Recent content by RobertFahey

When you have music playing, you eventually tune it out and focus on something in the "foreground." That's exactly what you're trying to accomplish with tinnitus, right? So why not use music as a "magnet" that attaches to your tinnitus and drags it into the background?

Then you are performing one of nature’s most beautiful functions, despite your stress. There’s something to celebrate.

Are you breastfeeding?

You can’t treat the stimulus, but you can treat your response to it. I say look into Zoloft or anything else to knock down your hyper-vigilant response. Then wean off it, and you’ll be back to listening “out” instead of “in.”

Anxiety and tinnitus feed on each other. If you have a baby, you've got extra stress -- but also a beneficial distraction. I have the same low-frequency fluttering at night sometimes. At first, I went downstairs to check on the furnace, thinking something was awry. I think we should think of...

Update, Julia?

Sirhand, just add it to the list of “I wish I were young again” laments — and move on. Surely you’ve improved in some ways, even if you’ve lost “silence.”

Sirhand, there is no silence. You’ve never experienced it and wouldn’t like it anyway. Google “anechoic chamber” and you’ll see that a truly silent room is extremely, um, disquieting.

I see countless cries for help in the "Introduce Yourself" string, from people who have just come down with tinnitus -- but very few take the time to return and update. If you've gotten used to tinnitus and moved on with life, everyone needs to know that. If the newbies read enough stories like...

Update, Marisa?

Update, Lakshmi?

Your underlying psychological condition, not the meds, might be more culpable. And improving your underlying psychology is the “cure,” when you reach the point where tinnitus is a background phenomenon. I think anxiety and tinnitus go great together. Both are worsened by our unhealthy habit of...

Dylana -- update?

Staci -- update? Did you take any anti-anxiety meds?

Alicia -- update? It's been a few months.