Recent content by Sybelle

Yes it gets less intrusive and less incapacitating over time. I have quite severe hereditary hearing loss and it's been compounded by acoustic trauma and antibiotics; five members of my family all have hearing loss and T. One is completely deaf with severe T that they do not hear and haven't in...

Habituation or Tinnitus resilience is a cumulative process; it's analogous to a muscle that just be muilt. I first experienced Tinnitus at 17 from hereditary hearing loss and for 10 years my brain suppressed Tinnitus so efficiently that I forgot I had it. Last October, I experienced my first...

It's a contentious opinion but when I was suicidal and consumed with Tinnitus and despondency, I had to leave this forum. I think habitual breaks are beneficial for people's mental health because the pessimism is detrimental to someone in a vulnerable state; do not dismiss me as a mild Tinnitus...

I empathise with you both. My T used to replicate the beeps from a hearing test I had four months ago, I had church bells, a thousand birds tweeting in a cave, a trumpet, and sirens. The worst moment was when I'd been to the cinema and got into my car and I could still hear the jingle from the...

Another update: This might be prematurely optimistic I'm just so damned relieved! For the first time in 7 months, my tinnitus has returned to its baseline of 2/10 and my musical ear syndrome has completely abated. It's gone! No more auditory hallucinations and only my usually gentle tinkle for...

Update: I've been taking Sertraline for three weeks and I'm tentatively optimistic! I believe it is attenuating my tinnitus that was amplified by anxiety. There is no silence or complete elimination of sounds but it is less strident. There are periods of time I can forget my tinnitus which isn't...

I've taken one and I cannot discern if it's louder or simply a remnant of yesterday's anxiety spike. I've read wonder stories about SSRIs and people incapacitated with the adverse effects.

So... I'm six months into an almighty tinnitus spike and I've lost my resilience. I had to go and get what help I could which is woefully inadequate for tinnitus sufferers but I don't want to die so this is my only recourse. I was prescribed a 50mg of Sertraline by my empathetic GP but of...

I have a very volatile relationship with my intrusive cacophony these last sixth months. For ten years, my T was easily suppressed, I had the mental fortitude to consign it to my subconscious as another banal sound and my brain did filter it out! It was only there when I conjured it. I...

I'm extremely trepidatious about deafness and the cacophony of my Tinnitus being my constant, implacable companion through life. I'm 27 years old and my family is predisposed towards hearing loss: my grandfather is deaf, my uncle is deaf, my eldest brother has only a few decibels left at 32, and...

I'm back. These have been the most arduous 4 months of my life! I don't know what I'm more depressed about that fact I was so well habituated I forgot I had Tinnitus for 10 years or I've unravelled all that internal infrastructure that suppressed my T in one month of antibiotics or the fact that...

I'm extremely intrigued between the correlation between prexisting Tinnitus and any exacerbation by common prescribed acne medication! I'm currently persevering through an ungodly loud, multitonal spike after taking Lymecycline for acne and I'm vehemently certain it is the culprit; it's been...

Otoxic drugs....I wish there was more information obtainable. I'm two months into a spike that I'm convicted Lymecycline is responsible for! Yet I can find only negligible information about tetracyclines and nothing substantial to corroborate my worry... As for SSRIs, I've had Tinnitus be...

It's a genetic predisposition due to hereditary hearing loss in my family. My brother, mother, uncle, and grandfather all had Tinnitus ranging from severely incapacitating to mild yet they are all currently habituated so the noise is imperceptible. I had habituated so completely that I forgot I...

Welcome to the nebulous world of Auditory hallucinations and musical ear syndrome that is often concomitant, in my experience, with incapacitating Tinnitus. I’ve just been through the most anxiety inducing period of my life where I was under the misconception that I had onset schizophrenia...