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I feel your pain. I was just driving and my ear was upset at the sound of the wheels on the road. So I crinkled an empty gummy wrapper that was in my pocket and the ear was soothed. H is seemingly this wild beast tamed by bizarre empty snack baggies.

White noise at low volume with phone helps while watching TV. Also crinkling a Welch's fruit gummy bag helps via 'tinnitus inhibition'. Mindfulness can also help. But that's more difficult to do it seems.

That is really really cool! Thank you for posting your reply. Made my day!

@Tom Cnyc What is this $100 LED you bought? I'm very curious to try something like this. I don't believe all treatments for tinnitus are BS or snake oil. The medical community and ENT doctors are warped by their own ignorance, blinded by apathy and sidelined by big pharmaceutical companies...

You can try, but the world doesn't care. 'God is laughing' - old Greek saying.

Your avatar is spiking mine now.

Aren't those the worst?? And you don't know until you flush. Arggggh!!!

@coffee-girl An old friend of mine once had a dog he named Tetanus. Now if someone will just name their pet Tinnitus...

It has quieted down because, I totally ignore it now. Even though it continues to remind me it's there. It sounds like that sinewy sound of a TV that's on with no volume now. Before it was like, well, worse. I recently read Vik Veer's 'Cure For Tinnitus' that I found online, and it seemed to...

1. Growling with a Halloween mask on. Ouch! 2. Hitting a heavy plate on another one. 3. Going to a baby shower where there was live jazz piano, people talking, people opening beers. OMG! 4. The wind. 5. My son blew a high pitched piercing whistle for 3 seconds until I grabbed it at which point...

I was exposed to 2 seconds of air horn this year. Spikes can seem permanent, but most are not. Some days are better than others. You get used to it and it will fade and get less edgey with time. That said, all persons that blow air horns should be tarred and feathered!

1. Mowing the lawn 35 years ago with a Walkman. I noticed ringing ears at bedtime for a few months and immediately stopped listening to the Walkman. 2. Playing guitar in a band 15 years ago and going to loud shows. I wore ear plugs about 75% of the time then, as well as always staying away for...

I'm guessing that a constant tea kettle like noise in my bad ear is not a mild condition? I've had t a few times before this - once in high school and once pretty badly in my 30s. Both of those times the t faded after a few months. This time my t, or this spike in my old t perhaps, is...

Ok, thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I didn't realize t could flip around like that. I have been listening to music but only at absurdly low volumes since the beginning of my t in May. It's only now that it is reacting.

Is it hyperacusis or tinnitus when sound activates your tinnitus? As of this week my tinnitus is so soft I can barely hear it in a quiet room. That is a good thing! I admit that. Unless I want to listen to music... Then suddenly there is the old high pitched continuous "eeeeeee" that seems to...

Tinnitus. Can't live with it, can't live...without it.

All musicians have it. Most don't want to admit they damaged their own ears. Musicians that wore ear plugs all the time except the day that the stupid truck air horn blew right into an ear...well, there's no excuses!!! Think of the military. Nearly 3/4 have the condition. With all these gangs...

Sorry to hear that, Bill. I too was accosted by unwanted noise tonight and I sympathize.

I think I'm in for it now. I also have other health issues which are super fun and similarly bogus like tinnitus. Oh yay. Life was good.

As I recall, I've had T two, three or more times before this current time for me. They all faded completely and silence returned, but now I'm older and so as I understand, it may take more time than before for silence to come back. I have known of T since the second time it happened to me and I...

Nearly everyone I've mentioned my T to didn't notice theirs so much until I did...which made me feel guilty of reminding them. Sometimes commiserating your misery with others helps. With T however it seems to upset nearly everyone in some fashion. And best not to tell people there's no...

I've worn ear plugs, napkins, cigarette butts and anything else that will fit religiously for 15 years, at shows, using power tools etc. I didn't have them in when my acoustic trauma happened this year. Bummer!

Gee, I'm sorry you're having a tough time. Have you tried cognitive behavioral therapy where you tell yourself it's non-threatening and to not be anxious or resist? It's like this. If you can't shut it up then shout along with it. But just not above 85 decibels...

I've not had suicidal thoughts and have thought about what could be worse than T and it seems to always be death. The glass is half full for me but I must keep filling it up it seems. What a chore!

The ear plugs are white cylinder foam 25dB, the ear muffs are basic 25dB. For some reason the frequency of the vacuum cuts through these anyway. I have to be 50 feet away if a vacuum is on with that hearing protection to handle it. Unbelievable!

My tinnitus seems to be getting worse. It seems to be more pervasive. If I talk about it with others nobody has much to say except 'isnt't there something you can do about it? Why don't you go see a good doctor?' I don't know how to deal with the ringing. It used to be low level. Now it seems...

I've had it! No more vacuums!!! They are horrible, even while wearing huge ridiculous ear muffs AND ear plugs - they spike the tinnitus every time.

I have some construction ear muffs laying around so I took Bill's advice and brought those for our next road trip. They are blue and look like giant eggs. At the first rest stop the only people who took notice were my wife and son who thought I looked hilarious. I did think people would be...

Very interesting. I've always wondered about cost of living in the country. If I was living there now I'd take the job of maintaining hand driers at rest stops (read: disconnecting, removing and beating to death with baseball bat).

With you there bud. I'm totally going to leave the city after all the hellacious loud noises. It might take awhile. Off topic: what do all the people in the country do for a living?!? I want to do what they do. This probably needs a separate thread.

Maybe it was an Xelerator. Who knows. I didn't want to get close to the thing to look. It was as loud as a bus or truck letting off air on it's brakes, but continuously of course.

Bill, do you recommend earmuffs which amplify the ambient noise or have you tried those?

It must have been Dyson. It sounded like a hurricane ripping the roof off.

Oi! I've had it with rest area bathroom hand driers. Anyone else feel this way? Walked into a bathroom recently at a rest stop and was hit with about 130 dB of atrocious fan echoing throughout entire bathroom. Pretty hard to take a leak while holding your ears. Ugh!!!

@Bill Bauer: Yes, I heard silence until June of this year. Occasionally I would hear T camping, but after the truck horn blast in June I had T fairly bad for over a month and a half. Now it is 3 days good, then 3 days bad, so it is improving, but...when it's bad it is horrible. It is whizzing...

Andy, when I was your age I used to blast my ears with a Walkman. I do recall having ringing and buzzing at the time, knew why, and continued listening to the Walkman. This was because at first the ringing didn't hang around. However with time, I noticed the ringing did not go away so easily...

Facebook is where happy, anxious, sad, motivated, lazy and angry people are, just like here. But FB is really missing out. Nobody talks about tinnitus there...! ;-D

For god's sake people, wear ear protection! Peace.

You know, Howard wasn't wearing ear muffs while busting up all that concrete before Dominique arrived...I'm sure Ayn would give the finger to this post.

I'm trying to cope anyway I can. My post is sarcastic and a warning just like Rand's quote. We live in a world filled with artificial noises we don't need. Not caring or being oblivious to them got us here, but not caring can maybe help us deal with what we have now. It's all in the perspective...

What? You can't hear what I'm saying? You must have tinnitus. You need this one pill... Did you: Go see a block buster film with explosions and car chases, guns and super loud THX soundtracks? Huh. Did you wait for the bus to pull up and beep at you incessantly before you could get on?! Did...

Stuff it, T.

I was using a table saw, circular saw and drills yesterday. I had ear plugs and ear muffs on as well. I could barely hear my tinnitus while working. I could hear the tools however even with all the ear protection. As soon as I took off the ear protection the tinnitus came back fairly loud. Not...

1. Eaten by alligator. 2. Falling off cliff taking selfie. 3. Attacked by grizzly bear. 4. Run over by bus. 5. Pushed onto subway tracks. 6. Roller coaster malfunction. 7. Helicopter malfunction. 8. Screwed by ponzi scheme. 9. Shooting nail gun into head. 10. No more Cheerios left.

@glynis I think you are correct, ear buds/phones are no good for masking! Even just wearing them for less than 15 minutes as I did today. My T is louder this evening as a result. So its initial comfort translates to higher T volume later. So now the ear buds will have to be vaporized.

Oh yes @glynis, believe me I'm a low-volume-masker for sure. I've noticed in order to mask while driving I turn up the rain to its loudest practically (without headphones) just the phone sitting on dashboard. That really helps cover up the T. The road is surprisingly loud but not enough to...

I am not affiliated with the artists or products I'm about to plug, but hey. If you are the artist or company reading this you can make an anonymous donation to this site please. So I recently got tinnitus from that STUPID truck air horn. And I got prednisone (steroid) and this does seem to...

Bill: your link is amazing. Thanks for posting your reply. Very helpful information. I feel like it my T will fade because after the first 3 intense ringing weeks it began to very slightly diminish enough for me to take my mind off it. The doctor seemed to imply that it would take at least a...

Yes I'm on steroids.

Haha. Thanks. If I don't have permanent damage, what good is this forum for anyway!? Seriously though. Why are air horns allowed? Oh yeah. To scare a heard of elephants off the highway. I think it was around 130-140 dB. My ear did the disco duck dance.

I was sitting in traffic a month ago when this truck blew its air horn for 1 second. It was louder than anything I've ever heard. The truck was 10 feet away and my window was down. I have tinnitus in left ear now. Doctor said 'it should get better' but did not give a timeline. LOL.