I'm wondering if anyone else is suffering from tinnitus due to covid or covid vaccines, and what your experiences are?
I got hit with it about 6 weeks ago. It started with headaches and tinnitus, but I didn't recognize what it was. At the time I was working out every other day, doing both interval and weight training. I cut back on intensity but continued workouts as I wasn't feeling fatigue and they made me feel better. After a week to 10 days I went back to normal intensity and ended up in the ER the next day as I thought I might pass out. Blood work and ct scan of my head came back with no issues, so they sent me home to follow up with a general care dr, who has been useless so far. Neither the ER nor general doc ever tested me for covid or antibodies, so I'm guessing on the covid diagnosis but can't think of anything else, and the headache/tinnitus symptoms fit. I believe my issue was a result of training while having covid.
Now I'm dealing with some major health issues, my nervous system went haywire... my heartrate and blood pressure went way up, sleep and digestion were disrupted, fatigue, brain fog, more tinnitus. After a month keeping my hr under 125 bpm I'm ramping up, and while its up and down, I'm making progress... but tinnitus is still as bad as it ever was and seems pretty random. Exercise seems to help to some degree, but then it can cause sleep disruption which seems to result in worse tinnitus. Often my hr after exercise is elevated for hours, then I don't sleep well. Sleep itself causes tinnitus, if I nod off watching a movie at night without tinnitus, I wake up with tinnitus. This is the only factor that is very consistent. Also, being in a noisy restaurant or driving at highway speeds with the windows down seems to bring it on as well. I do get some times when it goes away, but half the days it does not. I have to sleep with white noise, but the tinnitus is high pitched, like being in a room full of CRT TVs that have that 18 kHz tone from flyback transformers, so its nearly impossible to mask fully.
I'm just going to have to be patient and hope for the best, but if anyone has any experiences to share, supplements or anything else that has helped them, I'd be interested to hear it... thanks!
I got hit with it about 6 weeks ago. It started with headaches and tinnitus, but I didn't recognize what it was. At the time I was working out every other day, doing both interval and weight training. I cut back on intensity but continued workouts as I wasn't feeling fatigue and they made me feel better. After a week to 10 days I went back to normal intensity and ended up in the ER the next day as I thought I might pass out. Blood work and ct scan of my head came back with no issues, so they sent me home to follow up with a general care dr, who has been useless so far. Neither the ER nor general doc ever tested me for covid or antibodies, so I'm guessing on the covid diagnosis but can't think of anything else, and the headache/tinnitus symptoms fit. I believe my issue was a result of training while having covid.
Now I'm dealing with some major health issues, my nervous system went haywire... my heartrate and blood pressure went way up, sleep and digestion were disrupted, fatigue, brain fog, more tinnitus. After a month keeping my hr under 125 bpm I'm ramping up, and while its up and down, I'm making progress... but tinnitus is still as bad as it ever was and seems pretty random. Exercise seems to help to some degree, but then it can cause sleep disruption which seems to result in worse tinnitus. Often my hr after exercise is elevated for hours, then I don't sleep well. Sleep itself causes tinnitus, if I nod off watching a movie at night without tinnitus, I wake up with tinnitus. This is the only factor that is very consistent. Also, being in a noisy restaurant or driving at highway speeds with the windows down seems to bring it on as well. I do get some times when it goes away, but half the days it does not. I have to sleep with white noise, but the tinnitus is high pitched, like being in a room full of CRT TVs that have that 18 kHz tone from flyback transformers, so its nearly impossible to mask fully.
I'm just going to have to be patient and hope for the best, but if anyone has any experiences to share, supplements or anything else that has helped them, I'd be interested to hear it... thanks!