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Hi everyone, I’ve had an interesting new development with my tinnitus. My story is long, but I was managing it reasonably well. There were good days and bad days, but I was still living life as fully as I could. A few weeks ago, I got a slight ear infection, which has now triggered a new...

Hi All, I'm just posting here as I've found out that Natural Care are no longer making their 'Ring Stop' supplement. This is what it looked like. In saying that, they do have a new one but it is Homeopathic only and doesn't appear to have any of the 'other' ingredients of which there was a...

Hi, I'd been suffering for a sore neck for about 6 months so decided to see a chiropractor a friend recommended. At the initial consultation I told him I have tinnitus and very sensitive ears and the session began. Then unbeknownst to me he pulled out a rattlegun thing that pokes you and used...

Hi, Mine is a long story but I will simplify My tinnitus got far more reactive nearly 3 years ago when I was taken off clonazepam cold turkey by my doctor. I had been put on it by a specialist and not advised how addictive it was. The last 3 years have been really hard, my tinnitus is know so...

Hi all, I've got a situation which I would like other opinions on. My story is long but I've had T 30 odd years since I was 13, it calmed down to start with but has been getting worse over the last 10 years. This was accelerated at the end of 2015 when a specialist gave me 3 months clonazapam...

Oh Glynis, You are so strong and determined, a inspiration to us all. I'm sure things will settle down. Jamie

Hi Kazue, My T is very reactive, even a car going past will make it louder. I have to avoid noise all the time. Some days are worse than others. I think some of it may be physiological in that I think it will get worse so it does. Being you have only had T 3 weeks I wouldn't be too worried...

This is what happened last night: I’ve had tinnitus for 30 years, since I was 13, following an ear infection. It’s progressively worsened over the years and has severely impacted my life. Last night, I had a dream that I was back in school, and suddenly, the tinnitus in my left ear (my worse...

Hi, this may have already been answered but my T (the worst tone) is around 8khz in my left ear but I am also nearly completely deaf in that frequency as well, that is what caused the T. Would listening to tones I can't actually hear help? I played the 8khz at the start of this thread and I...

Hi, Have a head cold, third one this year, this time me right ear is blocked and I can't clear it. I'm worried I will get an ear infection, I went to see and urgent doctor who has given me an Otrivin nasel spray and an anti histamine Loratadine 10mg twice a day. I've taken the nasel spary...

Hi Enrique, thanks for the reply. My spouse doesn't really understand, every time I bring it up it ends up in an argument, she has to do more now and I think she feels a bit hard done by, I wouldn't be surprised if it all ends, I'm not the man I used to be. I've ordered some musicians...

Hi all, I am living in the perfect storm. My T is worse after a medication botch up last xmas and now our baby has turned 1. Like any 1 year old she has taken to squealing, crying, yelling, banging, crashing and all the other noises 1 year olds make. My life has been completely destroyed by T...

Good point Vaba, I too have often wondered why there is not more effort put in. If you do the numbers, If 1% of people have debilitating tinnitus and there are 7 billion on the planet that's 70 million people whose lives are ruined buy this condition. 3.2 million in the US alone. I think...

Thanks for the reply ladydi, I'm pretty sure it's all in my head when I go to take something new but as you say I can always just stop taking it, being a more natural supplement it hopefully wouldn't do any permanent damage. T is the condition but it's what it does to your mental state that's...

Thanks notquiet, Yes since my event last November I am worried about taking anything, so of course that makes the T worse. My doc wanted to put me on AD's, I started but then said no, just too risky. I hope you are winning your battle with this cruel and unusual condition. All the best.

Hello, I been to see a naturopath twice now, the first visit she suggested dairy free which I did for a month but didn't really notice much difference. Now I have been given a supplement with 600mg of quercetain and 200mg Bromelains twice a day. Also a herbal medicine with Ginko...

Hows it going? I've had a few tough months, I was prescribed 1 mg clonzapam by a specialist who failed to mention the dangers of this drug, I was then taken off it cold turkey by my doc as I had a job lined up and he wanted to get me onto something else. That was on the 25th Nov 2015 All hell...

Hello, I had a bit of a nightmarish couple of months when I came off Clonazepam (prescribed to me by a specialist) cold turkey and my T has gone up. My doctor put me on zoloft for the anxiety and I've been on 25mg for a week and 50mg for a week but I'm not sleeping well, fell very ill in the...

I've just got some magnesium amino acid chelate, it also has 50mg of pyridoxine (Vit b6) Has anybody else tried this, started taking it yesterday and now the humming in my right ear seems louder

Hi Michael, I wish I had been told that, or done some research of my own. I purposely didn't do any research as I didn't want to have any judgements before I started taking it. Lesson learnt, I think I will always check up before doing anything, that's something that people struggle to...

Thanks Glynis, I have been trying to keep busy but some days it's just overwhelming, I wish I had never taken them, the T is my biggest fear, when it's really bad I can't function and that is causing me all the anxiety which then most likely acts in a viscous circle.

Thanks Andersson, I wondering myself about these doctors, I'm really annoyed with how it's been handled, the specialist told me to take it for 2 weeks and if no improvement stop but he didn't explain why, I got to 2 weeks and did feel a bit better but the T was probably the same so I kept...

Not looking forward to xmas this year, I was taking 1mg clonazepam prescribed by a specialist for 2 months to see if it helped my T. He didn't inform me it was an addictive medication and my own doctor pulled me off it cold turkey a month ago. It's been hell, my anxiety and T went through the...

Update. 2 Weeks now and things aren't great. Been quite ill last 2 days and now feel better but my ears have spiked badly, can't concentrate and I just seemed focused on the ringing, I'm so worried I've made things worse and feel foolish that I didn't check up before taking clonazepam. My...

Thanks for the advise, I got the dosage wrong I was on 1mg a day. I talked to my doctor about not going cold turkey but he doesn't want to do anything about it.

Thanks Glynis, My doc also prescribed me some Prozac after I stopped, I took half a tablet, 10mg for 2 days and stopped, I read that it can make your T worse, do you think this would have an effect? Really annoyed with myself, should have done some research and found out how addictive it is, I...

A saw a spealist earlier this year who put me on 2mg clonazepam and 50mg amisulpride, he told me if I didn't see any improvements in 2 weeks to stop but he didn't explain why, I had no idea it was addictive. I took it for 2 months. I saw my doctor a week a half ago who told me to stop taking it...

I have taken out many cars trying to find a quieter one at the road noise spikes my T. I am in New Zealand and european cars are very expensive here, espically if they break down, the best I have found is a 4X4 ute, I'm not sure why but the bigger the wheels the less road noise. I have a ford...

Hi Anthoney, Thanks for the advise, my T is reactive so gets worse the more noise I listen to, I used to be able to get away with hearing protection and felt safe behind my earmuffs as I worked or played but now just wearing hearing protection seems to aggravate it. There is nothing more...

Hi Ladydi, Yes I can relate, I have worked at this place before for 4 years and always thought the travel was making things worse. I have had a much shorter commute for the last 9 months and I think things could be a bit better but it's hard to tell, most days in the evening it seems as bad as...

Hi Eric, Thanks for the advice. If I didnt have Tinnitus (apart from running around hugging everybody I see and jumping on my motorbike which I haven't been able to ride for 5 years), I would take the job, it's not just the pay increase but I have a chance to make a real difference.

My trigger started when I started a business 11 years ago and I was driving around in droney diesel vans and working in factorys (I am, well was an industrial electrician) before that the T was there but was in the background, I'd give anything to go back to those days, I was so happy then, full...

Yes I am jealous, sure most people have something going on under the surface but not many are as debilitating as T can be. I can't even walk down main road, be in the same room as our 4 month old crying baby, drive in a car, use any sort of tools (and I am a tradesman), listen to music, attend...

Hi everyone, I would like to hear your advice on what I should do regarding a job. I have been head hunted by a company I used to work for to come back as a manager, great pay, car etc but my current job is in a nice quiet office a short drive from home and when I do have to go out and about...

Things have changed now and I'm concerned, the humming has been coming and going for 4 weeks and it would always humm for a maximum of a day or so then stop for a time then come back, now it's been solid for 3 days straight. I worried it's turning into full on T, it still seems mechanical as...

I have done the same, I was in a noisy job so wore earmuffs most of the day, I think this has made my T more reactive over the years, driving on the open road is a similar problem as in old NZ with our cheap rough chip roads, I've taken out countless vehicles and the quietest are late model 4x4...

If I walk down a busy street for longer than a couple of minutes I pay the price of a T spike for the next couple of days.

Yeh, its a joke really, if it's a symptom then lets treat the cause and it should go away shouldn't it? It's really a symptom of hearing loss or truma which isn't treatable so it should be classed as a condition, but then of course you could get financial help while trying to get through it and...

Thanks ampumpkin, I'd be pretty annoyed if it did cause it but I guess I won't ever know, I must have mentioned it 10 times to the doc that I have severe tinnitus and I've heard some antibiotics can be bad. It's hard work here in NZ, nobody takes T very seriously, it classed as a Symptom, like...

Thanks for the reply click, I'm glad it went away for you and hope mine does the same. I wonder what it is? The fact it stops when I cover my ear or shake my head is weird, sometimes I have to shake my head alot other times just move it slightly. Yesterday was good, no humm when woke ans stayed...

Yeh there is alot of it going around, its been 6 weeks since I first had a sore throat and a month since the humm started, it was quietening down and I was thinking it will just fade over time away but today its seems to be changing into something else. I've had something similar in my other...

Hi, the antibiotics I took were AMOXICILLIN 500mg + CLAVULANIC 125mg. The humm started a couple of days after I started taking them but I didn't want the infection to move into my inner ear, that's what happened 28 years ago, caused hearing loss and T. The humm was getting quieter and was...

Thanks jimH, I'm still hoping that's what's going to happen and I keep busy as not to think about it too much (don't want to actually turn it into tinnitus) I too have had many spikes in the past and your right they normally do settle down. I also think once you have had ear trouble it takes a...

Hi Nucleo, I can't remember the name but it's mentioned here that it has the least impact, An ear infection is what caused my T originally when I was just 13 years old, I've started wondering if it was the antibiotics that time, I've no idea what I took then. I agree with you it shouldn't be...

Hi all, as a long time sufferer from T (28 years, 75% or my life) I thought I had seen (or rather heard it all) I've been through spikes of T and recessions and things were looking up but now I'm starting to get worried. A month or so ago I saw a Prof Ritter, he specializes in T and it's a...

Hi Louise, When I say it gets worse, it is only temporary, depending how much noise I listened too, most times it goes back to it's 'base level' in the morning but that is still pretty bad, then it just gets worse from there depending what I listen too. Sometimes it would just go bad for no...

Hey Bob, Man I can relate, Like you I got my T around 13 or 14 years old. Like you I have had it a long time (24 years). Like you I feel I am not the man I used to be. Like you I feel my wife is missing out on the life and attention she deserves. Like you I am scared for the future...

Hi Peg, Sorry to hear about your Tinnitus. I think it is definitely hereditary, my father was quite deaf from driving heavy machinary and had bad tinnitus, I can remember as a young boy he used to complain about it. I took this on board and as a kid away wore earmuffs in noisy situations...

Hi Louise, My T sounds similar to yours. Mine is only in my left ear and is a result of a ear infection. Noise is my enemy and the more I listen too the worse my T gets, I now wear earmuffs while driving, what I have found though is not to cut all the noise out, I have earmuffs which have...

Thanks for the reply Markku, any suggestions are great, I don't know about you or other members but when I try to research Tinnitus mine gets unbearibly loud to the point where I have to give up and go do something else to take my mind off it. In answer to your questions, the H is...

Hi eveyone, I've had my T and H for 24 years now and I'm 36 years old. It's starting to really affect my life now in every respect from work to family life and everything in between. I haven't been to my doctor for a couple of years but I am thinking about going, but here is the problem. Over...

All good stuff. With all the different reseach surfacing somebody's got to up with some relief one day.(y)

I had a similar experience, waited 6 months for a appointment with an ENT specialist. When I got there he was running an hour late, I think he must have looked at the next case and thought 'Great a Tinnitus case I can make up some time here' because I walked in and sat down he introduced...

Hi there, I have had T for the past 23 years. It started when I got an ear infection when I was about 12 or 13, this left me with some hearing loss in my left ear which doesn't really bother me but the T sure does. The next 15 years or so the T was manageable, I wore earmuffs at work...