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Daughter sent home from school yesterday afternoon (well, I got called to pick her up), very distressed by what she described as a buzzing in her forehead. Seems to have eased a bit over night, but still there.
Waiting for a chat with the GP but in the meantime Dr Google suggests tinnitus. I'd always thought of it as an ear/hearing issue, but apparently can be within the head, and can be triggered by anxiety, which surprised me.
The anxiety could be a thing - always thought our kids are pretty resilient, but eldest was having a Covid wobble yesterday around his A levels, their grandparents who they are close to but haven't been able to see all year are in a very poor way, she's had a couple of big foreign trips cancelled, rescheduled and cancelled again, so lots going on in an introverted teenage head.
It's blown her 100% secondary school attendance though 🤣
Is she worried about her grades? All 'B's?
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I have it. After an assessment in hospital a couple of weeks back I was told that you can get in a vicious circle: The more you stress the more obvious it gets causing you to stress more… and so on until it sounds like a jet engine. He told me to ignore it and that seems to work!
However, this is just me, a 51 year old bloke, and mine is brought about by age related high end hearing loss.
Disclaimer: Dr Google & Dr Singletrack are not qualified medical professionals/plumbers/lawyers.
Is she worried about her grades? All ‘B’s?
Excellent work 👏👏
I can see how worrying about something caused by worrying is a downward spiral, have had my own battles around that over the years.
OK I'll stop being a dick now.
I have tinnitus, since the 80s and too many loud gigs. High pitched whine, in waves of 2-3 seconds, so nothing like your girl. However in reading around the subject, the central buzzing is certainly a thing, as is a percussive type which popped up with me about a month ago when all my sinuses and tubes were more bunged up than usual. Thinking this was new and likely related I googled manipulative ways to clear the tubes and sinuses. Found this vid from a chiro, basically a bunch of different places to massage and manipulate, while being relaxing too. Helped a lot and got rid of the percussive tinnitus pretty much straight away. (No crazy chiro clicking involved.)
OP, firstly I really feel for your daughter. Experiencing tinnitus for the first time can be unpleasant and very frightening.
Disclaimer, I'm not a doctor. I've had nearly 20 years, and after the initial shock I learnt to live with it. However is recent weeks it has gone up a notch or two, to a level that is making it more of a challenge to live with.
Inevitably, I've been digging around online and there are discussions amongst the online tinnitus community saying that tinnitus is possibly a symptom of C-19 (making existing T worse or triggering T in people with no previous history) Here's one of a few articles out there: Science Daily
Has your daughter had a C-19 test?
In addition to an increase in Tinnitus I've been experiencing headaches for several days, something I never get. The ZOE covid symptom tracker app suggested I have a test, the results of which are due any day now. It will interesting to see the results and if the increase in T linked to C-19.
On another tip, I've been taking Vitamin D3 for 3 months and I did wonder if Vit D could be making my T worse. My Mum of 75 has tinnitus, she also takes Vit D and her tinnitus is worse since taking it.
Looking again to the online tinnitus community there are people suggesting a possible link between taking Vit D and an increase in tinnitus. One school of thought is, if you take Vit D you also need magnesium (which I haven't been taking). If the C-19 test comes back negative I'll pursue the Vit D + magnesium route, or maybe eliminate Vit D and see what happens.
Getting to the point, is your daughter taking Vit D?
I wish your daughter the very best and I hope it's just a blip and that the T will pass.
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