Tinnitus update

For several days my tinnitus and vertigo were getting progressively worse, which made me once again worry that I am developing Ménière’s disease, which has a prognosis that is very much Not Good.

And I mentioned this on a friend’s Discord’s venting channel, and someone else replied:

I had a family member diagnosed with Ménière’s and it turned out to actually be TMJ dysfunction from teeth grinding.

It was causing Eustachian tube swelling and thus the vertigo

This was actually super informative, because I’ve always had TMJ issues and pretty bad bruxism!

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Update-dumping

It’s been a little while again! I think I like these collected updates rather than doing daily micro-dumps, and it’s also nice posting it here instead of on Mastodon or whatever. Timeline-based social media kinda bums me out these days.

But yeah today I’m feeling pretty accomplished!

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