Recent content by Jamesd

Hey Mikki! Time really helps I think. I went 35 years without it - then bam! The first period was far worse than the second, but both were rough. Now sleeping like a baby, doing well at work etc... I have adapted to sleeping in noise (it's actually soothing and I sleep better than I ever did)...

Hey all, My tinnitus started in April 2018. I had the usual experience. Felt awful, first genuine time I'd experienced anxiety and depression. Habituated to it in a few months - but it got worse in May 2020 (weird up and down high pitch ringing in left ear whereas the initial tinnitus was just...

Sage advice Glenn. The way I am seeing things is that regardless of the nuisance this thing is, it can't kill me and isn't physically painful (although emotionally it is). So everyday I think - I could spend time research it - or I could do something else and when I get to tomorrow, I'll feel...

Oh totally. First time I experienced this in 2018 I obsessed for months until it faded to a volume I could barely hear and learnt to sleep with masking. As of June this year I developed it again and the vicious cycle of obsession and checking starts again. It's natural I think. I 'm starting...

Update: just got in my car with doors shut. Can't hear anything... maybe some very very faint noise but cant really be sure.

Just an update. I'm having further progress. It's now at the level where I'm actively unsure if what I'm hearing is tinnitus at any one time and not electrical appliance ambience. It's now maskable by brown noise on my noise machine completely - whereas a few weeks ago I had to use harsher white...

Hey Lilsass. It's difficult to say. I'm not monitoring it as hard as I used to because I'm trying to take Neil Bauman's advice of seeing it as "like a fridge sound" and harmless. The logic is slowly getting through my stubborn OCD skull and I think I even slept through it last night despite it...

That's my problem too. When it's intermittent you're forever wondering when the beast will rise up! Causes anxiety in itself.

Hey Tony. Yeah it's really odd. Mine started up again when I woke up - but very low. It's almost like a sensation. It has stopped again now. I had a few beers last night - I do feel that dehydration kicks it off a bit. When I have a lot of water it stops... Fluticasone tends to be the...

So after a rough few weeks of a hell high pitch sound (about 14.5 kHz) in my right ear, it appears to be gone. As is my general head tinnitus, which all kicked off around the middle of June. I've had barely noticeable tinnitus for a couple of years now, so perhaps this was just a spike. Even...

Hi tbuzz, It was a tone that was about 4 level which reduced slowly to the level it is now. If i plug my ears i can still hear it but it's so quiet otherwise that i can't unless in a very very quiet room, and then its even difficilt to differentiate between usual head noise, blood flow for eg...

So I had a spike in March after my tinnitus faded to practically 0 from April 2018. The cause of my spike was obvious then. I had been to a nightclub, so my own daft fault. A couple of days ago I started to experience mild tinnitus to the left side of my head. It isn't constant - it comes and...

Hey all, Can confirm the spike has now completely settled and tinnitus resolved .. took 4-5 days Feel like ive dodged a bullet. I still have some 0.5/10 head noise i always had but dont think that even qualifies as t

Well it's got better now a bit - slightly above baseline... hopefully fully back soon. But yeah... lesson learned.

So after about a year of very low volume tinnitus where I struggled to hear it unless plugging my ears, I stupidly had too much to drink last night and went to a couple of very loud bars. When I got back I had pretty loud cricket style tinnitus, and this afternoon the crickets have gone, and...