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I've been using headphones for about 10 years without any issues (to make music). I just keep the volume low.

Hi, I’m Lucile. I’m French and 31 years old. I have been hard of hearing since childhood and have worn hearing aids for a long time. I’ve always had a bit of mild tinnitus in my ears, but it never bothered me. I got used to it when I was young. But over the past few weeks, something...

I’ve been splitting my updates between this thread and this one: Ear Pressure and Pain After a Restroom Hand Dryer and Child Screaming. I’ve been trying to keep the hyperacusis and noxacusis details in that other thread, and the tinnitus updates in this one, since it seems not everyone visits...

Sat in the garden listening to the wind in the tall pine trees. Is it green or brown noise, I don’t know, but it was soothing to my tinnitus ears. Almost made it disappear for a moment there.

Hi again, I would like to share what happened to me last summer and fall, even if it is not directly related to my current dilemma. At that time, starting in the spring, my hyperacusis got much worse over the summer after 29 years of it being relatively moderate. I posted about that. But what...

I am not a doctor or an acoustics engineer, but what truly matters is the sound pressure level, not whether the sound source is a loudspeaker or a set of headphones. Some people argue, likely with good evidence, that we tend to listen at higher volumes when using headphones. This naturally...

Just a quick question. Have you been protecting your ears a lot with earplugs or earmuffs since last summer? Speaking from personal experience, I feel that doing so can actually make the condition worse, although it might be different for you.

@Annina, your symptoms and story feel a lot like mine. It is almost as if I am reading my own timeline. I want to address something first. My ears also started to crack after I got my damage six months ago, and I used to worry that it might actually cause further harm. But guess what? I am...

That is wonderful you are starting CBT. Have you seen an ENT to rule out treatable causes?

It's all fabricated bullshit! He's trying to be like his hero, and succeeds :ROFL:!

Hiya, I have high-frequency hearing loss. It is only mild, and I also have some brain issues, so at first I assumed my pulsatile tinnitus was caused only by those neurological problems. However, I went to see an excellent audiologist who very patiently explained that even if the brain issues are...

My hyperacusis began after a child’s scream in a queue. The toddler was being held up by the mother, so the child’s mouth was at the same height as my ears. I had no idea they were standing right behind me. Suddenly, the child let out the highest-pitched scream I have ever heard. After that, my...

It is an option, you're just choosing not to take it.

It was a typo. It should have been Oct. 1944.

I’m sure you are right. Unfortunately, completely avoiding headphone use for the rest of my life is not an option for me.

Hi, I read your post, and I am dealing with the same issues—hyperacusis (loudness) and tinnitus—after experiencing barotrauma and acoustic trauma in July 2024. I feel like the problem with hyperacusis is coming from the brain, as if my brain has turned up the volume on every sound. Cars, for...

You keep bringing that up. What's your point? OK, so he was a "sucker" and a "loser" then? Sounds familiar? I would never do that!

Old enough to know this thread doesn’t belong on a tinnitus support forum. There’s plenty of other online spaces for this conversation.

I’m still embarrassed to wear earmuffs in public, so I only use earplugs. I do keep the earmuffs with me in the car, just in case an ambulance passes by or I break down on the highway. That has happened twice now. The first time, I changed a flat tire using only earplugs, and my condition...

Corticosteroids are tricky. It seems like sometimes they lower the tinnitus, and other times they make it worse. So you took 50-50-50, then 40-40-40, 30-30-30, 20-20-20… When you wrote that, were you on day 9? I am not sure, but after taking corticosteroids for nine days, your sleep can get...

The war in Europe ended in May of 1945.

Thanks, I appreciate that. A year later, I have not been on any support groups in a while. I’m getting a lot of low-pain days, as long as I remain in silence. Noise brings it right back.

It is unfortunate to hear that even with double protection, you still experienced a noise exposure. Bone conduction is a very real phenomenon. When you are outside doing everyday activities, does double protection usually shield you from noise exposure?

You are taking a risk by continuing to use headphones, even at a low volume. There is a real possibility that your tinnitus could worsen with continued use. No one can give you a definite answer, as everyone’s experience is different. What is certain, though, is that you will not enjoy...

Scrolling this site is tough on the soul 🫩

I would laugh at your posts if you were not serious. You live in a country that surrendered to Nazi Germany, just two months after being invaded. My father and his brothers, along with millions of other American men, fought in Europe during WWII. Their uncle, who was my grand-uncle, was a...

Oh, I see now. You are on a yearly lease that runs through October. For some reason, I thought your lease was ending on July 31. It sounds like you might be better off making a fresh start somewhere new, especially since your building management has been difficult to deal with and the...

How old are you?

I have read both positive and negative reviews. It crosses the blood–brain barrier and carries anything it comes into contact with to the brain. While it may help with some conditions, many alternative health practitioners still seem undecided. The protocol appears rather vague, and I am not...

Well, that exploding rapid brewer must have been louder than it seemed. Both ears have been burning all morning. A couple of weeks ago, the burning was only in my right ear, but now it appears to be in both. I haven’t even removed my earplugs all morning, and I’ve barely been around any sound...

I still don't understand how few hours in a nightclub with earplugs, causes worse issues than being there without earplugs. Almost 3 months gone and still having issues...

Denon receivers usually come with Audyssey. I would suggest setting Audyssey’s dynamic range compression to “night” mode. This helps keep the volume more consistent, which might reduce the chance of a flare-up. Do you normally wear earplugs at concerts, cinemas, and racetracks? And are you not...

Fascism 101: Bread and circuses for the people. Bread and imaginary threats — they amount to the same thing. Just curious: Is it possible to die in the United States because one cannot afford medical care?

Turn down the volume.

Always funny when you describe your symptoms to ENT, and they look you back like you are a crazy person. And this problem is all around the world it seems.

I’ve had ringing in my right ear since around May this year. Hearing tests show no loss in hearing sensitivity, and there are no signs of infection or anything else unusual with the ear. So, it’s likely noise-induced, probably from years of headphone use. I love listening to music, watching...

I had been doing much better, but today I was making cold brew in my Oxo Rapid Brewer, and it became clogged. When I went to open it and release some pressure, it suddenly exploded with enough force to blow the O-ring out of the cylinder. I was wearing both earplugs and earmuffs at the time. It...

I've just been browsing a few of these articles. I found one that discusses an "extended audiogram," which consists of 14 data points across a range up to 16,000 Hz. That means out of a possible 16,000 data points, only 14 are actually measured. The core issue here is that far too few data...

@Luman loves this dichotomy. Only the USA and China have larger military budgets than ICE does now, thanks to Trump's BBB. -

Zinc did nothing for my constant high-pitched tinnitus. Just don't take it on an empty stomach. 🤢

Underpowered amplifiers can make speakers sound more fatiguing. Room treatments to reduce reflections, especially in the 6 to 15 kHz range, should help solve the problem. I treated my own setup, and it made a noticeable difference—it was much easier on my ears.

Thanks, @ECP, for your suggestions. I have to decide whether to renew my lease by next Tuesday. If I choose not to renew, I would not need to move out until next October, which marks the start and end of the annual rental period. As you probably know, notices to renew or not are typically...

It is fascinating if scientists are truly homing in on how tinnitus is generated on the brain side of things. If we combine this with the new methods of scanning the cochlea, perhaps we will finally begin to understand the nature of the beast from both the brain side and the ear side. I have...

Trump and his cabinet members are doing fine. They are a common-sense group of very smart people. I'm afraid the only way you're going to rid yourself of TDS is possibly shock therapy. I wish you well, my gay friend from Norway.

Move now.

Hi @Samy, thank you for taking the time to read my long post. Since posting, I found out on June 10 that I tested positive for early or acute Lyme infection. At some point, I was bitten by a tick, but I do not know when. While sudden unilateral tinnitus can be a symptom of Lyme disease, it is...

Very strange study: "Using combined viral tracing methodologies, we identified and mapped the pathways and connections from the IC to the MGB." This is the first time I have heard of this method or this possibility. The study was conducted on mice, but it says: "We used Gq-coupled human M3...

A tinnitus sufferer buying a sound system like that is simply INSANE. It is as if you are asking for your condition to get worse. Heed the warning and return it to the store before you end up deeply regretting it.

How's your progress so far?

Conclusion: Patients with tinnitus had poorer sleep quality than those without tinnitus... :rolleyes: Association of tinnitus with obstructive sleep apnea and rapid eye movement-related obstructive sleep apnea in similar hearing threshold groups

I'll preface this by saying that I have been to many live music concerts, attended plenty of loud cinema screenings, used in-ear Samsung Buds, and gone to car shows and race events with loud exhausts—never once have I had any issues with burning ears or any kind of tinnitus flare-up. But then I...

The Trump administration is doing fine. The markets are coming back, and some have reached all-time highs. The unemployment rate is low, at 4.1%. ICE is working very hard to catch and deport many more criminal illegal immigrants. There is nothing wrong with immigration, but not the kind that...

You certainly have my sympathy. I know there is not much time, but is it possible to speak with the construction site boss between now and Monday night to get a more specific timeline of events? For example, what kind of construction equipment will be used this summer, and how loud it will be...

That’s me. How do you manage it? It has been three years, and it keeps getting worse.

Oh well… that settles it. I guess I will not try this at home. 😁 The last time I did a craniotomy, it was kind of messy, and I decided not to do it again.

There are many similar cases, and in most situations I read about, the tinnitus went away after a few months or after childbirth. It is probably hormonal.

I have no idea what Audizen is, but Dr. Dean Ornish is very credible. He has been at the forefront of the healthy eating movement, along with Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. Fuhrman, and others. I am going to look into it a bit.