Recent content by bodhisattva

Looks like i'm going on 3 years now with T. I remember when i first got it, i'd wear ear plugs even to the movies. Gone Girl had just come out, the soundtrack is really good and they had it cranked. I was so paranoid. Best advice a gal on this board gave me, is just go live your life. If...

My best friend got T from a motorhead show. Front row, drunk as hell, no plugs. For me, i just went to my first rock concert since i contracted this god-forsaken ringing three months ago. Wore the foamies and did ok. No real spike to speak off, but they just had little combo amps, no walls...

Former Navy here... went through bootcamp in Orlando in the summer. They had instituted some deal where when it was above a certain temperature we couldn't go out to the grinder to PT. Our CC's gladly kept us inside and had us 'go to the north pole'... where we closed all of the windows, put...

I'm not sure how to explain the causality but i am living proof that T can be caused by stress. Mine hit me during a post-job loss episode of depression/anxiety. No acoustic trauma to speak of. Just woke up one morning after ridiculous amounts of anxiety and panic attacks with a glorious new...

Thanks awbw8! It's a day by day battle sometimes till then huh? Get used to it.. get ok, then it kicks your ass, then you get used to it again. Just keep fighting folks, there are too many people on this board who have adapted to it and are leading good lives, to let this thing beat us. One...

I honestly have no idea. I'm still pretty new to this and sometimes it feels like the more i read or talk about it the more power i give it. At the same time it helps to talk about it... who knows. I'm sure they can't really measure something so subjective, but i was just sharing what i...

Yeah i'm going to go to a Tinnitus clinic... I'd like to know more about TRT. I hope there is something out there that can help. I keep hearing there is a cure on the way and that the pharma companies are getting interested. DAMN this ringing just got louder, WTF? ah, this is the gift...

Same here, it's almost like relying on a drug, to have to have distracting white noise to drown out the T. I guess maybe we should practice being in a silent room and getting used to it for short periods of time, then increase those periods of time until we can handle it. Right now it's a...

I talked to a doc here in Nashville (good doc, recommended by Dr Nagler) who said that these sounds are really only ...4 to maybe 14 decibels which is quieter than a whisper. But it still sounds pretty damned loud huh?

I feel like as long as i can keep a fan running, some white noise, city noise etc i can handle this stuff. But when i am in complete silence it's nearly unbearable. I'm fairly new to this game, so my question for you vets is, do you ever get to the point that you can be (or possibly even...

it was sooooo sweet!

Do you guys ever have those mornings where you wake up and think 'wait... i don't hear it????' Then boom... there it is. Do you think that is habituation or does it really come and go for some people? Seems like it's a little more annoying when it comes back, but man that was a wonderful...

Thanks Thanks brother, that is really good to hear. I'm out of work right now, which led to depression, anxiety and panic attacks, which led to my T. I'm trying to put myself back together and get a new job. Initially i thought this T was a temporary thing and i would ride it out THEN get...

How do you guys cope at work? Conference calls, meetings etc? I know i can keep the headphones on at my desk with white noise if i need but, how about those conversations where all you can hear is the ringing? Thanks

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