Recent content by JohnL99

Personally even just having another human in the same house provides comfort to me. Anxiety brought on by tinnitus takes me into a very lonely, dark place and I feel much better when there is someone else there. The only problem is my roommate wakes me up too much and as hard as it is to get...

Thanks Clive, I have long suspected some kind of ETD. Was the doctor definitively able to diagnose this? And have you gotten any relief?

I'm not sure how you can tell if your eustachian tubes open. If I hold my nose and blow I can feel the ears open, not always easy. Sometimes it feels like it's hard to swallow when the pressure is really bad. I notice when I go outside sometimes both ears start to feel clogged very fast...

So since Saturday night I have a new totally different issue. My left ear keeps clogging. The pressure gets worse and worse, I can almost hear like a wind sound and feel almost a vibrating sensation as the ear pressure ramps up. It keeps ramping and finally all of a sudden the pressure will...

Well it happened again tonight... late in the afternoon could feel the pressure building in my left ear. It never totally clogged, but about the same time as yesterday the pressure reached a 'boiling point'. I went for a walk as I always do when this crap makes me anxious. All of a sudden I...

Funny thing is after such a horrible night and beginning of the day... the rest of my day has been completely tinnitus free... go figure! Sometimes I wonder if these are Meniere's like symptoms, but I have never had any vertigo/balance problems whatsoever. I wonder if a diuretic would help...

Wow what a horrible night. My left ear became totally and completely clogged last night. So much pressure felt like my eardrum was being pulled inward. My hearing was actually somewhat muffled. This started about 7:30PM. I had been grocery shopping and didn't use plugs because I had been...

So freaking annoying... it had softened to almost nothing yesterday... thought I would get a quiet day on Saturday for once. Nope it decides to ramp up in my RIGHT EAR now (where it has never been). It is not that loud but the hissing is more insistent and faster if that makes any sense...

Well the last couple days the T has been annoying but low enough to kind of ignore. Especially when I get busy with work or engrossed in other things it kind of almost fades away. The weird thing is it feels like it has gone from my left ear, the one with actual hearing loss, to the right ear...

Dipp, hope you are better! I'm hoping that it went away since you never posted again.

Great day yesterday... it was pretty much completely gone the entire day. Before bed I could hear it a little bit but not bad. This morning woke up and there was something going on but it settled down once I got up and started moving around. It's back today, but very low and not too bad...

Hi @Michael Leigh, I guess the only loud trauma I can possibly think of was like you said using headphones while working from home sometimes. I have been working from home due to COVID-19, and sometimes as to not wake up my roommate, I would play videos while I was working. It was usually not...

Anyone from New Orleans area? If this spike I have continues I really want to seek out the aid of an audiologist to look into hearing aids/masking devices and to talk about Tinnitus Retraining Therapy white noise generators. I found a doctor Mary Miller in Hammond, LA from the ATA website...

Day 3 of it being back... so sad... Seems to be getting a little softer each day I guess. Anyone else that's gone through a spike---did you find it was sort of an up and down recovery to baseline? Hard to work like this. The worst part is the fear of whether its going to ramp up more and...

Bethadtr, what happened after you went to the doctor? Hopefully it was nothing serious and the issue resolved. Would like to hear an update!