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Hey Juan, I found I'm able to ride my bike without spiking from wind noise for about 25-30 km. I prefer MTV because it's a better workout, has a lower average speed than road and in the woods there's less chance of strong winds. Do you do anything in particular to be able to ride? Thanks!

Whoa! That was literally something I asked a long time ago, but related to road cycling! I haven't found any conclusive answers but in the end you have to listen to what your body is telling you. I stopped riding for fun. I still run and MTB, but for commuting I use the car. It's a shame.

How old are you?

I've been to Antwerp in the past, way back when De Ridder was still there with Brai2n. Then habituation happened and I sort of stopped looking for a cure. Now I'm unfortunately back in the game with severe tinnitus since 2 years. I have not gone to Brai3n at this point because of a lack of...

I don't know anyone that had this apart from the 2 cases I met in the ENT waiting room.

It's only because it came out at a moment where there wasn't anything else, and it could claim a certain improvement in the majority of sufferers that may very well have been the result of the time that had passed. As such, it's as much an observation of a naturally occurring phenomenon...

The limbic system is what attaches meaning to the sound. But this is not the same as saying it originates from there. Not even scientists are sure at this point in time.

That's the fishy part about it. When I take a painkiller, I don't have to think happy thoughts to make it work. It just works. And that's why, to me, the success of TRT can largely (fully?) be ascribed to the occurrence of habituation, fading of tinnitus or other events that occur in the same...

Must have something to do with the Eustachian tubes or sinuses IMO. On my MRI they saw one grey area where a sinal cavity is located at the back of my head, indicating it's filled with fluid instead of being clear. They didn't think it was the cause of my tinnitus and honestly I wouldn't know...

No, when I heelstrike it's less obvious than when I strike with the forefoot. Also, it depends on whether my nose is stuffed. Wonder if it could cause damage...

Thinking of how bad others may have it has never helped me...

So the headphones in the audiology booth were able to emit a more powerful signal?

Could be residual inhibition. The loud internal sound of the snap saturates the auditory system and your tinnitus is being driven into the background. But 2 hours is extremely long for residual inhibition... Just my 2 cents. Then again if I could get two hours of relief from snacking on a...

Won't you agree they're doing a lousy job faking the pandemic if they let you in the hospital to check? Or can we hereby assume you're basing your "facts" on hearsay and shady internet sources?

I haven't found counseling helpful in a CBT context. I don't know about a TRT context, but they were basically pulling out printouts from the neurophysiological model by Jastreboff. It's kind of tough to hear a counselor who hasn't got tinnitus talk you through the whole TRT-doctrine over and...

Good you took action. It's not worth it doing it against your will. What will you pursue next if I may ask?

Can you ELI5 how the optogenetic CIs work? Would they work in tandem with the residual hearing?

How loud would you rate yours? Over what sounds can you hear it? I used to be able to tune mine out, but now it's a lot harder. It seems some people are able to keep the same level of tinnitus for a long time, even when they don't take any additional precautions (not saying you don't, I just...

I have said what I had to say, Bill. You're entitled to your beliefs. I do encourage you to get from behind your screen and talk to some people working in healthcare out in the real world.

The hamstering crowd is the same as those who are too selfish to just follow the rules for everyone's sake. Don't think. Trust the virologists and the government on this one. It doesn't make you oppressed. It doesn't make you a sheep. It makes you a considerate human being with some common...

It's hard to compare countries, as Swedish culture probably differs from other customs in terms of social interaction in groups and civil obedience. Also, when people live further apart it will result in pockets of cases that can more easily be controlled. You cannot give the example of Florida...

Never have I read more nonsense in one post. Don't listen to me though. Watch what this man has to say about vaccines. I bet he would have taken one if available at the time. The only reason none have to go through what he has suffered with is because of vaccines. Mankind's memory is short-lived...

I get your point, Bill. But it seems that the whole world has averted a bigger crisis already twice over by taking "draconian measures" as you call it. We will not find out what the excess mortality would have been had these measures not been taken. It is indeed sad that the government could...

@Daniel Lion is Tinnitus Talk's OG Good Guy.

If that's true then this can't stand, surely? Noxacusis sufferers may be a silent minority, but tinnitus affects enough people that there's so much potential money in a cure that private independent research towards said cure can't be halted by one academic has-been? Noxacusis may or may not be...

Well you can't really blame her can you.

This seems to work for me too. Although I prefer having the next two sliders down on to balance it out, and have my tinnitus blend in, because it's hard to mask using a normal volume setting. How loud do you have to put this to mask yours?

Beautifully written. But please, keep in mind that these fluctuations don't necessarily mean that it will get worse.

Sorry to hear what has happened. If your crash would have caused something in your middle ear to be damaged, it would show up as a conductive hearing loss in a hearing test. A tympanogram would show whether there's any problem with the ear drum, as would a visual check in the ear canal. You...

Thanks for sharing @Tanni. You say your friend also had hyperacusis, yet he never wore earplugs to bars and cinemas. Did he ever have an adverse reaction to that? I have hyperacusis as well, and the thought of going to a cinema or bar (even with earplugs in) sounds unfathomable to me. When it...

Can someone just try it out and see to which group he belongs? I mean, was the benefit night and day for you once you got on the drug? How much of a volume reduction are we speaking? Could you make an estimate? Thanks!

I understand. However if tinnitus is your main concern, then you should still be good I think because you would just need to repair what you have lost during your lifetime.

That's great @FGG. How would one be able to tell whether support cells are present? Do they die off the longer your tinnitus exists?

I have been wondering the same thing. Sounds at these frequencies also seem loud very fast as if there's some loudness recruitment at work.

So much win here.

There you go.

Yeah that's BS. I'm pretty sure once people make an appointment about their tinnitus, and their tinnitus is clinically significant and distressing enough to warrant this, then it won't be as easily masked as the tinnitus most people have where they only hear it when going to sleep. I once took...

I'm 34, my right ear doesn't hear well beyond 12 kHz. When I test this myself I'm afraid to turn up the volume too high and the tones just vanish past 12 kHz. In a clinical setting I could still hear 14 kHz on an extended audiogram, albeit with hearing loss. Before that I was assuming all...

How old are you now?

Hi linearB. Can you tell a bit more about your experience with UMich? "I think it worked" doesn't sound too convincing if you'll pardon my brutality. Were you in the placebo group and did you just get the impression that it worked from talking to other participants? Thanks!

I know you've been keeping up with many stories on this forum, but I'd say there's no scientific reason to believe this is the case. There has been found a link between tinnitus pitch and edge of hearing before the steepest loss. (Or in other cases right in the "valley" of a 'cookie bite'...

I hope you're right. I believe most of us, and most ENTs know that every tinnitus case with a "perfect" audiogram still has a loss somewhere, detectable or not. But what do we make of people with hearing loss and no tinnitus? What does that tell us about tinnitus and hearing regeneration?

I'm not going to go into a lengthy discussion. You were making a general statement about people that read copious amounts of information being negative, implying that people should not inform themselves because they would become engulfed in negativity. You read through my posts and called them...

That's very noble indeed. So why do you think it is that some people disagree with you when you tell them not to go inform themselves?

Isn't the test double-blinded? That would require different audiologists doing the hearing tests without comparing previous results. You raise a good point in that they would not be able to communicate with the patient about this. Maybe this person did an online hearing test? When done with the...

Please feel free to ignore my negativity, as well as "interfere" with anything I post. It's what a forum is about. I prefer the term debate or discuss. "Interfere" makes you sound like a Russian 007-villain.

I'm fine with this, as you clearly state it's your opinion. I haven't got a problem with that. But not when you equal informing oneself with negativity.

Thanks for the article. This grabbed my attention: "Tinnitus is usually matched in loudness by a sound with a low SL, typically in the range 6-20 dB SL; for a review, see Moore [7]. However, when loudness matches to tinnitus are made over a series of days, the matches can range up to 30-45 dB...

You basically told people not to inform themselves. And then you accuse me of folly? What is your objective? Keeping everyone stupid like it's 1990?

That's why people were burned at the stake when claiming the Earth was round.

Thanks for pitching in. This was at a renowned hospital, so I can only guess they must do the same with all patients. I honestly don't know where else to turn. They were equipped for extended audiograms (had to ask though), yet could not present me with a narrowband noise centered around 12 kHz...

Thanks for elaborating. So this theory goes pretty much one way in the sense that low dB SL tinnitus can still be quite loud due to recruitment but not the other way around. I don't even know why I get so hung up on the numbers as it's just objectively horrible. It's scary to know that even...

Better not to know I'd say. Ignorance is bliss.

That's more or less what I was wondering. Does that mean the person with hearing loss would perceive that sound as relative to the level of greatest hearing (the 0 dB line), as opposed to the HL at tinnitus pitch? In other words, that the sound they hear is relative to the theoretical 0 dB line...

Thanks. How was your habituation like? At what point did you know you were going to make it, or at least got a glimmer of hope? I must say getting my tinnitus loudness matched made something shift. This sounds stupid as it's really just a number, but for me, it was some sort of confirmation...

Mine was measured at 20dB SL. It's rare that it's not been at the forefront of my attention these past two years. Should I just give up trying to habituate? What's the point really...

What does that imply? That a tinnitus of a measured 10 dB SL would sound as loud to one person as the next without taking into account psychological make-up? Or that the measurement methods are flawed?

That's badass.

@Michael Leigh's keyboard. Could not not post this.

I remember @Ed209 posted a video about this producer Rick Beato who has a similar kind of tinnitus. It doesn't follow a pattern, except that he found that the day after he had done some intensive mixing it was usually totally silent. I'm not sure if that's the intermittent phase before it...