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Life With Tinnitus: The Struggle is Real
It was October last year, I was at my boyfriend’s house watching Pose on a Saturday night. Suddenly I start noticing a sound of a heartbeat in my left ear and that night I couldn’t sleep.
The next day, the sound was still there. I didn’t know that time that my journey with Tinnitus had started. If you don’t have Tinnitus, you probably don’t know what it’s.
Tinnitus is a symptom that something is wrong with your body, your mind and your soul. The more anxious I am, the louder is the heartbeat. I also get a ringing noise, which can be stronger or weaker depending on how I am feeling.
Some people have the heartbeat unstoppable, I am luckier and up to this point it comes and goes. While the ringing stays all the time. I can listen to it every single day, the only change is the intensity.
After 7 months of living with Tinnitus, I can say I am used to it, but sometimes it makes my life much harder as I can sleep if I focus on the noise, or I get anxious about hearing the noise.
I wish I didn’t have Tinnitus. I wish I could go back to the time when I didn’t have a constant ring in my ears (the worse one is the left ear, but sometimes I can hear on the right as well).
When I first got it, I did a lot of research, and unfortunately, there is no cure and…
