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My favorite part about this article is he basically explains that it causes him immense pain, he can't spend time at gatherings of family and friends, he spent a full year unable to do much at all, he has to wear hearing protection all the time, etc. but THEN... All of this overly positive...

I used it HEAVILY (both medical and recreational) while at college, and I WILL say that it makes the tinnitus 2x louder, due to the blood vessel expanding effects, by the time you are THAT high, it no longer matters to you. The nicest thing about the whole situation is that Cannabis will not...

What if you can FEEL it? Like, your left ear and left side of your face feel completely numb and tingly 24/7, because you have 10dB loss in that ear. How do you ignore that?

Dude. You gotta try Dungeons and Dragons. If you have imaginative friends, this quiet hobby will have you occupied for HOURS at a time. When you're immersed in that world, the real world almost fades away. It's super fun. Also, playing CS:GO makes me weirdly accept my tinnitus temporarily...

@Candy @GregCA I am ignorant of nothing. I appreciate your sentiment, but the very instant I developed my first floater (the giant brown problematic one), my previously mild depression (initially caused by simple bullying) instantly increased to unbearable levels. I am one of the most observant...

@JasonP @Alue @Candy I can no longer trust drugs because of the solely destructive effect they've all had upon me. Psych drugs simply mask problems and do not resolve them. I have no doubt that, in 100 years from the present date, humanity will look back upon medical history and deem psychiatry...

Mine is only in my ears. It makes me feel extremely off-balance, and the left side of my face (including my mouth and the left half of my tongue) is ALWAYS slightly numb.

I took Wellbutrin against my will in a psych ward 7 months back. It spiked my T for a while, but when I went off it, it went back to baseline levels.

Thanks, bro, I find that certain types of noise reduce my T for a while, I'll give it a try

I don't have H or ear pain, just one-sided numbness

Aight, first off, things are extremely bad. If you were a psychiatrist, you'd rank my depression as "extreme" and label me "treatment resistant." This is because my depression isn't a "major depressive disorder," which is a depression brought on by seemingly nothing. This is a true mental...

Well, duh. It's been like, a year since my last loud event. Everything in moderation...

@hoper @linearb Eh, my T doesn't react to noise either... never has; only air pressure (right ear) and somatic movements (left ear) I quite enjoyed a loud 40th birthday party 2 weeks ago. No earplugs, just didn't get too close to the speakers for too long (be sensible!) No change in T. Glad...

Read about this, RIGHT now. It might help you a lot. SSCD (Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence) is a condition where the bone over the Semicircular Canal (which is a part of the cochlea) detaches/is worn away. It can happen suddenly or gradually at any point in life, but is more common in...

I was always a laid-back, jaded kind of guy. I still am. In real life (not on forums) my emotions never come into play when it comes to dealing with almost anything. So, while I'm in pain constantly, and I kind of just want to die, I know that talking about it won't make it hurt less, so I just...