Recent content by Jaka

Hi Nadia, Even if it doesn't look like it, I think you'll soon have tinnitus under control again since you managed your condition very well in the past. The spike might still go down. But that is actually irrelevant currently. You are already doing things to get your sleep back which is the...

Please don't say that you deserve to be laughed at for getting scammed while looking for a cure. There are people who tried even drastic things hoping to get rid of tinnitus. Since your case seems to be noise induced it is good that you are giving your ears a rest. Also consider getting custom...

My tinnitus also started suddenly with no apparent reason. End of April it will be 5 months. Mine is now high-pass filtered white noise (kind of electric sound) fighting with standard "eee" (sine line). Loudness varies with days. Some days are very good, which means very faint "eee" with even...

Mine is doing this right now as I write this. It also feels like that the hissing/buzzing electrical kind of sound is fighting with the "eeee" in the background. I hope that this is what neuron rewiring sounds like and that it will sort itself out. High aerobic physical activity usually helps...

It would be interesting to know if the reverse also applies. That listening to certain sounds can influence the default prediction of silence to tinnitus. I am way out of my league with this material here, but there are a lot of people who have expected hearing loss for their age, no other...

I experienced both "phenomenons": 1. The "reset" when for a second or so tinnitus completely went away. At that time real sounds did not vanish. 2. Fleeting tinnitus, which actually turns off my "normal" tinnitus. My fleeting tinnitus is always lower in frequency than my "normal" tinnitus and...

Dear Dr. Nagler, First of all let me say that I can't thank you enough for helping tinnitus sufferers all over the world with your advice and for your "tinnitus 101" set of documents. To some extent I have acknowledge that "my horse has left the barn" (while still hoping that he may one day go...

From what I know Tinnitus is often associated with hearing loss, BUT you can have all combinations. Ranging from tinnitus with perfect hearing to total hearing loss with no tinnitus. My tinnitus is like notched white noise around 13khz and I can hear up to 16khz. I have colleagues who don't...

Yes, I had MRI because of tinnitus. Majority of MRI machines are loud. The doctors will give you hearing protection, but please make sure that you are wearing it properly. If in doubt ask the radiologist to help you insert earplugs.

Office environment noise level is pretty normal. People talking from other side of the office can be heard. There are fluorescent lights and computers in the office. But there is nothing even remote loud enough to be able to cause hearing damage induced tinnitus. And I refuse to believe that EM...

My electro-metallic buzzing gets softer and sometimes sounds "broken" when I go for a run. Swimming used to have even more drastic effect before, but now that my cardiovascular system got used to swimming and my pulse does not go up as much during swims the effect disappeared. My pulse stills go...

Well I could not really choose a silent MRI machine. I could only choose the magnetic field power :) So I decided to to take a risk with the machine loudness, since noisy places have zero effect on my tinnitus. But I made extra sure that I had properly inserted earplugs. I believe I was in the...

With some people body posture affects tinnitus sound characteristics. In my case massaging the neck makes the sound softer and dipping head under water (just below the water level is enough) to make the sound go away completely (I have read online that similar thing happened to others as well)...