Is tinnitus worse after translab or retro?

[Lynn Mc]

I just tried the gaze thing... looked to my sad side & it definitely got louder!!!  Loud background noises also make it worse.  It also really jumps to a higher pitch when I am calling someone.... it gets louder as the phone is ringing in my good ear!

[nftwoed]

Hi Marianna;

   My feeling is tinnitus is related more to the degree of hearing loss than Tx type, as is the brain searching for a good signal from the auditory nerve at the cochlear nucleus on the brain stem. The brain simply will not accept a less than perfect signal.

Marianna .....

I had retrosigmoid.  No tinnitus until after surgery.  Initially it was only in my AN ear, now I have it in my "good" ear, only not as loud.

From my limited research, some researchers think tinnitus is a function of the brain filling in for lessening auditory input.  However, I have perfectly normal hearing in my non-AN ear so that would not account for my developing tinnitus in that ear now.

Clarice

[JAndrews]

Me too!!! I had no idea that this happened to other people! When I gaze in the direction opposite of surgery the tinnitus gets louder. When water is running I sometimes get like a louder more jolting sound. My tinnitus is the same noise level as it was prior to translab...but it makes many different noises. Sometimes I need to take a sleeping pill...but not to often. Sometimes it beeps, whooshes, crickets, or just high pitched ringing

[BrandyDWade]

I had translab and I have had no tinnitus after surgery.  I had just a little bit (just a few minutes each day) before surgery.  But I have none now.  whoo hoo!