Why Doctors Often Find it Difficult to Diagnose and Treat Tinnitus Study

[Sea]

I have quite severe tinnitus. It gets much louder and I also get the pulsatile tinnitus when I have a migraine coming on or when I get a cold. I also have sensorineural hearing loss, much worse in one ear and I have read before that tinnitus is common in this type of hearing loss. I've learned to live with it, other symptoms of ME/CFS are far worse than this one for me.

 

[PNR2008]

I also have tinnitus (louder with migraines) and the pulsating kind. The doc I went to said my eardrum was loose and flappy like a sail on boat which was causing hearing loss. When I used to sing, certain notes vibrated my eardrum too much, I just figured my sinuses were causing it and I know my sinuses didn't help but the only hearing loss I notice is sound bouncing in the room from the TV.

 

[GhostGum]

@barbc56 Very interesting barb, thank you. Still quite hard to understand, how you could continue to perceive what appears to be a sound with deafness, but is really the brains perception of 'tinnitus', whatever that means. Just more mystery with what is an incredibly complex organ.

 

[barbc56]

@GhostGum

I also find things like this fascinating. I'm wondering if it's like phantom limb pain where you feel pain in the affected limb even though its been amputated.

Barb