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My low-frequency tinnitus is only one-sided. It sounds like the hum of doom / fills the space like a fog horn. It seems to happen randomly, getting/feeling sick in my tonsils, or salt seems to be a connection. Half dose diuretics and low salt (not no salt, just not overdoing 1.5g a day) with...

Maybe I'll start scheduling random surgeries just to have a vacation from the clown noises.

Holy shit. If you lost hearing/couldn't walk, did you ever get checked out by an ENT for a fistula? If it really was a blast of sound, it isn't unheard of.

This now happens to me on exposure to loud sounds. I just avoid them generally or protect extensively if no choice. It was much more prevalent coming off steroids (I do think steroids was the right choice and you probably did have COVID-19, it's the immune reaction to COVID-19 that tends to...

Let's put this in perspective: Oxygen = free radicals. Pressure = barotrauma. Together = potential for mechanical impaction / fistula, and even MORE free radicals. Oh and oxygen is a stimulant, so nerves will fire even more (more radical formation). HBOT makes a lot of sense if you're having...

It is unfortunately all about "Bitcoin hype" and that's all anyone can think of. Literal stakes of real estate, for example, would be a prime example. It is superior for anything requiring legal verification. I do like Bitcoin on paper but investors ruined it as usual.

I also did Paxlovid. I was fine.

Bone conduction would be very close with 7ish dB of earphone levels. That'd be distinctive of cochlear hearing loss vs. some middle ear issue.

I wouldn't call what a 20-year-old says intelligent. Just brash to get attention. And no, they aren't. Try that on a church girl. Weird place to argue this shit.

It's changed a lot. Some sounds faded but not all. Clonazepam helped a ton when it happened, it cut the volume by 90%. It happened in the chamber, and didn't go away until I decompressed and had Clonazepam. That was probably several hours later. It sounds like a slow ramping up of random...

I have visual snow. I think you mean severe visual snow that interferes big time with daytime vision? My night vision is like... static mostly lol.

Pressure 100%. I was told earplugs would be fine (they are not, at all). That or the pure oxygen as well, I got to 2.5 ATM and had what could be considered an auditory seizure. I would not suggest it. Not fun to go through. Probably the closest I'd been to killing myself had I not been too...

We don't even know what causes visual snow and why the correlation to tinnitus is so high.

Sure I guess, ABR is also like 90+ dB of clicking non-stop for what, half an hour? I almost did it and the tech, who got tinnitus from the fucking test herself, convinced me to drop it.

It's very confusing considering deaf drivers are absolutely a thing, so the distinction with headsets is weird unless it's because it's actively generating noise. I ask because at least here it seems legal to drive with earmuffs which I kind of have to.