Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

It was acoustic trauma about 4 years agao. That just gave me reactionary H at first, so just pain when exposed to very loud noises or using headphones.

Then just recently after being exposed to a high frequency noise for a long time I developed T and the H is worse. Headphone use made it much much worse. Now any exposure to loud noise makes it a lot worse.

Struggling with the stress of it a lot currently.

Sorry to hear that headphone use is so insidious. Sounds like stem cell is the way to go for u. Ur T developed in November right? Only a few weeks before mine

Yeah it started early november and has been there mostly since. Sometimes it's better and sometimes it's worse.

I'll see what the ENT doctor says but I don't think there's anything he can do to help me.

Will go get the stem cells prob whenever I can. The FX-322 drug is the next best hope but that could be a few more years until it's out and might never even work either.

Yup totally agree unfortunately I just don't have a lot of faith in pharma drugs atm-too many factors between development and when they enter the market. I too don't feel I'm gonna make it 5-10 yrs to see them either so here's to hoping Susan comes out first.

It's a shame no habituation started happening in that time for u, I'm in the same boat tho. Aside from prescribing u drugs I doubt the ENT will be helpful. Wishing u all the best with stem I'm sure it'll help esp since u know ur cause.

One last question do u physically feel urs or is it just the noise? I feel mine physically in my head which is the worst.

At first my ear felt full but not anymore. Sometimes I get pain too. It's just a loud high pitch noise most of the time though and lack of sleep and stress makes it worse but it's a vicious circle.

I have gotten some habituation, i'm not as crazy freaked out as i was at first but it still doesnt let me fully relax. using a white noise machine at night helps with sleeping

U right about that a very vicious cycle so u no longer have the severe anxiety etc? That's good I'm in the middle of trying to break that. Glad u r able to mask its really hard trying to mask such a high frequency.