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I have problems with my own voice too. It's similiar to your symptoms, @Willie Discus. When I talk, certain sounds in my speach vibrate in my worst, left ear , more if I talk louder, but sometimes even with very soft voice. Sometimes I just try to avoid certain voices like sch, ch, j, etc, the...

@fishbone and @Michael Leigh Thanks for your responses. Fishbone, my hyperacusis sounds exactly like yours, except that my tinnitus is a horrible too. with daily fluctuations. What you both said goes in accordance with what my ENT doctor recommended to me. Nor she or any other in my country...

Finshbone, I am struggling with tinnitus and hyperacusis. I am glad to read that you recovered from hyperacusis too with TRT. I'd like to know what kind of hyperacusis did you have, loudness or pain too? I am asking because I get sharp pains in my ear and sometimes even in my head, face...

Dr. Nagler, Thank you for all kind help and support you are so selflessly giving to us. I've been reading your answers regularly and most were very helpful to me. But even if you have answered some of my concerns, especially in regard to tinnitus, I still have some doubts and questions about...

That's a question I myself am struggling with. My doc also said there will not be any future damage done with moderate noises. When I argued that even lower than moderate sounds hurt me, she said it's irritation, but not damage. But we all know what is irritation like: pain has no time to go...

That's what I have too. Since last 5 to 6 months, worser last month. The best explanation is broken speakers, along with amplified high frequencies. I sometimes hear only high frequencies end even those are not just amplified but different too, more vivid, they also vibrate, like playing on a...

Juan, you summed it up very very nicely, thank you a lot! If I could live without job it could be easier to manage all that as I would expose myself to sounds as per my decision, even if that would mean not going to crowdy places for months. I wouldn't care. I know hearing can not be reversed...

Juan, do you suggest anything else? Due to lack of any reliable treatment one needs to take what is available, even if it is not a 100 % cure, I am afraid... I'd just like to lessen a burden of hyperacusis and habituate to tinnitus at one point of time, even if it doesn't go away. If I had...

Thanks. I ma just now listening to some some soft classical music at work to see if it will please me on the long run. I think I will be changing my background sound enrichment, partly radio with pink noise and partly just classic music and see how it feels. I am totally aware of those risks...

Thanks, Michael, I was looking at that book too, but as I know that counseling is a part of the treatment, I was a bit skeptical how much would it help me considering I will not have any counseling and also not WNGs. But I think I will buy one anyway because I am just too lost in this sad journey.

Thanks a lot for so quick reply. You answered my questions in details and I appreciate it a lot. I know I'd need a professional help, but can't get it here where I live. The most I got was advice, that I need to have sound enrichment all the time and stress management. So I must rely on myself...

Hi Michael, I've had hyperacusis since 7 months ago, 1,5 months after a got tinitus. It did get slightly better after few months, but not much. Last month it got worse again, so that everything is irritating me, including running water, people's voices, even my own voice. I was using sound...

I'was taking it for 2 months and it seemed to me to be less effective after that time, so I stopped it and have taken SJW instead now for 4 days with hope to gain some more sleep again. I still don't know how efficient it would be, but was thinking the same as you said: taking it for say 2...

Lane, I've just started to take SJW, 400 mg per day in evening (capsules). Mostly to calm me down and to get a better sleep (I started to get up at around 3 am and not be able to sleep back again, but that was my problem even before the onset of tinnitus). How long can SJW be taken without any...

Do you think that sounds up to 85 Dbs can therefore only spike hyperacusis, but can not do any permanent damage? I read some other opinions too in this regard saying that once ears had been damaged, they are more sensitive than healthy ones and therefore can be damaged more quickly.... In any...