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Okay, weird. In the middle of the night yesterday, my morse code sound turned into a lower-pitched tone with the same rhythm it always had for about an hour before reverting back to the higher-pitched tone. For that hour it was a little less annoying and I was hopeful maybe it was resolving...

I'm near the end of a 12-day course of Prednisone. It hasn't helped but this late in the game I didn't expect it to. My doctor wanted me to find a psychiatrist to find and manage medications to help me through this, but I've had zero luck in that regard. I can't even get one around here to...

That video is similar to mine, but mine's a bit lower in tone. In the past 2 months I've picked up in my left ear: a morse code ringing, a high pitch electrical zing with pain, a dentist drill, a mid-tone eeeeee, a high-tone eeeee, a clicking sound, and 2 different hisses. If during this time...

Hi Jerad. Sorry about the late response - I've been having a tough go at things since my last post. I'm not lingering long since I have an extremely hard time sitting still lately, but I wanted to thank you for the kind words of encouragement. This has been brutal, but it helps a little to know...

Thank you for the thoughtful response. My hope was that severing the nerve would remove the reactive part of this, as the zings immediately respond to sound. No sound, fewer zings, right? Maybe not... For me, 99% of this is localized in my left ear with the occasional back-of-neck tingling or...

I try to keep a positive outlook, but this is steadily getting worse. Maybe it's just due to the lack of sleep as I'm still only getting about an hour a night. I've always been a super light sleeper so this specific type of painful reactive tinnitus is a perfect storm to wreck me. My health is...

At this point I don't know what could help. I have an appointment with a neurologist but the nearest available date wasn't until mid-June. For me, the toughest part is that I have so many different sounds in my ears now. Earplugs help to somewhat lessen the zaps but then everything else goes...

To update you @Jerad, I’ve stopped taking the Gabapentin after four nights. The last two nights, the baseline ringing and zings greatly increased in volume within two hours of taking my dose. Easily a 10/10 in volume and completely unbearable. It went down on night three after eight hours. It’s...

So far, no, but I've only been on it two days now. I guess some people react to it quickly but others take a few weeks. I don't have high hopes because so far nothing has taken the edge off, but this has more promise than anything else I've tried. If anything helps it'll probably be this. I'll...

My primary prescribed some Gabapentin yesterday after I told her I was hesitant to take the benzos I was given at the ER. The ER gave me 12 benzo pills and I've taken three, and they work nicely to give me a good 4 hours sleep and make the first half of the next day tolerable. But I don't want...

I hope you got help at the ER. My wife eventually convinced me to go last week for similar reasons (average of 90 minutes of sleep a night for five weeks combined with constant pain leading to a mental breakdown). I was basically told, but nicely, that the ER is more for medical emergencies like...

I’m new with reactive tinnitus so I’m still trying to figure it out. Mine is instantly reactive to most sounds which I believe is manifesting as a super high frequency electrical sound. The original sound I hear doesn’t cause pain, but the sound my ears produce in response DOES hurt. It’s always...

I’m so sorry you have to deal with the Morse code. Mine started only a week ago and it can be maddening so I can only guess what you’ve had to go through for so long. My wife jokes that my ears are communicating to me that I should do more household chores. I’m also someone who can move the...

Not really. Doing that as well as putting in an earplug at night slightly dulls the pain but it still prevents me from sleeping. It’s only marginally better than nothing but for now it’s all I got It’s been spiking extremely hard tonight for some reason and I’m getting desperate. It’s never...