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I apologise that this is a little bit late but I don't come on here so much these days. I'm sorry to read that you've been having such a hard time lately. Many parts of your story sound familiar to my own, from the probable cause, your initial symptoms, your experience with doctors and even...

That's not irrational at all, it's common for people who are newer to tinnitus to react to it like that, I certainly did when it happened to me (probably a lot worse :D). You should try not to focus on every small detail or change in your tinnitus or worry about the implications. I did exactly...

I didn't and never would've done so. It's more that the tinnitus was a catalyst for us to drift apart. She didn't have much sympathy to start with, seemed to think I was overreacting about it and would often be dismissive. I also became a lot more withdrawn as a consequence and for a few...

I hope so too! :D My experience with hyperacusis is that it usually fades with time, moreso than tinnitus. I remember the first time around I was sensitive to sounds for a few months, things that never would have bothered me before such as the sound of plates and cutlery or doors closing were...

Thanks for saying so! I have rehabituated and the worst of the sounds have definitely gone down again, though the tinnitus in my right ear persists and the volume is still louder than it was before the fireworks. Most of the time it isn't particularly noticeable, the biggest hurdle/impact on...

Here's an update after a while. It seemed like things were calming down again gradually, the strange beeping and other unusual tones went as did most of the aural fullness and sensitivity. It was slow, but there was some improvement. My mood was improving greatly and things looked optimistic...

After 2 overall rather mild days, I had another difficult night which has remained the case so far today. My tinnitus seems ridiculously inconsistent however, it's gone from a high pitch tone at the start to haywire electrical chirping to crickets and now to this strange intermittent electrical...

I'm sorry to hear that you experienced a worsening from COVID-19 too. It's particularly unfortunate because of how difficult it has been to avoid. Thank you for the words of encouragement. For me today has been quite positive, the first half of the day has been very mild, everything seems to be...

Thank you very much for saying so. I'm sorry to hear that you are going through a spike as well due to COVID-19, it's quite unfair to have such a setback when it's due to something so beyond our control. I hope that it's just a minor setback for you in the grand scheme of things and that you can...

It's alright, I asked about the music too. The purpose of my thread so far has been to vent my frustrations and to post my updates, mostly for myself to rationalise and cope with what has happened. With some luck in a few weeks or months I can look back on it and feel at peace. I love talking...

@GeorgeLG, thank you for the long and thought out response. Firstly I'd like to say I'm very sorry to hear about everything that you have been through, especially the loss of your wife and cancer, I hope your health only improves. I don't think what you have said is wrong and I already share...

This is why I am hopeful. I went from total devastation to getting my life back, so I believe it can happen again.

Last night was another difficult one, it took me hours but I was able to finally sleep through the tones. As was the case during the first time round, my tinnitus seems much worse during the night. So far today the signs have been somewhat positive, for the first hour or two everything was...

This is essentially what I am focused on. When my tinnitus started in 2019, it was a loud invasive tone and extremely destructive to my life, but over time it did go down to effectively nothing, whatever mechanism in the body allows for that happen I haven't got a clue but I know for certain...

Thank you for the reference, it's an impressive story. I'm still hopeful that my symptoms will fade gradually like last time, even if it ends up taking months again. I beat this once before, and when it started I really had very little hope at all, so I suppose I can do it again.

Thank you, I'm trying quite hard to believe this and to think logically about the situation. It's just so easy to get pulled back into despair over this, at least it has been for me. I agree. And it's been something I've been thinking about all day. I think I'll need to leave here eventually...

Thank you for your response. To clarify, my tinnitus has returned to a much higher level along with the old and arguably more distressing comorbidities of aural fullness and non-stop throbbing. These are symptoms that I haven't experienced in a very long time, for the ear fullness/pain/throbbing...

That was an incredibly difficult night/morning. Certainly my worst tinnitus episode since 2020 at least, perhaps since the beginning even, I can only describe it as catastrophic. As I'm writing this its definitely bothersome and persistent, but nowhere near as bad as when I am trying to sleep. I...

Irony can be as cruel as it is humorous. In the buildup to 2022 I was wholly convinced that it was going to be a good year, a positive one after the devastation I suffered in 2019, the hard fought recovery of 2020 and the readjustments and personal losses of 2021. Well a week in to the new...

I'm so sorry for getting back to this so late! I actually recovered from the spike I had when making this thread exceptionally quickly, I don't even remember how long it lasted, so it went out of my mind rather fast. I simply carried on as I had before and have had no trouble since then (and yes...

It's more likely than you think. Wow I haven't been on here in ages nor have I thought about tinnitus much at all for quite a while, so this post needs to be prefaced with a few things. First off - I should explain, I haven't been thinking of tinnitus lately because it has largely been a...

I'm saying that in my personal experience, my tinnitus, even at its worst (hearing it over the shower, conversations, music etc) has been something I've been able to cope with and adjust to and that is all. My point was that a person's understanding of and experience with tinnitus should not be...

Hah I remember wanting to do English Lit A level, but got refused by my school's English department even though I passed the GCSE. Teenage me was oh so disappointed. :D

How can a screaming frog be an alt right slur.. :cool:

I suppose its natural to assume the Pepe is the protagonist

Well he is the embodiment of clown world :D

Dig in the trenches, they'll bring out low quality minion memes from facebook next..

@Michael Leigh Your presumptiveness is almost as hilarious as how out of depth you are. I don't expect you to understand this however, you are after all a boomer and therefore not capable of adapting your fossilized mindset. It is a classic mistake prone to self aggrandising, pseudo-experts to...

This is what I was trying to say in an earlier post but didn't explain it quite so well. There is basically no need for CBT in my view, if somebody is mentally strong enough to have that attitude then thats good for them, they can cope well. But at the end of the day that is all it is - coping...

For me it's just been "stop being so fragile". At first tinnitus was a shock and I reacted poorly, but as time went on I realised I was being a massive pansy and wasn't acting at all like myself. In retrospect I'm ashamed of my initial reaction and I've not let it get to me since. Its still a...

I'm convinced CBT is pretty trash-tier, and not just for tinnitus (just more so). When I was a teenager I had a bunch of self esteem problems and anxiety issues and stuff like that and was being nudged by various people to have CBT to sort it out. I started training instead and now I'm much...

Basically my opinion too. I was pretty wrecked once I first got it and thought I'd never be able to listen to music ever again and stuff like that. Fastforward a few months to now, my tinnitus isn't as bad, honestly doesn't even bother me anymore 90% of the time, and I'm listening to all the...

@Yas Don't worry, some of the people on here can get a bit buttmad sometimes, pay no heed. Your desire to go is totally understandable and trust me I sympathise, I was looking forward to seeing Alestorm shortly before I got my own tinnitus. :D Ultimately the decision is yours, but if I were...

Which the NHS would never do anyway, and tbh even if they offered I wouldn't trust them. They'd probably inject sugar water or something on accident because the doctor got his degree in Nairobi :D

I think doctors are usually crap at dealing with this. When I went to mine all the NHS had to offer to me was "yeah idk fam have you tried drinking water"? I did get some satisfaction when he asked me to crouch a bit because he was too short to look in my ear with an otoscope though. :cool:

The world is ending everyone!

Now efficiency is all well and good, but what about style? I don't think you can top the utter majesty that is Lapras.

@urgentresearch Bulbasaur is a better Gen 1 starter than Charmander- change my mind. :cool:

Would you prefer I speak in my native cockney?

Oh just the historic centre, where all the business and government buildings are now?

What isn't? :D I'd say more but we haven't really got freedom of speech here. Suffice to say London is sort of its own country that exists within Britain.

@JohnAdams HAHA thats my borough in London! (For reference, "year 7" is kids aged 11-12.) Recently someone got stabbed to death at a seminar that was being given on knife crime here. No, that isn't a joke!

Lol okay drama queen. I simply stated any advance in the field is a good thing, no matter how small. Your honest appraisal reeks of doomsaying and oestrogen imo.

Hair cell regeneration in general is something we should be hopeful for and be optimistic about, any advance in the field at all is great thing. If some people use it to help them cope with their daily struggles, let them- there really is no point other than fruitless negativity to try and...

Man I miss the days I could listen to such masterpieces full volume on my headphones

*disclaimer for the normies that for whatever reason might watch this, lower your volume

Michael-sensei, master of the dojo specialising in Block-no-Jutsu, an ancient and potent art capable of making the opponent vanish entirely.

@JohnAdams Nah fam you just don't get it. The new hair cells come from unspecified, generic C E L L S.

@linearb Cheers. I probably should mention as well, my right eye has been rubbish for years, astigmatism and I suspect I've inherited my mum's myopia too which I'm guessing is what is making everything at a distance blurry. Too much time behind screens and late nights aren't helping I suppose :p...

I'm having trouble finding much information about VS and I'm unsure if I have it/am developing it. Last friday I was looking up at the sky on a very cloudy day and began noticing loads of fast moving dots, which has never happened before. Since then I've been concerned about VS and have...

@JohnAdams is the designated forum sweetheart :X3:

Subject choice varies greatly and can be entirely different depending on your school. For instance, I was fortunate enough to go to a school that offered Early Modern History and we studied from the crusades to the English civil war, while many many schools offer only a more general "history"...

Hi, I haven't posted here much as my tinnitus seems to have actually been getting better over time to the point where it is not impacting me too much these days. However I have recently been experiencing some visual problems and I'm wondering if I am developing visual snow. I looked at the sky...

Completely the same here.

I just plugged both of my ears and genuinely could not hear anything at all! Might be temporary but that's the first time this has happened, hopefully it'll be permanently gone in time. :)

It's going to be interesting to see the effects hair cell regeneration has on tinnitus once the trials are done. I'm still so new to all of this but it's made me pretty optimistic lately.