Living with Tinnitus.

The noise in my left ear has become constant. I've given up hope of determining a cause. Many visits to GPs and to ENT clnics have turned up nothing. Oh, there've been some spectacular misdiagnoses along the way! Last month, after I developed a really nasty infection in my left ear, an emergency GP told me that I had a major wax build-up. She prescribed antibiotic drops for one week, to clear the infection, whilst I had to use olive oil for two weeks, to soften the wax. Thereafter, she said, I had to have my ear syringed, to clear the rest of the wax......

So, accordingly, I made appointment and presented myself for syringing. But the nurse couldn't SEE any wax in my ear at all! She undertook some gentle syringing, anyway - but no wax came out......

Weeks later, I STILL have constant tinnitus. It's driving me nuts! It's a never-ending whine in my left ear. There's virtually no hearing left on that side. In bed, I can't hear my radio, if my left ear is on my pillow. It's as though all sound is being filtered through some kind of thick cloth.  While the whining sound continues, driving me near-mad!

At times it seems as though the whine is emphasised by my pulse beat. Can't really explain, save to say that it seems that the noise in my ear keeps time with my pulse. Every beat of my pulse produces a pulsatingly-correspondant throb of noise in my left ear. And not one doctor, out of the several I've been referred to, can find an explanation for this phenomenon......All I know, in REAL terms,  is that it's driving me MAD!

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