tinnitus & effexor

the anti-depressant effexor seems to be helping me slightly with the tinnitus

this may only be because it sedates me, helping me sleep for longer periods of time

at any rate, i've been on it for less than two weeks. it's not helping dramatically, but it does seem to help some.

i'll probably write about it more at length here
tinnitus cure tinnitus cures, or

at my tinnitus homepage

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*sigh* sure a very disagreeable thing to have...

tinnitus sadness

it's been nearly 12 months since the fire alarm guys trapped me in a building -- then trigger the fire alarms -- and gave me this horrible tinnitus.

depressing, that i've had it for so long. the sensitivity to sound is very troubling, as i have so much difficulty going outside now. ALL noise seems to hurt my ears. tylenol helps, but the tinnitus is SO MUCH worse afterwards.

not much else to do except for tinker on the computer.

i used to enjoy listening to music, and playing acousitc guitar -- now that saddens and depresses me. reminds me how bad my ears are, and my hearing is.

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i've started a few different tinnitus-related web things; if i don't burn out with depression or tinnitus sadness, i can work them pretty high up in the engines.

one generates alot of email letters. VERY SAD.

people who were completely healthy, then -- seconds later -- they had tinnitus as the result of a car airbag inflating, or they took a med that gave it to them. some are like me -- they got it from rotten people triggering alarms and other loudness around them.

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hard for me to be upbeat, tho i try.

tinnitus sadness; depression, anxiety.

i was reading that insomnia, sadness and anxiety and common to people with tinnitus.

HEL-LOOO: I got this thing in the 5+ minutes the fire alarms went off. my "healthy life" is probably over, unless there is a new medical discovery for tinnitus...

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IT'S HARD SLEEPING OVER THE TINNITUS NOISES IN OUR EARS... that's why we can't sleep

I'M ANXIOUS because i got this in such a short period of time. THE PLACE THAT SET OFF THE ALARMS "GUARANTEED" ME THEY WOULD KEEP GOING OFF FOR NO REASON...

so OF COURSE i'm anxious. i'm well prepared to run out of where i live at any moment, because i no my hearing can't stand another assault (fire alarms, some idiot hitting the doorbell over-and-over, etc.

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thanksgiving is coming up.

all i want is to be able to get some good sleep, and hope that my T symptoms are a little less severe.

but it's been ONE YEAR since the injury.

makes me sad. an ENT told me i might get better in the 1st year. now, getting better doesn't seem likely

tinnitus meds

tinnitus and zestril is about T and the blood pressure med zestril.

tinnitus and doxepin is about tinnitus and a med called doxepin.

my pages do well in all the engines, but Goog, the king of engines, has been crabby lately. for MONTHS. weird.

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ever since i posted a page on tinnitus and airbags, i've been getting ALOT of emails from people who got the gift of tinnitus when their car airbags deployed.

i got MY tinnitus from being trapped in a building, when some idiots employed by jefferson canyon apartments did a "fire alarm test"

find of funny how these things that are SUPPOSED to HELP US, end up INJURING US.

in fact, there are LAWS that you HAVE TO have airbags, and fire alarms.

what happens when we're injured by the things designed to "help" us? why is there no recourse? at the very least, why isn't there at least A LITTLE PUBLICITY -- SO MORE PEOPLE DON'T GET INJURED

funny, how the world is

jefferson canyon apartments in austin texas

i was given tinnitus by
jefferson canyon apts austin, and i wanted to print a link to them, as my other jefferson canyon apts link stopped working.

i was told (by attorneys) that hearing injuries aren't taken seriously, at least in austin texas. jefferson canyon apts austin trapped me in a building while they set off fire alarms (The Jefferson Canyon Apts Fire Alarm "Test"). I would rather have burned in a fire.

today, i can barely talk on a telephone; it's either too loud (which is like an icepick thru my ears, and makes my noise sensitivity and squealing, hissing and tinnitus bumble bee thumping MUCH worse), or it's too soft. it's irritating to people, because when i'm on the phone, i miss alot of the conversation.

jefferson canyon apts austin broke several laws. 1, they are required by law to give 24 hours notice of fire alarm testing. They DIDN'T. but, as the austin attorneys explained to me -- THEY DON'T GET IN TROUBLE FOR THAT.

they ruined my health, but there are no SPECIFIC laws about ruining a person's hearing, so -- JEFFERSON CANYON APTS AUSTIN WON'T GET IN TROUBLE FOR THAT.

if the jefferson canyon apt alarm testers had said, Get out of here, we're setting off the alarms, I would have run outside to safety.

they didn't. i said, "give me 30 seconds to put on clothes" (i was in pajamas; it was early in the morning)

they guys waited until i'd shut the door and was dressing, to say " too much work to do; we're turning them on."

i had oral cortisone, injections of cortisone, various medications. nothing has worked.

the manager of jefferson canyon apts told me the alarms will continue to go off there for no reason. she said they have no control over them. i said, THIS IS IMPORTANT. I NEED TO KNOW WHEN YOU'RE SENDING GUYS OUT TO TEST THE ALARMS.

the jefferson canyon apartment manager GUARANTEED me the alarms would keep going off, for no reason at all. "they malfunction," she said.

jefferson canyon is a christian organization. when you live there, you find that out. i got ALL the notices of BIBLE STUDY on sundays; i DIDN'T get the notice jefferson canyon was going to be testing fire alarms

if this is the way christians treat people, i think i'm going to become an atheist.

i'm far too kind to fit in with their group.

that's
jefferson canyon apts in austin texas. rent there at your own risk.

tinnitus depression

haven't posted in the tinnitus blog for a while.

tinnitus causes depression -- severely.

people write me. i got active in the tinnitus online community a while ago. hoping to get in contact with people whose tinnitus had improved. hoping to find out what meds they took, etc.

unfortunately, nearly everyone emails my tinnitus page in a PANIC. HELP! doctors don't understand it; no one's studying tinnitus. most have severe depression - we can call it Tinnitus Depression. and anxiety.

a guy wrote me, "I'm a nervous type. Do you think this contributed to my tinnitus?"

i wrote back, "No." saying depression or anxiety causes tinnitus is like kicking a guy who has a broken leg; you might make him MORE AWARE he's got a leg problem, but you're not the cause of the break.

if a guy falls off a roof and snaps his spine, a doctor will treat his depression. if a person with TINNITUS is depressed, that same doctor may consider the tinnitus a psychiatric problem, and refer the patient to a shrink.

why is this?

i got severe tinnitus and recruitment when an apartment complex (jefferson canyon apartments in austin texas), trapped me inside a building while they "tested" fire alarms.

i didn't have tinnitus or recruitment before, but i certainly had tinnitus and recruitment after.

it's called acoustic trauma. i get letters from people who got their tinnitus when they car airbags inflated, or from being near a gun blast.

it's a PHYISCAL condition.

which usually leads to depression.

it's unrelenting. you can't sleep without medication, as the tinnitus noises in your ears are too loud. you can't turn up your stereo etc loud enough to drown those sounds out.

tinnitus depression. i can't really even take care of myself anymore. recruitment = sensitivity to sound. the sound of a car engine is fantastically painful; even indoors, the sound of airplanes, etc drives me crazy. it makes me depressed. tinnitus depression.

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no one would question depression causing a broken back. but some doctors (the BAD ones), think tinnitus is a psychiatric problem. because SO MANY OF THEIR PATIENTS WITH TINNITUS HAVE DEPRESSION ( or anxiety ).

disturbing