Recent content by derpytia

I am gonna be so mad if histamines end up being one of the answers in the puzzle of tinnitus...

This is no life.

Argh! Antidepressants can be so helpful especially since most of them are also antihistamines but they make my dry eye worse!

I don't give out this personal poem often, but I might as well stop holding onto it as I have for years. Maybe it'll help someone. Or, if I'm gone someday, a piece of me will not be locked away forever :) “I live with entire universes inside of me” - a poem by me I live with entire universes...

How many times have I posted to this thread in the last 10 years? Another bout of hearing loss and more tinnitus despite protection. It just amazes me that a) I can't go a year without losing hearing and b) normal sounds that are non-damaging seem to cause me hearing loss... Truly it does feel...

Getting more used to my hearing aids. I need to start learning ASL but the anxiety over this whole thing is so paralyzing.

Eh, there's a lot of people who don't get to enjoy their short time here, as dismal as it sounds. We like to ask "Why me?" when really the answer is "Why not us?" There is nothing special about anyone in the end. Everyone is susceptible to get whacked with a disability. If it doesn't happen...

Progressive hearing loss is a thief. It feels like I need to become a new person to accept that one day I will be deaf.

You sound like me. :huganimation: All the evidence from birth till now has proven that I really wasn't SUPPOSED to be here. I was never actually supposed to even make it out of the womb or be created in the first place. But somehow, I am here. I sometimes genuinely hopeful it means that I'm here...

I think when we are in pain, or suffering, we all sometimes become a bit of a pain in the arse. That's why it is so important for human beings to have empathy, apologize when we need to, and give each other as much grace as we can.

Yeah. I feel like my other symptoms just make dealing with severe tinnitus worse. Funnily enough, I did some researching a while back and found that with Autism and ADHD, the potassium channels and such (kinda like the ones that are supposedly whacky for tinnitus) are also somewhat messed up...

Yes, but also no. AI/AGI will only have as much intelligence as humans do to start out with. And even the smartest of us as humans have limited knowledge. We STILL do not understand even a tenth of what there is to know about the human brain. AI can scale up the research but they can only work...

9 years of just worsening T and hearing loss. Why was I born? Why am I here?

First off, what does neurodivergent mean? So it's all one big umbrella really. I've also been wondering if there is a sort of link between tinnitus and neurodivergence (aside from the obvious ones where some people on the spectrum have sensory processing disorder or sound sensitivity)...

I feel you on the neurodivergent bit. I recently got a new therapist and it was just the first appointment but when I detailed my struggles with my diagnosed ADHD and possible Autism and then told her that was barely scratching the surface of things I have had to struggle with my whole life or...