hello from acrross the pond

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your thread showed up in my search for this. Let me give you my story. I was in the us army for 14 years as an infantryman. I have fired all sizes of firearms from a rifle to a .50 bmg machine gun and different anti tank launchers. This sometimes without hearing protection due to it being in combat where we needd to hear everything. And tro top it off my armored vehicle hit an ied and i was injured bad enough to be medivac back to walter reed hospital in 38 hours from Afghanistan. So after all those years I have severe tinnitus in my left ear and moderate hearing loss in my right. Since being medically retired in 2012 my tinnitus is more, say, noticed because of normal quiet life conditions. Now the zaps, which I am betting you agree are the hardest thing to try and describe to a doctor. I have seen soo many doctors and 99% look at me like i am crazy and refer me somewhere else. i had a brain mri a few months ago and was negative but had a note of a possible sinus infection. I get these zaps any time of day, almost every day. It usually happens to me when I turn my head or my eyes and it straight up stops my thought process for a half second and i grunt a little from the pain. yeah i look really sane when it happens lol. if i ever get a real answer i will repost so maybe we all can have relief. btw i am 46/m. NC USA

[armyssg]

and btw anyone who tells you it is anxiety is bollocks, if thats how you say it. we say full of ship here