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Base salaries tend to be higher in San Francisco. My salary in Los Angeles was significantly higher than salaries in cities with a lower cost of living.

So what I’m noticing is that after speaking, even just a couple of words, my right ear begins to feel an icy burn. After a little while, the same icy, menthol-like sensation spreads to the right side of my face, behind my right eye, and what feels like the Eustachian tube. Then it moves down...

I've been taking 425mg of Magnesium Glycinate every night for the past couple of years, so I don't have any reference on whether it might be helping in this situation. Maybe it is, but I wouldn't know unless I stopped taking it. Yeah, they're just too loud putting on and off for sure, and I...

I guess the Prednisone was helping reduce my tinnitus, because now that I’m on day three of tapering down to 20 mg (dropping 10 mg every three days from an initial dose of 50 mg), my tinnitus has exploded. Both ears are worse, but the left one—where I messed up the earplug—is the more affected...

I have Peltor X4A and X5A earmuffs, which I use for double protection, but they are too noisy on their own. They make all kinds of loud creaking sounds, and my glasses rub against them, adding even more creaking. They also do a poor job of blocking low frequencies, and the occlusion effect is...

I had a similar situation a few months ago. The fire alarm went off while I was in the middle of a psychiatrist session. I plugged my ears with my fingers and couldn’t remove them to put in earplugs. I had to walk through the entire hospital with the alarms blaring and my fingers in my ears...

The packaging says not to use it for more than seven days, as it can cause congestion to return or become worse. I think this is a good indication of what might be causing your tinnitus, but other approaches should be considered to address your Eustachian tube dysfunction.

I seem to have deteriorated further. I wore my solid custom mold all day in my right ear to let it rest, but I did not wear anything in my left ear since it had been feeling fine. I was trying to avoid threshold shifts from constant protection. I spent the entire day at my computer, just...

It has been a while, but I do not recall there being any sound during tympanometry, only pressure.

This is so frustrating. I have no idea how I’m supposed to make this better. My ear burns even when I sit in silence with earplugs and earmuffs on, and it burns even worse if I take them off and still remain in silence. Am I just supposed to let it burn and hope it eventually gets better? It...

Well, I have been experiencing burning in my ears, mainly in the right one, for a few days now. There is no doubt it is because of the graduation and the trip. I guess that is it for me. I knew it would be bad, but not this bad.

I have been staying in a quiet environment with only a fan running, since it is 90 degrees outside. The room is around 32 dBA. My ears—mainly the right one—just burn unrelentingly all day long. That silence ends today anyway, as my family is coming back from camping. Living in silence is not a...

Bumping this. I’m also curious.

Well, my ears have officially been burning all day, and it has been getting worse quickly. It came on suddenly, and I have no idea how to manage it. It feels like menthol inside my ears. They are fluttering in response to every little sound now. I guess this is all delayed from exactly two...

Yeah, my ears have just been aching for the past few days. I’m still having trouble figuring out whether it’s from sound or not. They seem to hurt after certain sounds, even ones that don’t seem too loud, but then I also get pain just from moving my head a certain way. It shifts from the right...

I have known since the beginning of my tinnitus that I would be attending this graduation ceremony. I knew my tinnitus would likely get worse; the only question was how much worse. I did hold onto some hope that it would not, making this a defining moment in my journey, but that does not seem to...

It just doesn’t make sense because it’s so erratic. My daughter’s graduation ceremony caused a huge spike, but I didn’t have any of the other symptoms afterward. Yet, if I drop something lightly on the floor, they begin. Honestly, I feel like a hypochondriac. I can’t even tell what is real anymore.

@Eric N, did your spike from your initial post return to baseline?

Not even high dose Prednisone combined with Gabapentin is having any effect on this spike. I know I started Prednisone 7 or 8 days late, and I have never been fully convinced it actually helps with tinnitus. However, it usually gives me several days of relief when I first begin the course. This...

I just realized today that I also took two or three doses of Pepto Bismol before my flight on Saturday night. I completely forgot that I’m supposed to avoid this drug. I was feeling ill and too distraught before the flight, and I didn’t even think about it. I took it again either Sunday night or...

They will tell you that nothing is loud, when in fact both the Acoustic Reflex and Otoacoustic Emissions tests are loud. Tympanometry is not loud, although some people have said it made their tinnitus worse.

Were you talking while wearing hearing protection? That could trigger a spike. Even the sound of metal clanking—despite being at a reasonable volume—could agitate those hypersensitive fusiform cells. As long as you’re keeping the environment below 80 dBA and wearing hearing protection, I really...

I have similar issues. My tinnitus has gotten louder, and I now have trouble hearing people when wearing earplugs—even the radio in my car is difficult to hear while driving with the same earplugs in. I used to be able to comfortably listen to music in the car while driving, and it was a great...

It’s an ache that feels like it’s coming from my middle ear. I notice it after certain sounds. It isn’t sharp—it feels more like the sensation of a fatigued muscle. That’s why I think it might have something to do with my tensor tympani muscle clenching or spasming. I never feel it while wearing...

I feel like if one could “will” it away by “balancing the autonomic nervous system,” you would already be better. I think it’s completely out of our control. Those who improve often believe they played a constructive role in their recovery, but in reality, it’s more likely due to chance and...

Grimes has tinnitus.

Everything makes me worse too. All I want is to stop getting worse. I just want to live my life—or whatever is left of it. Tinnitus keeps taking everything from me and punishes me every time I try to make any progress in rebuilding my life.

Well, I’ve been back from my trip to Los Angeles since Sunday. My tinnitus is really bad. The whole trip was loud. The graduation ceremony lasted two hours, with speeches peaking at 96 dBA, and there was a two-hour wait sitting in the sun while pre-recorded speeches played over the PA system. I...

NRR is just one number representing the attenuation of thousands of frequencies, each reduced by varying amounts. It is also C-weighted, so if you want to compare it to an A-weighted measurement, you need to subtract 7 dB. From what I’ve read, you should really measure any sound coming from a...

Early 40s.

Currently at cruising altitude on a 737-900. Attached is a screenshot of the NIOSH iOS app using a Dayton Audio iMM-6 reference microphone. It measured about 89 dBA during takeoff. It is incredibly loud. I am wearing foam Hearos (32 NRR). Peltor X5A earmuffs do not perform any better than Bose...

I will for sure. Keep in mind, I am not expecting this to help my tinnitus at all. I am only looking for an antidepressant that does not make my tinnitus worse.

I am staring at a bottle of this right now. My psychiatrist has been trying many different antidepressants over the last year. We have made our way through SSRIs, tricyclics, tetracyclics, and now atypical antipsychotics. Everything up until the antipsychotics spiked my tinnitus. I started with...

I have the Westones with the Tru filters rather than the Etymotic. They make two different molds, the Tru Custom and the Style 49, that use different brand filters. I do not wear the Westones anymore though. They are not anywhere near as comfortable as the 1of1 Customs. As far as I can...

I would attend, but it appears Dr. Shore and I have swapped living locations...

It was the same for me. I would come out of the practice studio barely able to hear, with my ears ringing intensely, but everything would return to normal by the next morning. I never thought anything of it.

I have Westone custom molds, as well as filtered and solid 1of1 Custom earplugs. They still are not enough in many situations I have encountered. My issue is that I am beginning to experience pain after noise exposures, even while wearing these earplugs. I am talking about very short bursts...

I had a bout of TTTS in my left ear today, which is unusual for me, while typing on my keyboard. I also experienced some minor ear pain in the same ear afterward. I am wondering if the pain is coming from my Tensor Tympani muscle spasming. I have had TTTS in my right ear for almost five years...

UC Irvine is just a little bit farther from the University of Michigan. 🤔

Any tips or experiences? The graduation ceremony is going to be held in the gym. I was hoping it would at least be outside. It is a big city school with about 2,900 students, so I am estimating around 700 in the graduating class. I am sure there will be music played over a PA system, staff who...

Lately, I’ve been trying not to worry about my tinnitus or its intensity. I’ve also been working on reducing my excessive use of earplugs, with the hope of eventually living without them in daily life and using them only in specific high-risk situations. I’m still wearing them when I go out, but...

I have taken it many times. Sometimes I need a course when my asthma gets out of control. The usual dosage is 40 mg, then 20 mg, then 10 mg over about 9 days. I have also taken it many times for acoustic trauma, although I am now done resorting to that unless I experience actual hearing loss...

TMS is too loud. It will just make things worse.

I don't think using it topically would be a concern. I used Neomycin cream in the past for an eyelid infection and had no issues, and I usually have tinnitus issues with most medications. Most of the issues I've seen on here have been from ear drops.

Latest update. Auricle has purchased some new quality shelving.

I used one of these devices last night in my bathroom, despite my better judgment. I had both the bathroom door and bedroom door closed, but the device was plugged into the same wall where my bed’s headboard is positioned. This morning, I woke up with pressure in my ears, and my static and...

Some have tried this "resetting" with Psilocybin and other psychedelics.

Adding to this, as I've tried a couple of other forms since: Magnesium Glycinate: No effect. Magnesium Citrate: Spike.