Recent content by Beth

If you were trying to talk to someone just a few feet away and somebody else came up to you and made a loud shusssshing sound in your ear, you would have difficulty in hearing what the other person was saying. It does not take an ambulance siren level of noise to make it difficult to hear phone...

I apologize if I said my tinnitus is very quiet (could you point out where I said that?) because I thought I had been saying all along that apart from the very beginning of my tinnitus journey, it is extremely loud. I reacted very badly at first to what was fairly quiet tinnitus because it...

I got rid of all my mercury fillings because candida feeds on toxins and I spent several months on a strict candida diet of no sugars, fruits, wheat or cows dairy. I ate mostly veg, lean meat and fish but not small fish as they contain mercury, brown rice, rye flour, buckwheat, quinoa, lentils...

Gut flora....you bet. Have you read what candida in the gut can be responsible for? And if you've ever taken antibiotics the candida will be rife because the antibiotics will have killed off all the 'good' bacteria along with the bad. That was one of the improvements I did to my health; getting...

Sleaford Mod, thanks for the recommendations, I have 'When things fall apart' by Pema Chodron but haven't heard of Vidyamala Burch so I'll check that one out. I found quite a few books that had nothing to do with tinnitus, very helpful when I was struggling with it because you're quite right...

Where in my post is the word 'off'? It was said with tongue in cheek though I do get annoyed with people who tell me that I cannot be OK when I spent many year in total misery and just want to stick around on here to let other people know that life can be good again. tinnitusufferer seems to...

Did you not read Dr Nagler's reply? I agree with everything he says as I feel the same. Why can't you accept that for some people TRT, CBT, the passing of time or whatever, gets them to a place where tinnitus is absolutely not a problem. If the therapists I have seen are fraudulent quacks, the...

I'm not sure whether I didn't explain it well enough or whether you're just too thick to understand but I'll have another go. I get headaches several times a year and I can honestly say that they do not bother me or distress me one little bit and I spend no time at all worrying if they will get...

Join the club! When I'm meditating I start to wonder if I'm doing it right and then think that I shouldn't be thinking but just 'being' then I wonder if I'm doing 'just being' OK! I use bio-feedback and love to see the results on screen just from controlling my thoughts. My library of books is...

I don't really know. It's not really an issue any more but maybe like headaches (which I get only a few times a year) given the choice of keeping the headaches or not, I'd be silly to say I'd still have them if they could be eliminated and I suppose my attitude to tinnitus is the same. Strangely...

Thanks linearb, it took me a long time because I had great difficulty in accepting it. I'd go for so long not reacting, then get very frustrated, upset and angry that I wasn't habituating when all I was doing was making it worse by getting frustrated, angry and upset. I felt that hearing it was...

My tinnitus has NEVER, EVER got any quieter. At first it was very quiet and I reacted really badly and thought it was impossible to live with, so because of my great fear and reaction, it got louder. That has been the pattern for 7 years so DO NOT tell me I do not have loud tinnitus. I still...

I couldn't agree more. You are so right. Learning not to be bothered by tinnitus is simple.....just don't react negatively to it and your subconscious will eventually get the message that it is a perfectly normal safe sound (which it is) and will start to filter it out. Easy. ABSOLUTELY NOT...

I have very loud tinnitus which is there all the time but most of the time (about 95%) I have silence because when I'm not thinking about it it's not there. I am definitely not suppressing emotions about it. I was extremely distressed for years and often felt suicidal and my emotions were...

You are right, it is not easy. When I was particularly distressed about my tinnitus I asked my GP if the ENT she was sending me to was experienced in dealing with tinnitus patients. She continued looking at her computer and said, 'ENT stands for ear, nose and throat so there is a clue there for...