[Raspberry]

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Seriously guys, I have to rant, hearing loss, reaaaaaalllly????? Over the past year I’ve been managed with ATD’s such that my FT4 has stayed near the bottom of the range, because of this I’ve gained weight, battled depression, brain fog, joint pain, anxiety, dry skin, hair loss and various forms of misery. How this happened and what I’m doing about it belongs in another ranting post. But over these past few months I’ve been noticing some hearing loss and thinking about getting it officially looked into and THEN I find out that hypothyroidism and hearing loss are strongly LINKED. I can’t stand it, I can’t take it, I’ve had enough!!!!!!

I’m sure I’ll be chilled out tomorrow, thank you for reading my rant.

[Raspberry]

#1179009

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Deafness is a very characteristic and troublesome symptom of hypothyroidism. Both nerve and conduction deafness and combinations of the two have been reported, and vestibular abnormalities have also been demonstrated. Serous otitis media is not uncommon. Two-thirds of patients complain of dizziness, vertigo, or tinnitus occasionally: these problems again suggest damage to the eighth nerve or labyrinth, or possibly to the cerebellum. Whatever type of deafness is present, there is marked improvement after thyroid therapy. Acute thyroxine depletion caused by total thyroidectomy has no deleterious effects on hearing up to 6 weeks(11). Acquired hearing loss in association with adult-onset hypothyroidism should be distinguished from the sensorineural deafness of Pendred’s syndrome. In the latter, treatment of hypothyroidism does not correct the hearing defect. Night blindness is not uncommon. It is caused by a deficiency in the pigment retinene, which is required for the adaptation to dark.

Article…

[Gabe]

#1179010

Rant away….I feel the same way. What could possibly be next. I’m not sure there’s any body parts or functions left that aren’t impacted by all this. Very frustrating. I’m feeling you today. Lousy weekend, crying jags, bad headache, muscle aches. HATE THIS!!!

[vanillasky]

#1179011

Rant away and I will join you.

I’ve had tinnitus for 4 years. I have a constant ringing in my right ear. It drives me nuts.

I’ve had continuous ringing or sometimes, it’s just like a doorbell. It stops and starts. Know how annoying it can be when there is a mosquito buzzing around your ear? That’s exactly how it is.

I went to an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor a few years ago. He gave me Xanax. Said he had some success with this pill. Well, I took it for 2 months and nothing. I went back and he said there was a device they could implant in my ear but was not covered by insurance. He said he needed $1,500 just to implant it and then I would have to take “classes” on how to use it.

So I live with tinnitus. I try to ignore it. There are times when I want to cut my ear off. Alittle Vincent Van Gough there. However, I was told that wouldn’t work either because the noise comes from inside the body, not the ear itself so I would have no ear and still “hear” the ringing.

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On another fun note, I am going for uterine surgery this coming Friday. I had pre-op tests this past Friday. And have to see gynecologist tomorrow morning. yay…:rolleyes: Life is just a bowl of cherries, all ROTTEN ones.

Karen

[Raspberry]

#1179012

Thanks Karen and Karen!

Karen/Gabe, sorry you are having such a rough weekend. They say thyroid hormone affects every cell and function in our bodies and I guess they mean it. Still, I keep thinking I’ve reached the point that I understand the full impact, made my peace and then there’s something new…

Karen/Vanilla, tinnitus! Yep, I’ve had it for close to twenty years now – fortunately it’s not too extreme – the onset of it matches when I believe I developed subclinical hypothyroidism. My hearing seemed to be unaffected, but lately I’ll be talking to someone hearing them just fine and then suddenly it’s like their voice drops to half volume and I can’t understand them. Sometimes I ask them to repeat, sometimes I just guess what they said aargh, I’m not even 50! I don’t blame you for not wanting an expensive device like that – did the doctor say how sure it was to work? Tinnitus is also linked strongly to thyroid.

[vanillasky]

#1179013

@Raspberry: he mentioned that I would have to learn how to use it. It has a way of bouncing off sound waves that masks the tinnitus. But I think it’s a bunch of baloney myself.

[snelsen]

#1179014

I have had tinnitus for several decades. I have learned to pretty much ignore it. Sometimes, the crickets sound nice, like my childhood in the Midwest. Seattle does not “do” crickets!
I so understand!

The best I can wish for all you on this thread is that you begin to feel ok again My labs are all whacky, my TSH is alway suppressed. Not sure why. When I reduce Synthroid, I get super hyPO. which is a different kind of hell.

I wish that you never, ever, get TED as I did, almost 4 decades I was hyper in my20’s. It is a different kind of hell Not sure which I would choose. Neither of them.

Happy Mother’s Day, if you are one. My family is so dysfunctional, that my DIL is threatened by my presence, so I did not get to see one of my sons, on this day which is also his birthday. Holy cow.

But all is well. I flew back from Calif from visiting my wonderful daughter and had six people over for picos and wonderful salmon grilled on cedar planks. It’s all good, if we try super very hard to make it that way. Hint. It does not always work!!!
shirley

[Raspberry]

#1179015

Thanks Karen, it’s good to know such a device exists if I get really desperate. Right now I have two different pitches of tone to my tinnitus but it doesn’t bother me too much. Having to say “Whaaaat can your repeat that?” too often to people bothers me quite a lot lately.

Shirley, I’m glad you had a great visit with your daughter and that grilled salmon sounds delicious. You are right life is what we make it. Today life threw some new very unexpected crap at me and made me realize yesterday wasn’t so bad, maybe I need to live in the “now” haha.

[Kimberly]

#1179016

@Shirley – So glad that you had a great visit with your daughter, but sorry to hear about the family dynamics with your DIL.

@raspberry – I have *very* rare tinnitus. I also have loss of hearing at the higher frequencies…but I figure that my thyroid is probably less to blame than the many rock concerts that I attended in college with no earplugs! (Ah, to be young and “invincible” again!)

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