Tinnitusbegone

[Tinnitusbegone]

Hello everyone. I've been offered a course of steroid injections to help with my Tinnitus. Does anyone have any experience of these please?

[Notreve7766]

Hi Tinnitusbegone

Have they said how the steroids will help?

[Tinnitusbegone in reply to Notreve7766]

Hello. No not yet, I have a review in 3 months time when I hope to get some answers.

[Notreve7766 in reply to Tinnitusbegone]

I recommend you discuss this with them in as much detail as you can to help you make an informed choice. I would prepare questions like How will they help? what problem are they treating? How do the injections help? how does that work? etc

Anything that reduces Anxiety will help so that's always a good starting point for assessing if something is worth doing or not.

Keep us posted - be interested to hear about what happens in the future

[Tinnitusbegone in reply to Notreve7766]

Thank you, I will do.

[Jimbob7]

I think they can offer them if they suspect Timpani damage but my understanding is that that needs to be a very early treatment, I mean within days following the onset or physical trauma, etc, that caused the sudden T.

The injection consist of a steroid and Diazepam that in conjuction with one another help build up the layers of the inner ear canal and repair any nerve and fibrous material damage. My findings were that it could have helped me but days became weeks, and months and the window of opportunity for steroids closed as I was passed between ENT, Audiology, Neurology and back and forth with no clear diagnosis of cause.

So if they have offered you them - get on the phone now and pester them with questions and tell them to get on with it.

That's my own research in to my own condition so for goodness sake don't take it as gospel.

Always do your own research.

[Tinnitusbegone in reply to Jimbob7]

Thank you, I will certainly do the research. At my last appointment with an audiologist when discussing it with her, she was quite shocked they'd offered it to me. It is a trial so I'll make sure that it won't make things worse.

[Bigears1]

Personally I would run a mile.

Good luck.