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Hi, we had a slight car incident, backing into a car this afternoon. Of course, the force of hitting the car has increased my tinnitus. Is this usually temporary? Thanks...

I had my teeth cleaned recently, took NAC, and brought earmuffs, although I had to take them off since I couldn't turn my head in the chair. I made sure they didn't use ultrasonic equipment. I apparently have a couple of small cavities, which the dentist states should be addressed. Due to the...

It sounds as if you had an amazing experience randomly finding the right medical people. I wish we all had such success. I've seen a number of so-called experts, and not one has mentioned nerves, magnesium, Ginkgo biloba, etc... It's a shame we do not have a list of the names of the amazing 1%...

A neurologist I saw (the most helpful of them all) talked about central sensitization but didn’t mention thalamic dysrhythmia. I’ll read about it. Interestingly, you mention TMJ & neck issues because an ongoing problem of mine is the right side of my head, neck, and down to my hip. Are...

Thank you for your reply, @Nettles. It sounds like you’re going through something very similar. I’ve experienced the same issue with songs—it felt like I had an MP3 playing in my ears for a few minutes. I’ve stopped listening to music because I’m afraid it will stick in my brain. The phrase...

Hi @Kiro. Welcome, and I'm sorry you are dealing with this. You are in the "shit luck" category. Yes, snowboarding or skiing are somewhat risky sports, but this kind of injury could happen to anyone, just slipping on a sidewalk and hitting your head. Or in a car crash. Many of us here are with...

Hello. I think I got acoustic shock/trauma after my girlfriend jammed her fork into a plate when eating generating a high pitched sound around 95 dB. I pulled my head back and it hurt my left ear bad. Then I started to feel fullness in ears and sounds got louder and my ears feels weird. I...

Hey everyone, just found this forum trying to find some answers and support while I go through this trauma. Will describe what happened, but my main question is, can sudden hearing loss recover after acoustic trauma from gun shot noise? Is it 100% permanent or is there a chance it can come back...

Hi all Thought I would introduce myself. I'm gill and I have been suffering with t in my left ear for years- I think it was caused by nerve damage from dental work. The reason for me joining is that in the past week or so my right ear has developed a high pitched ringing, different time to my...

Yet, for me it did. My first ever really bad morning was after the first ENT/audiologist visit. I refused all tests, except the audiogram. I woke up to a head full of tinnitus, and cried for the first time in 30+ years. This was approximately 3.5 weeks after the initial acoustic trauma and I had...

Yes, I can 100% relate to this. You have been through an "acoustic trauma", due to your previous fragile ears. This has happened to me as well - pretty much feeling exactly the same way you described it in the quote. There is also a great component of stress and anxiety mixed into this, which...

Any insights you've found in your time with this? My tinnitus has only two levels: on or off. If my environment is even 1 decibel below my masking threshold, the tinnitus goes full blast, but once it hits this threshold, it completely turns off. Not all of my tinnitus is like this; it is just...

So after the fourth of July I was framing my basement and my eye and ear protection were upstairs, I wanted to finish a run of 2x4's and figured I could protect my eyes by turning my head. A few shots from the nail gun later I realized I had hurt my left ear. I called the ENT and couldn't get...

So after another acoustic trauma yesterday I’ve developed severe reactive tinnitus, where almost every external noise has an overlay of what I would describe as a screech/cicada sound. However this sound is not present in my normal tinnitus. It only appears with an external source - but...

So does it need to be a pretty hard hit to the head to cause a PLF? All the literature out there is very vague just saying head trauma - even mild head trauma - can cause a PLF, but no real clarification on what constitutes a mild head trauma. I hit my forehead on the door pretty hard but no...

I'm trying to see how many people out there are like me. There is a trick you can do for residual inhibition, and I'm trying to get some data from tinnitus sufferers as to what happens when you do it. It's the head tap trick, using vibration. This would be similar to road noise while driving...

Today during my game I got hit hard in the head running after a catch and my tinnitus spiked LOUD at the moment of contact. It spiked for about 5 seconds then returned to my normal baseline. Why did it spike for only a short time, then return to normal? Do you guys think I experienced some...

So this acoustic trauma happened over a year ago and your spike is still subsiding? That gives me some hope as I'm 2.5 months into a spike and I haven't seen any improvement.

...in and still trying to figure out if I have a PLF. If you're not getting headaches and dizzy with straining or bending over and your head feeling like crap and full all the time, no way you have one. And head trauma is known to cause a PLF but that is hard head trauma, like car accident type.

Hello, I am a single woman in my mid-50s with very little history of noise exposure. Life was great, but things changed last August 6. I took a lesson at an indoor firing range while wearing earmuff hearing protection, but I did not know I should double up with earplugs. During the lesson...

I remember stretching my neck before swimming and noticing I could "hear" a high-pitched tone as I twisted my head around. This was exactly three weeks prior to my onset, eight years ago. I thought it had to be really tough to deal with the condition and just three weeks later... BAM! Maybe I...

Since starting retigabine my tonal component has gone down and I am left with mostly an all over brain 'shimmer' or hiss. It's from the inside out. While that's getting more and more tolerable, I'm left with a feeling of fullness, like an awareness of an area inside my head toward the ear going...

Thanks for your reply. I’ve decided not to go ahead with getting grommets. There’s definitely both an ear-related and psychiatric component to all of this. Fortunately, my best mate is a psychiatrist, and he's helped me with some medication for sleep. On three occasions now, the tinnitus has...

Thank you, @Michael Leigh. May I ask why you decided to see an ENT for the first time after your symptoms had cleared up rather than at the onset when you also sought help from an herbalist? By the way, your hyperacusis thread is very informative. I also believe that exposing your ears to...

I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone and if it got better for them. I got tinnitus and hyperacusis almost a month ago due to acoustic trauma in my ear. That ear rang shrilly for over two weeks, then the ringing moved to my other ear. Now sometimes they both ring faintly or are almost...

Case report of a pulsatile tinnitus caused by a Dural arteriovenous fistula after head position changes. (no history of head trauma, acoustic trauma, or surgery of the head and neck).

Yes pretty hard. Sure it "could happen" but you'd have vertigo and hearing loss on exerting yourself.

Bonjour Pierre, Honestly, I don't know where to draw the line between loudness hyperacusis and pain hyperacusis. After my initial incident, noises in places like restaurants, walking on the street, or even singing birds seemed far too loud for me. If something is too loud, it hurts. Your body...

It would be interesting to know whether the hyperacusis that causes the tensor tympani muscle to vibrate and hurt on sound input after a history of sound shock/trauma is equivalent to inner ear pain hyperacusis. Norena also mentions inflammation/contraction of the nerves innervating the tensor...

30 days into acoustic Trauma my new tinnitus is awful head aches i think its safe to say this ones staying around

My tinnitus was caused by whiplash (rear-ended at stop sign) a couple of months ago. I am pretty confident it is related to my neck muscles, because I am able to change the sound when I turn my head. Relaxing my neck muscles seems to relieve the sound. For example, chin tucks, hot showers...

Thank you for the kind words and advice; there is one thing I keep ruminating about. Before the tinnitus turned into dysacusis, I was using this video by a channel called “Art of Zen” called “Ultra High Pitch Tinnitus Therapy.” DO NOT check it out without setting the volume WAY down, as I...

It took a month or two to resolve. It comes back occasionally if I am very stressed. I recently had a head cold and it came back then, but resolved when my congestion cleared up. I wondered about hydrops in the past, especially closer to the acoustic trauma because my ears would have a "wet"...

Tests have shown my Eustachian tubes do not work properly.. how could this happen from an acoustic trauma? gives me a constant sensation of plugged ears. Drinking and poor nutrition seem to make it worse as well as loud noises. The more clogged my ears feel, the more my tinnitus shows up and the...

For all my fellow tinnitus sufferers that are not noise induced, you may find this article interesting. Especially if you have TMJ and or a crooked bite either from TMJ, a trauma to the neck/head or even from birth. ——————————————— Effective treatment Now there is new hope for patients with...

Yeah I mean it’s possible, but extremely unlikely. Like I said if you have vertigo/hearing loss in that ear, dizziness, bad head pressure, trouble bending over or straining then it could be. Either way if you are convinced you have it, rest up and it heals for most people. Sleep with your head...

Hello! I need to write my thoughts guys. It's nice therapy! Thank you for reading me! And sorry for my English. Did my best to not make too much mistakes. I don't write enough in English! But it is a good training haha! My original story...

I had a horrible night last night with fire alarms going off multiple times. One of the times it was directly above my head and I wasn't wearing any hearing protection. This morning when I woke up I had muffled hearing in my right ear. I already have loud tinnitus and hyperacusis, I'm...

I am currently 2 months in to acoustic trauma after gunshot went off by my head inside my closet. Is there still a chance mine can get better?

Since this thread has surfaced again, and after reading all comments once again, my heart goes out to all who have experienced trauma. "The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma" — Judith Herman...

My name is Tom and I've had tinnitus for 6+ years and it's from Acoustic Trauma. For 30+ years, I was the guy you'd see in front of the bands at the bar, watching, or dancing very close to the PA systems. Ya know the stacks of amps. I would play music loud in the car, and eventually I got me...

Last week, I was playing a series of pure tones for the purpose of residual inhibition over my car speaker between songs on my mp3 player. My tone volume for the car stereo is 6 while the level for music was 11. I forgot to adjust the volume and has a pure tone blasted into my ear at the painful...

Wasn’t your head tinnitus gone after Korea?

I've had T since 18 (27 now) and it got worse last year from a short exposure to a wood saw. Clearly, my ears are damaged badly. No hearing loss detectable so it's probably hidden or above 8k. I've struggled for over a year, had noise make it worse, then got better, than worse a little bit and...

Hang in there brother, if there was no associated noise trauma, these spikes usually settle down, and even with noise trauma it could also settle down.

Severe tinnitus from Head Trauma

For many people (including myself), the head movement affects a lot the tinnitus volume, this is called somatic tinnitus. Mine increases by rotating the head to left/right and moving my jaw in front. My hyperacusis and tinnitus are from acoustic trauma also.

Things may improve. My first year with hyperacusis and tinnitus was absolute hell. I cried a lot and even once sat on the floor, banging my head against the wall. Life was miserable. Thankfully, the hyperacusis eventually resolved. I still have some sensitivity and avoid power equipment, loud...

Yes.

In my opinion, if you truly have the makings of real improvement with treatment with a few patients, you’d have no problem asking them to share their “progress” so far on video or even through written testimony. Doesn’t have to be full success, just something to show incoming patients. So I...

Good day. I was just wondering if you went through with the laser when you did your dental work. If so, how was it? I need to fill in some cavities as well. What about noise-cancelling headphones, or would that be the same thing? How did your appointment go? I hope everything went well.

Was that rattlesnake's tail sound, all over the top of your head, due to hearing loss? I have that two, sometimes three days a week. It's very hard to deal with. It started as a spike, and then has kept coming back. Mine started from a very bad mechanical trauma to the middle ear muscles. It is...

Pretty worried about upcoming hearing test. I had one a day after the acoustic trauma. But right ear feels weaker…hope it’s just in my head

Stomping on the ground did not cause head trauma. If it did, many toddlers would have head trauma from stomping their feet during tantrums. A panic attack or sudden fit of rage can impact blood flow, which could cause a headache. And before you panic, no this would not cause long term damage or...

Hello Michael, Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to go through my old posts to help me. I really appreciate it. I believe my first experience with tinnitus was due to cervical problems (I have a protrusion), which would explain all the symptoms I had at the time. My ENT...

Thinking about how Tavares gets kneed in the head and is ok while I experienced emotional trauma and get tinnitus and visual snow syndrome.

I know n=1 anecdotes aren't super helpful, but my MEMR has become so strong and pronounced in the last year that I can physically feel it reacting to almost any abrupt sound (particularly high-frequency ones) after acoustic trauma-caused tinnitus and hyperacusis one year ago. The hyperacusis is...