AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
Okay... so... I had an appointment with my ENT two days before I ended the Prednisone round.... GREAT NEWS: My hearing was **almost** completely back to normal! I was still down in the "abnormal" range for low and high tones, but not too far away from normal range.... SO, my ENT and I agreed that I'd finish out the round of prednisone and hopefully the rest would be history... problem solved... he scheduled another appointment on the 22nd, just in case. And then said to call if it got worse so we could do a shorter, hard and fast batch of Prednisone.
So... the day after I finish the Prednisone, I get this incredibly high-pitched ringing in my left ear... I go to my work, pick up the hand-held phone and what-do-ya-know.... funny sounding dial tone and that's right, no tones when I punch the different numbers... SO... not ONLY am I back to square one, but NOW I have this TOTALLY OBNOXIOUS CONSTANT ringing in my left ear.... So... back on the Prednisone I go... and 5 days in - NO CHANGE! I'm pretty sure that on my last round of Prednisone I'd noticed a difference by now. This is SOOOOOOOOOOO frustraing!!!!
What did I do to deserve this???? I can't hear Christmas music like I normally can... It makes me VERY annoyed to know that I'm missing sounds.... The Prednisone is starting to mess with my mood AND the stupid heartburn and CONSTANT ringing noise keeps me up half the night!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sigh...
This sucks. I'm terrified that this ringing is permanent... and I might never enjoy the sound of silence ever again.
Perspective: Billions of people have worse problems. It's liveable, annoying, frustrating and depressing but liveable...
Sigh... sorry to all who I've been short with the last few weeks... I'm tired, hopped up on steroids and stressed. I hope this is just a stress/virus thing that will go away eventually. If not, I hope I learn to be at peace with it, soon.
