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Why not head to that tinnitus clinic just northeast of Southdale and get yourself some TRT treatment?

Simple question, but somehow this distinction seems to get lost in translation. Does anxiety make the experience of having tinnitus more stressful, WITHOUT any effect on its volume? Or does tinnitus LITERALLY make tinnitus louder?

Don't forget that only 30-40% of people with hearing loss get T.

That's why I'd really like to know if anyone has something similar. The members of this forum tend to be fatalistic in the sense that if you have a sound in your ear, it is almost certainly cochlear damage that can't be cured and will continue forever. But the folks here also acknowledge that...

It kinda saddens me that you're still seeing ENTs about tinnitus. Haven't you had it for years now? Wouldn't that convince you that you just have cochlear damage and that ENTs just can't help you anymore? I'm sorry if that's a depressing realization, but I know that habituation doesn't occur...

For the record, the chirping symptom IS my tinnitus.

It baffles me that anyone with T would want to wear earplugs. You erase all masking noise by wearing them and force yourself to listen to the T. Even when I had hyperacusis at the start, I'd much prefer more T volume than nothing to listen to except my T.

I hate to say this, but tinnitus is the one condition that solidifies my disbelief in God. I just can't imagine why a supreme creator of our universe would create such a devastating symptom for the biggest anxiety sufferers of the planet to deal with. It's beyond cruel. But please convince me...

Can someone please explain how the erratic chirping / ticking noise in my ear disappears completely when I get drunk? Sure, my ears will "ring" when I'm drunk. Probably just the effect of blood rushing through my ears. Or higher blood pressure which is just what happens when you're drunk. I...

This is great, but a "tinnitus success story" that involves the complete removal of the symptoms isn't really the intent of the "success stories" forum. Maybe others will disagree with me, but this is supposed to be a space where new tinnitus sufferers with little to no hope of resolution of...

So far this an unsatisfying thread. The OP, as well as myself, wants to know if stressing out about your tinnitus LITERALLY makes it louder. Yes, I'm sure that being stressed in general makes the experience of having tinnitus more distressing. Hopefully people realize that this is an entirely...

I promise you it won't. I'll give you $1,000 of my own money if it does.

But at any rate, CBT is the preferred method of dealing with tinnitus, and one of the central strategies of CBT is to expose yourself to your fears, but ONLY IN MANAGEABLE AMOUNTS. If you were afraid of dogs, no therapist would tell you to keep exposing yourself to every dog you see in your...

Personal opinion....people don't realize how moving and amazing music is. Rachmaninov said "music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." Before tinnitus, I listened to music all the time. The nature of my tinnitus is that it can be heard even above moderate volume...

If it wasn't your T, it would be whatever capital letter you chose to assign to the problem du jour of your life. If you want to tell me you were 100% happy before T, go right ahead and try. You say your problems pre-T weren't as bad? Well then how did they prevent you from having complete...

See, there you go! Your question is answered.

A lot of people on this forum wish they had tried prednisone to get rid of their tinnitus, in the early stages. It's 100% irrational to think that it actually caused your tinnitus.

Lol dude. If I were a moderator I'd delete this fucking depressing and hopeless post of yours in a heartbeat. Mostly because of how misleading and destructive it is. OP, it's still possible to recover 100% from your condition even SEVERAL MONTHS after it starts. Very important to remember that...

OP, if you really do completely recover from this, do NOT just go back to your normal life. You got a taste of what it's like to be alive but not actually get to LIVE it. This is the reality of many members of this forum. They may be alive, but they can't LIVE. You know what that means, right...

Someday you can retire and be in full control of your stress. Look forward to your tinnitus-free, but MORE IMPORTANTLY, stress-free future!

You give your ears time to heal completely from hyperacusis. That's how. Tinnitus may be permanent, but hyperacusis is NOT. Also, ever notice how people 30+ don't go to clubs or loud places? Sure, maybe a few do, but the vast majority don't. People grow up and legitimately get NO pleasure...

30 - 40% of people with hearing loss have T. But 90% of people with T have hearing loss. I know it sucks to know you were unlucky enough to get T with your hearing loss. But that isn't the reality for the majority of people with hearing loss. (Mostly want to say this because of how...

Can someone who has "chirping" tinnitus tell me what their experience is like? This is the one word that seems different from all the other forms of tinnitus that I see described. Ringing, buzzing, hissing, roaring...these all seem like steady tones. But "chirping" seems like an intermittent...

If you mostly do not hear your tinnitus outside, it is NOT 9 / 10. You're claiming to be 90% of the way to having the sounds that completely deaf people hear and they can't mask it at all (cuz they're deaf, of course). Does that really sound like your reality? 100% of people with tinnitus hear...

I've read a lot about mindfulness and how it helps. It's helped me a lot. Basically, spend 30 minutes a day just listening to it and allowing the sound to exist without fighting it internally. No judgment. People have done this, and they said they did it for 2 - 3 months without thinking it was...

You're assuming that the 20 million with burdensome tinnitus never go on to habituate to their tinnitus. Or acknowledge that people may still consider it something to "deal with" but may do so significantly better than they did when they first got the condition. I could say a lot here. But I...

As Tinnitus Talk contributor Dr. Hubbard will tell you, 98% of people will habituate to their tinnitus. https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/dealing-with-guilt-and-shame-of-tinnitus.16800/ You can choose to focus on the 2% of people who don't and most likely populate this forum. Much as I...

My tinnitus isn't the usual run of the mill steady tone. It's erratic and clicks rather loudly, not to mention it reacts to tons of stuff. This means I can't mask it, and I hear it all day long. It's impossible to ignore. If I run a fan or my air conditioner, I just hear even more click click...

I can't believe this hasn't gotten a bigger response. I haven't found a story more uplifting, optimistic, and life-affirming than this one. Even before I had tinnitus, I really fucking hated my life. Like, every part of it. And I strongly believe that when (yeah, folks, I'm saying WHEN) I adapt...

Thanks for these words of encouragement, man. It's always a huge help to acute sufferers to hear stories of folks who were able to adapt and move on!

I really would like some sort of advice on this. The solid tone I got when my ear infection started is gone. But maybe 3 - 4 weeks later, I picked up on this other weird rattling noise. It's very close to a click. But sometimes it lasts as a 1 second sound. Sometimes it's like a gurgle...

I would give all of my limbs to be free of tinnitus.

I have another thread I just posted, but I think the really important thing I wanted to say got buried in everything I said. My tinnitus fluctuates. And no, I don't mean like it's 4 / 10 for an hour and then 8 / 10 for the next. I mean it's like morse code. As in when it decides to click /...

I have this super erratic tinnitus in my ear. When I'm calm, it just kinda clicks every 4 - 5 seconds. Actually, when I'm drunk and have completely cleared my head, this clicky shit is gone completely, but in my normal state of being, it's rattly / clicky / super hard to get used to. I had an...

Hmm, alright.... Well let me ask my most important question...does anyone know anything about an ear noise that rapidly fluctuates in volume within the period of a second? It's kind of like a dog barking at times. Erratic pulses of sound (again, no, not in tune with my actual pulse, so likely...

Some quick background: got an ear infection 2 months ago, definitely had lots of ringing over the next several weeks, tones of many different pitches. That ringing has, I would say, gone away 100%. Now, however, I'm left with a really unsteady noise that I will do my best to describe....it...

A couple of months ago, I got an ear infection which I'm still trying to figure out whether has caused me the kind of tinnitus that everyone on this forum has been dealing with. After only a few weeks of the condition, I would wake up in the morning and listen so closely to my ears and try to...