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Yeah, I've never trusted those places either, but I'm now overdue and can't wait for a dealer appointment next month. I put it off thinking the dealer would be more expensive, but it turns out they actually aren't, at least for an oil change. I'm going to go there for my next change though. I'm...

My car needs an oil change. I’ve been taking it to a local mechanic I trust, but I have to walk through the garage to reach the office and pay when I pick up my car. I’ve already had too many exposures there to loud tools. I was thinking about going to the dealership instead, since they tend to...

Because it downplays the condition. The URL to the article is even a 404 now, if that says anything.

Sounds like a Ginkgo biloba buncha bull to me.

Did you take it on an empty stomach? Prednisone can increase stomach acid and irritate the stomach lining, so you should always take it with a meal. It can also raise anxiety levels. The first time I ever took Prednisone, I was a nervous wreck. It can cause changes in your tinnitus while you are...

@Badger55, I try not to openly share personal information about myself with OpenAI and Palantir.

Oh man, the hits keep coming. I didn’t even get a chance to reply to comments before another incident happened. I was trapped in a Target bathroom today for about a minute while some neckbeard-sounding guy spoke loudly over the intercom. He just wouldn’t stop, as if he loved the sound of his...

Get yourself some custom-molded earplugs from ACS Custom to help with loud city noise. For noisy streets, I’d recommend the Total Block Standard Clear plugs, since they provide higher attenuation than the other designs. If lectures are uncomfortably loud, you might want filtered ones instead...

Is it normal to be out for hours and have no pain or burning until about an hour after returning home? I drove an hour and forty minutes to the city, took care of something, and then drove the same distance back. I had no issues while I was out. After getting back home, my ear started feeling...

I'm no longer taking it.

It wasn’t the extended high-frequency test. In fact, I don’t believe I was given anything other than a standard audiogram. I think it was the acoustic reflex test, and it was unbearably loud to me. Yes, it gave me a permanent spike with two new tones. At the time, it was the reason for my...

Immediate, head-exploding unilateral 4 kHz pure tone, followed a few days later by an additional 6 kHz pure tone.

I’m back to report that I’ve had stomach pain every day since taking a single dose of Abilify. It started as a slightly sour stomach but has progressed to burning indigestion. I hope this medication hasn’t ruined my stomach acid regulation. I don’t need yet another health problem or more pain.

I went for an extended high-frequency audiogram, and they performed an acoustic reflex test without informing me.

Antibiotics to AVOID (Ototoxic): Fluoroquinolones (e.g., ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin) Macrolides (e.g., erythromycin, azithromycin) Aminoglycosides (e.g., gentamicin) Tetracyclines (e.g., doxycycline) Safest Choices (Low Ototoxicity): Penicillin-based antibiotics (e.g., amoxicillin...

Do you live in the US?

TMS is loud: Sound comparison of seven TMS coils at matched stimulation strength. Earplugs may not have been enough for already compromised hearing and preexisting tinnitus.

I’m interested to know how it goes for you. I’m in that area as well, and I’ve read that it may help with pain hyperacusis too.

A dose of 22.5 mg may be too high for the optimal sedative effect. Mirtazapine’s H1 receptor antagonism tends to plateau at lower doses, while its noradrenergic activation increases with higher doses, which can actually keep you more alert. I’d suggest trying 15 mg, or possibly even lowering it...

Have you always had some level of tolerance to Mirtazapine and Quetiapine? Both of those knock me out for a full 24 hours. My psychiatrist said I have a sensitivity to those classes of medications. I can’t take them for sleep, not because they don’t work, but because they work too well.

I hope attendees get a surprise.

I was just exposed to someone honking their horn across the parking lot as I was switching my earplugs in my right ear. I was in-between doors at the entrance to a store where it was quiet, and I guess the door sensed me and opened. Right as it opened, someone thought it would be funny to honk...

After taking my first dose yesterday (2 mg), my tinnitus felt calmer than usual for an hour or two, possibly close to the level it was before my trip to Los Angeles. However, after that, the usual intense hissing that antidepressants tend to cause returned. I also felt somewhat nauseous, and my...

I’m taking my first dose now. I had been trying to wait and see if my tinnitus spike would settle, so I could better evaluate how it might be affected. But since it has been a month with no signs of improvement, I have decided to start taking Abilify.

No progress so far. My left ear is significantly worse. All the tones are louder and more piercing, and I have developed a new cicada-like sound. Everything is at full intensity from the moment I wake up. It used to build gradually throughout the day, but now I cannot believe how much worse it...

The problem I face every time my tinnitus worsens is that all my old coping strategies no longer work, and I have to start over to find ways to make it through. It's completely exhausting. I'm pretty practiced at keeping the anxiety in check, even though I'm pretty convinced I have mild OCD, but...

This has been my experience over the past few years. The first year I had spikes, but I could pretty much do what I wanted (staying away from clubs and bars obviously), and everything stayed relatively constant. Now anything slightly loud, even with earplugs, sets off spikes that last weeks. I...

The problem comes from the dynamic range in films and television shows. You need some form of compression to keep the volume relatively consistent, without sudden or extreme increases.

I’ve been splitting my updates between this thread and this one: Ear Pressure and Pain After a Restroom Hand Dryer and Child Screaming. I’ve been trying to keep the hyperacusis and noxacusis details in that other thread, and the tinnitus updates in this one, since it seems not everyone visits...

Old enough to know this thread doesn’t belong on a tinnitus support forum. There’s plenty of other online spaces for this conversation.

I’m still embarrassed to wear earmuffs in public, so I only use earplugs. I do keep the earmuffs with me in the car, just in case an ambulance passes by or I break down on the highway. That has happened twice now. The first time, I changed a flat tire using only earplugs, and my condition...

Well, that exploding rapid brewer must have been louder than it seemed. Both ears have been burning all morning. A couple of weeks ago, the burning was only in my right ear, but now it appears to be in both. I haven’t even removed my earplugs all morning, and I’ve barely been around any sound...

Denon receivers usually come with Audyssey. I would suggest setting Audyssey’s dynamic range compression to “night” mode. This helps keep the volume more consistent, which might reduce the chance of a flare-up. Do you normally wear earplugs at concerts, cinemas, and racetracks? And are you not...

I had been doing much better, but today I was making cold brew in my Oxo Rapid Brewer, and it became clogged. When I went to open it and release some pressure, it suddenly exploded with enough force to blow the O-ring out of the cylinder. I was wearing both earplugs and earmuffs at the time. It...

In this study, infrared light was used on the auditory cortex, which is located in the temporal lobe. The paper mentions the use of patch-clamp testing. I’m not a scientist, but I believe this procedure requires a craniotomy.

Not sure how a drop would fix a brain neuronal issue 🤷‍♂️

I would go to an ENT. I trust a surgeon’s hands more. When I had an impaction removed with a curette, it definitely hurt. I think that is just part of the process. The skin inside the ear is very sensitive.

ANC uses destructive interference. The offending sound waves never enter the inner ear as they are cancelled out. Note that ANC is only really good for continuous low-frequency sounds, as there is a delay for the hardware to sample, process, and output an out-of-phase wave.

I'm sorry you were subjected to this. My tinnitus from the Acoustic Reflex Test, though in only one ear, was also much worse than what I originally had at the time.

Magnesium Citrate and Magnesium Oxide both cause spikes for me. Magnesium Glycinate and Magnesium L-Threonate do not.

I have been off Prednisone for a few days now. The tinnitus is back to outrageous levels. The ear burning has decreased a fair amount, though I still experience it occasionally. However, I am now able to sit in a quiet room without earplugs and not have it flare up. Hopefully, the improvement...

Is there a way to block this thread so that I no longer see it anywhere on the site? It is triggering, and I already left this site once because of it. I do not want to leave again, because I really need genuine support for tinnitus and noxacusis.

It turned out I didn’t have an infection. The tooth just looks worse than it actually is, and the pain is simply from it being exposed.

What I meant was I have to drive at least 30 miles for most things, which isn’t great when your ears and face hurt.

Reporting back in. I had to run some errands. I went to a local grocery store about 20 minutes away. I live in a rural nightmare, and while the store is expensive, it’s quiet—unlike Walmart or Target. The entire time I was out, my ear canal had that unmistakable menthol burning sensation. On...

I hear you. I used to pay $900 for a one-bedroom apartment right next to Balboa Park in San Diego.