Recent content by _Chris

I haven't been to the site in a long time, but here is an update. I have had tinnitus for a bit over 2 years now. I think I have become a little bit habituated. Throughout the first year, I was reluctant to acknowledge any progress out of a superstitious fear that I would jinx myself. Today I...

I think there is a connection with stress and anxiety. It doesn't seem to be immediate and direct. However, I've found that more stressful times roughly correlate with periods where tinnitus has been more intrusive. Weekends typically feel a little better and Monday is often the roughest day of...

I have just now seen your post. I have not been on this site much since December. After a while, there isn't a whole lot more to read about tinnitus. Every now and then it gets me down, and success stories help in those times. I'm hanging in there. Speaking generally, things are a little bit...

Absolutely. It can be very hard to ignore it at times, but I keep trying different strategies. One thing that I have been trying to do, when I find myself on the mental treadmill of observing and analyzing tinnitus, is to acknowledge what I am doing and articulate what the effects of this...

Yes, I agree with pretty much everything you said above. I am working through it with a therapist who has helped me to realize that... A huge part of me is really strongly still wanting to fight / solve the problem and I am not adequately addressing that. I'm mistaking the notion of...

I finally had my wisdom teeth removed about 2 weeks ago. There were no complications with that and it has mostly healed up by now. The incision pain went away quickly, but my jaw was pretty sore for about a week. I took a hydrocodone/acetaminophen combo for the first 24 hours; after that, 200 mg...

I've flown six times this year. I live at about 700 ft above sea level. I've been to Salt Lake City, about 4400 ft above sea level, and I've been at sea level in LA and NYC. I haven't noticed any differences in the tinnitus relative to flying or changes in elevation. I also rode between cities...

Maybe put all the male crickets in one cage and all the female crickets in another. I wonder how long it'd take to sort out 500 crickets?

This site has a pretty good tone generator also. It will output several different wave form types. http://www.audionotch.com/app/tune/

I got myself really worked up about the same thing back in May. Long story short, I had absolutely no change in my tinnitus after using Neosporin at that time, and I had it on my wound (about the same size as the one you describe) for a couple days. I worried about it a lot over the following...

Given that it is nearly impossible to completely avoid antibiotics in the modern world... I wonder if there is there anything that a person might do to at least mitigate the possibility of auditory / nervous system side effects while taking them, such as taking antioxidants (NAC, maybe) at the...

It was about 2 months after the start of tinnitus. I didn't notice any effects at all from the prednisone, good or bad. I stopped taking it, because why take something for no reason? That was my thinking at the time, anyway. I was also very cautious of putting any medicine into my body at that...

I'm glad this has been helpful. Hopefully things will continue to gradually improve... I have to have my wisdom teeth taken out soon and that is making me nervous lately. One of them has been slowly crumbling over the past year, and recently I can't chew on that side, so it's time for them to...

Yes. It seems doubtful that very many people have benefited or I suppose there would be a lot more written about it here. Nevertheless I felt it might be worth contributing what I had heard. On reading more about it, it seems as though if it was going to provide any benefit, it would be...

I have not tried this myself. However, I heard a positive report that I thought you might find interesting to know. I recently began seeing a therapist who has worked with some other tinnitus patients previously, to try to work on developing some better coping skills. He mentioned that two of...