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However, I feel that exposing myself to too much silence might be a factor that can actually contribute to exacerbating the reactivity when I introduce myself again to those harsh frequencies, so finding a balance is important

Hey Andrew, unfortunately I felt like I didn’t had escape when reactive tinnitus was constant. Going to a quieter place or exposing myself to non reactive frequencies was my solution.

Thanks for the advice @DeanD! If they offer me microsuction, I will avoid it at all costs. Not worth the risk. I can tolerate over the ear headphones, but no way that headphones can be compared with a loud microsuction gun inside the ears.

But at the same time, I’m not exactly sure if the the ocasional flare up I get might be due to the accumulated earwax, because the first time I heard ringing on my ears, I had excessive earwax.

So that’s the main reason why I’m kind of skeptical, since I myself believe that mine was caused due to earwax removal and I know that a substantial amount of people on this forum also got tinnitus due to earwax removal as well, regardless of the method used.

Thankfully after just two sessions of ear drops in the same day, I could hear properly. However, right now I feel in the borderline between being blocked again despite the fact I can hear well. Tinnitus is reactive but it has improved a lot, I would say 75% of the time it is not reactive and...

@DeanD So about three weeks ago, I woke up and could barely hear from my left ear. Turns out that I had excessive earwax. I believe it got blocked due to the position I was sleeping. Ocasional in-ear hearing protection overtime may have contributed to this as well.

If by distortions you mean beeping, humming or any other similar sounds then yeah, I also used to heard those over the fan. It either alternated between a reactive “eeee”, Morse code beeping and even a light saber at some point.

It took me about 16 months to get in the place where I’m currently at, with multiple setbacks along the road, but the latest few months have being more consistent.

Yeah man, they had a huge speaker on a relatively small space blasting at full volume, super unnecessary. It felt loud even with hearing protection, but we left to another bar after 15 minutes. Not worth the risk, there’s a world of difference with 90 dB vs 105 dB

@WCJohn yes, but generally when that happens, I wake up feeling tired and by consequence, the majority of the times it feels louder. But if by toxic nap, you mean a nap where you got a short nightmare, then you might wake up feeling more stress, which makes things worser.

@ErikaS I don’t take anything since I generally sleep okay, but if I want to make sure to aim between 7-8 hours of sleep, I take about 15 mg of melatonin. It doesn’t help in the sense that makes the ringing perception lower, but being better rested implies lower reactivity and lower baseline as...

Turns out the manager told me that he developed another condition that caused him partial vision loss at the beginning of his career, so he was very understanding with tinnitus. At least I get a sense of relief that I may not be biased

Thanks! I will be letting you know And it indeed sucks a lot, and for persons that have OCD like me, I don’t really have the physiological strength to endure this shitty condition too much

Even if I don’t want because it may cause unnecessary bias, feel in the need to tell him about tinnitus and how big the impact has being, specially during the first few months in the job.

I work in a big financial institution as a software developer. Mid-year ratings was good despite my situation, but I could certainly be exceptional if I didn’t had this and would certainly already have that certification.

So given that it is more resistant to spikes, it means that there are less increases in volume and in general, it’s quieter. Sometimes, I experience intermittent silence that last minutes but I believe that has always being the case, even thought those periods were more brief in the past.

The baseline itself is hard for me to tell given that my main problem is reactivity but my tinnitus is now more resistant to spikes than before. I no longer notice my tinnitus in places that I did noticed it before.

Oh sorry to hear about your hearing loss! If the hearing loss is recent, definitely try steroid ASAP, since the steroid treatment is really helpful with early stages.

I see, if that is the case, then you can have higher hopes with that Susan Shore device. Mine doesn’t change with any of that so I lost faith on that device lol

Hang in, sometimes it gets worser before it gets better. At the mark of month 7, I had a loud humming noise in one ear. Now, almost 15 months after getting it, I no longer have that humming noise + the reactivity I already had at the initial few months decreased.

In some cases, if it doesn’t improve by some degree, habituation will be harder, if not impossible.

When it comes to this condition, the more realistic expectation is to hope that it gets better overtime + habituation happens. That’s what I have found it has helped me.

I don’t want to destroy your hopes, but I don’t think that device would be helpful, especially if your tinnitus is not somatic.

When I go to really loud events for a prolonged period of time, such as sporting events or concerts, I wear musician earplugs. I can talk with them and hear well while wearing those.

With that being said, please try to leave your ear as alone as you can given that it might increases your chance of recovery. Mine has being varying for 13 months but thankfully, I’m now able to get some relief sometimes.Ringing itself in quiet rooms it’s not too bad, it’s just the necessity to...

Due to your young age, I really hope yours improved because based on life expectancy, you have more than 60 years ahead of you so it’s not easy to deal with the ears eternally ringing for many decades

But if knew about tinnitus, I wouldn’t even had use these since earwax accumulation thanks to my AirPods indirectly caused mine

And I was always scared as shit because of the possibility of causing my self hearing loss, the main reason why I always was within the safety thresholds of my AirPods in around ~60 dB

I’m really sorry for you bro, I just read your old posts and the fact that you’re at most 21 years old doesn’t make it any better. Mine started when I was 24 years old and thought it was going to be the end of the world. I really wish somebody could have told me about the existence of this...

Also, the day my ringing started, my left ear had an immense feeling of fullness and when I managed to unpop my left ear, that’s when the ringing started, very instantly.

@Matthew231 I really hope that yours is due to ETD because that at least is treatable, but before the irrigation I didn’t really had any complications at all apart from barely hearing anything from my right ear due to block earwax, but the weird thing is that the ringing started in my left ear...

@Matthew231 I initially thought my condition was due to ETD cuz I was in a negation state, given that I didn’t exposed myself to loud sounds and according to my research, ear irrigation rarely caused tinnitus. I can make my ear pop a lot, but according to one of the ENT’s I have being, that’s...

Much love to all of you, and I’m sure you will all get the silence you all deserve some day. While I don’t consider myself a complete success story yet because my condition still fluctuates, I promise to keep you updated. Holding onto a glimmer of hope is what keeps us moving forward.

It has certainly been a significant improvement compared to the last baseball game I attended when I was only 2 months in into having tinnitus. During that specific game, despite using 33 dB hearing protection during the whole game, I experienced a substantial spike that lasted for approximately...

@ZFire only wore earplugs at the baseball game. I used musician earplugs (~17 dB reduction) for about an hour. Stopped wearing them longer as, after 30 mins, I heard slight reactivity. However, without the earplugs, I didn’t heard the reactivity at all. When I returned to my quiet apartment...

Thank you, everyone! I'm genuinely thankful that I'm in a much better place now than I was a few months ago. Currently, I'm having more good days than bad days, despite setbacks like the one caused by acetaminophen, but it’s reassuring to know that even with setbacks, it is possible to keep...

Weird thing is that the ringing didn’t started on that ear until 3 months after that. Looks like you are also suffering from reactive tinnitus. Have you found any triggers, apart from sound reactivity? Mine gets triggered by ototoxic drugs and caffeine as well

Unfortunately I don’t have too much to say since it won’t be much of a help. I got it two days after ear irrigation and it also started on my left ear only, the one that cleared up but the right ear was still blocked. I was getting ear drops for the right ear until I saw the ENT the week...

Hey Matthew, looking at your story, it is very scary the fact that our stories sound very similar.

That’s good, at least we’re able to get partial distraction in office :) I wish I could have known sooner that the office wasn’t as bad as I thought lol

@Mo8409 Yup, there’s extended hearing tests. However, almost nobody perform those kinds of tests because there’s not too much benefit over it apart from knowing you have some damage.

So tbh my cause isn’t clear but it happened suddenly two days after an ear wax removal, so highly likely related to the procedure or maybe the wax that impacted my eardrum. It’s very unfortunate that our tinnitus came suddenly without a warning.