Recent content by jasonbourne

Tie him down to a chair and blast both of his ears with an air horn. Call him a baby when he gets debilitating tinnitus.

He didn't have a spike, he had 13. Each caused by the same procedure. He went from mild/moderate to severe/catastrophic. Comments like yours diminish the suffering of people with severe tinnitus. You may be well meaning but you are harming them, because it makes them seem like they are weak...

Comments like these aggravate me to no end. Its like someone with a missing finger telling a paraplegic that everything will be ok and that he has adapted to life. The guy ended his life. Obviously you are completely out of touch.

If people with healthy legs go for a run, nothing will happen. But someone with damaged leg could permanently make it worse. This is why it's so important to do diligent research before you do a single procedure or take a single drug. Normal people have much more healthy hair cells to sacrifice...

I'm sick of the truth. Thank you @Greg Sacramento for posting something positive.

That's just very high cope and completely in black and white. If I said the exact same thing towards someone strapped to a bomb with an unknown timer you would call me insane.

If my tinnitus dropped to mild I'd be the happiest man alive. Well maybe not happy since I'd still have PTSD because of what this shit has done to me, but the relief would be immeasurable.

It's funny everytime I mention suffering on the internet someone always one ups me. Out of respect I'd take your word for it though. You talk about accepting reality, but it seems like you're the one trying to delude themselves, not us. You're the one denying your reality. Whatever helps you...

Your perspective is that of a person whose had it easy their whole life, who has suddenly been hit with something difficult. So you've come up with all of these rationale to come to terms with your condition. I've been through hardships from the day I remember. Had an abusive father and grew up...

So even you haven't accepted your lullaby since you're still fighting it, so why do you advise others to? Accept means to accept your fate, not to accept your tinnitus tones since it's never consistent. BTW your advice of accepting tinnitus definitely works for mild cases, but most of us here...

That would be fine if it stayed the same. We all know it gradually gets worse. As you get older, it's guaranteed to get worse. You can't accept something that keeps changing. Especially if it changes on a daily basis which happens for most of us. I don't know of a single day where my tinnitus...

I was listening to an old soundtrack I used to listen to a lot a year or so back, there are higher pitched tones in the background that added a lot. Guess what? I can barely hear them anymore. I think this is a sign to check out. I've been super careful and it seems my hearing just keeps getting...

It seems very straight-forward, but I got further hearing loss and worse tinnitus after using a 100 dB hedge trimmer with over ear and in-ear protection for 20 minutes. The theoreticals just can't be relied on for something so life-altering. I would give the motorcycle riding up. Once tinnitus...

Anyone else also get tinnitus even in their dreams all the time? I have no escape.

Masking for me means the tinnitus will never drop in volume. If I can't tolerate my tinnitus then I turn on masking, which masks half the sounds. It's not good long term though for me. I've noticed that when I have spikes, it has never returned to baseline when I mask. It only will if I allow my...