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In general, when should someone take Clonazepam versus Prednisolone? For example, during spikes, is one more recommended than the other? Thanks!

I did wonder if I was having migraines and if they were to blame, since too much bright light makes the tinnitus worse. But I do not want to risk it getting any worse by taking drugs for migraines that are known to make tinnitus worse. Thank you, @Scruffiey. What I am going through does sound...

Thanks for the reply. Do we know anything about the longevity of this treatment? Specifically, how long after stopping stimulation does tinnitus come back? Moreover, does the patient hear any sound while being stimulated? I have more hope for this implant than SSD since my tinnitus is non-somatic.

Unfortunately, I have bad news to share. During the first week I used ACRN, I stayed in my living room, where I had spent most of my recovery after surgery since I needed an electric hospital bed. The results I noticed there felt like real improvement. However, a few days ago I moved back to my...

5 year trophy... is that so. Thanks tinnitus talk. If only that calmed this atrocious spike. And so it goes. Hope some of my friends here are doing ok. I don't pop in much anymore.

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." ― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

This article appeared in The Lancet and is currently in the news in the Netherlands regarding the treatment of post-COVID patients with issues such as brain fog, sound sensitivity, etc. Could there be a connection? Treatment was done with lidocaine–hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin: a soluble...

They raised $100 million in Series A funding. A phenomenal amount. They have a tinnitus study that is paused. You can sign up for the database if you live in America. https://www.nudge.com/

Stress will have put your brain into "Danger alert" and as a result, neurones in the auditory cortex will have "shut the filter gates" so that your hearing (and hyperacusis) will have become more hyper-sensitive.

I am the original OP. It feels painful to come back here. After the 14-month update, I went through a period of tinnitus “remission,” but in June 2023, I started experiencing symptoms that were later diagnosed as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I spent another year or so trying to coexist with...

i hate the fact that i am falling out of habituation again and again. It is so exhausting. It is so troublesome. I know i must conquer this, but i have no idea how. I don't know, if i can habituate again, when i know, i can get this again and again and again. Habituation is not a fix, it is like...

I retired from the car industry at age 59 due to tinnitus after a 30-year career, and I now receive permanent disability benefits because of it. I started selling cars in the early 1990s before moving into finance roles, ultimately becoming finance director and GSM. Most of my career was with...

Hey Bertman, from Canada! Did you ever sell cars?

Welcome to the nightmare. As long as you have it, it is always going to be difficult, but it is never as bad as when it first starts. My best advice, which took a lot out of me when I was trying to figure things out, is to get on medication quickly. Go see your family doctor and ask about...

I’m assuming you have had a cerebral angiogram and that it came back normal. It definitely sounds like a vascular or cellular issue. There is another member on here who described a kink in the vessels near their ears that caused pulsatile tinnitus, and it was not picked up with MRIs. A...

Well, it has been over 10 months now, and I am not doing well at all. I have gotten considerably worse over the last month for no apparent reason. Thanksgiving was a disaster. It was too much for me, so I sat in another room and cried. My sister texted me afterward to call me entitled and...

Sorry to hear about your hearing loss. I have Meniere’s Disease in both ears. Both ears have severe tinnitus and about 80 dB high-frequency loss, and I use hearing aids. Stay strong and look into the options available to you. You might also want to check a cochlear hearing forum to get...

Hi Chilly, I just acquired pulsatile tinnitus in my good hearing ear. The other ear just was diagnosed with sudden sensorineural high-frequency hearing loss & tinnitus. What specifically did you have done to your nose? I was just told I have a deviated septum. Exercise makes mine completely...

Hi there, I’m new to your group. I recently had sudden sensorineural unilateral hearing loss and couldn’t tolerate Prednisone. I now have permanent hearing damage and chronic tinnitus. Doctors are giving me different explanations for why I lost hearing in one ear. The other ear has normal...

Although Cochlear Limited are still recruiting for their trial, the study start 2025-06-16 is registered as "Actual". I suppose that means they're at it?

The trial is registered as "Not yet recruiting" at ClinicalTrials.gov. The estimated start was 2025-10. A newsletter dated 2025-11-06 and signed by Douglas Hartley, Chief Medical Officer at Rinri Therapeutics, states: Rinri Therapeutics webiste elaborates: They're still game, but will take...

Most of the symptoms have disappeared in 12 months after starting medication, incl. dysacusis. I had no previous ear problems; it all started with the accident. I believe the accident is not connected to any Eustachian tube issue (I have had many ear tests), but rather to the nervous system. I...

That is a good point, but I have been off them for a year and a half, and I am proud of that. It looks like the doctors reevaluated my case, and it appears that I have atypical Ménière's disease or cochlear hydrops.

The days are still the same. I scheduled one more ENT appointment, because the first one was a 15-minute visit, so he was in and out, and I still had some questions. The nights are still a bit crazy because it is quiet. I keep the TV on and the ceiling fan running to help cover some noise. I...

I try my best not to. I started wearing hearing protection many times a year ago, and it gave me mild hyperacusis. So now I am trying to go back outdoors without earplugs, but I do keep my dB meter on when I find myself in busy or stressful situations, like today. The horn did make my tinnitus...

I also see a reference to 'in order to reduce perception'. I'd want it to be a lot more than that to justify a brain implant!

It’s a middle ear implant. The cochlear promontory, which is in the middle ear, sits right next to the round window membrane that leads to the inner ear and cochlea. A primary goal of this technology is to preserve hearing, so hearing should not be lost. I think there is still a processor...

What makes it frustrating is that I can expose to sounds no problem, and then a few hours after or even in the morning I'll know if it was too much and if I'll spike or have a hyperacusis warning. Makes it SUPER hard to know how and when exposure is successful

I am another month in, and I am 50/50, if the hearing aids are helping my tinnitus or making it worse, by overexciting my auditory system? Some days the tinnitus is quite bad, though I am wondering if it is from, say, a busy workday; it could also be that my brain has just been receiving too...

Sorry to hear of your issues. Yeah, after the Ciprofloxacin, I started getting a different additional layer. I believe that certain antibiotics are just so damaging to the inner ear.

Hi, my tinnitus increased after I went to a bar for 2 hours last night. It wasn’t extremely loud, but it was still too loud for me. My ENT prescribed Prednisolone (60 mg, 60 mg, 60 mg) for three days, but I just noticed that there is no tapering. Is it safer and equally effective to take 60 mg...

I take it you don’t wear earplugs outdoors? Did your tinnitus spike after the train horn exposure? If it didn’t, then I wouldn’t worry about it.

If it was just a short blast, then I wouldn't worry. If you already have tinnitus and the train horn exacerbated it (made worse), then, provided that you don't get anxious over it, nothing will happen.

I do, yes. My main hope is that it will be something that can keep our existing tinnitus at baseline should we get worse. Then we can go live our lives again without worrying about every little noise exposure. And no more GD earplugs.

I've talked to my psychiatrist. What i'm going to do is take clonazepam a bit more frequently for 1 month (0.25mg or 0.5mg every 3-4 days for a month). Since it works well on my tinnitus and hyperacusis, he suspects that clonazepam might calm my nerves enough to allow me to wean off protections...

@ZFire, for you, my friend

When you refer to variable tinnitus through personal experience and interviews, is it just the severity of the tinnitus that's variable? Or the tones and frequencies?

I noticed he was there. I was not. I have not heard anything; however, the pilot trial was due to start 1 year ago. This bothered me a little bit. https://www.neurosoft-bio.com/tinnitus So it's basically neurofeedback at home, without being guided by MRI. What does that entail?

Just so you're aware, while it is rare, SSHL can be a side effect of antidepressants, I think in particular SSRIs, although I'm not certain on that. Obviously, if you need an antidepressant, you need one, and I don't know if you were still on it with this latest episode, but I thought it was...

have u ever tried clomipramine

and.. just a reminder for myself. I habituated to all of that shit, even to the hum. I don't know, why my brain is so good in that, but he really got this. 2025 was a really fucked up year for me with a lot of other mental problems. I have gastritis for 3 months now, which is based on...

Did you get a spike? Any alteration in hearing thresholds? If not, no harm done. If you didn't, not a lot you can do about it... I doubt a doctor is going to prescribe prednisone because you heard a train horn. Wait it out, and it'll pass. Just keep calm, and you'll probably forget about it...

it is actually crazy that i forgot all of it from 2024. And that i have had H, like now. We must battle this shit. There is no way that we can let this win. ever.

loud T since six days. I cope really badly with it. I even have H again. It sucks so much. But i forgot that i have had a very long episode of a spike here. I need to do the right things now. I am so glad, that this forum still exists. Please, if you want to tell me something, share it.

That's great news about the reduction in tinnitus - is it this one I found online "Acoustic coordinated reset therapy for tinnitus with perceptually relevant frequency spacing and levels"? Published in 2019? Might be tempted to switch up my own MP3 pink noise file for this if it works wonders...

@helpmyears, I have read your account. The condition and how it's affecting you almost exactly mirrors my life at the moment. How are you? Do you want to chat? Nick

Hi everyone, Today I took the train to school, and when I got out I had to walk under a small bridge that the train passes over. Just as I walked out from underneath it, the train blasted its horn. I had a dB meter app running on my phone, which showed a maximum of 86 dB at the moment it...

Just 34.

I want to point out from the clinical trials site that this implantation requires general anesthesia.

Do you know how invasive this implant is compared to a cochlear implant? Will any hearing be lost?

All the hearing aids I have tried had built-in tinnitus relief through their Bluetooth app. The aids I have worn had masking features that were subtle and were able to cover the tinnitus sound for the most part. Although these are prescription aids that cost about $6500, I was lucky because I...

One thing that has always helped me is a hot tub or a hot bath. What I currently do is take 1 mg of Klonopin along with 300 mg of Trileptal on days when it is really bad. The combination of hot water and medication can calm me down to about a 2 out of 10 most of the time. Tinnitus can improve...

Good one.

@Nesty, Ciprofloxacin? That caused your hearing loss? I had a spinal fusion from L3 to S1 and they gave me Vancomycin powder, even though they knew I already had tinnitus. They did not seem to care. I now have hearing loss and I am adjusting to hearing aids and a new level of tinnitus. 😘

Yesterday was a great day I had almost 0 pain and tinnitus was very low. I over did with digital audio it and today it's spiking badly. I am genuinely fed up with this, my life felt so normal and great yesterday, just for it to be bad again the next day. I don't care if the tinnitus gets worse...