 

Bill

[[Tu...]]

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@ mrtmeo, thanks for telling me that, i will have my doctor check out my vitiman D levels...

[[Ho...]]

Tuk Tuk...I'll let you know if it resolves any time soon.