Recent content by Jon R.

In May 2021, I developed new tones in my ears two days after receiving the vaccine. These sounded like cicadas and a mass of hissing. Before that, I only had a low rumbling hum. While the new sounds were unpleasant, they remained stable. The hissing was reactive, but I found that the sound of a...

I am so incredibly depressed. My previously stable tinnitus worsened six weeks ago after a flu or COVID, and I cannot cope with it. It is now so erratic and loud that I cannot mask it with anything, and it has become ultra reactive. It feels angry and aggressive, and I hear it over everything...

Congrats! I’m currently struggling massively to cope after a new spike, either from COVID-19 or the flu. I’m a month in now and terrified. This is life changing. My previous tinnitus was bad enough, but this is pushing me close to the edge—it’s a total nasty rollercoaster ride. I hope it...

@legends, any update on this? My tinnitus spike is terrifying me—80% of the time, I wake up with my tinnitus screaming at me. I've been experiencing this spike since I got sick in December. For the last three weeks, I can go to bed with it being just about bearable, only to wake up from a nap...

It’s a bit of a complicated situation. Yes, my tinnitus did return to baseline, but in the years after that, I developed other tinnitus that wasn’t related to Gabapentin. In this case, though, it did go back to baseline. However, it took many months. I only took a week’s worth of the tablets.

Interesting. I remember back in 2021, after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, I had an awful headache and took Naproxen. My tinnitus started the next day, but I’ve always attributed it to the vaccine rather than the Naproxen. I only took one tablet. I assumed Naproxen would only cause tinnitus if...

I hope you don’t mind me sharing a similar issue. I’m starting to really panic. I came down with a bad flu on December 18th (I didn’t take a COVID-19 test, but this hit me far harder than COVID-19 did last year). It felt more like the flu because it hit my chest hard, and I couldn’t even get out...

I just realized that my distortions are very likely due to "loudness hyperacusis." I can tolerate normal noises, but as soon as the volume rises above an average level, everything distorts and sounds ten times louder than it should. Yesterday, while talking to a checkout person at the...

I am worried that my condition is getting worse. I suffered an acoustic shock four months ago and have been experiencing a constant, strange sensation in my ear—sometimes a wet, cold feeling, along with intermittent aching in my jaw and ear. I also have loudness hyperacusis and distorted voices...

Just an early August update. I am getting so frustrated as my hearing is becoming more and more distorted. Today, I had a few family members around, and I couldn't cope. Their voices were distorted, and my own voice was distorted too. It's like a harshness to the voices that is very...

Yes, I would do hard time for seven years.

I have a dental visit coming up as my lower right wisdom tooth filling has come off, and the tooth is cutting my cheek, so I can't leave it. I am terrified, I have not been to the dentist since getting tinnitus, hyperacusis, and possible TTTS, and sadly the tooth is right on my worst side. Is...

How are you doing this month? I totally sympathise. I have a lot of same symptoms.

Damn this, I now have a fluttering in my right ear, and nothing is improving. I have no idea if I am mentally giving myself Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome or if I actually have it. I didn't know that ear fluttering was a symptom of Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome until I read about it two weeks...