Recent content by Kells

Hello Dr. Nagler: I first want to thank you for being so giving of your time. I have read through so many of your answers and you've been so helpful to people. I wish I had a doctor like you. My question will be about habituation. A bit of background... I'll try to be brief. My tinnitus...

I want to thank every single person who responded to my current nightmare. I am praying for every single person here but I think I need to stop coming. I couldn’t help see the posts from those who want to die and commit suicide and it’s sending my anxiety about this into overdrive. I just want...

Unfortunately right now my tinnitus is made worse by white noise because of the pitch. I found one YouTube video that hides it enough where I can concentrate a but but I don’t know if it’s making it worse.

Good idea. I have a call into my kidney/hypertension specialist to see about changing meds or at least looking at mine. I don't think they were even working as good before this because my blood pressure was running higher. I will see what he has to say. Mine is on the list of bad ones to take...

That is good advice. I also read somewhere here that if you overprotect to the point of obsession you have less chance of accepting and at least habituating to it. Common sense is definitely the best. Thank you.

At this point I feel if I don't look for answers I will never know how to deal with this. I feel if I at least knew the underlying cause I could work better towards minimizing it. Guess with this condition that isn't the case. That is the greatest shame for sufferers. It makes no sense on how...

Thank you Candy, I really appreciate it. You are so right about monitoring it and focusing on it. It's all I do because it's such a new phenomena to my ears/head. It's the first thing I search out when I wake up... which ear is louder today and how loud is loud. I am obsessing over it and I know...

I am so sorry about your relapse. This is such a monster condition that I never even knew existed until 2 weeks ago. I’m glad you don’t panic but it sucks we have to relapse at all. Right now I’m one good day two bad days one good day. It’s ridiculous. I want all good days especially since I...

That’s definitely what makes me want to not go back to him. Even if mine is not TMJ related he still dismissed it and TMJ is listed everywhere I looked when I went for info. Thanks for the link! I’m really protecting like crazy!

I’m so sorry this has happened to you. I am also a newbie and I too am in the praying mode when I go to sleep at night that it will be gone in the morning. But it’s also the first thing I notice when I wake up and I want to cry. I still have hope that silence happens for all of us. HUGS

Getting louder is my biggest fear. It’s already so loud to me I’m not sure I could handle it. My husband who suffers(he also hears it over tv from years of work as s machinist) says I need to stop focusing on it and make it a non issue. I’ll get used to it faster. I can’t discredit him because...

Yes I will give him credit for that but he wasn’t going to do anything until after my hearing test this Friday. I pushed him by telling him it was so loud it was almost unbearable and then he said well we can start you on prednisone but it’s probably stress making it so loud since I didn’t have...

Yes I am going to start carrying ear plugs everywhere too! I can’t believe how I took my precious ears for granted.

I will definitely talk with my doctor. I don’t think this dose/medication has been working for a while anyway. It’s been running high but my lovely doctor retired and I can’t get in to see my new one until next month. If I can cope for just another month I might get some answers. Thanks again...

I will definitely do that. Thanks! I’ve been carrying earplugs with me. I do work in relative quiet which is a bit of a nightmare but I hope may help with healing in the long term.