Recent content by dudeguywithstuff

Why not head to that tinnitus clinic just northeast of Southdale and get yourself some TRT treatment?

Simple question, but somehow this distinction seems to get lost in translation. Does anxiety make the experience of having tinnitus more stressful, WITHOUT any effect on its volume? Or does tinnitus LITERALLY make tinnitus louder?

Don't forget that only 30-40% of people with hearing loss get T.

That's why I'd really like to know if anyone has something similar. The members of this forum tend to be fatalistic in the sense that if you have a sound in your ear, it is almost certainly cochlear damage that can't be cured and will continue forever. But the folks here also acknowledge that...

It kinda saddens me that you're still seeing ENTs about tinnitus. Haven't you had it for years now? Wouldn't that convince you that you just have cochlear damage and that ENTs just can't help you anymore? I'm sorry if that's a depressing realization, but I know that habituation doesn't occur...

For the record, the chirping symptom IS my tinnitus.

It baffles me that anyone with T would want to wear earplugs. You erase all masking noise by wearing them and force yourself to listen to the T. Even when I had hyperacusis at the start, I'd much prefer more T volume than nothing to listen to except my T.

I hate to say this, but tinnitus is the one condition that solidifies my disbelief in God. I just can't imagine why a supreme creator of our universe would create such a devastating symptom for the biggest anxiety sufferers of the planet to deal with. It's beyond cruel. But please convince me...

Can someone please explain how the erratic chirping / ticking noise in my ear disappears completely when I get drunk? Sure, my ears will "ring" when I'm drunk. Probably just the effect of blood rushing through my ears. Or higher blood pressure which is just what happens when you're drunk. I...

This is great, but a "tinnitus success story" that involves the complete removal of the symptoms isn't really the intent of the "success stories" forum. Maybe others will disagree with me, but this is supposed to be a space where new tinnitus sufferers with little to no hope of resolution of...

So far this an unsatisfying thread. The OP, as well as myself, wants to know if stressing out about your tinnitus LITERALLY makes it louder. Yes, I'm sure that being stressed in general makes the experience of having tinnitus more distressing. Hopefully people realize that this is an entirely...

I promise you it won't. I'll give you $1,000 of my own money if it does.

But at any rate, CBT is the preferred method of dealing with tinnitus, and one of the central strategies of CBT is to expose yourself to your fears, but ONLY IN MANAGEABLE AMOUNTS. If you were afraid of dogs, no therapist would tell you to keep exposing yourself to every dog you see in your...

Personal opinion....people don't realize how moving and amazing music is. Rachmaninov said "music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." Before tinnitus, I listened to music all the time. The nature of my tinnitus is that it can be heard even above moderate volume...

If it wasn't your T, it would be whatever capital letter you chose to assign to the problem du jour of your life. If you want to tell me you were 100% happy before T, go right ahead and try. You say your problems pre-T weren't as bad? Well then how did they prevent you from having complete...