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Just noticed that I can still hear mild tinnitus in my left ear if I plug it. This is not the case for the other ear. I kind of think that I have had that constant mild tinnitus present for a while now and it just amplifies every now and then for some reason.

Nope. My hypochondria philosophy is to avoid diagnosis (and therefore knowledge of impending death) as long as possible.

I've been getting some random moments of it in recent weeks and when they came on, I was already worrying this was eventually going to become the permanent state. Well, I think that day has arrived, as it came on in my dream and I woke up with it. It's subtle at the moment, but I still don't...

Had it for about 2 weeks. I started tolerating stuff better, but I wasn't sure if it was because I was just learning to tolerate the sensation or what. But this was fairly sudden, I guess. I woke up on Tuesday and felt like crap with dizziness, but when I took a shower, I noticed I wasn't...

My hyperacusis has been basically gone since a couple nights ago, except when I'm lying down. And this relief in that symptom was brought about by an increase in dizziness. Lying down/sleep seems to be a trigger for changing/worsening symptoms. What is going on?

I think I just heard some tinnitus coming on while I was watching a video. Is this a matter of your ears being more at risk when they're more sensitive to sound or something?

Doesn't matter anyway. I can't do surgery. I'm terrified of anesthesia (even since I learned it's the equivalent to knocking you into a coma/removing consciousness) and even more terrified of it wearing off during the procedure.

1. Whenever I'm exposed to certain sounds over a long duration (more than a few seconds), my ear starts to feel full...like pressure changes on an airplane. 2. When I lie down on the back of my head, I get a dizzy sensation that takes a little while to settle down. 3. I have a low, humming...

I'm not talking about acoustic neuroma. I'm talking about a malignant tumor. You can find some people who survived brain tumors, but you can also find some people who won the lottery.

Why? So they can ask me a bunch of questions and say nothing in response, as they did when I saw them on and off for 20 years? Here's the thing: I don't care whether or not my thinking is "rational." I'm aware of the fact that logically, it seems pointless to avoid a cancer diagnosis because...

I had always thought that "tinnitus" just referred to that high-pitched ringing I would sometimes randomly get in my ear for several seconds out of nowhere (that would fade), and assumed that anyone who has having tinnitus problems had that, but it wasn't going away. But in the last couple of...

Does anybody know what mechanism this is? When enough of the sounds that bother my ear are going on for long enough, my ear starts to feel like I'm on an airplane and they're clogged. Except instead of pressure causing it, it's noise (but normal, everyday noise like my car engine when I'm...

In my case, that's gotta be nonsense. EXTERNAL SOUNDS are directly causing everything. Whenever it's quiet, I'm basically fine.

I read an article about people who killed themselves because of intractable hyperacusis. I mean, can't they just surgically make people deaf?

You won't save your life if there's a brain tumor. Brain tumor = terminal. Every time. I would rather live in fear of cancer than know I have it. And whatever "peace of mind" I would get with no tumor detected would be undermined by the fact that I have incurable hyperacusis. "OK, it's not a...