Recent content by Gman45

Your post makes total sense to me. I also hear the tinnitus over almost everything. There are days when I manage to tune it out, but then there are times, like now, when it comes back front and center. It stinks, but I understand how you feel. I’m in the same boat.

I had it checked out and went through acupuncture a couple of years in. My neck felt better, but the tinnitus remains. I’m convinced, in my case, that it’s something in the brain. They say there’s a kind of filter in our brain, and I think the concussion might have stopped that filter. Life goes...

Tinnitus still sucks. The noise is pretty stable now. It’s just the way it is. It turns off when I sleep, and that’s it. I find myself enjoying dreams more these days. Someday, we’ll be free of this. A cure would be amazing. I don’t really buy into the habituation idea. You can always hear it...

It's now year three. Every December I think about how it turned on after a mild concussion. I saw my ENT a few times this year just in case anything new may come to light. My ears and hearing are fine they say. My hearing test when I first got the tinnitus three years ago showed mild hearing...

It has been over two years for me, and I agree, you go to work and live day to day trying to ignore the tinnitus. A good day is one where you are so occupied with life that it fades out of mind somewhat. Still every night and morning it Is eeeeee. Just being relaxed seems so hard. Once the...

Closing in on two years. Still sucks to have tinnitus. I have days where I can ignore it, but that's the best it can be. I still have moments where it's less loud and moments where it's screaming. I still wish for a cure of course, or just a lowering. The closest I have come to silence was when...

I have had tinnitus for nearly two years now. It sucks. Life will not be the same unless a cure Is found.

I was speaking with a long time friend and tinnitus came up. I was complaining about how I have had it for over a year and how disruptive it is. He said he has had tinnitus for twenty years, but is never really stressed about it and doesn't pay it any attention. He said his tinnitus started...

Interesting post. You are not alone. Thinking of the past before tinnitus Is rough. All the what ifs. Scrutinizing ever tiny choice that would have left us possibly tinnitus free is something I couldn't help but do either. Your post nailed it though. Let's pray for a cure or spontaneous relief...

My last day of silence was in December of 2020. I was struggling with anxiety over work and other more trivial things at the time. Then I hit my head on a rafter and a week later the tinnitus started. It's like another life since that day. I really freaked out for the first several months...

It's been about a year and a half since my concussion and tinnitus onset. Tinnitus is still there. I still struggle with having it, but I have had to accept it. My emotional distress to it goes down slowly in time. The volume of it fluctuates, but seems to trend down. I have had a few days...

I can't imagine I am still inflamed over a year later, but tinnitus remains. I have to live with it, but concussion really stinks. I am used to it, but no way I feel like I did before the noise. We all need a cure, but who knows what that is. I do believe something may work someday. I no...

Well it's been a year now. No more counting weeks or months. It's too bad it didn't just magically stop at a year. I don't really have anything profound to say on this anniversary of tinnitus. Just sort of a sad milestone. I do have hope that the next year must be better though.

Thanks for your responses. That sounds about right. I do suspect that my inability to filter out noise since my concussion Is likely my root cause. I have found that I hear sounds now that I don't remember noticing before. Sounds like crickets in the grass, fridge noise, the sound of the distant...