Neurology Diagnostics

Posts Tagged ‘cause of tinnitus’

There are many difficult issues to deal with tinnitus that sometimes patients who have this incessant ear ringing in his head just want to resign to defeat. Some of the difficulties include:

1.) Difficulty to describe the sounds to your doctor – Is it ear ringing, whizzing, whooshing, whirring, a keen wine? The problem is exacerbated by the fact they often you’re the only one who can hear. Often, even their medical diagnostic tools can not pick up the sounds, which can often lead you to feel like it’s going a bit nuts.

2.) Determine the cause of your tinnitus – Have you suffered hearing loss or is completely unrelated to how well you hear? Is caused by TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder) in your jaw? Is this a reaction to aspirin? Or have a low level of serotonin? How about an ear injury or infection? There are many different things that can cause tinnitus that can be difficult to obtain an accurate diagnosis.

3.) Lack of a cure – there are a variety of treatments that can reduce the tinnitus ear ringing and it could simply disappear altogether, but no real known medical cure for the disease. You can not just take a pill or have surgery and remove it. Read the rest of this entry »