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Main Forums => Living With HIV => Topic started by: weasel on October 24, 2009, 10:08:52 pm
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Does anyone else suffer from Ringing in the ears ?
I am really besides myself !
It has become so loud I can barely function !
If not for Clonazapram I would be in a rubber room !
Any help ?????????????????????
be well ,
Carl
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i have ringing in the ears too! people have told me that it's tinnitus and that it comes with age and/or damage to your ear drums. if you find any info on how to lessen it, please let me know.
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There was a thread about this last year:
http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=21473.0
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Thanks BLUE ,
I read those responces .
AUSPOZ was the most comforting to me ! I suffer from Music too .
At least I am NOT crazy !
MATT's reply also is on the mark :)
Carl
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Carl,
I still have the ringing in the ears, and not much has changed, from that earlier link provided to you.
Some days are bad, other days, not so bad. I take nothing for it. I have no problem with my hearing, just that high pitch noise, like someone set off a firecracker next to my ears. It does get agrivating at times.
Take care---Ray
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Add me to the list of those with tinnitus. I don't recall having it until becoming HIV+, being in the hospital with PCP, and starting meds (Atripla). I take my Atripla in the morning, and the ringing seems to be its worse a few hours after dosing. I read this thread around 10:00 am and it was pretty bad. It's now 4:45 and it's very noticeable but not as bad as earlier. It's a steady pitch but will sometimes drop a note or two for a while. It kind of reminds me of being in one room with an old TV on, with the sound turned down, in a different room. I remember an old tube TV from the very early '70's that did that really badly. Anyway, it's very annoying to me, but I can kind of drown it out with some background noise. White noise at night and streaming audio (on my PC at work during the day) help a lot.
David
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Thank you :)
Kind words from you GUYS means more than any I.D. Doctor can ever say !
I am cooking Bison BALLS and Bison sausage !
Rigatoni to cum ................................
Feeling like a part ,
Carl
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i've been suffering from ringing in my right ear for a long time and it seems to be getting worse,it's actually affecting my quality of sleep.i've checked into the drug LIPOFLAVONOID and GINKO BILOBA but i've heard that these have had bad interactions with my hiv drugs,,,ANYBODY WITH ANY COMFORTING THOUGHTS??
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Oh yeah.....my ears have been ringing since I started taking Sustiva ( I no longer take it).....You get accustomed to it after a while...or at least I did. Of course I hate to sit in silence....I've always got something going....music, TV or a conversation to take my mind off of it. Hope yours is not too loud or distracting???
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Carl,
When I told the doctor my ears were ringing, he told me to "answer them" ( as the phone or doorbell) He was retiring, so I just let it go. I have really had no respsonse from any of my doctors. Mom says it's because they don't know.
Mine is usually running in the background on mute, then suddenly, it's like a field of crickets on a dark summer night. Wave after wave...the worst time is in the mornings or if I am awakened from a nap.
Sorry I can't offer any other help.
Ronnie
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HI all :D
RonRond I am glad YOU mentioned crickets :o
Confirms I am not crazy ( well not most of the time ) LOL LOL LOL
But I feel better knowing many of you guys hear what I hear !
There is comfort in Camaraderie !
Be well ,
Hope to meet some of you in Las Vegas :)
Carl
P.S, : rainy , I AM off to play in the brook , those nasty branches and leaves :o
Are clogging the brook ! How dare them LOL LOL LOL
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A couple aspirin helps take the edge off Sustiva related tinnitus for me. Sometimes I also have trouble getting to sleep if the ringing has gotten really annoying... it's as if I feel it as much as hear it. That's when I reach for the aspirin. In about 20 minutes, I can feel it taking the edge off so I can fall asleep.
I think Sustiva may be causing some type of inflammatory response in the brain that's behind the tinnitus.
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Hi ! I experienced buzzing in my ears about twenty-five years ago. I wasn't hiv + then. I saw a specialist who ran some tests and he couldn't find anything wrong. He said it was due to stress ,which figures, as I was living at my mother-in-laws at the time. When we moved out it stopped.
Jay xx