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How do you cope with tinnitus? I suddenly developed one a few days ago and am devastated.
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I don't do 'official' yoga/meditation but I have my own version of those, including the long walks I mentioned, and it helps. And not just with tinnitus. With my whole life.
Not even considering the possibility that one of them may be incompetent, it's always a good idea to get multiple opinions. Doctors are people and like all of us they may not know everything about the issue at stake.
To give you an idea how it matters: had I only listened to the first eye doctor I consulted (a years long practitioner of mine), I would have lost my eyesight some 10 years ago. Becoming legally blind (I had already scheduled a formation to learn to read Braille). I did not become blind (not yet) for a single reason: I decided to get another advice. Thx to a a first doctor that mentioned some experimental type of thingy that was going at some place I had never heard of, and then took on herself to ask the doctors doing that experiment to meet me, and thx to them considering I could be good candidate, almost 10 years later I still see. To me, it is not just a daily miracle (it is, even though I'm a non-believer, it is the miracle of people being able to do scientific research and experiment), it's also an acute reminder that one should never settle with a single opinion ;)
And btw, the first doctor was not an incompetent one. She was just not aware of the latest things that were going on.
And you should not. Get another opinion. I'm not saying those meds are responsible (no idea about that) but they could be. And that possibility alone warrants itself a visit to a different doctor, if not two. Se my previous remark.