Recent content by LukeYoung

Don’t be too hard on yourself. This condition is almost impossible to understand unless you have experienced it yourself. You’re doing the right things. Gradual exposure to everyday sounds is important, as long as nothing is too loud. It sounds like your initial onset included hyperacusis as...

I sometimes experience a similar sound, like a strange hum. I have had it for the past two years, but I am not sure what caused it. It happens along with my usual tinnitus sound.

I personally suspect it is related to B12, as its effects are limited to the nervous system. My tinnitus also seems to improve when I keep up with my B12 shots. However, there could be multiple factors involved.

Has anyone else experienced this before? I used to have it for short periods when I was very anxious. With my current medication, I do not really experience anxiety anymore. However, this started right around the time my pet, a beloved member of my family, had a seizure last night. I was quite...

Everyone has different issues and levels of loudness, but when I think back to when my tinnitus first started, I was a mess and could not even watch TV. I slept all day, anywhere I could. I always used a pedestal fan pointed at my face to sleep, and I still do. To be fair, I have always needed...

Both times I had microsuction, I left with distorted hearing for about a week and a half. It was the same metallic sound, like metal cicadas in response to certain white noise. It is horrible. I will never do microsuction again. It is very loud and painful.

A lot of the time, I do not hear it unless I have a spike. Most days, I do not really notice it throughout the day.

It was very loud. It brought me to tears and suicidal thoughts. I could hear it over everything except when I was in the shower—that was my only solitude for the first month. I heard it 24/7. During the first few weeks, I relied heavily on sound therapy and rarely left my room. I was also...

I hear the same sounds as you. Some of them seem to resemble metallic cicadas. It doesn’t help that this time of year, there are actual cicadas around. I experienced this last year after having a large amount of wax removed, and the same thing happened this year after another large wax removal...

I love the simulation theory, but I think we have too much free will, or maybe it is just perceived as free will. Who knows? The Matrix offers the best depiction of a simulation: one where no one is controlling us piece by piece, but the system as a whole is under control. If we are in a...

It sounds like TTS to me, but I could be wrong.

Please don’t do anything rash. Your situation sounds very similar to where I was when I first got tinnitus. I was already feeling very depressed, and then this on top of it made me seriously consider giving up. But here I am, eight years later, and I’ve had many good times since then. It will...