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Right, again, that is all well and good. I wish my audiologist had used your method and that in the future it will be standard, but they did not and it is not. All standard tinnitus rules apply to me unless we determine there is some actual difference in the origin of the hearing damage. I am...

Well, that was unexpected! Hooray for William R., whomever that may be.

As I said, I’m in nearly the exact same boat. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, I’m pretty much in the hermit category. But it does not sound like you need to go that route—just find some quieter extracurricular activities. I’m looking into joining an art group myself. There are also walking...

Yeah, I mostly meant what on earth caused it. I’m well aware of the limitations of standard audiograms, although I do appreciate your thorough rundown. But alas, it’s what I have. As for the tinnitus itself, one positive is that apart from a higher-frequency static hiss, it is not very...

Well, that may be true, but there seem to be some established “rules” we have as a community. NIHL — no headphones. SSHL — go ahead. Pain hyperacusis — must be noise-induced. I am just trying to make sense of where these ideas have come from. Or are they simply based on how we each react to...

I’m still trying to work through my hearing loss, but I keep hitting a brick wall when searching for answers. Why do we differentiate between noise-induced hearing loss and other types of hearing loss? What difference does it make to the ears if the hair cells were damaged by earphones and...

Ahh... two minutes strolling round the peaceful garden to get a bit of vitamin D and decompress... Oh, hello mister helicopter wonder where you're flyin-OH MY GOD MY EARS HURT!

Did you have your hearing tested recently? I’m suspicious if the pop you heard in the gym could have been a perilymph fistula or sudden hearing loss. My hearing went from completely normal one week, with no audible tinnitus or any discomfort with sound, to feeling a bit unwell with a mild...

Hi Suz, how are you doing now? I saw you had a lot of trouble with nasal steroid spray... they didn't do me any favours either.

It really sounds like a bit of heightened hyperacusis, which does affect your sound tolerance. Also, the tensor muscle combined with stress could be causing some pain and discomfort. Short, sudden noise is always harder to handle with hyperacusis, so that explains why the drums felt...

Anyone care to take a guess at what happened? Around 35 years old or so.

Once I have an income again, I’ll be sure to set it up. I need to make my savings last for now, but I’ve donated what I can. I’ve been trying to get a couple of well-known musicians interested. I used to do some work for a small company that collaborated closely with a few of the bigger acts...

I’ve been sharing this around and have asked a few people with some social reach to help, but I’ve noticed it is actually quite difficult to find on the main Tinnitus Quest webpage. It would be really great if we could raise that last $5,000 with a strong final push.

Apart from not living in an overly noisy area (although the garden is still a risk, with the neighbors seemingly always having some kind of work done), and the fact that I do not currently have to work, I am in exactly the same mental and reclusive boat. I do not enjoy anything anymore, and I...

So, what is the takeaway from this for us as patients? Does it open up any potential new avenues?

I don't think @Danny Boy is going to be too concerned with dating these days... https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/danny-boy-memorial-fund-in-loving-memory-of-danny-boy.30298/ As for my opinion on the matter, yes, but depression is likely the biggest obstacle; home-bound people with chronic...

Can the tinnitus either shut up or can I please have a brain aneurysm and end this cleanly... Is that too much to ask.

I understand the idea, but my point is that I think it is more for emergency treatment. I do not think a doctor would provide it just for an everyday setback, especially as it requires an intratympanic injection. I think it will be reserved for major events, such as explosions or sudden...

I agree, modern life has gotten loud. I am currently in a place that was once out of the way, yet ten years later, noise seems to be encroaching on it. I am now just waiting for the added traffic those golden arches will bring. But that was not my point. I was just saying AC102 is not for...

AC102 is for acute hearing loss, not chronic. It does not generate hair cells, but instead works to protect against and reverse the effects of immediate damage. From further reading, I do not think any of the treatments that attempt to use support cells to transdifferentiate into hair...

Today, my right ear has decided to add to my fragile mental state by beginning to lose hearing beyond what my audiogram showed just a fortnight ago. So long, hyperacusis, I guess. It feels much like the moderate hearing loss I experienced before my tinnitus began, which I had assumed was just a...

Hopefully I will see you there! Can anyone truly be sure whether their hearing damage is due to hair cells or nerves? It is almost always likely to be a combination of both. The clinical trial requirements might focus only on age-related or degenerative disease hearing loss in an attempt to...

Why do you torment me loud dial tone frequency, the times you are gone I cope so much better and then you bring physical sensations to make yourself known.

I’m so sorry to hear about your son, Linda. This is a truly cruel condition that takes so much. Is he currently taking any medication to cope with it? Some medications are known to make it worse, which can be a difficult balance to manage given how distressing tinnitus can be. There are a...

Interesting… I suppose I ask because I’ve been trying to figure out my tinnitus. I went to several concerts when I was younger and never experienced even a hint of it. Years ago, I was exposed to a small explosion, probably similar to a gunshot. I recovered quickly, with only about 30 seconds...

That sensation is referred from your trigeminal nerve. It is fluttering your tympani, or the tensor tympani muscle, sometimes known as TTTS (Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome). I experienced warmth, tension, and some pain in my face, but the ear would flutter on its own, especially when lying down...

I can't go on with this indefinitely, I'm just not cut out for it, what life is it to just carry on existing for fear of death. How can something so cruel have not just no safe treatment, to take the edge off, but the potential to worsen without a moments notice. I've always been depressed, but...

Don’t worry, there is enough love to go around for both you and @Nick47. 😉 I can manage a short course.

Warm and down my leg, but I think that might be something else… No, I can’t say I have experienced it anywhere else. At the start of my tinnitus, it felt exactly like I had fluid dripping in my ear, even though there was none according to a GP, at least when I was checked about ten days later...

It was in my right ear with the hearing loss. It did not seem to drift over to the good ear like the tinnitus and hyperacusis did. It certainly could be that. Or it could be allergies, stress, or wearing defenders for too long, which can cause discomfort. As with all of this ear stuff, it...

I know tinnitus is completely subjective, so this is a rather tricky one to answer, but is there a general sense of an established difference in tinnitus depending on the cause? For example, some people experience sudden sensorineural hearing loss and permanently lose, say, 60 dB along with all...

@Nick47, I think I may actually be slightly in love with you. This was the glimmer of hope I needed to keep going.

I just cannot understand why this seems to be a completely unheard-of condition to audiologists. But to answer your question, yes, I have experienced something similar. Mine has gradually improved over several months, although there have been setbacks along the way. I believe it is partially a...

You mean… you can’t talk to mice? Researchers either train them to be afraid of a tinnitus-like sound using some form of conditioning, such as a shock or another aversive method, or they create a kind of inverse tinnitus by playing a constant sound. When a brief moment of silence is inserted...

I would not consider this a positive outcome. I struggled with a six-week course of mild nasal steroids, so the idea of having to take Prednisone for the rest of my life pretty much rules me out of Rinri. I believe it can have quite harmful effects in general. In my opinion, this limits the...

Sigh… back to hoping for a terminal diagnosis, or wondering at what point my family might understand if I choose to go to Dignitas. I want to live, even if only for a short while, as long as it can be lived fully and with some certainty. The potential cures that once gave me hope no longer seem...

Realising the hearing regeneration I'd pinned my hopes on probably isn't going to be suitable for me is really crushing me right now... The hearing loss isn't even really an issue, I just want the tinnitus & hyperacusis gone so I can go to the shops without ear plugs. A life of solitude &...

Hold up... is this going to require immunosuppression? Current and emerging approaches to cochlear immunosuppression with translation to human inner ear stem cell therapy: A systematic review

Yeah, me too. I honestly can’t believe we’re still stuck in the “think it better!” stage of medicine when it comes to this. I guess 30 years ago it just wasn’t as urgent; the world wasn’t quite as noisy. Still, for someone with a fairly broad knowledge base, I can’t believe I’d never even heard...

I think Rinri is probably the best overall option. Question: I’ve seen some discussion about certain regeneration methods depleting support cells. Do we have any idea if this approach does that? Fixing the ears but making them more fragile would really just be trading one problem for another.

Not even last summer, it was late October, and my whole progression has been so bizarre, filled with nearly every symptom in the book, that I can’t tell heads from tails. It started as a normal “eee” but went absolutely catastrophic a couple of weeks in. Was this extreme anxiety from the nasal...

Wish I could tell you. I also have a unilateral 30 dB dip at 6 kHz, although I suspect that since it is an octave of my tinnitus frequency, it might be less of a dip and more that I just could not hear the tones. I also experience the cramps. In fact, if I put my finger in my ear canal, I can...

All we can do is speculate! I’m sure even they won’t have all the answers until data comes back from the trials. But I’m with you on the optimism, otherwise I would not be willing to subject myself to experimental surgery if I have the chance to participate. I do think they will eventually be...

My hearing was as tough as nails—until it wasn’t. I just had my audiogram today, and my left ear is nearly 0 dB across the board, which frankly defies logic. Meanwhile, my dodgy right ear has a 30 dB dip at 6 kHz, which isn’t even where my tinnitus frequency sits. Despite that, I still ended up...

Okay explain this one... past couple of days my bad ear seems to be losing hearing, or at least the hyperacusis is quickly dying down, but my droning tinnitus tone is simultaneously getting quieter with it? I had a literal air raid siren & cacophony of squealing brakes 5 months ago, the hell is...

I know we can only speculate, perhaps even they aren’t entirely sure of the outcomes until the results are seen, but I’m still unsure about exactly what this is supposed to repair. So it’s being injected into the auditory nerve, which I assume should remyelinate it to improve transmission. Is...

I don’t think anyone claimed they would, but it would certainly be nice to have any proven tinnitus treatment available—even if it only helps mild sufferers through their first panic-inducing experience or shaves off a few decibels for those with more severe cases, making it a little easier for...

I mean, we all know this—it’s not news to us, so I don’t think it does any harm. But I think it’s more important for this kind of research to reach people who aren’t aware of it. Raising awareness can help people understand that this is a far more serious condition than they realize and bring...

There are no definitive answers with this kind of thing, but my inclination is that since even a faucet now sounds loud to you when it did not before, and there have not been any major events that would push your hearing into the noxacusis realm, you may have simply increased your sound...

It sounds like you’ve identified the issue, so now the question is: how do you go about resolving it? Would exercise help? Physical or psychological therapy? Meditation? Or even medication, if you’re open to that option? My therapist taught me something called autogenic training. It’s...

OCT? Behind the eardrum? Sounds like witchcraft to me… (said the audiologists, probably). “Be quiet and take your nasal steroid spray. It’s just ETD. No need to investigate further—you’re simply not living with it hard enough.”