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@Samir Hi, I've had Bell's Palsy! It was a terrible experience, especially since it was spring time here when it hit me, and since I couldn't blink out of one my eyes, sometimes bugs would land in the eye goop keeping my eye moisturized and I'd have to dab a bug out of my eye with q-tip. Very...

I'm sorry if this sounds disrespectful, but I laughed pretty hard reading that. That's like a Dr. Nick on the Simpsons scene :) But, I think if you can afford it, you should give TRT a chance. It's helped a lot of people, so it could also help you. Stay strong.

Tell him the truth and give your ticket to a friend so he has someone to go with.

You could just pop in ear plugs when you're scheduled to wash dishes. It'll be easier to obsessively monitor your tinnitus and you won't have to worry about an infection from constantly plugging your ears.

Do you? Haven't you mentioned how good your hearing is? How much you enjoy hearing all the detail in your hifi stereos? How severe of tinnitus could you possibly have experienced (if you even have, we wouldn't know). b.s Just because you can't cope doesn't mean someone else can't.

@Louise , I had mild tinnitus for 16 or so years that never spiked even after going to many concerts, etc without ear plugs and became so quiet I had to plug my ears to hear it. Over last summer, out of nowhere, my tinnitus jumped to a level where I can hear it throughout the majority of the...

@racerfish , did the antibiotics damage your hearing or just amplified your tinnitus?

everything's better in stereo :)

It's really dependent on the person. I could snack on salty, sugary foods all throughout the day, have a pot of coffee, too, with zero affect on my T.

alcohol is one of the very few things that affects my T. A beer or two doesn't really do anything to it, but if I tie one on and enjoy more than a few pints of a delicious ale, my head is just buzzing with T.

It's kind of funny in a sad way. A lot of tinnitus sufferers are so knowledgeable about tinnitus, they read about it obesseively, know there's no cure, and then make an ENT appointment and get mad their ENT can't fix them. wtf?

Yep! I woke up in the middle of an intense dream and my head sounded like someone hit me with two massive tuning forks! It was a volume of tinnitus I didn't think my brain was even capable of producing. Took about 40 minutes to go away. I only had that experience one time, thankfully.

@Word_is_Bond , I think you're fortunate to still have normal hearing. You should be thankful for that; a lot of people don't get that lucky. Habituation will come with time. Keep your head up

I know I don't have one of the worst cases of tinnitus on this board, but I definitely don't have one of the mildest cases, either. If I had the time or resources to travel Canada and Alaska, I'd absolutely love to and would take it without hesitatation for the life experience. You can protect...

Don't do it, man. Think about it... you have tinnitus... tinnitus. Your ears are ringing. The beauty of the world is dead to you now and you must accept life as a subhuman. Everything you've held sacred is gone. Dreams? Gone. Aspirations? Gone. All that you've loved and enjoyed? Gone. All that...

@stophiss , I honestly was not trying to sound like a jerk. I've obsessively worried about what could spike my tinnitus before as well, so I'm not judging anyone and I have empathy towards anyone suffering. I just think multivitamins are a waste of money for the majority of the population, so if...

This is pretty simple. If you're worried about a multivitamin spiking your tinnitus, don't take a multivitamin. Who really needs those things, anyway?

No kidding, hey? Visual static gets that bad?

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I never use headphones anymore. It's probably OK at low volumes, but personally I know after a couple songs I'd get lost in the music and that volume slider would keep going up :)

I've had noise induced tinnitus since I was about 17 and I'm 33 now. I love music, and ever since I was a child, I can remember being glued to headphones. I habiutated to my original tinnitus within a few months and it never changed at all until about 6 months ago. I don't know what caused my...

@linearb, my (small) knowledge of Kava Kava comes from what I used to read about it on Erowid and some Usenet groups many years ago. You're far more versed in it than I am. I've never taken it or seeked it out, I was only offering some cautionary advice based on what I used to read.

D'oh! Sorry to hear you spiked, man! Did the spike happen before the dentist?

Whose to say? I actually haven't heard much about Kava Kava in the past 12 or so years. It was popular around recreational drug scenes for it's similarity to cannabis when used in high extract form, but quickly diminished when reports about liver toxicity started piling in. Looking it up now...

what Glynis said. I've been through more than a few fillings and a root canal and I've never left the dentist even with a temporary spike. A lot of people report that that the numbing agent used actually lowers your tinnitus, so you might actually be in for a treat of a lower T day. Good luck

There's no definite answer to the questions you're asking, so in that regard, accept it as permanent and move on. You're better off doing your best to adjust to this new level of tinnitus than driving yourself insane monitoring your tinnitus if it's getting quieter or not. Remember from here on...

ah, ok. since my hearing loss and tinnitus has been gradual over a lifetime of blaring noisey music I'm not aware of the loss of richness as compared to someone like you who lost it within a couple minutes. Bad luck? Unfortunate, really. Sorry man :(

@Jason C , what do you mean music doesn't sound the same? I can't hear 14+ either, but I listen to music all the time (safely, mind you) and everything sounds good to me.

What about the type of noise a person hears? Is there any relation to the hearing loss? or is it just a matter of what your brain wants to make up for the missing frequencies? Some people have jet engine type noises, or dentist drills, or chimes, or hissing, or rushing water, or beeping alarms...

Sam, I'm with you, I have no idea what's actually mild or moderate.

I'm 33 and I can't hear 14 and up based on this video. I'd rate my tinnitus as moderate in my left ear and mild in my right. It's odd to me that there's a lot of people on this board with noise induced tinnitus that sounds so severe compared to mine, but have such good hearing. Or maybe mine's...

Was it this? http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/ocular-migraine.htm

My dreams have tinnitus in them now as well. Once I initially became aware that I was dreaming without tinnitus, it started to show up. Funny how that works. @SilverSpiral , do you have in person friends these days or outlets for possible romance? I'm not going to try and convince you that the...

no problem! I'm glad I could help :) Cheers on the clean bill of health! Happy new year to as well!

Is this a support board?

It's loud again because you're scared of your appointment. I hope it goes well, man. Report back here tomorrow and let us know!

Not worth it. Kava Kava is hard on the liver and you'd need a high dose of it to get a claming effect that may affect your tinnitus positively. I guess once in a while would be ok, but it sounds like you'd want to use it regularly if it helps you and that would put you in high risk of liver damage.

Of course there is, it's a story from The Daily Fail

No problem @Chris16 I hope Dave's post above puts your mind at ease for a bit

How long until you get the results back? I'd assume if you had a tumor, they'd tell you right away? no? Doesn't sound very professional either way not letting know anything or even if you should go home and all. I had an mri done about 10 years back and when it was over, I waited around for a...

Yeah, take a deep breath and take a minute to think that your anxiety might be getting the best of you. get some sleep. Life is full of incidents like this.

Most likely wax. Seasonal allergies and colds always clog my ears and when they're clogged I get those pops. It's the wax moving around and little pops of air getting through. If you're sure your ears are clean, I don't know...

Where do you get custom molded ear plugs done at? Is it from an ent visit or a private business? I wouldn't mind having a pair myself.

Well, now you know that when you see you have a phone call from your brother, you should play it safe and put him on speaker phone instantly :)

I think you should try and explain your hearing concerns with your little brother so he doesn't do that again

@Chris16 no worries about crying; tinnitus can bring the manliest of men to their knees. I've cried over my tinnitus before, but I've habituated and now thinking back about myself crying over this noise makes me feel a little embarrassed. It's just head noise. I WISH I could tell you words that...

Sorry to hear that. You've habituated before, you can do it again.

Do you still have your original tone? The ring that first became permanent? I don't. Mine evolved into a chime and electric type sound over the years from the original 'eeeeee' type of sound.

You'll habituate as well :) Just don't become careless when you do.

You'll be ok. I've had tinnitus since I was your age for the same reason you have it. I've worked in busy kitchens and bakeries for the last 16 years and until this year, my tinnitus never got any worse. Years would go by without even thinking about tinnitus. I was well habituated before I...

I have some floaters like a good majority of people in this world. a small cobweb of little clear bubbles and some thin dark lines that wisk very quickly with my eyes. I've had tinnitus for so long I can't tell you which came first. The blue field entopic phenonamon I've experienced since I was...

@Stephen1144 , sorry to hear that. I did look for your thread but didn't see it. I've seen other compaints here about threads being deleted or renamed. Moderators are probably having a bad T day :) Good luck to you as well. There's more tinnitus boards out there, so don't feel discouraged to...

@Stephen1144 , neither melatonin nor chamomile had an effect on my tinnitus.

My T sounds like a high pitched chime mixed with an electric type of sound and I've definitely experienced the head almost buzzing with T in the morning. It's always loud in the morning and fades down as I get out of bed and start my day. If I take a nap during the day, the rest of the day will...

I miss headphones sometimes. I know I could probably listen safely, but I don't trust myself with the volume slider :) too easy to turn up.

I used sound therapy for a while when my tinnitus became worse and I was scared of it. I can say first hand, that playing nature sounds at a volume level slightly below my tinnitus, lowered my perception of the tinnitus greatly. I eventually found the noise machines and nature sounds apps to...

So, hyperacusis isn't a permanent condition? That's nice to know. I'm habiuated to my tinnitus. I hear it all the time, but I have no emotional connection to it. I'll probably be hanging around these forums forever because I'm fascinated by the mysterious tinnitus.

I've had noise induced tinnitus for half of my life, but I've never experienced any kind of hyperacusis. I see it mentioned on this board all the time and it's made me curious if most people who get tinnitus also get some degree of hyperacusis, or is hyperacusis much less common? What's the pain...

I've always had floaters for as long as I can remember. I thought everybody did? If not, oh well, I could care less about them. When I was in my late teens I had something called HPPD from experimenting with psychedelic drugs. That was so freaking weird and it took a long time to go away... like...

Tinnitus, it's the reminder you're still alive :)