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I’ve had moderate hearing loss for four years and wear two hearing aids. I might be at the early stages of Lyme disease (still waiting for test results), and this has been going on for a few weeks now. It feels like torture. I hear Christmas carols and a few childhood songs playing in my head...

I sure would like to see something happen to help with tinnitus. Mine is pretty bad, and it’s taken all the joy out of living. I really hope they come up with something that helps people who are probably even worse off than I am. It’s a difficult thing to live with. I think my tinnitus was...

Many people don't realize they have Medicaid as their insurance until they receive a large, unexpected bill. Need them tax cuts for the Trump buddies.

Don’t give up. My tinnitus fluctuates a lot too. I can have five very good days, then suddenly seven really bad ones. The last two nights have been horrible tinnitus-wise, and I don’t know why. But it’s been like this before, and then out of nowhere, I start having better nights again. With...

I had my stapedius and tensor tympani muscles removed, but something else is still pulling on my Eustachian tube, causing the middle ear bones to rattle. There is also significant muscle tension in the area, which alters sound intensity as the surrounding muscles shift to counter it. The rhythm...

Awesome find! I really hope this leads to faster and smoother progress in research and treatment.

I feel the same way you do, but I also have added problems with my ears. They are extremely sensitive, and I don’t know how to explain it properly. Right now, it feels like there’s nerve damage in them. Even something as simple as touching them—like when I insert earplugs—can cause pain. It...

Hi, thank you so much for your reply. It truly means a lot. In my case, I wasn’t on any medication when the noise began. It started suddenly one day, right in the center of my head, and it changes depending on my posture or even small movements. I’ve recently started taking Lyrica...

I have had bells and whistles tinnitus for 50 years, possibly following an explosion that knocked me out cold. When I woke up, there was complete silence, and I didn't dare look at my arm—I assumed it was gone. But when I finally looked down, it was still there, just completely numb. Sound and...

I have the exact same thing, right in the middle of the brain. I am 29 too. The cause is probably some kind of poisonous medication. Which medicine are you using? Clonazepam? It is the only thing that calms my centered tinnitus.

Hi everyone, It has been over 10 years since the accident that caused significant hearing loss in my right ear, along with constant tinnitus. I lost most of the frequencies between 750 Hz and 6 kHz, which made it harder to follow conversations since that is the range where most speech happens...

I have started to expose my ears to sounds carefully. I have noticed that the tinnitus gets worse after brushing my teeth and eating, for example. I do not know why, because these things do not actually hurt my ears at the moment. Last night, I woke up to catastrophic tinnitus. It has never...

Hi everyone, (Sorry in advance for the long post.) I have what I believe is reactive and somatic unilateral tinnitus. It began very suddenly three months ago, on April 13. Some days, it is just a low hum with barely any beeping or buzzing. Last week, I even had five days in a row that were...

On the topic of drug delivery through the round window discussed earlier in this thread, this is pretty interesting: https://www.cilcare.com/2025/06/23/cilcare-launches-a-groundbreaking-3d-bioprinting-project-with-human-cells-to-advance-therapies-for-hearing-disorders/

It's been a while since I watched this ad, but there were two discrepancies I noticed. The first thing that shocked me was the idea that Dr. Oz, currently on the federal HHs staff in charge of Medicare and Medicaid would be hawking an online product. Another was that they recommended 3-4 puffs...

The problem comes from the dynamic range in films and television shows. You need some form of compression to keep the volume relatively consistent, without sudden or extreme increases.

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...

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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. 🤢