Recent content by SashaG

I was given this medication by my doctor pre-tinnitus, as I felt a bit down. I remember that tinnitus was a known side effect of the drug, listed on the piece of paper that comes with it. I never took it, so I can't say how common it is, but I would be careful. If your tinnitus does come from...

Hyperacusis does go away, either by itself and your ears being less sensitive as they relearn that the everyday sounds are not harmful. But there are also meds that can improve, as hyperacusis is also a mental problem. In my case, Zinc, Paracetamol or Alprazolam had incredible effects on it, it...

Some positive vibes from me, my situation seems to keep improving, it's been 4 weeks now and over the last 4 days I have made quite some progress. It seems as my "pattern" worked out, but I still hear something when it's very quiet or I wear my noise cancelling headphones. Sometimes the bell...

I keep on improving every day a little bit, dont lose hope, but be willing to fight every day.

I was told that noise is often just the final straw, but other stuff comes first. In my case, I was on antibiotics for 3 weeks, just 50 mg, but it seemed to have weakened my ear. I also was a bit crippled inside the MRI; so the blood flow was less good. It seems to be have just added up in my...

I spent a lot of time with doctors and psychologists and next one is a neurologist. There is a common pattern among their opinions. If it's a one time trauma, either like an explosion or a loudness of a longer time around 90 dB, the chances are high that you will recover. This has to do with...

The health system in Germany is terrible, there is no doubt about that. But what should we do, take a flight to the United States? It might make it even worse, due to all the stress and noise, so we have to take what we can get. It´s also a financial issue, if we can´t work, we get no money, so...

I noticed the same when I take my hearing protection off for some minutes, it's as if my brain rewires parts of it or something. But yea, I am too scared too expose myself to a lot of noise. As for the meds, I never took any meds all my life, so for me this is also brand new, but there seems to...

I wanted to give a review of my past week. Last Thursday, I was feeling very good and already thought about a "it's gone" post, here at the forum. On the following day, at the evening, the sounds came back badly and I cried for 2 days. Today, a week later I can say that my very first sympton...

Same here, the meds have helped, it's insane how much torture it is, if you feel that your ears are exploding. There is no escape, no rescue, except for the meds. I am grateful for them, they did nothing bad to me, but only good. In one week, the dosage is down to zero and then the road...

My doctor said, that if we are stressed out, the blood flow can become a bit crippled. If we consider that music is very important for us and that we understandably freak out over nothing in regards to our hearing, we might have had a setback by noise, but it was much more severe than for...

Thank you, I guess it does work now indeed. :)