Made an appt w Dr Hegarty a month ago intending it to be my exit from his care. It was preceded by a week trip to visit mom, interview & rescue diver. That was a week of eating out and not following my routine. I noticed mid-week that my tinnitus was louder. By the time I got to Phx for the dive class, my hearing was bad. How bad I had no idea.
My audiogram was the worst ever. Worse than when I started seeing the doc. He was very concerned but encouraged that I had not experienced any vertigo. Explained that the increased tinnitus is a symptom of a cochlea under pressure. He had never told me about that correlation. Vertigo would have been more serious requiring agressive therapy. Could have needed steroid injections into the ear to calm down the inflammation. Said the treatment was diuretics. Lots of diuretics. Doubled my dose for the next two weeks. He said that it's bad that I need to bump up my diuretic because I may not be able to get back to a lower dose.
It's been a lesson to stick to my dietary regimen. In the future, he said I should take an extra dose of diuretic when I feel the symptoms of increasing tinnitus, fullness and decreasing hearing coming on.
Three days now of extra diuretics. There is a slight improvement.
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