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I only live for my daughter and my cat, and also because I'm too afraid of not existing even though I didn't exist for 14 billion+ years before I was born, so... 🤷‍♂️

I'm definitely in the same boat. At least every 6 months, but it's often every 2-3, something gets worse. Sometimes it calms a bit, but never back to how it was previously—two steps forward, one step back, so to speak. Over the summer I started getting those noxacusis aching and burning sensations.

Masking always spikes mine. I don't bother with it. Be careful with the volume on those earbuds. It's dangerous territory. You can put something on in background—on a good quality speaker and not headphones/earbuds—at a low volume, not to mask it, but to just give you something else to focus...

My psychiatrist has me use gapabentin like a benzo. I take 200mg as needed. Try not to take every day to avoid tolerance.

Yes. I think it's very common. It should go back down to baseline in time.

Save your money

Sounds like you still have a lot going for you. Keep pushing. Don't let it take everything away from you.

@R3vtune No I don't think so. I think it's fall allergies.

I lost hearing a few days ago and it turned out to be a slight bit of fluid in the ear. Enough to cut out all high frequency hearing in one ear. It apparently doesn't take much.

Yeah we just keep getting worse as they cross their T's and dot their I's and be perfectionists.

Mine spikes for the day if I do any sort of exercise, hiking/walking included.

We'll all be starving and homeless in a few years once the bourgeoisie perfects AI to do their bidding. Apparently @adpolandam hasn't heard what Microsoft and King did to their UI and Dev teams, had them design and develop their AI replacements and laid them all off.

I live nearly every day like this as well. I'm sorry you're going through this.

You have to take into account the attenuation of the earplug across frequencies. NRR and SNR ratings are an average of about ~9 frequencies (from 125-8,000 Hz). There will be variances among all of the frequencies attenuated. There's also really no testing above 8,000 Hz, so who knows how much...

@Sodlin Mine's from years of loud noise exposure.

In my experience hearing protection doesn't stop spikes. It just takes the spike down a notch from where it would have been with no protection. So it's not a catastrophic spike, but a bad one; not a bad one, but a moderate one; and so on.

If drinking coffee means louder tinnitus, then so be it. I already lost my cigarettes to asthma. I'm not losing my coffee too.

Here is the recommended dosage chart and here is the literature for standard of care for primary physicians. Go now. Time is of the essence if it is indeed SSHL.

Go to urgent care and get checked out. Could be fluid in your inner ear. If that's the case, over the counter Flonase will clear it up. If not, advocate for a course of prednisone and then make an ENT appointment.

It's just loud because you woke up at a strange time

It's such a bully

Keep pushing

First thing I do when I enter a restroom is check for hand dryers. If there are any I march right back out and find somewhere else. Those little family restrooms are a life saver sometimes.

You'll get there even if you go kicking and screaming.

I felt this way the past couple of months after my trip to LA, but through all the negative thoughts, sleepless night, and horrible agonizing anxiety my brain was silently adjusting. I'm already having better days, and even though I do have new tones, I am adjusting to them. I still have trouble...

It seems like you spike easily but haven't had any permanent increases, is that right?