Recent content by Forever hopeful

@Strawberryblonde, After a brutal month long spike it is finally calming down. Not at baseline bit much better. Dealing with mom in hospice was too much. Had to step back and start taking care of myself.

@SharonBell At night. Also take hydroxizine.

@SharonBell I am not sure how old you are but it is expected that we lose higher frequencies as we age often by the time enter your 30s. There is much debate about this as a cause of T since those frequencies are not frequently part of our environment so it begs the question as to why the brain...

@SharonBell And he thinks that there’s still a very good chance it’s related to my TMJ. My TMJ related headaches have gotten appreciably worse in the last few weeks along with my tinnitus. I’m getting fitted for a mouthguard. Going back to PT for my jaws. But I’m really terrified this is a...

@SharonBell I do. I have for years and it has not bothered my T. I think the risk is very low. If you look hard enough you will find someone that will link their T to any med. I do investigate all new meds that Ate RX,d. I have just gone through a horrific worsening of my T x one month and I...

@MindOverMatter Did your tinnitus improve at all?

@MindOverMatter, went fine but they don’t do extended because there are no benchmarks for higher frequencies not part of the normal soundscape. In other words they don’t expect us to hear dog whistles. Now I have hope the TMJ treatment works.

@DeanD. Hope not. I try really hard not to eat crunchy things. Last night the sound of my voice wasn’t very loud because the ambient noise was loud enough. I noticed the occlusion effect of my own voice mostly it’s quiet around me. Which is almost never the case in a restaurant.

@MindOverMatter Agreed but every place is loud now. And I find myself angry when others come in to dine and ruin my quiet.

@MindOverMatter Thank you. To clarify, It wasn’t the noise level that made my tinnitus bothersome, it was the occlusion effect of the heavy duty ear protection. Ugh. You can’t win. I look around at all these people and wonder how they can sit in the noisy environments unprotected. My husband...