Recent content by Honky

I feel your pain. I was just driving and my ear was upset at the sound of the wheels on the road. So I crinkled an empty gummy wrapper that was in my pocket and the ear was soothed. H is seemingly this wild beast tamed by bizarre empty snack baggies.

White noise at low volume with phone helps while watching TV. Also crinkling a Welch's fruit gummy bag helps via 'tinnitus inhibition'. Mindfulness can also help. But that's more difficult to do it seems.

That is really really cool! Thank you for posting your reply. Made my day!

@Tom Cnyc What is this $100 LED you bought? I'm very curious to try something like this. I don't believe all treatments for tinnitus are BS or snake oil. The medical community and ENT doctors are warped by their own ignorance, blinded by apathy and sidelined by big pharmaceutical companies...

You can try, but the world doesn't care. 'God is laughing' - old Greek saying.

Your avatar is spiking mine now.

Aren't those the worst?? And you don't know until you flush. Arggggh!!!

@coffee-girl An old friend of mine once had a dog he named Tetanus. Now if someone will just name their pet Tinnitus...

It has quieted down because, I totally ignore it now. Even though it continues to remind me it's there. It sounds like that sinewy sound of a TV that's on with no volume now. Before it was like, well, worse. I recently read Vik Veer's 'Cure For Tinnitus' that I found online, and it seemed to...

1. Growling with a Halloween mask on. Ouch! 2. Hitting a heavy plate on another one. 3. Going to a baby shower where there was live jazz piano, people talking, people opening beers. OMG! 4. The wind. 5. My son blew a high pitched piercing whistle for 3 seconds until I grabbed it at which point...

I was exposed to 2 seconds of air horn this year. Spikes can seem permanent, but most are not. Some days are better than others. You get used to it and it will fade and get less edgey with time. That said, all persons that blow air horns should be tarred and feathered!

1. Mowing the lawn 35 years ago with a Walkman. I noticed ringing ears at bedtime for a few months and immediately stopped listening to the Walkman. 2. Playing guitar in a band 15 years ago and going to loud shows. I wore ear plugs about 75% of the time then, as well as always staying away for...

I'm guessing that a constant tea kettle like noise in my bad ear is not a mild condition? I've had t a few times before this - once in high school and once pretty badly in my 30s. Both of those times the t faded after a few months. This time my t, or this spike in my old t perhaps, is...

Ok, thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I didn't realize t could flip around like that. I have been listening to music but only at absurdly low volumes since the beginning of my t in May. It's only now that it is reacting.

Is it hyperacusis or tinnitus when sound activates your tinnitus? As of this week my tinnitus is so soft I can barely hear it in a quiet room. That is a good thing! I admit that. Unless I want to listen to music... Then suddenly there is the old high pitched continuous "eeeeeee" that seems to...