15th
What is Causing my Tinnitus
I am one of the millions of people around the world who unfortunately has a ringing in the ears. Although my case of ear ringing is one that is bearable, I was still puzzled and curious to know what is causing my tinnitus. I started to notice my ringing in the ears when I had my sinusitis. This honestly made me think that my sinusitis caused my tinnitus.
I went to an ENT specialist when I was beginning to feel fullness in my ear and the physician removed some discharges in my ears which gave me relief from the itchy sensation and fullness of my ears, but my ringing in ears was still audible. So this made me think twice if my sinusitis was a factor causing my tinnitus.
As explained by my physician, we all have mucous in our mucous membranes and these drains from our middle ear down to the throat while passing the Eustachian tubes. Our Eustachian tube is a very narrow tube. For a person having sinusitis, the mucous production is abnormally thick that it cannot pass thru the Eustachian tube. This causes the buildup in our inner ears, thus making us hear an ear ringing.
What I was wondering about was why I still continue to hear a ringing in the ears now that I no longer have a sinusitis. To fully understand what was going on, I decided to do my own research, hoping to find the answers to all my questions, and this is what I found.
There are several causes of tinnitus, like impacted earwax, frequent exposure to loud noise, punctured ear drums, ear infections, presbycusis, Meniere’s disease, tumors, head and neck injury. Aside from the causes of tinnitus, there are also factors that aggravate a tinnitus which can make the ringing in the ears sound much louder like stress, anxiety, allergies, colds and loud noise.
Having known all these facts, it made me think what is causing my tinnitus. I do have a small puncture in my eardrums. This is what I think causes my ringing in the ears, while my sinusitis was the one aggravating it. The intensity of the sound of the ringing in ears for each person having a tinnitus can range from mild to severe. In my case, the ear ringing was just mild without a sinusitis but intensifies everytime I have a sinusitis.
Things are now clearer for me. What is causing my tinnitus was my punctured eardrums and my sinusitis was the one aggravating it. Which is why I only notice my tinnitus everytime I have a sinusitis.
