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Julie - 06 Jan 2006 00:42 GMT

Hi gang. Looking for feedback regarding ringing in my head after my
MRI. My MRI was 3 weeks ago and I remember saying to my husband that it
was difficult to go to sleep that night because of the ringing in my
head. (It was extremely noisy) I continue to complain. I did some
research with my doctor and talked to the MRI tech, so at least I'm not
going crazy.

Have any of you had this difficulty, if so how long did it last?

Thanks,
Julie

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purple-cow - 06 Jan 2006 19:27 GMT

Julie,
I have not, or at least don't recall, had any ringing in my head after any
of my MRIs (other than the phone), but I have searched the Internet and
found only one that might be interesting for you.

http://www.medhelp.org/forums/neuro/archive/12724.html

Bruce

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charlie and grace - 09 Jan 2006 03:55 GMT

purple cow, How ya doing? Can you find any interviews about people who have
AVM'S?

> Julie,
> I have not, or at least don't recall, had any ringing in my head after any
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> Bruce

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purple-cow - 09 Jan 2006 04:54 GMT

Healthwise, I'm doing ok; Still waiting for something to happen, and if, or
when it does, I will see it as Santa Claus giving me the number 1 gift I've
wanted since October last year (2005).

If you're referring to arteriovenous malformations as being AVMs, I have
posted just a few of web sites that I found, right on here. If this was
not what you were referring to, please explain more details about what
you're searching for.

http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/surgery.html

http://www.epilepsy.com/pubmed/pubmed.php?article=16377841

I checked one huge forum I'm also a memeber of and found that one catagory
is for arteriovenous malformation. It is located at...
http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=88

http://www.neurologyindia.com/article.asp?issn=0028-3886;year=2001;volume=49;iss
ue=3;spage=308;epage=10;aulast=Caksen

Please inform me if any of these help, and or if you'd like for me to do
some more searching.

Bruce

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Malcolm - 06 Jan 2006 21:12 GMT

>Hi gang. Looking for feedback regarding ringing in my head after my
>MRI. My MRI was 3 weeks ago and I remember saying to my husband that it
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>
>Have any of you had this difficulty, if so how long did it last?

Nah, sorry Julie. Difficult to believe but I dozed off in the MRI last
time I was done and had to be woken up at the end, but at least I was an
immobile patient.

Is it still going on after 3 weeks? If the noise was really loud it can
set off tinnitus due to damaging the cilia in the cochlea. Whether
that's permanent or temporary depends on exactly how loud. If your
hearing is impaired due to the noise it's likely that you have Temporary
Threshold Shift (TTS) which should return to normal within six weeks. If
it takes longer then there's likely to be a long term residual effect :(

Somewhere on the Net there's a graph showing recovery times (I looked
into it in depth a couple of years ago after a very close explosion sent
me deaf in one ear) but I've had a quick hunt for it and can't find it.
You could try Googling "TTS decibel tinnitus" or something like that (if
you haven't already done so!).

They should have given you ear defenders if it was a loud machine.

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Malcolm

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jan - 09 Jan 2006 01:59 GMT

Hi Julie. My 18 year old daughter has had epilepsy for 5 years. It is
uncontrolled. We have tried numerous drugs. She has the whole range of
seizures, including nocturnal. She has a seizure most days and nights.
She lives at home with me, cannot drive, work or go to school. She was
also born with a moderate hearing loss. But in her opinion her worst
problem is the constant ringing in her ears. She has had this problem
for 12 months now. On a recent hearing test she was unable to complete
it as the ringing was too loud. Emily has had a MRI a fair while ago
and I had never thought of there being a conection. I will go back and
find out the times to see if there is a connection of the date. and let
you know. I'm sorry to say at this stage emily's ear ringing has not
abated at all and is so loud at times she has trouble hearing people
talk. As you said night times are the worst. Soft music playing
sometimes masks it.

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Julie - 09 Jan 2006 19:38 GMT

Hi Jan, sorry to hear about your daughter's problems. I did a little
research about tinnitus and MRI. The interesting thing was that most of
the information discussed the problem coming with people with hearing
loss. My hearing seems just fine. Part of the testing they recommend for
tinnitus is an MRI - ha! I think I'll try to get by without further
testing. Actually it does seem to be getting a bit better. I'm hoping
that as Malcolm said it will go away in about 6 weeks. It will be
interesting to discuss this further with my epileptologist.

One thing I will also mention to him is one of things that I fear will
trigger a seizure for me is when I am not feeling quite right and I get
into an environment that is a crowd, it could be a restaurant or a coliseum
full of people. They are just talking, but to me it sounds 10 times louder
and I have to leave the environment. This doesn't happen all the time,
just some times.

Anyone else have this problem with your sense of hearing being extremely
heightened?

Take care,
Julie

> Hi Julie. My 18 year old daughter has had epilepsy for 5 years. It is
> uncontrolled. We have tried numerous drugs. She has the whole range of
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> talk. As you said night times are the worst. Soft music playing
> sometimes masks it.

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gomper - 10 Jan 2006 14:53 GMT

> One thing I will also mention to him is one of things that I fear will
> trigger a seizure for me is when I am not feeling quite right and I get
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> Anyone else have this problem with your sense of hearing being extremely
> heightened?

Well, me for one. It's not that I fear (or feel like) it will be
triggering a seizure, it's just that it makes me feel extremely
uncomfortable, and then, perhaps, getting a bit anxious about loosing
control. It normally helps to keep a conversation going with anyone I
may be there with, just to focus on something that will keep the noise
out. Focusing is one of my main tools for keeping control anyway, just
concentrating on the breath going in and out will normally almost
immediately help relaxing and gaining recontrol. To me, it will also
work in the seizure-related anxiety attacks. Feel free to try it :-). My
main problem, I guess, is to *remember* to focus on something neutral in
situations like that.
Also, this doesn't apply only to noises in my case, so I think your
subject *senses* overwhelmed makes a lot of sense.

/\
ole k

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Julie - 10 Jan 2006 20:21 GMT

Hi Ole, see my note below between ************* -- Julie

> > One thing I will also mention to him is one of things that I fear will
> > trigger a seizure for me is when I am not feeling quite right and I get
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> may be there with, just to focus on something that will keep the noise
> out.

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Hi Ole, now that you mention it, I have used this technique when flying. I have
had bad flight experiences, so I knew I needed to keep my mind on something,
being able to talk to someone helped. I was flying alone. The plane was almost
full and a young man (college age) got on the plane with his parents. I motioned
to the seat next to me and the young man sat next to me. To my delight he was a
football player coming to our city to play for the university. I talked to him a
bit about his passion (football) and then about a subject I have a passion for
(the Bible) and we had a very nice discussion for the entire trip. I was so
happy to make it without any problems with noise, or epilepsy. After the flight
he introduced me to his parents and his mother told me that she was so surprised
to see him talking with me. She said he is usually so shy. So I agree focusing
is a very good tool. -- Julie
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> Focusing is one of my main tools for keeping control anyway, just
> concentrating on the breath going in and out will normally almost
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> /\
> ole k

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Chris Lesurf - 16 Jan 2006 06:38 GMT

I get tinnitus now and again when I'm having one of my depressive states
(as I also have bi-polar disorder) but it has never been triggered by MRIs
- I assume they're the same as what I call EMIscans.
Chris L.

> > Hi Julie. My 18 year old daughter has had epilepsy for 5 years. It is
> > uncontrolled. We have tried numerous drugs. She has the whole range of
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> > talk. As you said night times are the worst. Soft music playing
> > sometimes masks it.

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