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My deaf ear is always making tinnitus noise and the noise increases when I am around sound. I wish it would just shut up and be a deaf, useless ear. Instead, it is a deaf ear that gets in the way of sounds I want to hear in my hearing ear.

Thank you all for the replies. It seems as though noise cancelling headphones are not the holy grail I was hoping for. I like the idea of using them in combination with earplugs. I still don't know about lawn mowing though. I haven't mowed in almost six years and it's funny how such a mundane...

I found it to be a vicious cycle in the beginning because pain caused fear but fear also caused pain. Tensing my muscles in anticipation of pain seemed to make the pain worse.

Would noise cancelling headphones help me or hurt me? I found a pair of noise cancelling headphones while cleaning my mother's garage. My nephew, who works in landscape maintenance, left them there. I wonder if I could go to a ball game or mow the lawn again while wearing them? What are your...

I am the same. I just cover my eyes during the gory parts. I watch the Walking Dead too.

John Snow?

I have learned to not take things for granted. I have learned to focus on what I have instead of what I don't have. I have learned that people suffer in ways that are not obvious, according to their appearance. Empathy. I have learned that I am stronger than I thought I was.

A positive outcome is that you have learned to not take things for granted?

@JohnFox, I forgot to mention that I was given a prescription for oral steroids but there was no improvement. I live in a northern U.S. state and I function much better during the seasons when I can be outdoors. Sound drifts off into the air instead of coming back at me like it does in an...

@JohnFox, I will try to answer some of your questions. I do not know why this happened to me exactly but the ENT said it was probably a virus. It did not happen at night. I have not regained any hearing. My deaf ear reacts to every sound I hear in my good ear. That still happens but is not as...

@JohnFox, I have 100% loss of hearing in my left ear, which happened suddenly almost six years ago. I had to go through a grieving process. It took some time for me to accept my situation. I have not befriended the loss or the tinnitus but I have accepted it. I have befriended myself though, for...

Groundhog Day

Not necessarily true. I was referred to ENT because of sudden loss of all hearing in my left ear. While there, I told the doctor that I was hearing everything twice. Every sound I hear in my good ear produces noise in my bad ear. He told me I would probably have to learn to live with that...

I would dance with @hoper....If I could find him.

@brownbear , Thanks for the reply. I visited three ENT doctors before reluctantly accepting that there was no cure for this. Two of them told me that they also had tinnitus. I guess they meant well but it seemed like they were indeed projecting their own experiences onto me. I felt like they...