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Hi all! Last night was a lot worse, unfortunately - the noise was there in the evening, and is quite loud now. The difference between yesterday and the day before yesterday was: I was at work yesterday and looked at a screen for 8 hours. Could this be the reason? I‘m a bit desperate, now...

Hi all! Last night, my "new noise" disappeared - I couldn't hear it until I fell asleep. When I woke up during the night and in the morning, it was there again in usual intensity. So no it went from "strong in the morning, weak in the evening" to "strong in the morning, gone in the evening"...

That’s interesting - it’s definitely not a hiss. Its frequency is above normal noises, but not a lot. Maybe also a bit similar to ringing church bells in a distance. But definitely lower, more like a heating device. Are there also reasons connected to the different types of tones? Maybe I couple...

Hello all! One thing I noticed about my new sound is: It‘s louder/more intense in the morning than during the day or in the evening. Do you have any idea why that may be? Possibly even some ideas on what I can do about that?

Hi Bill Bauer, the month is not yet complete, so there’s still some hope it’s going to begin fading - however, I never had a sound fade before: 6 years ago, the first noise came and stayed pretty much unchanged, and now, the second one joined a couple of weeks ago. There were no other episodes...

Hi Bill, thank you very much for your message! Of course you can look at this topic both ways, and the one you write is the healthier one. It's just that the 6 years you talk about are between the ages 21 and 27 - I know it's not helping to think about that, but actually these should be ages...

Hi Lane, thanks again for your really helpful post and the links to your other posts! I read that melatonin is a hormone that regulates the day-night-rhythm - Looks like something that may be helpful to me, and shows me one more time that just making my bedtime longer will not be the solution to...

Hi davidmp, thank you for your message! I'm not really sure if the noise really disappears during sleep (although this would be a calming idea): Recently, I haven't had many dreams (mainly because of the lack of sleep), but before my "second tinnitus" started, I even heard the noise in my...

Hi Lane! Thank you very much for your reply. I‘m going to try out the exercise you sent me! My sleep pattern since the new Tinnitus started is a bit different. Usually I go to bed at around 11pm, fall asleep rather quickly for around 10 minutes, then wake up again (from my „own noise“ I guess)...

Thank you for your reply! I just tried it (never did before): When I move up my eyes really strongly, the tone becomes slightly higher for parts of a second. All other directions: No changes. When I close my eyes really strongly, there is also a spike. But I‘m not sure if it really comes from my...

Hi all, I went to a doctor‘s appointment today and he said that it may be worth looking into the connection between tinnitus and eyesight. I‘m quite short-sighted (~-7 dioptrien on both eyes). Does anyone of you have experience with that? Could that be an explanation or rather just another dead end?

Hi ASilverLight, thank you for your message! I also thought about this: Maybe my body is sending me the signal to go slower or decrease the pace. I'm working for a strategy consulting firms, and 60+ hour work weeks are not rare. However, my impression is that I suffer from Tinnitus the most...

But isn‘t that a self-fulfilling prophecy? Always trying to avoid a mistake, when it‘s coming in the end anyway. I‘m really struggling with this. If it gets worse no matter how hard I try, why try at all?

I hope this is not what’s waiting for me now. The past few weeks at work were really hard (corona restrictions helped me out a bit). At first I thought I might go on sick leave, but what would I do all day then? So I‘m clinging to my position, hoping that I don’t make more mistakes than usual...

Hi Zugzug, thank you very much for your words! I know it doesn’t make any sense to think about what I could have done differently in the past, it just feels so unfair. I also know that feeling unfairly treated doesn’t help either, which is again unfair. A perfect cycle...but I try not to get...

By the way - does anyone of you experience extreme sensitivity to background noise, but only when trying to sleep (kind of a night-time hyperacusis)? Masking sounds during the day are really helping me, but at night they drive me just as crazy as my tinnitus. Any ideas what I could do? Also if...

Hi ASilverLight, thanks a lot for your reply! Yes, I work behind a laptop all day. At first, I didn't pay a lot attention to my posture but now, when the new noise started, I adapted it to recommended standards. I went to a physiotherapist, too, he was checking my neck and head and said that...

Hi Sevv! Thank you very much for your reply as well. I haven’t tried Baldrian - maybe I should give it a go. When I told her about my inability to find sleep, the doctor prescribed me some pills of Zopiclon, which enhances sleep but also seems to be addictive (which is why I don’t really dare...

Hi Anxinnitus, thank you for your reply! No medication at all - this can be ruled out, I think.

Hi, I‘m new here! Sorry if my text is difficult to read: English is not my native language. I know it’s one of the worst mistakes to do, but right now it feels like tinnitus is sent to me directly from the devil. My tinnitus first started when I was 21 (way too early in life, I think), after an...