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Went to see the new Nolan movie a couple of days ago and forgot to take my earplugs with me. Had to spend almost half the time with fingers in my ears, because the volume of the sound was physically unpleasant. When I discussed that with my buddies after the movie, they looked very surprised and...

Until recently I thought that the 'spikes' everybody speaks about here is just a matter of your attitude, i.e. today I'm sad and grumpy, and I pay attention to my ringing a lot, tomorrow I am outdoors with my friends and never notice it. However, a day ago I had an actual spike. I was at my...

Something of that kind happens to me as well. My idea is that when we sleep the body kind of "turn off" the senses, we don't stop hearing completely, obviously, but the signal only reaches the 'alarm' regions of the brain and is not fed into the parts where we consciously perceive it. This is...

Beautifully written and really soothing. Thank you.

I already 'hear' more than I'm supposed to, so I'd just prefer my normal hearing back, thanks! :)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229662.400#.U1jgPvldWg8 Wanted to share this with you.

Hey mate! I'm writing from my work, so I didn't have the time to check the whole thread, sorry, but just wanted to share a little encouragement here. It's my fifth month of tinnitus (it was caused by noise exposure), and now I am almost perfectly okay with it. I used to freak out and even...

Almost 4 month into my tinnitus I have to say that my sleep problems are gone. Even though I hear the whistle clearly I can easily dose off and not hear it in my sleep. Morning are different. Sometimes I have the same as @Grace described. Nearly noiseless waking up, and it gradually gets worse...

From my personal experience, flying with T is exactly like flying without T. Since the onset of mine I have flown almost a dozen times, and it did not affect me in any possible way. I have always had sinus problems (although my tinnitus is not caused by it), so I always take a flask of...

@DebInAustralia, what a perfectly informative answer! I would also suggest going to an ENT to rule out anything that can be easily fixed by medicine (but you've already done that, apparently, to no avail). By the way, I would recommend exploring the option of prednisolone. It has no direct...

Please don't be sad! Actually, in my experience, it is possible to hear "silence". Just after I wake up I hear nothing. The tinnitus sound is still there, but the brain just has not tuned in on it after my sleep. It's a strange feeling, but I consider it to be a silence of its kind. And I am...

Hello! Please don't think I'm being rude, but I sincerely believe that if you're comparatively okay about your simptoms, you should leave this forum and never come back, before you see some scary and desperate stories and become as anxious and miserable as some of us are. The truth is, life is...

That's the spirit! I also find Autifony approach more appealing, but I wouldn't expect them to present ready solutions any time soon, given that they are only at the first stage of trials.

I have thought about something similar, actually :) Also, from a little different perspective, after that sound being there for two months it seems hard to me to remember how it felt without it. Sometimes I even think it might have been there all along, and I just never noticed it.

Whenever this happens to me (like today) I remind myself that it's not the sound that changes. It's my perception. There is a curious effect recognized in TRT: after some time into the treatment there is a stage when patients start complaining of their tinnitus being worse. It is explained by...

I'm really really sorry for what you have to go through. And I think that continuing your education would be really good for you. I know it's hard, but it really helps. First of all, it's a distraction, and secondly, it helps you habituate.

Also, a little mind trick that helps me a lot. I know that I'll be able to live with tinnitus for as long as I have to, I will habituate and everything will be okay. But at the same time I am almost 100% confident that in 3-5, maximum 10 years there will be a working treatment to get rid of...

Hello there! First of all, I want you to know that you are not alone at all, and that you definitely will feel better soon. I am in a situation very similar to yours. I have had tinnitus for a little more than two months now, and in the beginning I was devastated because I am so young, I am just...

My strong opinion is that you shouldn't do that, as this in no way helps your tinnitus, but may (and eventually will) lead to hyperacusis. Everyday sounds cannot make your T worse, but being afraid of them just increases your anxiety and overprotection makes your ears more sensitive, which...

That's purely awesome, man. Thank you for your post, and good luck!

Of all the inspirational examples this one is my favourite: http://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/trn2m/tinnitus_16_years_later_tinnitus_oh_yea_i_forgot/ I already posted a link to it, but it wouldn't harm if more people on TT saw it. What I like about it is that it's a story of simple...

By the way, even before I got T, I once was thinking about people taking their lives and other depressing stuff. I came up with an idea that whoever decides to commit suicide should go to a parachute training ground and sigh up for a jump. I guess, falling from 800 meters (that's the usual...

My understanding is that, according to one of the theories, tinnitus is caused by damage to outer hair cells, which may be so inessential that, in fact, it is impossible to detect with a hearing test. But still it is damage. So, if these cells are restored, luckily enough, tinnitus will go away...

That's a shame. I just thought that if the next conference is held somewhere in Europe I would be delighted to try to attend it. But flying to NZ is way too expensive. Guess, we'll have to rely on what we hear from your audiologist :)

More than that, I truly believe that studying can help you habituate sooner. Stimulating the brain, creating new neuron connection, all that stuff. Before getting T I was trying to learn two foreign languages, but the depression and anxiety prevented me from doing that. Now I want to start...

This happened to me once. I was watching a movie, almost not hearing my tinnitus, when suddenly there was a feeling of blocked ear and a gradual but very quick increase in its loudness, as if someone turned a volume knob. To say I was dead scared means to say nothing. Nevertheless, I made myself...

By the way, this is the story I referred to in my post: http://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/trn2m/tinnitus_16_years_later_tinnitus_oh_yea_i_forgot/ It's truly optimistic and made me feel much better.

Today I ran across a statement which is obvious, yet we very often forget about it: "Stop reading forums. Like I said in my big post, nobody goes to a forum to say "I am feeling normal and happy today"." So I would like to make up for it. For about four days I have been feeling happy and...

I have always worried about damaging my ears in a plane, but in the end damaged them at a concert :) As for the planes, I have taken 7 flights after my onset, and even took a helicopter just yesterday. Everything is fine so far (as fine as it could be, obviously).

I am probably not in position to give you any sound advice (being just two months into T myself). But I would also tell you to try and not worry. Something like that happened to me once, and turned to be nothing. Perceived louder volume is in most cases just your brain paying more attention to...

I guess, 八达岭 is not one of these places? :) But still I got a chance to visit it this summer.

Aaran, how funny it is. We are complete strangers from different parts of the world, but we have been to a lot of same places. I like that.

Can relate here. Not two weeks, though, but I found out about such a condition as T on reddit within a year before my onset. I read a comment by some guy who had it and thought to myself "wow, that must be really tough, hope that never happens to me!" I wish instead of just thinking that I...

My concern was: if am101 is basically a substance which inhibits transmission of signal from cochlea to the brain to decrease the strength of tinnitus signal, wouldn't it decrease the level if good signal as well? It's like removing the whole antenna when you start having statics on your TV...

Thanks to everybody for your kind words and advice. I managed to calm down and fall asleep, then woke up in complete peace (after a good night's sleep I can barely hear my T). Now I'm in my office, a bit nervous, but at least not panicking :)

I keep going to my friends' small parties, but they've never been too loud. Usully there's just very low bacrground music, if any. And we can watch a movie, which also is not a bad thing, as I'm able to control the volume of it, unlike a movie theatre. And communication is great in helping me...

Thank you very much! Will be trying the breathing. I tried to do it along with the video and it felt soothing.

By the way, a crazy idea occurred to me. Can it be that solar flares make our T spike? I heard about a big one not so long ago.

Thanks again for your support! I am also a bit worried by the fact that my sound constantly changes. Basically, I have two tones in my right ear, one at about 11 kHz, the second one much lower and usually inaudible, didn't even measure it. But what amazes me is that they constantly switch. And...

Thank you! Right now it feels like there's nothing in the world I can enjoy. Probably, you know that feeling. Being alone doesn't help as well. My wife's away training, my parents, who I could at least talk to via Skype, are now in an area without internet. And for some reason unknown, me ears...

Thanks, Shan! I think I got too confident over the last couple of weeks, when I managed to fall asleep without background noise, and that backfired. And I do realize my anxiety only makes it worse, but it's a damn tough thing to control. Turned RainyMood on. Hope for the better.

I checked again, and I DO have the new tone in my other ear. What a day.

Guys! I think I could do with some support. Today was dreadful, and I don't even know why. There actually were no spikes, my ringing wasn't louder, though from time to time it seems to me that I start hearing ringing in my second ear. But for some reason I'm overwhelmed with pure terror. I...

Never really cared about listening to the silence before the onset of T, so the info might not be very reliable, but it seems to me I might actually have had some sounds in my head all along. Sometimes they would float into my attention, but immediately be suppressed by the flow of other...

Have had them since as far as I remember myself. Always had this "it's not a bug, it's a feature" attitude towards them, as I am only able to see them at a very even background, which is not usually the case. About a year and a half ago, while spending some good time in Turkey, suddenly I went...

You definitely will. God, just to think... Exactly a week ago I was ironing my shirts and composing a post to tell you that T is not to be feared and that I've completely overcome mine. I really felt that way at the moment. Unfortunately, the next day I lost that feeling. Still, drinking...

Thank you for sharing! Every bit of positive information makes it easier to reconcile with life and adapt. This is the recipe my parents are telling me to follow, and actually I arrived at it myself even before T. And speaking to your family helps as well. Turns out, my father has ringing in...

@James White, that's exactly what I was going to say. The study focuses on children who have their umbilical cord blood stored. And the number of patients is just ten. But whatever brings the future closer is good!

Thank you for this very reassuring post! And I am really amazed by the fact that your T started in Oct 2012, and today you are able to tell us that you habituated. Mostly I see infos suggesting, that this long road can take 2, 3 or more years. Congrats! I would still like to ask you a question...

Just happen to be alone for a couple of weeks. Feels tough.

I was wondering whether a controlled LSD trip could be of any benefit for tinnitus sufferers. Yet I'm afraid of an extremely high probability of a bad trip due to a sound in your ear you can't control, God only knows what it can turn into in an altered state of mind, and generally people with...

Thanks for your answer, LadyDi! I think I start to grasp the concept of support groups and forums, sometimes it helps a lot just to know than you're heard! My anxiety is what I am actually working on right now. Going to a therapist is not a very common practice in Russia, so I'm afraid it might...

My experience is very limited (>2 months). But still. I try to keep away from coffee (for no obvious reason, though), and somehow I feel it's a good thing to do. Even if it just makes me think that I feel better, why not? As to the vine - I enjoy a glass now and then, and contrary to what many...

Hi there! I'm a newbie here, but I've read the forum for a while and would to thank all of you for being there and doing what you do. It's a long post, sorry, but I really needed to share my thoughts with somebody. So... The T. I got mine less than two months ago. A concert. A really loud one...