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If this forum, and this thread, has taught me one thing, it's that people with debilitating tinnitus are unbelievably resiliant and have a wonderful sense of humour.

Have you tried using hearing aids? They seem to help a lot of people and I've seen studies where hearing aids have brought down the volume of tinnitus in more than 50 percent of people.

This is called pulsatile tinnitus, there is loads of information about this in the pulsatile tinnitus section of the website; https://www.tinnitustalk.com/forums/support.52/

Hey Pam. That's amazing! Turmuric is a natural food so I can't imagine there could be anything wrong with taking it long term. I guess it would be like asking are potatos safe to eat long term.

Hi Jason. Hope you're well. Firstly, I just wanted to say that I appreciate all your reading and experimention with regards to tinnitus treatment. I often come across your posts and they are usually very useful/novel. I can attest to the fact that if I good nights sleep then the tinnitus is...

Sorry, I wasnt trying to diminish your suffering. How old are you if you dont mind me asking?I notice you have put a lot of causes for your tinnitus. What do you reckon was the the main reason? Thanks, Sonny.

Yes. This is what I'm talking about. If tinnitus was just a phantom signal as a result of hearing loss it wouldnt fluctuate so damn much. Good to hear the tinnitus isnt too bad for you, and that melatonin helps. Any idea why the melatonin helps so much? Thanks, Sonny.

Hi guys. Hope you're well. Something that really baffles me about tinnitus is how it fluctuates quite a lot throughout the day, and across different days. I have times during the day where I can barely even hear it and other times when I can hear it about most things in the house and over the...

That's really great to hear. You are doing the right thing. The less attention you give it the more it will fade into the background as you are telling your brain its not important and doing so, over time, should reduce the salience and even volume of the sound according to much research. As...

Interesting story. You mentioned your tinnitus only got bad in the last 2 years despite having it for 6 years? What made it get a lot worse? Have you looked into Tinnitus Retraining Therapy? Have you thought about taking any anti anxiety or anti depressant medications?

This is interesting. So you reckon if you didn't live life in the fast lane and abuse your ears after getting your initial low level tinnitus, then it would have remained a low level as opposed to increasing? Also, what precisely did you do to make the sound so much worse. What would you...

I feel there will always be outliers, but it's better to look at general trends to draw meaningful conclusions. I.e. what proportion of tinnitus sufferers had anxiety issues prior to the onset of their tinnitus. I don't think anyone said that every single person with high anxiety gets tinnitus...

Wow. That was so incredibly helpful. Thank you ever so much. I have mild/moderate tinnitus that is annoying and not debilitating. The big issue with me is that I have had anxiety and OCD for far longer than I have had tinnitus and have always been hyper attune/had anxiety related to certain...

Hey. I'm really really glad to hear that. Please explain more by what you mean about your "brain working around it"? Did you do anything specific to make this happen? Thanks.

So you're saying you've have really loud tinnitus for 20 years and haven't habituated at all in that time? Have you ever done cbt, trt, meditation, Yoga?

Interesting story. Out of interest. How long had you had the tinnitus that you had habituated to. And would you attribute the increase in loudness purely to the combination of stress and the betablocker medication?

Wait. Am I reading this correctly. Are you saying you have had what sounds like really intense tinnitus for 20 years which has severely affected your sleep and in 20 years you havent even visited the doctor about it? Or was it that you've had mild tinnitus for 20 years which has only...

Interesting post. I guess having tinnitus for 25 years, you have been habituated to the sound for a lot of that time? And it's only now with this higher tone are you now distressed again? Was the tinnitus the same volume for the 25 years and only went up recently? Have you ever done anything...

What makes you think that. Have you suffered from any anxiety/OCD/depression before the onset of this tinnitus? I ask because often it's those feelings that make us think negative things.

Noticed your tinnitus is very recent and through noise exposure. You have a really good chance of it going away, but I'm sure you've been told that quite a few times already haha.

It seems to me like you have a strong anxiety-tinnitus connection and for that reason I reckon something like meditation or CBT would really help to calm your nervous system and thus your tinnitus. Both things are scientifically proven to robustly lower anxiety and stress levels for the long term.

Wow, really sorry to hear what you've gone through. What made it go from moderate to debilitating? Usually there is a trigger.. Also, have you tried hearing aids? Or any cbt or trt? Thanks.

Thank you for this, it really helps.. I noticed you've had tinnitus for 30 plus years. How long have you been habituated for? Also, if habituated, what brings you to this forum? Sanj.

Hi guys. Had two quick questions for you all... 1) Is it common/normal for tinnitus to change volume throughout the day? 2) Does this mean that habituation will be harder? Mine is often low and then for no apparent reason gets louder at a random point of the day then low again, then louder a...

Hey there. Hope you're well. I read that you had rTMS done and that it helped you, but from your recent messages it sounds like you are still suffering from tinnitus. Did the rTMS only work short term?

Thanks for sharing your story. The thing that gets me about tinnitus is that there are no trends to draw. For example, a friend of mine knows a DJ who has subjected himself to super loud music for extended periods of times for 25 years and only now has very mild T that he can hear in a quiet...

I am glad yours is mild but I guess everyone's idea of mild is different. Your's might be even lower than mine, or higher, who knows. Have you done much/anything to get your anxiety addressed as it seems to me that that is what's causing you distress with this even after 2.5 years. I guess...

Oh dear. I can't stand the medical community sometimes. I was misdiagnosed as having a mild ear infection when it was in fact something much more serious which eventually led me to having to have surgery on my ear which led to the tinnitus - It's very possible that if I was diagnosed correctly...

Hi, Hope you're well guys. I have only had tinnitus for just over two months due to a middle ear operation. My tinnitus is the hissing kind, I would say it's mild but it varies in volume slightly throughout the day. However, I noticed that if I'm really focusing on something, there can be a...

I do agree with this. Someone with mild T and that has previously been prone to/had a lot of anxiety/depression/OCD can be affected and bothered by the mild T as much as and sometimes more than someone with moderate/severe T that isn't prone/doesn't have a long history of...

Wow, I am really sorry to hear this. What caused it to go from mild to moderate? And what caused it to go from moderate to severe?

It's good to hear you have gotten some reduction even though it's only mild. And in a way you are lucky that your tinnitus is almost non existent sometimes. There are some who have it super loud all the time with no relief. And the fact that your tinnitus can be almost non existent is also...

Thanks, appreciate it. We all want an end to the noise. Out of interest. How loud is yours? Does it always remain the same throughout the day and have you had any reduction at all since onset?

Mate, I have every hope that it will. And I'm not just saying that. From what I've read ETD is one of the conditions that has a better chance of being addressed and the subsequent tinnitus going away than others such as ototoxic poisoning. I hope you come out of this and have a sneaky feeling...

I don't blame them. Severe tinnitus can bring out the worst in anyone. I know some here have it worse than others but we are all suffering with this to some degree and all want the same thing, either to habituate to the sound or have it go away entirely.

I'm not so well off at all. I am also suffering with tinnitus. And I fully understand and accept that tinnitus that is a lot louder is much much harder to deal with and to habituate to. I don't pretend to act like I know what some of you are going through. I was just trying to help and to...

It's in the first link he posted. The study does mention it is referring to those with "severe" tinnitus. One hole in the study is that it was done over a two year period, and I would suspect that those with more severe tinnitus may need longer than that to fully habituate. I think the...

Your theory would hold if tinnitus occurred with everyone with hearing loss. There are many profoundly deaf people with no tinnitus. Conversely there are some people with very slight hearing loss but with a disproportionately loud tinnitus. Thus the situation is a lot more complicated than the...

There are many people who have tinnitus due to middle ear conditions and when these are resolves the tinnitus goes away, there are people who have tinnitus for months and years and it goes away completely. There are people that pop a hearing aid in and their tinnitus goes away and when they take...

With all due respect. How do you know there won't be a cure? I can understand that you are annoyed and frustrated with tinnitus but don't let that cloud things. Things don't improve linearly, they improve exponentially, especially in the realms of technology and healthcare is now overlapping...

Thank you :) There is so much evidence all over the place of people that have successfully habituated to their tinnitus. There are millions of people walking around with tinnitus, the vast majority of them have never even visited a forum like this, let alone become a member and posted. The...

It's not so much as having no emotional response at all, but it's about lowering the emotional response so much that it becomes a non issue at best and a very mild annoyance at worst. It can be achieved when you decouple the tinnitus sound from the emotional limbic part of your brain. I am not...

I think a lot of you might be misunderstanding the purpose of/goal of habituation. It's not "giving up" or "throwing in the towel", or even "putting up with it". It is a process of removing the emotional response to the tinnitus and the hyper focus of it so that you think about it less and so...

Hey there. Hope you're well. Sorry to hear you are suffering so much. You mentioned you hear your pulse 24/7. This is called pulsatile tinnitus, and the good news is, in many cases it can be cured/alleviated. Check out the pulsatile tinnitus section of this forum...

Hey, Terry. Really sad to hear what you have had to go through. Out of interest, have you done many/any things to reduce the volume/come to terms with tinnitus over the years? TRT/CBT/Meditation/Yoga/Medications? I only ask because it's horrible to hear that after 20 years these sounds still...

Okay. Well, tinnitus is listed as a rare side effect for doxycycline (https://www.drugs.com/sfx/doxycycline-side-effects.html) and a common side effect for minocycline (https://www.drugs.com/sfx/minocycline-side-effects.html), and is listed as a potential side effect of Accutane...

Hey. Hope you're well Which acne medication were you using as some are known to possibly cause/make tinnitus worse. Thanks, Sanj

It's promising to hear that it gets better with time for the majority of people. Is there any research on this? Also, out of interest, has your tinnitus gotten better with time, stayed the same, or gotten worse?

Hey Nola. Hope you're well. How long have you had tinnitus? How did you get it?

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Thanks for this, makes a lot of sense. How far through are you with the habituation process. How often do you usually hear it and dwell on it in a day?

Yes, I agree. This is what makes this all so damn strange. There are no real correlations anywhere. I guess it's so different for each person as the brain is involved. It seems some people have much better in built suppressant mechanisms in their brain than others which is why some people are...

Hi guys. After being on this forum for a while and reading into all of this. To me, there seems to be no relationship between amount of hearing loss and tinnitus loudness and there is no trend that I have seen or come across. - There are plenty of people with super loud tinnitus and mild...

That's a super interesting study and shows not only that the BTS method has some strong scientific basis but also that physical activity helps tinnitus.

Thanks, that really helps a lot. I keep hearing that time is a great healer.How loud is your tinnitus if you don't mind me asking. Is it the type you only hear in a quiet room, or something louder than that?

I haven't taken any medication myself. But many people have reported Xanax working wonders on their tinnitus. However, it comes with some hefty side effects and some people built up tolerance quickly, not to mention the drug is very habit forming.

Really sorry to hear about what you are going through. You said you had low tinnitus for many years and it didnt bother you. You many years had you had it prior to this big increase? Also, I did a quick bit of research and it seems the thing that caused your tinnitus increase might be the...

This is actually really great advice. Out of interest. How many times do you "hear it" a day, on average?

Hi guys. I have a question for you all. How can I break the habit of listening to my tinnitus? I have OCD and anxiety which doesn't help things. My tinnitus isn't that loud, but it is still very distressing as I can't stop listening to it or trying to search it out. What have you guys done...