Recent content by Smoogle

Before my spike a couple of months ago, I was getting close. I had days where I only noticed it 2-3 times a day, and with a mostly neutral reaction. Now I notice it a lot more, but my reaction is different from day to day, hour to hour. I think, naturally, the easier it is to mask and/or...

Thanks for posting this Billie. I hope we can all recover to the extent you have. Thank you for coming back to help the rest of us!

For some people caffeine and/or sugar will spike tinnitus, but I've never heard of it increasing T permanently. I think my T is more likely to increase when I'm off caffeine than on... my body is too used to it!

Nintendo DS charger with a squealing capacitor and a vacuum cleaner. Worsened considerably with a single Vicodin 2 years later. :mad:

As far as I know, he funds all the administrative and staff costs himself. I think the actual research funding grants that the TRI provides relies on donors. I was kind of surprised there's so little information on Matteo De Nora. This guy created his own research organization from scratch and...

I believe Daedelus mentioned this, and I thought it pretty interesting, so I looked it up. http://www.tinnitusresearch.org/en/documents/downloads/Textbook_of_Tinnitus_Foreword.pdf Is this a cause for cautious optimism? De Nora is probably in a better position than many of us to know the...

Mick, I had episodes of fullness on and off for several months after I first got T. I've actually had them several times too since my spike last November, at seemingly random times of the day, without any kind of noise exposure or anything I could think of that could possibly trigger it. I...

Whoo, you've done it! You'll have your ups and downs, but I think the general outline is going to be heading on up from here on. :LOL:

Sorry to hear about your spike, friend. Seems a lot of us are going through something similar at the moment. You might inquire your doctor about a round of Prednisone, since you're only a week in with this spike. Prednisone can have some pretty hefty side effects and can have a big effect on...

After your last story, I practically expected them to summon their acolytes into the room afterwards in hushed tones, take off their robes, and explain that you're the chosen one and have the one T to rule them all. All the same, what an experience! Thanks for sharing that with us. I'm sorry...

I think the only reason they're accepting patients with tonal T at the moment is because it's easier to measure the before/after effects. If the treatment actually works, it should be effective regardless of the quality of one's T. I think they'd have a real doozy trying to measure it's...

This'd be a dream come true. :D

Hey, I've gotten that too! Weirdly enough, my left ear will drop in volume too when that happens. Doesn't last for more than a minute or two but when it does it's pretty close to silent. Spontaneous T gets me excited. :p Except when it overstays it's welcome... :cautious:

T has a weird tendency to jump ship to the other ear sometimes, even when there's no damage involved. For what it's worth, I get some pretty odd intermittent noises in my right ear sometimes. Unfortunately they've become a lot more frequent since my spike. Hope it settles down for you!

Welcome to the forum! Very sorry to hear you got your T & H from such a brief exposure. I never would've imagined a motorcycle could get that loud on startup, muffler or no. Alas, you'll find here people with all sorts of silly and odd reasons for having T. Mine came from a Nintendo DS charger...