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Tinnitus news
26/11/2007
Everyone wishes popular DJ best of luck
Popular Sunderland Sun FM DJ Ashleigh Whitfield is about to go into hospital to undergo an operation that, it is hoped, will prevent her going deaf. Whitfield, 27, suffers from a condition called otosclerosis, which is characterised by an abnormal growth of bone tissue in the middle ear as well as symptoms of tinnitus.
For a long time, the DJ had just assumed that the ringing in her ears was tinnitus caused by long hours spent wearing headphones while performing her professional role. However, she has now discovered that she needs the operation to save her from going completely deaf in her right ear doctors say her left ear is too injured to be considered viable for the same operation.
Commenting on her impending operation, she said, "I am absolutely terrified. I have never had an operation before, but I am sure they will take good care of me and I will be alright.
Otosclerosis is a little known condition, mostly affecting women in their twenties. It is often handed down in the genes and includes symptoms of dizziness, loss of balance, loss of hearing and tinnitus.
The DJ, who will be absent from her job for two weeks as she recovers from her operation, elaborated on her condition, "The buzzing is really loud. I wish I could describe it. It is very distracting and it drives me absolutely mental."
Had she only had tinnitus, she might have been able, like so many others in the UK, to make a work injury compensation claim for tinnitus.
