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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone. I was hoping to hear about other people’s experiences of managing their jobs or careers with this condition.

What I’m noticing right now is that it’s becoming harder to get through the week.  By Friday, I am beat.  I try to sleep off during Saturday, Sunday and recuperate.  So far, I am a strong performer. However, it is much harder to achieve than when I didn’t have this condition.  It’s been six months.  Compared to the onset, when I had to take the whole week off, I feel much better. The noise level is less, but it is still there. 
on the scale from 0 to 10 the noise is probably 3 to 6 depending on how stressed I am.  It wakes me up multiple times at night and keeps me up for sometime before going back to sleep and other challenges during the day. I am yet to complete my follow-ups with ENT, but hearing loss isn’t yet affirmative - I need to do some more follow up.

I am by myself to figure this out. My spouse is just different kind of person - he’s not interested in my health news and when I try to share, he gets frustrated so I don’t discuss these things with him anymore.

So it’s pretty difficult because I don’t know how to go about it essentially, I don’t know if I’m supposed to keep pushing through it and keep hoping it’ll go away but it’s been six months. I don’t know if other people have it as bad as me and they just brave through the days. I’m just trying to figure out how to handle it and at what point sharing with HR or others and scale back. I don’t know if it’s gonna get better. At least I started beginners’ meditation and in the past I couldn’t do anything like that only cardio type active.

I also feel I’m withdrawing from people because of this condition. I am upset because I can no longer volunteer to cool projects because I have to keep in mind my energy level.

Yes, I would love to hear how you handled your career when you got tinnitus?[/quote]

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