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    (2 of 2) Was definitely inflammation and not a sudden death of thousands of cochlear hair cells...

    (2 of 2) Was definitely inflammation and not a sudden death of thousands of cochlear hair cells like I originally feared. Still gets annoying sometimes, but a little rest, some water, and stretching my neck and jaw, and I'm better.
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    (1 of 2) Four year mark: right now it's kinda like if I had just listened to a tape on a walkman...

    (1 of 2) Four year mark: right now it's kinda like if I had just listened to a tape on a walkman and it's at the blank part at the end and I forgot to switch it off but there's some tape hiss. I listen to whole albums in the car and it's mostly great, with occasional annoying moments.
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    48+ hours of the calmest, quietest, least reactive T since November 2020. This is at about 3.5...

    48+ hours of the calmest, quietest, least reactive T since November 2020. This is at about 3.5 years.
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    @AverageJoe12 I needed to ask my parents to turn the TV down. Everything was startling. This all...

    @AverageJoe12 I needed to ask my parents to turn the TV down. Everything was startling. This all subsided over the first year.
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    @AverageJoe12 funny thing with H was I was pretty sure I didn't have it, but looking back I...

    @AverageJoe12 funny thing with H was I was pretty sure I didn't have it, but looking back I don't see how I could have *not* thought so. I was really bothered by sounds at work. I hated walking past the dish room, hated if people dropped pallets or pans, hated the beeping on electronics.
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    @Juliane I was 4 months in before having ANY noticeablely positive changes. The earliest...

    @Juliane I was 4 months in before having ANY noticeablely positive changes. The earliest improvements were when the tones started changing into more fizzly sound, not really quieter, but I hated tones so much that anything less tone-like was a good sign. This was all very slow and subtle. There...
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    A lot better, thanks. Minimal reactivity, and it's kind of the aural equivalent of glowing coals...

    A lot better, thanks. Minimal reactivity, and it's kind of the aural equivalent of glowing coals after a fire has mostly died down. The flareups get shorter and shorter, and farther and farther apart, on average. If I keep my stress low, stay hydrated, and get enough rest, it's pretty close to...
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    My High-Pitch Reactive Tinnitus + Lower Pitch Resonances

    Three year report: I don't feel like writing much, but I'm doing well. There has been real progress in the third year, just as in the second year. The light hiss is mostly staying in the background. Occasional flare-ups, can be triggered by stressful situations, but not as bad as before. I had...
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    Three years and much better. I'll write an official three year update post in a couple weeks.

    Three years and much better. I'll write an official three year update post in a couple weeks.
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    Seek out stories from people who had acoustic trauma and took a few years to recover. Those...

    Seek out stories from people who had acoustic trauma and took a few years to recover. Those helped me tremendously. In the worst period I just laid on my side watching videos on mute. I called it "equilibrium" because it was the most bearable time. It was worse than any other health condition...
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    Three year report coming up. Should be a pretty good one.

    Three year report coming up. Should be a pretty good one.
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    My Acoustic Trauma (Jackhammer) Induced Tinnitus Has Got Much Better

    This is one of the best accounts I've read on here recently, thank you. I'll be hitting three years in a few months, and improvements have been glacially slow; but whenever I do something I haven't done in several months—go certain places, listen to certain sounds under certain conditions...
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    My High-Pitch Reactive Tinnitus + Lower Pitch Resonances

    This just a couple of weeks after my two year post and I just want to point out that part of my baseline tinnitus sound, the "fuzz on top", has been thinning and receding into nothingness or near-nothingness for the majority of time over the past few days. This is after two years of mixed...
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    My High-Pitch Reactive Tinnitus + Lower Pitch Resonances

    Two years: well, right at this moment I'm doing pretty well, but I still wouldn't call it "out of the woods." I get flare-ups when I'm tired and/or stressed. Sometimes at work I go for as much as an hour or so without even noticing it or thinking about it, though it usually ramps up a bit when I...
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    If it stays roughly where it's been the past few days, I might consider declaring myself "out of...

    If it stays roughly where it's been the past few days, I might consider declaring myself "out of the woods." Very cautiously optimistic.
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