Recent content by James Brown

Hi HZO. Welcome to the club no one wants to enter. I am also from Portugal, near Lisbon. Hope you recover soon from tinnitus. I am a veteran with almost 23 years dealing with this. All the best to you.

Alcohol just relaxes a bit and makes me ignore my tinnitus. Never noticed any increase in volume from alcohol, coffee or other stuff, but your case may vary.

A small random sound hurts your ears or are you jumpy and nervous about it? Hyperacusis normally tends to react to some kind of sounds like paper, cutlery, dishes, glass or is uncomfortable to high noises like cars, trucks, motors, sirens, etc... By now my house is the only place where I don't...

Most of the symptoms you mention are also common to depression and anxiety. I think you should go to a doctor.

I have different sounds each day. Sometimes it just takes 10 minutes of sleep to change the tone. When I come home from work and I take a little nap, (the ride take about 45 minutes), the tone change. My most common tones are a hiss, cicadas and something like an ultrasound high pitch. Sometimes...

In my first years of tinnitus I listened to a lot of music. I have a good hi-fi set with a Sonus Faber Grand Piano speakers and one thing I noticed by that time was when I was not in a good day the sound of piano's high notes messed with a light hyperacusis I had in those days. I like a solo CD...

As you should have noticed, each one with tinnitus and hyperacusis have different tolerance to sound. Some years ago I went to a really loud party in Brazil with those loud wall speakers without protection (reckless) and I noticed no change. Today I am so sensitive to sound I doubt I can make an...

If you think it´s useful, download the video to your phone or to a player. There´s an add-on that can do that.

Brief story, for those who don't know me. I have had tinnitus for 22 years, first accompanied by just with a very light hyperacusis. I lead a regular life for 15 years listening to music and so on. In 2013 a balloon exploded next to my ear and my tinnitus increased a lot and I got hyperacusis at...

33 and now I am 55. I remember the day OI was sat on my couch and I heard this hiss in my ear. After the first days and some months later, I improved, had a regular life until a new acoustic trauma (15 years later) turned my world upside down.

I was listening to your story yesterday (well done by the way), and I laughed when I saw the only thing that could mask your tinnitus is the razor machine near your ear, because I have a nose trimmer and I use it to mask my tinnitus when my spikes are really high and there´s nothing that can...

Your tinnitus is at a low level, so you should adjust just fine. Much of the process of adapting to it depends on the level of sound you get in your ear/head. Each person is different, but low tinnitus is like wearing glasses, after some time you don´t think it´s there. I´ve been living with it...

Same here. First was just when I had done extreme movements like stretching my neck or bending too much. A year ago I began to notice when I was seated my tinnitus would become bilateral, and the sound I used to have mainly on the left side was transferred to the right one. Now if I bend to tie...

Try 8000 Hz.

Well, after all i am a survivor of this stuff.21 years living with it it´s not a piece of cake.I hope one of this days i can have some relief.By now my T goes between a 6 and a 9, depending on the days.I never can say what is a 10 because when i think it´s the sound i have it´s worst , i...