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My tinnitus started out so faint I could only hear it in absolute silence, and then only barely. It's gotten slowly but consistently worse since onset and today it's so loud I hear it over traffic noise. Years ago I thought if I never looked at the tinnitus forum and never thought of the word...

We do have thousands of useless cures like that. How do you think the vitamin and herb companies stay in business? I have tinnitus as part of visual snow syndrome. On the visual snow forums posts like this are also a recurring theme. The posts with "cure" in the title but in the actual post...

Notice how in most of these cure posts the person doesn't claim to be really cured but only some degree better, which of course makes it harder to take seriously due to things like the placebo effect.

My tinnitus has gotten very slowly but consistently worse since onset. At first I could only hear it in silence, now I can hear it over traffic noises. I have tinnitus as part of a rare neurological disease called "visual snow syndrome." In addition to tinnitus, I also have visual snow, which...

My tinnitus has gotten gradually worse since onset and is still getting worse. I have tinnitus as part of a neurological disease called "visual snow syndrome", along with the tinnitus I also have visual snow which is basically optical tinnitus, seeing a bunch of flicking noise in your visual...

I often deal with my anxiety by eating. I often buy and eat an entire tub of frozen yogurt because deep down inside I'm scared of what's happening to me with both my worsening tinnitus and visual problems. I never used to binge on food so excessively before I got my health problems and I know...

I have the same thing, a tone in both ears, a hiss in both ears... It's kind of good in a way because I can never pay attention to all of them at once. When I do notice my tinnitus I can usually just make myself notice the hiss which is much more tolerable than the tone.

Well that's where habituation comes in. You say it's hard to talk to people while hearing tinnitus, but remember high school and the cafeteria? It was really loud in there, yet, no one cared and everyone talked to each other fine, because they didn't see the noise as a threat.

If the volume of your tinnitus varies perhaps this is a good sign, since maybe yours will get quieter in the future. Give it some time and see what happens, meanwhile try not to let it disrupt your life too much.

Yes, I have a hiss in both ears as well as a tone in both ears. Larry has a good idea, think of it as a shower, or a waterfall, a nice relaxing waterfall. I find also that the hiss helps distract me from the tone. As it's kind of hard for my attention to focus on both noises at once.

Here some encouraging thoughts I often think to myself. First we know there are people with very loud tinnitus who have habituated so we know it's possible. Second, I think all of us forget about our tinnitus at times during the day. If you can do an activity for an hour and not think about...

I use earplugs to sleep also and have since I was around 15 years old, I'm 31 now. My tinnitus is caused by a neurological disease that also affects my vision so I know wearing earplugs is not the cause of my tinnitus, by the way. I still wear earplugs to sleep even though they do make the...

I also have progressive tinnitus. The sleep thing, I go through bouts where it bothers me and I don't get much sleep, but then all it takes is one good nights sleep to realize "hey this can't really prevent me from sleeping". Another thing I do is, as I'm laying in bed, I think of some cryptic...

Or it's like if someone who got their toe cut off calls themselves an amputee. It seems like everyone who has ever at one time heard ringing in their ears goes around claiming to have tinnitus. Even if it's just their ear ringing for 30 seconds once and going away, or just some very faint noise...

When I told my cousin I had tinnitus, he replied "I have it too", I then played him a tinnitus simulator on my computer of around the same pitch and volume of my tinnitus. When the sound started playing he got an annoyed look on his face then quickly reached out and unplugged the speakers. "Wow...