Recent content by Damien Cavanagh

I'm sure H is the brain's way to protect damaged ears from more harm. If the H goes, great, but stay on your guard, or the T will spike.

Great to hear(!) of your recovery. My upper frequencies seem to be coming back too. My acoustic trauma was in Oct 18. After that all music sounded distorted and dirty, as if though a broken speaker, and I couldn't hear cymbals (I am a drummer.) I'd say the distortion effect has 80% cleared, and...

The docs says ears don't regenerate (we know better!) Plus I suppose the brain is rewiring itself, reassigning hairs to higher frequencies.

Gradually hearing cymbals again! Although they don't sound the same as I remember them. But they're coming back...

@MarkX Also have non-somatic hiss in L ear. Got T through years of drumming and one particular noise trauma last Oct.

@MarkX All this somatic T has completely disappeared twice for 8 hours or so after consuming large amounts of curry and alcohol.

@MarkX ... and I get a hissing crunch in my ears with each footstep. This can also be almost removed with the same actions.

@MarkX I can largely stop the static buzz and pulsating whoosh with neck movements or pressing down on my cranium.

8 months in. H is much better :-) somatic hissing/static pulsating T still bad :-(

Hi Paul... stress level has been very high for months, but due to changing circumstances should come down soon. The footstep hiss is always there, but when I'm less stressed I don't really care about it. Currently the thing that's getting me down is the pulsating somatic T (not PT...

@PaulFi Hi Paul, thanks, it's so rare to hear from somebody who has the footstep hiss! Is it improving? Mine isn't. Although one night after a lot of curry and alcohol it completely disappeared for 12 hours.

My somatic T *completely* disappeared the other night after eating a very hot curry, consuming a fair amount of beer and chatting to friends. It came back the next morning though. It had never disappeared like that before.

Curry+alcohol *completely* silenced my somatic T last night. How? Back again today though...

When I lie down in bed, my tinnitus goes mad (this left-ear hiss goes tonal, the right-ear whoosh sounds like a tsunami). On a good night, it calms down but remains louder than when I'm standing. On bad nights I have to take Zolpidem. And always in the morning, the hiss is very loud. A lot of...