I am both saddened and relieved to see so many people responding with subsequent tinnitus. Mine seems to have begun about two years after my rupture. It has gotten increasing louder to the point that I said to my wife this morning that I am going to make contact with Mass Eye and Ear which has a dedicated unit dealing with tinnitus. At least now I can report that this seems to be an after effect of the aneurysm. I think the frustrating part is that the neurosurgeons do not know all of the side effects, so they are quick to say that it is unrelated to the aneurysm.
When I told my surgeon, they expanded the effort during my most recent angiogram and there is no medical reason in my head/brain for the tinnitus. This was somewhat relieving in that there are some forms of tinnitus - the pulsating like blood rushing/heart beating - that can be indicative of an aneurysm. Fortunately, that wasnât my problem.
@BrianS its wonderful to see you back, youâve always been a wealth of knowledge and compassion! I wonder with so many of us who have developed tinnitus after a repair, that the medical community doesnât collect the data to see the correlation we all lean towards. Perhaps they are like my first Algebra teacher on the first day of class when he wrote 2 + 2 = 0 and proceeded to show ho we were incorrect thinking it was 4. Please share with us what the special team tells you, I am very interested in knowing as Iâm sure others are as well,
Let me know if it works for you as well as it has for me. It took a week or two, canât remember as Iâve used it a good long time, all I can remember is what my PCP told me to try and that it usually takes a couple of weeks for things to change.
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, I was told that the tinnitus was related to hearing loss. They performed a fairly comprehensive hearing test and while they canât say the aneurysm isnât related, they point to the hearing loss as the reason for the tinnitus. So the next step is to wry to work with someone on how to mitigate the problem. The more I read posts in this forum, the more grateful I am to be living near Boston where healthcare is second to none.
Thatâs interesting @BrianS, my hearing improved dramatically after rupture and I developed tinnitus. Just goes to show that we are all different I guess.