Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

7 years with mine and it won't take the hint either :-P

@tniuf who knows…maybe just dumb luck. This time around has been relentless though. It's definitely not going away. I'n fact it just gets louder each time I have any acoustic insult or stress added to my life.

@Strawberryblonde 6 and 7 years is a long time to suffer…hope we both find some peace from this condition in the new year…

I really hope so cause this shit the second time has made my life very different :-/ how you've managed through multiple spikes I'll never know @Barry098

My 3rd injury about a year and a half ago was the most catastrophic. Never really fully recovered from that one. Now when I freshly injure them it just feels like breaking the scab off of that wound.

Sorry you are on the 2nd go around @Strawberryblonde .

@Strawberryblonde @Barry098, 34 years, many spikes, still praying for better treatments or cure! I hope he listens

It was my own fault @Barry098 wouldn't even be on this forum if I didn't make a silly mistake and thought straight!!
You have amazing strength to go through this as long as you have @Ken219 :)

@Strawberryblonde I don't believe in fault when it comes to T. If it isn't one thing it will be another that gets you. I am curious though was the trigger event for you was though.

@Ken219 34 years is a long time to suffer. The only people that deserve to suffer that long should be guilty of some heinous crime! I'm sorry you've been dealt such a bad hand. I truly hope we all find peace from this miserable condition one day.

Mild T for 6.5 years from what I assumed to be headphones but have other issues with jaw/etd.
Made a silly mistake of using headphones for a while again, then a ring developed in one ear, I panicked, couldn't calm down then I took amitriptyline 25mg then boom T went louder. So dunno what one was the trigger.

How loud did you have your headphones? Did your tinnitus appear with absolutely no other symptoms?

Thanks @Barry098 It has been a long road I was 40 at the onset and had two children and a supportive wife. I worked in the tech field and was able to work, with a few times took off because of tinnitus and went on disability, it was hard but here I am 74 retired and in a spike. I pray many times a day for better treatments or cure. Everybody hang in and pray with me. G-D bless.

Not loud and it was to listen to podcasts/YouTube shorts 99% of the time. I was ok for ages didn't notice an increase or anything. Got into bed one night turned my neck suddenly and a ring developed in one ear and panic set in. I was on a low dose amitriptyline for anxiety do that could be a contribution to the ring. Upped it to 25mg when anxiety got worse because of ring.

When I upped that's when the T became louder and more head based. 9 months in and can't say I've had any improvements at all so I guess this is my new normal for the foreseeable future which sucks. My old T level was pretty much non existent.

@Strawberryblonde I've had many noise exposures near military jets weddings..etc.. So when I developed intrusive tinnitus the headphones went in the garbage!

@Strawberryblonde I would hardly say you are to blame for your tinnitus. I think some of us are just predisposed to getting it. If it didn't happen then, it would have happened because of something else.

@Ken219 I got T literally at my 40th b-day party. The past six years have been a rollercoaster ride. Can't imagine dealing with this for another 28 years! But with the current state of T research that is likely my future. Ah who am I kidding…I won't live that long anyway with my stress levels.

@Ken219 they have been thrown in the rubbish 9 months ago, bloody wish I'd done that when I came across them!! Imagine where is be now if I'd done that! Unfortunately old habits hit me hard and it was like a druggy after his next fix when I come across them lol

@Barry098 I guess you are correct probs would of got me one day even worse just wish it wasn't at 30 :( never mind I'll live and if not it'll be the stress that'll get me like you said lol