You're not the only one dealing with it.. those around you are too...
I have both Tinnitus and Hyperacusis. The Tinnitus started two days before I had my surgery, they waited to long to do the surgery because I was still very sick at the time and pumped me with antibiotics enough to clear me for surgery.
However when I woke not only was the tinnitus still there... but on top of that the nerve damage which occurred during the double surgery gave me Hyperacusis ..
When people are talking I really have to focus in on what they are saying if there tone of voice is in a range that is hard for me to hear and read their lips because it's hard to hear it over the tinnitus and all the back ground noise's which are now amplified to me. It can be quite painful at time. And yes that is why my life is so structured around silence, low volume environments, and away from anything that can drop or alarms that may go off.
I'm trying to get into the doctor in Ithica because tinnitus retraining therapy actually trains the brain to ignore and in positive cases not receive the sound signals in our head. It doesn't always work, for some people the training itself is painful and they can't do it. but I'm willing to try it once if no pain I'll continue.
With restaurants or gathering of friends I need to keep it just a few people really no more than 4 because it's like information overload.. my brain is already blocked with the tinnitus.. all the sounds around us is amplified and to try to hear say your talking to me across the table is almost impossible.
So it's not that I'm meaning to be unsocial with friends.. it breaks my heart that I can't hear the things important to me.. it makes me cry and just want to go home feeling disappointed in myself and my abilities.
It's an invisible disability... and one day just waking up with it... it is a HUGE SHOCK to come to terms with.. but through all this I am blessed with knowing how grateful I am for the hearing I do have.
(I live in fear of one more infection hitting me and it all being ripped away)
I'm learning how to be the human frogger... almost got hit three times but that just means people need to be more alert with their driving.... I can only control my actions not the drivers.
However when I woke not only was the tinnitus still there... but on top of that the nerve damage which occurred during the double surgery gave me Hyperacusis ..
When people are talking I really have to focus in on what they are saying if there tone of voice is in a range that is hard for me to hear and read their lips because it's hard to hear it over the tinnitus and all the back ground noise's which are now amplified to me. It can be quite painful at time. And yes that is why my life is so structured around silence, low volume environments, and away from anything that can drop or alarms that may go off.
I'm trying to get into the doctor in Ithica because tinnitus retraining therapy actually trains the brain to ignore and in positive cases not receive the sound signals in our head. It doesn't always work, for some people the training itself is painful and they can't do it. but I'm willing to try it once if no pain I'll continue.
With restaurants or gathering of friends I need to keep it just a few people really no more than 4 because it's like information overload.. my brain is already blocked with the tinnitus.. all the sounds around us is amplified and to try to hear say your talking to me across the table is almost impossible.
So it's not that I'm meaning to be unsocial with friends.. it breaks my heart that I can't hear the things important to me.. it makes me cry and just want to go home feeling disappointed in myself and my abilities.
It's an invisible disability... and one day just waking up with it... it is a HUGE SHOCK to come to terms with.. but through all this I am blessed with knowing how grateful I am for the hearing I do have.
(I live in fear of one more infection hitting me and it all being ripped away)
I'm learning how to be the human frogger... almost got hit three times but that just means people need to be more alert with their driving.... I can only control my actions not the drivers.
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