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@aura my rapid test cam back negative but I’m waiting on pcr results. I’m having the same symptoms as my daughter so I’m positive I have Covid. It hasn’t been too bad besides a really bad headache and my tinnitus is way louder.

Get well soon!! We all gonna catch it sooner or later...

@aura Thank you =)

But i don't think you should expect it getting louder. My brain/ears static hiss tends to get louder after noise exposure,but at a manageable level. Pure tones, on the other hand, did get louder.

@aura i have the hissing underneath all the other sounds. But my right ear is static, like an old crt tv without a connection, or that walkie-talkie sound you described. It’s become a lot louder and now almost sounds like air is moving through it. Left is a softer static with horrible pure tones.

Just worried that “air” sound is going to transform into another pure tone ring. The louder static is already become really difficult to deal with when it wasn’t a problem before.

@Wrfortiscue , i don't use white noise,i tried listening to it but i don't like it.

@kingsfan i understand the mess of noises with plugs, it’s why I take mine off frequently. You may just need higher db like your 16’s. I realized I wasn’t seating my left plug in and exposing myself constantly. Kept jamming the plug and causing aching lol so dumb

@aura yeah my ears start ringing louder immediately with white noise because of frequency. Just wondering if ours spike to road noise because of that

Time is your friend. Sorry you’re struggling, I’m having a depression day and just want to fade away. T is also making itself known because my walls are down

@Wrfortiscue =(

Some people have tones that go away, like Stacken. Not me!

Then while getting tests from an audiologist, my nightmare truly began. It just kept getting worse from there. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or what.

Yes I didn’t know the dangers of headphones either. I used to listen to them everyday on the bus to school from 5th grade through 12th. I have Ménière’s disease, but I’m no noise Virgin. I wish I knew the risks of noise when I was a kid. Holy shit.

I just thought I’d lose some hearing from not wearing earplugs. Didn’t know the ringing could get so loud. I thought I had my AirPods at a reasonable level, but I guess not. Funny apple now has a monitor for the loudness of their earphones, after I got tinnitus.

Yes my friend, why can’t we just be the people who are like yes! I’ve had the same tinnitus for the past 20 years! I have a coworker who’s like this that suffered an acoustic trauma around two months ago (he’s 62) from shooting a gun but forgot protection and still says his tinnitus remains the same.

@Shoon thats really all I want at this point.. for it to just stay the same and I’ll deal with it.

Hows the whistle i was trying to find experiences too .. i developed one 3 weeks ago seems active to sounds like fan i hear it more

You’ll be that much stronger when you come out the other side

This is definitely some fucking mental gymnastics

I can tell from the new tone of the static that it is eventually going to turn into a ring identical to my current left ear. At that point I’ll probably just throw myself out the window.

Fuckin A I did it again. Wtf is wrong with me? Had to recreate the scenario to see if I was being crazy or not? Hopefully it doesn’t get any louder I’m fuckin panicking.

Nada. @Shelbylynn.

Maybe the occasional song or two, and Films/Television.

@Shelbylynn I don't do much more than shopping and restaurants. I keep getting worse so maybe even that is too much noise for me, but what am I supposed to do, sit at home and listen to the demons in my ears?

I feel you. Still working on trying to get used to my buzzsaw. It vibrates my brain and pierces any sound

Is yours lower frequency?

Very high pulsating and sometimes makes my brain sizzle lol

I know that isn't the best encouragement, but you'll be okay. ❤️

I don't really get anxiety from my T unless I try to do something that requires a lot of focus, then I get frustrated. But I'm constantly thinking about it. The first I think every morning when I wake up is "how does my T sound today?" it's automatic.

I just want to not care about it anymore, like how it was back when it was mild. I'd hear it every night and when I had earplugs in but it didn't bother me at all.

@Steph1710 dogs are loud...maybe a cat? And then he can do what i did last year when i adopted a cat: hyper-fixate on training techniques.

...and watch endless youtube tutorials about cats...i recommend cat behaviorist, YouTuber and the host of the television show "My Cat from Hell " Jackson Galaxy.

I had two cats. Left them when I moved out. My roommate says they are allergic, so no cats =\. I've been having the delusion I'll get my two boys back.

H. Brezis - Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations

@kingsfan wow! We are so similar! I do the exact same thing. I love outdoors equipment, so it’s easy to get fixated on it haha. I’ve been researching at work recently. Being paid to get fixated on something is extra fun.

@Steph1710 What kind of gear have you been researching? I want to see!

@Damocles Is that the anime based on the card game in which they play the card game based on the anime?

It is indeed @kingsfan.

Trust in the heart of the cards.

I take lithium carbonate small dose, been on it for 3 years. It's hit or miss with meds.

What kind of sound?

And just when you think you've managed to regain one of your little comforts of life... I hope your ear will calm down again because I know how frustrating it is to cut out more and more of the things that you like from your life.

@aura straight square wave tone.. one at 4000hz, the other at 6000hz. So loud it feels like they are going to blow out of the side of my head.

It’s middle-aged Fred Durst

I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope it calms down quickly.

Haha just had to come back to this after seeing lalapalooza 2021 with LB. I’m like I know that face

That's actually a really good idea. I have some philips hue outlets I could use.

Such a good idea. thanks for that one!

Good thinking @LilCC.

I do the same thing (just in a more primitive fashion) by running an extension cable to my blender under the kitchen door. Then just leave the blender powered on until I've left the room, put my ear defenders on and can flip the switch.

You drinking the maxwell house? coffee is like my last remaining pleasure so I'd like to keep drinking my gourmet beans.

Can’t drink coffee. Increases my anxiety

@Brian P I'm fine as long as I drink the right amount to feed my addiction. Any more than that and I do get anxiety from it as well.

@xyz yea mine is a powerful commercial one with a bag and hepa filter to get rid of all that nasty shit that flairs up my asthma

Electrolux ultra silence is a good and cheap vacuum!
On hardwood it sucks decent even on 30% power. I only muff because the mouth piece might slam the walls.

@Exit I will look it up

I got a haircut a couple days ago. Earplugs and told them to trim without hitting the ears if they could

I just take a pair of scissors and grab hold of hair, front , sides and back. 4 cuts!
No protection:)

@Exit I've been cutting my own hair since covid started, but it's time for a professional to undo all the wrong I've done.

@Steph1710 You still look young in the recent photos you have posted.. not talking about the ones from the past you posted.

@Shoon Yea that's what's happening to me basically. I look older than my older brother who is in his 40s

@danielthor I actually sleep surprisingly well with two fans, cricket sounds, and melatonin.

What did the pain feel like? Inner ear aching sharp pain?

@Wrfortiscue have you ever worn foam plugs for too long and got an achy feeling in your ear canal by your jaw? Felt like that. It was a quick sensation then went away. Wondering if it was the sound or I tensed up somehow causing pain to radiate there.

did you ever try cymbalta? i have been speaking to someone on another platform who says it practically eliminates his t

No, I tried the zoloft with no success. I've tried cymbalta before tinnitus and the side effects were so severe I couldn't make it past the first day. I'm kind of wary to try it again.

@Wrfortiscue ultra high pitched EEEeeeEEEeee sort of thing. Just started out of the blue Sunday evening.

Right now it sounds like a bad serpentine belt on a car only higher pitched.

Sorry man let’s hope it calms a bit and maybe you can shrug it off eventually. I don’t know, there’s no advice worth giving :( you’ll get through buddy

For real. We don’t like change because we have to scan and assess all over lol

@Wrfortiscue Yea I'm having a spike, but it's barely louder than my baseline but it's just messing me up in every way. like wtf?

@kingsfan we don’t like change, especially to
Habituate. Now if my god awful buzzsaw can go away…

@Stacken77 Having a setback? Were you doing better before or has it just been bad for you for a while now? I haven't really been on here for a couple months.

@kingsfan Nah mate, it's just been crap for 9 months with some severe reactivity. Getting spikes from moving the bed sheets. But it hasn't gotten even worse, so I guess that's good. ;)

@Stacken77 I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm glad you are not getting worse though. I think you are much stronger than I.