Recent content by flobo

I have been habituated for a long while now to my baseline level. If i don't take benzo for a spike, it goes down as well, just slower, it's a shortcut when needed. At first in 2017, i used to take benzo every 2-3 days. Now, it's more once or twice a month, sometime even less.

If you have not noticed, you are on a topic i created over 2 years ago when i discovered the amazing effect benzo had on my ear issues. I do not take them for anxiety. It's 3 years on & it's still working. I'm not taking it daily because that would be dangerous but having benzo to stop /...

Benzo saved my life & telling people to not use them because of anecdotal evidences of them not agreeing with some people is not a good idea. As with any medication, you have to be careful, start very slowly & to see if it is working for you.

I have had visual snow for a year, started about a year after tinnitus. I don't think benzo even affected it one way or another. Distortion lasted for 3 months for most sounds, metal sounds stayed distorted a few months more. I haven't had any more issue with that since around new year 2018...

Still works pretty well. My baseline tinnitus is much lower than it was 3 years ago when I made this thread but I still take benzo whenever I have a spike & it's gone within the hour.

I first got tinnitus a little over two years ago after a a single acoustic trauma. Tinnitus, hyperacusis, reactive tinnitus. The first few weeks, the sound of a clock ticking hurt me. The sound of the sea waves outside or the sound of the wind did the same, and made my tinnitus react and...

Well, life before T was different. I don't even remember thinking once the northern line was loud in the past. Crowded, hot, yeah, but loud, nope. I used to take it between London Bridge & Kings Cross every time i came to London. Then after T, did it once, was terrified by the noise and devised...

I travel to London very often. Ever since T, i mostly avoid the underground or keep to modern lines with AC trains. For exemple, i never take the northern line anymore and prefer to use the overground or do a detour via lines using newer stock (the circle line is much quieter for exemple). And...

Reactions to this thread are strange. Bill never said every single T sufferer will get worse if exposed to noise level that would be safe for people with healthy ears. He merely stated that there is a very non negligible chance that it may not be safe, and that ear protection might not protect...

Since i'm quoted here, i'm going to expand on my case. Tinnitus after 25 minutes in a concert last year (first ever concert, i hate loud place/noise, never gone to one in my life before). I got 3 sounds on my right ear : constant static, pulsative sound & reactive tinnitus (whistle that come...

So far, yes, and it works for me. In the first few weeks, i tried not do, to have sound enrichment at night and everything got worse gradually to the point i couldn't even handle the sound of the ticking clock, the sound of the wind or the sound of the sea outside. Even taking a shower spiked T...

Well, from a purely science pov, no. If you add a -249V voltage to 250V voltage, you get a harmless 1 V voltage. That's the idea. I have a signal processing background i KNOW it's the way it works and you get less sound at the end. But even there, even knowing how it works, the idea scare me...

Well, a sound is a wave. Bose ear cancelling headphones send an inverted wavesound in your ears so that the sound is cancelled. So that you ears do not hear anything. Similar as if two seawaves opposite merge, there is no wave remaining, they cancel each other if that makes sense. Of course...

Maybe some noise cancelling bose would help ? To send an inverted drill signal ?

Not a robot yet, but i may consider it if a robot body get us brand new ears one day :p .