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Thank you for your kind words. I hope that one day, sooner rather than later, I can get back to living the way I did for the last four and a half years before this disaster happened. It’s amazing how much I took it for granted, especially considering everything I went through with tinnitus years...

If I’m being honest, my week isn’t going well at all. I’ve only slept well one day this entire week (and, of course, my tinnitus was lower that day—I’ve noticed that good sleep seems to help). The other days have still been a struggle. I’m really trying to stay strong, but I can’t tell if I’m...

I’m sorry things haven’t improved to the level you’d hoped by now. That said, try to keep reminding yourself that you’ve been on an upward trajectory. From what I’ve seen in many cases, it often takes longer than a few months for things to heal and for the volume to settle down. If it helps...

Thank you for your response. You seem very knowledgeable about tinnitus and spikes. I do have somewhat significant hearing loss in my tinnitus-affected ear, which was diagnosed years ago. I have always had a slight hereditary loss in that ear since birth, confirmed by many hearing tests as a...

Over two months later, still suffering. It has now been two months since my spike began on August 31, 2024, and I am still dealing with what I can only describe as a “head buzz” noise on top of my regular, baseline tinnitus. I’ve had a few days back at baseline during all of this, which has...

Hey, @PDodge! I remember you. We had somewhat similar stories. I’m glad to hear you’re doing better. I was doing well for years, too, but I made the mistake of risking my ears by going in front of loud music. I got cocky, and now I’m paying for it with the worst spike I’ve ever experienced. I’m...

The problem is that I can't get used to what's happening in my head right now. It needs to calm down because living like this long-term is not sustainable.

I am a 40-year-old male looking for serious support and help. I've been dealing with tinnitus in my left ear since July 2018. After about a year, the noise subsided somewhat, partly due to habituation. It was a nightmare on and off, to say the least. Since then, I've managed to get on with my...

Day 4 post MRI/MRA - zero relief. Really struggling now. Depressed. Just wanted to go home from work today and do absolutely nothing after a brutal day at work listening to SCREAMING tinnitus most of the time. I've been here before though, but this is still brutal. If my past spikes were any...

Years ago I had an MRI and MRA without contrast of the head. Now I am going forward with what I'm viewing as a last ditch effort to try and see if anything at all can be found with regards to my regular (and pulsatile) tinnitus with both an MRI and MRA with contrast of both the head AND the...

It's been 3 years living with on and off pulsatile tinnitus (on top of my regular tinnitus) and I feel the time has finally come for me to try and take more action. I feel inspired reading these threads that claim pulsatile tinnitus is NOT regular tinnitus and can be diagnosed and treated. I am...

I do believe this to be true to at least some extent. For me, I have absolutely realized that there is a link between my bad tinnitus episodes/phases and alcohol. For most of the Summer I barely drank and didn't experience any tinnitus hell. Then over the course of the last month though the only...

Hard to believe it's already been a year and a half since I first got here. In a nutshell, my tinnitus can be described as fluctuating phases that sometimes last months, with more bad phases than good. I've gone through points, one very recently, where my tinnitus returned to baseline and I...

Well, let me know when they figure that out. Been reading about upcoming "cures" since 2005.

Want to back that up? How could hair possibly come back from a dead follicle? Magic?

Good topic. Right now I can still work though make no mistake about it I have difficult days. For me it's more about the depression factor that this disease has caused. If I had it my way I would only work part time somewhere. On top of everything with my tinnitus, I have hearing loss in my...

I don't know Ashley. I just don't know. Hopefully it was just triggered by my stress and in some due time it will calm down, but right now it's haywire in my head, I gotta be honest. Habituating is not an option for me in this state with the head buzz on TOP of my regular tinnitus. Yeah, I...

Impossible to regrow hair once someone is completely bald in an area. Once the follicle is dead, that's it. If anything there can be a better prevention drug, like Propecia.

I describe my head tinnitus as a "head buzz" or like you said, a form of "static". It came on in September 2018, went away COMPLETELY for a while to the point where I thought I would never hear it again, and now it has returned and remained steady for the last couple of months to where it has...

Sorry to hear about your unfortunate situation with the wedding. I can relate. Went 14 years with minuscule 1/10 level tinnitus until my best friends wedding on July 15th 2018. Loudest dance floor I ever heard. Needless to say, it caused a massive spike that’s never gone down since. Wedding...

Hello everyone. The noise went away while taking Prednisone. About 2.5 days in. Hearing returned along with this. Thank God. Back to normal tinnitus.

The guy didn’t get Barotrauma. If he did believe me he would know it. But to the OP, was this your very first experience with tinnitus or did you have issues before? Was there anything unusual about this flight? And did the tinnitus start immediately after it? I too am a post flight tinnitus...

I don’t have results of the papers. The result was the same it was a year ago after tinnitus onset.

ENT did hearing test when I went in on Saturday. No big change from last test which confirms my hearing didn’t LITERALLY get worse within a matter of a few minutes and it’s maybe more the noise along with inflammation that’s causing me to not hear clearly out of my left ear. He said this means...

You don’t understand. It feels like an earthquake starting inside of my skull (coming from ear). There is no way I would live to 4 weeks. Praying that the prednisone stops this now at day 3 of the medication. Anyone else please help. I am at work right now but feel like I should be in an...

Thursday morning while leaving work I have no idea what on Earth happened. I have no idea how this is for real. I got in my car and noticed I could only hear the radio clearly with my right ear. It was as if I suddenly lost almost half of my hearing in in my left ear. I suffer from regular...

Glad I found this thread. Somebody please help me. Thursday morning while leaving work I have no idea what on Earth happened. I got in my car and noticed I could only hear the radio clearly with my right ear. I suffer from tinnitus in my left ear. Over the last 6 months or so I have finally...

Hey Deamon long time no speak. Sorry for the long delay here. For the most part my tinnitus is still there. I wish I had better news but I don't. The only good news I can share is what's happened in the past which as you know has been significant settling of the tinnitus but only for short...

Thought I'd report some good news to you all. Been baseline for the last week. Constant baseline. No head buzz, and only the slightest pulsatile tinnitus on a few occasions. Anyone want to pray for me that it remains this way? History would say it won't, but I'm gonna be hopeful. @Deamon22...

Hey man first of all I'm sorry to hear about this. I can relate. I thought my tinnitus was bad enough and then one morning (after a few days of things being calmed down) I awoke one Saturday morning to a piercing pulsatile tinnitus out of nowhere which has been on and off ever since. It's all...

What sounds are you hearing now in 2019? Have you seen any improvement at all in the years since onset?

So these specialists told you that you T is stress-related/induced? If that were the case don't you think it would have gone down or even away after your stress went away? How are you feeling today stress wise? first things first how did this happen to you? I too have this type of T. High...

Did you ever try the drops, Blue? Doubt they would do anything anyway. I wouldn't use them. Also, how are you holding up in general these days compared to 2017/2018?

The MRI was absolutely awful. Just throwing it out there. It was like a torture test of sounds. All different, some louder than others. I came very close to pulling the emergency button at one point. I had the "soundproof" protection things on, but it really wasn't fully soundproof much at all...

Hi Crystal. How's your tinnitus doing these days? You mention static and clicking noises. Could you elaborate a bit on this?

Hey man, how's the static head buzz going for you these days? Never thanked you for this post months ago, so, thank you. My head buzz actually went away in late October only to return in mid to late December. Now some 2 months later, it's really starting to affect me deeply again. I can tell you...

Can someone please give me any suggestions as far as how to handle an MRI and MRA? I am having them both done today. Very nervous reading all the stories about how loud the machines can be. Ear plugs??

2004 - I'm 20 years old - A friend blows an air horn too close to my ear during a basketball game with our friends. Like idiots, we thought having one of these was fun. Now I will never forget that moment for as long as I live. Tinnitus in my left ear for 3 weeks while I cried many nights...

Looking for some support today. Really struggling right now terribly. Woke up in the middle of the night last night with my head buzz SCREAMING. Usually sleep is the off switch for my headbuzz/Pulsatile Tinnitus so this was unusual. An absolute zombie today as I barely fell back asleep. This is...

We've been saying that since September man. I don't know how optimistic I am anymore. While it's amazing to see my T issues fade away sometimes and go back to baseline, I'm starting to think thats just going to be the way it is for me. Relief here and there and thats it, with the PT and...

I'm better than I was during onset of the PT back late last year of course. I guess that should be considered huge. Even the T itself is better, so I think. I can remember sitting in my apartment some days and the PT was downright EXTREME. An in and out ringing that can only be described as...

Finally made an appt to go back to the ENT. After almost 6 months of pulsating tinnitus I think it’s time I get checked out and possibly set up for a cat scan. For all I know it could be a tumor. I’d at least rather be safe than sorry.

Baseline for most of the day today! First time in maybe a month. God please keep me here!!!

What do you mean 5.5-6 hours “on purpose”? is that amount of time considered good anyway? Glad to hear your T is now manageable. That’s amazing! What has happened over the last few months that got you to this point? I personally am struggling badly right now after being at a manageable stage...

@PDodge Hey bud how are you doing these days? Sleeping alright?

Speaking of which, I am up right now for example at 6:40am EST. My T is completely baseline. No head buzz. No Pulsating T. It's amazing. Why can't it just stay this way :sorry:

Happy New Year everyone. Wish I was back here with a positive update, but I’m back reaching out for support, as my T has seemed to return to the full fledge head buzz and pulsating mix in the last two weeks or so. Going through a very hard time right now and for those who have been following my...

I don't know Greg. I really don't. It just started one day not too long ago and while it has subsided a good bit, it is still there a lot of the time, at least once a day. Moving along, I'm really looking for a little support today. The last few days my regular T has seemed to increase...

Hey Greg. I am not sure what you are trying to say/explain. Is this you? Today was a bad day for my PT. I actually had to run and catch a train and my PT acted up terribly after that for good hour or two. Just another example of how stress/moving fast triggers it. For example I can't ever see...

Yes :) I can comfortably say that the head buzz is no more. I know I shouldn't be spoiled, I know, but the PT has to be gone soon as well. Not going to "settle" for that just bc the buzz is gone. But believe me I'm very thankful for how far I've come.

This week was a weird one. There were some days my T would be baseline for an ENTIRE day. This happened multiple days. Usually as of recent memory its back and forth between the baseline and the PT creeping in here and there. But back to the story, on the other days I swear to you the Pulsatile...

I hope so too man. Right now as I type this i'm at baseline. Just wish I could stay there. I guess I should just be happy I've made some improvement, but I'll be honest I want the PT gone completely, now, and that's that. Seems to come on more during stressful times when I'm running around or...

@Deamon22 how are you doing these days man?

September 8th****

My blood pressure is slightly high as of my last checkup which was about two months go now. I was told to cut down on salt. My Pulsating Tinnitus really is a huge mystery to me and one that I'm not sure I'll ever find out. I still haven't done an MRI, but that's only bc I can probably bet...

Thanks for your reply. What exactly is venous treatment? My fluctuating tone T at this point is giving me more good days than bad, but I’m still far from happy with what’s going on. The electric head buzz has actually subsided the most however that only means that the pulsating T is there more...

If it was as simple as going out and buying a low dose of Xanax and trying it at this point, I would do it. But it's not that easy. I'm ok with holding off on more desperate approaches such as that right now. In the meantime I may very well do the MRI just for peace of mind if nothing else. Lord...

Hey @Deamon22 ... The pulsatile tinnitus/head buzz mix is still ongoing, with more of it being the PT, though for a good solid week recently it became non existent. I would hear both of them but very faintly. It was yet another amazing stretch, the longest yet, and I had visions of forgetting...

Thank you again for your support these last few weeks. Yes I have been making decent progress which is amazing, sure, but its still awful and rather scary how one big blast of noise (car radio) can set off/reset the Tinnitus/Brain Buzz like it did yesterday. Makes me wonder what is really going...

Things have been good the last week or so. The sounds were a lot lower. Then today while on my lunch break I was in my car, turned it on, and for some reason the volume was on full blast. BOOM. May as well have been a volcano going off in my ears. Long story short... Spike city ever since then...