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Seems like the MEM has run it's course. It's been nothing but light flutters here and there for the past 3 days. :)

Nothing can stop me, anything that tries just makes me stronger.

MEM for 8 hours straight, starting to think it won't end this time.

MEM is getting more frequent. Here it is at work, I'm screwed.

Suddenly MEM now, hope it doesn't keep getting more frequent.

Always be true to yourself... unless you can lie to yourself to make yourself happier.

I did nothing with my life, then I got tinnitus, then I started learning Japanese. I wonder if there is any connection.

Don't you love it when something happens to your sinuses and you can hear your own voice in your ear? It's so great!

You should probably listen to what's-his-face about never using headphones again.

COVID made my ears sing but it went back to normal, thank the heavens!

:woot: C:asshat:N:asshat:N :ROFL:

Best thing I ever did to habituate was give up on trying to reduce the tinnitus.

I just realized I've developed some mild trichotillomania since getting tinnitus. Now that I'm conscious of it, I should be able to stop.

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They had an open signup recently and I got in. Unfortunately they haven't given me any invite codes yet. But I'll keep you in mind. I found out they were open by following this page: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenSignups/

I would test the net hypothesis. Start by turning off all internet and getting your reduction of symptoms. Then try things one by one, giving plenty of time for each to have an effect on you. You can bypass your wifi router and plug your laptop or cable box directly into the modem to remove that...

Nice, that's awesome after only 6 months!

Let's have a moment of silence for my ears please, thanks.

I wrote a rap about tinnitus, it goes like this It seems to be coming to the point at which I'll break I don't know how much more of this my puny mind can take There couldn't be more at stake, this is my life for goodness sake Stepping blind, whack my face with rake after rake. I got problems...

That makes sense. I guess I was just bragging about how much control I have over my emotions. :borg:

I just spend 10 minutes drafting a success post and then decided against it.

CBT is just thinking logically about your own emotions. I never understood why people need help doing that.

Why poop at home when you get paid to poop at work?

Sudden ear fullness. It will go either away or I'll get used to it. I'll never know which one it is.

My life would be a mess if I only worked 25 hours a week. Part of me wishes I could, the same part that says I would finally have time to make music. But I know that I would just end up wasting the extra time and feel like garbage because of it.

Be careful putting in foam ear plugs, I think I just poked my eardrum. Ouch!

The Life Aquatic. I love everything about that movie.

Maybe if I could mow it in like 10-15 minutes. But mine takes 1 1/2 hours. It's so loud, and it's not just sound, I can feel the vibrations going through me, making me feel like the hearing protection isn't doing anything. And then after even though I did protect my ears the anxiety of thinking...

@Strife_84 It helps to recognize that if you hadn't made this mistake, you wouldn't have learned your lesson. Who knows how much longer you would have been mixing too loud. It would have caught up with you eventually anyway, and it could have been worse.

SOUND IS AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT DEVELOPED BY CARBON BASED LIFE FORMS TO MONITOR THE PROPAGATION OF VIBRATIONS THROUGH MATERIALS I TOO FEEL NO EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO THESE ERRONEOUS SIGNALS DESIGNATED TINNITUS

Yeah, stay away from Cipro. I had to take some for a deep infection after a cat bite. No other antibiotic could kill the anaerobic bacteria. It made my tinnitus worse while I was on it. It may have permanently increased it, if not it just spiked it really really bad. Like 6 months bad.

You're gonna have to change your mind. I slept in silence all my life, loved it, hated white noise. Now I sleep with white noise. I didn't really have a choice.

@GregCA I think we're in agreement, there is no reason to go deeper than the finger can go. Perhaps I should have put that first.

At some point the wax has to be removed. Or you become one of those people who have visible wax in their ears. I don't know why someone would use a cotton swab to push wax down into their ear. The proper technique is a circular, rotation motion to transfer the wax from the walls of the ear to...

I was the type to sleep in as close to silence I could get in the before times so learning to sleep again was a little rough. I found a white noise that blends in with my tinnitus, rain sound works best for me. But my tinnitus is mostly ringing sounds so for your static type something else might...

You said it seemed to get worse when you were in the quiet woods. Maybe you should try masking again. When my tinnitus was still new like yours I had to mask at night otherwise it would be louder the next day. Just make sure the masking sound is quieter than the tinnitus. When at was at 4 months...

It sounds like the tinnitus is more connected to the anxiety than the weed. But the weed could have triggered some anxious tendencies inside of you. Since the tinnitus went away before, it should be able to again.

When you were fine for a month or 2 was the tinnitus gone? Is the tinnitus only during panic and anxiety attacks? Was that the first time you smoked weed? Did you have panic or anxiety attacks before that?

I don't know, when I was a kid I listened to my parents. From what I can tell I'm the only one.

I guarantee that your girlfriend and family would rather deal with your tinnitus than deal with your suicide.

I have a lot of random thoughts on this and I'm bad at organizing them. Personally I greatly prefer having voice communications on the one ear headset and the game sound on speakers. I find I can't hear either the game or the voice communications clearly when they're both coming from the same...

Even just a typical busy restaurant ~75db is too loud for me. I don't think it causes permanent increase but definitely a spike that could last anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks.

I got some ear fullness when I first got my tinnitus. I haven't felt it since the first few weeks. As far as I know it's a result of losing some hearing. Since some sounds aren't as loud as they used to be, your brain figures there must be something muffling the sound. Hence it feels like a...

I learned to take care of my hearing. Who knows how much worse my tinnitus would be if I had abused my ears for 5 more years before the tinnitus manifested. My tinnitus put things into perspective. I used to be obsessed with fixing every problem I had. (psoriasis, canker sores, back pain) None...

If only there were some way to shut out all this noise in my head. Oh wait there already is, it's called McCafferty's Bib.

I've tried plenty of antidepressants but none of them gave the feeling of contentment that I got when I tried ketamine. It would make a great antidepressant.

If you're like me, the first 3 weeks are a nightmare hellscape, 24/7 can't stop thinking about the tinnitus. After that my body let go of the fight or flight response and I physically felt better even though the sound didn't get quieter. After about 3 months I noticed the tinnitus was quieter. I...

Gotta love how windows defaults to 100% volume. I struggle to imagine what's going through their minds when they code this garbage.

Social anxiety make you do some dumb stuff. I decided to drown out the music in my office with headphones instead of just voicing my distaste for the music. Bad bad bad idea and I know that now that it's too late.

That's a really sweet and innocent world view, but it's wrong, many people are animals that take what they can. But we're talking about when it's given to a person to spend on themself.

Tinnitus sucks. But nothing sucks so much that they deserve "free money" that's actually just stolen from others.

Do you sleep with noise? When my tinnitus was new, if i slept in silence it would be very much louder in the morning. Now it doesn't really matter if I sleep with noise or not.

He could be especially helpful in raising awareness in a younger demographic. I think he would be great on a podcast.

I feel like most of those who do "recover" probably don't live in an area that ever gets below 40db.

Stop listening to headphones loudly NOW. Like others have said, the cold spike should go away, but it will take some time.

Yeah my biggest issue before the T was my psoriasis. Amazing how things can get put in perspective.

I know it feels that way, I still struggle every day thinking it used to be quieter. But is it really getting louder? In order to habituate you need to be certain that it just is the way it is and you're doing everything you should be doing. That'll allow you to let go and think about something...