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  • Somewhat functional again after nearly 3 years since the worsening. Still tortured by my screaming various tones. No choice but to endure.
    I hope our symptoms can significantly improve with time. Having to live like this for at least 50 more years is not the most welcoming idea.
    Wrfortiscue
    As long as it stabilizes maybe the brain can get used to it…
    I'm still mad at myself for having blasted my ears for years with headphones.
    Steph1710
    I done the exact same thing. No one ever warns you about T or H - just that you might lose some hearing.
    Shelbylynn
    Same here, granted I went to concerts and clubs too but I think the headphones were worse in hindsight cause I wore them 24/7
    Shelbylynn
    @Steph1710 That's exactly what I figured that I would lose hearing not gain an annoying phantom sound. :C
    The real issue with tinnitus is noise volume. After a certain threshold it successfully parasites your brain and disrupts other pathways.
    More than one year with this vacuum cleaner noise. I still hope for its disappearance. As time passes by the less likely it is to go away.
    I'm starting to think that more than noise caused the worsening. I'm getting headaches that spread to the ears since then. Never before.
    M
    I've had something similar to photopsia yesterday. Letters disappeared when I looked at them and I saw flickering rainbows. First time I have it.
    Is the rate of tinnitus the same between ARHL and NIHL? I know several elderly people with moderate to severe ARHL who report no tinnitus.
    SimonRK
    I'm not an expert, but based on what I've read here on Tinnitus Talk, it seems like tinnitus is more commonly associated with sudden, dramatic changes in hearing function. Maybe because brain plasticity can't keep up? It also seems likely to me that very loud noise damages the cochlea in other ways than presbycusis, which we do not yet fully understand.
    Playing some frequencies in one ear calms down several tones of the other ear for a few seconds. I wonder what tinnitus does to our brains.
    My being is slowly dissolving into this lovecraftian horror that is tinnitus. Perhaps I will become a pure tone.
    Damocles
    You are simply hearing the elegant notes of the amorphous flautist, played deep within the Stygian grotto beneath the cursed ground, where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied.
    Damocles
    Or perhaps you are one of the lucky ones, and are subject to the calls of the high priest himself..... Cthulhu.
    7 months in with the real thing. No habituation and I feel mentally exhausted. Mild tinnitus is a blessing compared to what you can get.
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