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Well... I wasn't suicidal until reading the last 4 pages of this thread! Sorry guys, there are no magic flying unicorns, no ghosts, goblins, spirits, demons, etc... If the supernatural exists, we will never know about it. Why? Because we exist in the natural world. By its very definition, the...

Interesting how those who hold beliefs in supernatural things accuse those who arrive at the conclusion that those things are not real, often after extensive research, of being closed-minded. Believing in stuff for which there is absolutely no evidence despite centuries of searching for such...

"Almost as if they were real..."? Not sure what you mean. Demons are mythical creatures and in no way "real" any more than a magical flying unicorn one can conjure up in their imagination is real. My point was simple, assuming for the sake of argument that these imaginary creatures were in fact...

The tests they do that play loud clicking (I think it can reach 100 dB) directly in your ear for 30+ minutes can definitely make tinnitus worse. I only have tinnitus in one ear but by the time the tests were done both my ears were ringing. The new ringing in my right ear turned out to be...

Sorry... you lost me. There are no such things as disembodied "entities" that can "attach" themselves to someone. MPD is not supernatural in nature. Like we've discussed above, the mind is a very powerful thing. Invisible entities are not. No amount of seances, ouija board games, sacrificing...

What dosage are you taking? Anything more than 7.5 mg is not indicated for insomnia. With Mirtazapine, the lower the dose, the better it will work for sleep.

The "healing" ions are the negative ions. They are not magically released by the earth and absorbed through the skin by standing barefoot in the dirt. They are generated by the things I mentioned earlier. If you're in an environment that is rich in negative ions, you will inhale them whether you...

The mind is indeed a very powerful thing. Standing in dirt barefoot... not so much...

You describe it as a high pitch squeal. You should be able to find masking sounds that although they won't make the noise disappear, will cause the noise to blend in with the masking sound. Masking isn't so much therapy as it is a way to temporarily lower your perception of the tinnitus sound by...

There are websites that sell the audio files but you can make them yourself for free very easily. What it is is just white noise with your tinnitus frequency notched out with a very narrow filter so only that frequency or frequencies are removed. You then listen to this audio at a relatively low...

Mine has seemed to vary in severity. Yesterday was particularly bad but today hasn't been all that bad. I'd recommend trying as many things as you can including masking sounds like crickets, white noise or another color noise that's closer to the pitch of your tinnitus but is less annoying...

If only tinnitus could be cured by being barefoot...

Sure, placebo effect. It's not harmful but it's also not a real treatment. Negative ions are in the air. Standing barefoot in dirt doesn't do anything. If someone wants to test whether ions will help them, go outside in the rain. Go stand near a waterfall. Go to the beach (barefoot or not). A...

Not to sound skeptical, but... This sounds no different than healing crystals and other "alternative medicine" which amounts to placebo effect and treatments for which the efficacy of has not been established. Magnetic socks, anything promoted by Dr. Oz, etc... Modern version of witch doctoring...

Not sure if that should be a blanket recommendation. THC, Mirtazapine, and Clonazepam have improved my quality of life greatly because of the way they have either reduced the volume of my tinnitus or reduced the anxiety it causes or helped me sleep in spite of the constant eeeeeeeeeeeee that...

So here's what I've noticed. I fully accept that it could just be psychological and in my head but it's been subjectively noticeable nonetheless. I've been using THC on and off to help me sleep. Usually either a 2.5 mg or 5 mg edible or a hit from a vape pen. Been doing this on an almost nightly...

The very long half life is precisely what makes Clonazepam safer and less likely to cause tolerance and dependence than other benzos like Xanax. Ativan is another relatively safe benzo because of its half life. As a matter of fact, in some cases with patients that are going through benzo...

I'll have to look it up but I think it was around 20 dB.

Once again I have to sing the praises of Clonazepam. After several discussions with my ENT and signing a controlled substance contract he agreed to give me an Rx for it for a maximum of 2 or 3 doses a week. The last two or three days have been particularly hellish. The eeeeee has been loud and...

Guitar player for close to 35 years playing in very loud rock bands. I have a pretty significant loss at 4 kHz and 8 kHz in my left ear which is the one that is always right next to the drummer. The cymbals blasting in that ear have really taken a toll. Right ear is perfect. I suspect I...

I've had very mild tinnitus for a very long time. It was the kind that was only noticeable in a quiet room. Never bothered me. But the tinnitus that is so loud it affects my quality of life and can be heard over pretty much everything has only been here for maybe 5 or 6 months.

So I gave it another try. Still nothing positive. Every night I've tried it I've slept very poorly. The noise is annoying to my ears, parts of it sound like a horror movie, I kept waking up with the cables tangled around my head, and I'd wake up in the morning with the tinnitus seeming to be...

I am following the protocol to the letter and also using the 1More earbuds which he specified as an alternative to the Koss headphones. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. This morning I'm still not noticing any positive difference. Couple more days to go...

Honestly, if a psychiatrist told me that I'd run the other way and find a new psychiatrist like yesterday!

So here's my 4 night update. Since Sunday I've been using the 1More earbuds to listen to the sound all night. The results so far are concerning. I've found that if I wake up in the middle of the night, the tinnitus sound seems louder. Also, every morning when I've woken up the tinnitus sounds...

At the risk of sounding blunt, your doctor sounds like a quack or just very inexperienced with benzos. Clonazepam is one of the less addictive benzos while Alprazolam is one of the most addictive. Gabapentin did nothing for me. So far the only thing I've found that makes any difference is...

Sooo... another update. I realized that because of the hearing loss in my left ear, if I play Tinnitus Mix at a volume where I can comfortably hear it in both ears, it's too loud in my right ear, and when I play it at a volume that's comfortable for my right ear, I don't hear it fully in my left...

Ok, thanks again for the reply and additional info. I gave up on the Koss headphones but they were only $18 so not a huge loss. I'm sure I'll find another use for them at some point. The 1More earbuds arrived yesterday and I tried them out last night. Much better. They did not fall out at all...

So Friday night I tried sleeping with the Koss headphones on and it was kind of a disaster. I kept waking up because I would turn and then the headphones would fall off. Also, I'm not sure why but when I finally woke up my tinnitus was noticeably louder than it had been. I don't know if that's a...

Hopefully this isn't a dumb question but in the event that I can't figure out how to sleep with the headphones or earbuds in, can this work by listening for a couple of hours a day during the day? I don't think the KSC-75 earpieces placed inside the sleep headphone headband would work for me...

Thanks for the reply. Between the KTX and KS,C do you recommend one over the other? Also, are there any earbuds you're aware of that would work with Tinnitus Mix? I've seen the proposed solutions for keeping these headphones from falling off while you sleep but I can't imagine this would...

Not sure if this has been asked already but I can't read through 107 pages. If someone has hearing damage and can't hear above, say, 12 kHz or 13 kHz, would this still work? And if you can't hear frequencies above 12 kHz, what good would headphones that claim to go up to 25 kHz do? And the...

So my sleep pattern has changed a bit since I posted here in July. I now have a wide soundbar sitting on my headboard through which I play either crickets + something else or notched violet/purple noise to help me sleep. I switched to the soundbar because the Bluetooth speaker wouldn't cover a...

Earbuds are not good. It is very difficult to accurately gauge the decibels you're injecting directly into your ear. It's easy to overdo it and play them too loud which can lead to more damage. As for regular headphones, it's easy to measure the volume with those. Just take a dB meter (not a...

Camping? I wish I could go camping. If I am in any quiet environment all I hear is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Camping would be a nightmare for me. BTW, like you I'm also a musician and have played in very loud bands for 30+ years. My tinnitus spiked about 4 or 5 months ago and has only gotten...

Well shit, that's disappointing and scary to hear about.

Clonazepam has a lower risk for dependence than Xanax precisely because it stays in your system longer and is metabolized more gradually. But taking it too often and at too high of a dose for a long period of time can absolutely lead to tolerance, dependence, and hellish withdrawal symptoms...

So... still no explanation of the mechanics behind these claims. Call me skeptical but my background is in Information Technology and other fields that rely on facts and experiments that lead to repeatable results, not conjecture and anecdotes. I'm not sure what this unnatural swirl might be...

It's not a matter of not believing people, it's a matter of the likelihood that their conclusions are inaccurate. I'm still waiting for someone to explain the mechanism behind this causation. Decibels are what cause hearing damage (aside from other potential causes such as pressure from things...

Correlation does not equal causation. Many of the people you mention would likely have developed tinnitus without headphone use. There are exactly zero studies I have been able to find that show a causative link between headphones and tinnitus. If people develop tinnitus as a result of using...

There is no evidence that headphones, in and of themselves, cause or aggravate tinnitus. What matters is the volume.

I've read a lot of things posted by Michael Leigh that sound like unsubstantiated guesswork. When I did research on those claims of his I found zero information to confirm them. Anyway, on to sound machines, whether they help or not seem to depend on the type of sound your tinnitus produces...

In case no one has mentioned it yet, I'd consider another psychiatrist. With Mirtazapine, the higher the dose, the less sleepy it will make you. I've found that the ideal dose for sleep is 7.5mg. Your psychiatrist should be reducing your dose instead of putting you on yet another medication.

My consciousness disappears when I drink copious amounts of red wine. This makes every ailment I have disappear! Of course, they all come back when I wake up, along with a hangover... Anyway, one week into trying Acamprosate and so far no noticeable change. If anything, it has made it...

I wouldn't say that benzos are dangerous. I would say that they can be dangerous if used improperly. I have used them on and off for 30+ years and have never had any issues. I've also found that lately they are not used that often and most doctors will no longer prescribe them, even...

The problem with medications that supposedly make tinnitus worse or cause it to begin with is that if you look up lists of ototoxic medications, pretty much every single medication commonly and not so commonly used show up there. Even medications that are commonly used to TREAT the symptoms of...

1. Appointment with ENT was yesterday. So far I'd say it was useless, as I expected. He did not want to prescribe Clonazepam even at 0.5 mg a day which so far is the only thing that helps me. He did recommend trying Acamprosate but my own research shows that it has mixed results and even though...

QUVIVIQ is also not sustainable long term. You can build up a tolerance and it can cause dependence. They claim it doesn't cause a physical dependence but even in their marketing description it says it can lead to dependence. It's really not much different than Ambien. It works a little...

Here's what works for me to be able to sleep. Half dose of Mirtazapine + 5mg THC edible + Melatonin/L-Theanine/Valerian root tablet + an app called ReSound Relief which has a bunch of different masking noises. You can customize your own combination of sounds. I use crickets + waterfall.

I experience this quite a bit. Sometimes at night when the AC, fans, and white noise machines are on I'll perceive music even though I know there isn't any. Sometimes in the shower I'll hear imaginary sounds. If the vacuum is on sometimes I'll hear a phone ringing although I don't have a land...

I've found that a lot of people have at least a very mild case of tinnitus. It's so mild that they have completely habituated and don't even notice it until someone mentions it or they deliberately try to listen for it. Mine was like that until a few months ago when I had two back to back...

Yes, sort of. When I wear earplugs I perceive my tinnitus to be louder most likely because the normal ambient noise is removed so there is nothing to naturally mask the tinnitus. Hence I perceive it to be louder although it's most likely not. That said, because what I have is subjective...

I think they are all conditioned to tell anyone with tinnitus "It can't be cured, there's no way to fix it, suck it up and learn to live with it." At least you were able to get an appointment with an ENT. Soonest I was able to book mine was over a month out, and that was with an audiologist...

The double protection isn't doing you any favors. IMO, putting earphones over earplugs creates a kind of echo chamber and concentrates the sound inside the cups more. I'm not sure how it works but I've experienced it when at the shooting range.

So my Clonazepam experiment is working relatively well so far. Last night I took 0.5 mg and it reduced the volume by the time I went to sleep. The couple of times I woke up in the middle of the night, it was low enough that I didn't have any issues going back to sleep. When I woke up this...

I'd consult a doctor before taking more than 1 mg at a time. It won't harm you but if you take that much in a single dose every day you will increase the potential for developing a dependence/addiction. Some people even develop an addiction with 0.5mg twice a day for a couple of weeks.

So here's a very limited anecdote with no statistical significance. Monday night I took 0.5 mg Clonazepam. Tuesday my tinnitus tone was significantly lower in volume. So low I thought maybe it was resolving itself. Tuesday night I did not take any Clonazepam. Today my tinnitus is back to its...

Tinnitus CAUSED by caffeine? Doubtful although as I've mentioned in other threads, if you believe everything that turns up in a Google search, every single substance we ingest, inhale, touch, look at, or exists in the same airspace as us can cause tinnitus. But it's more than likely that in...

Not directly related to vasodilators but I've noticed a significant spike in the level of my tinnitus when I work out. Working out increases blood flow much like vasodilators so I'm sure there is some causation happening here in which increased blood flow may be having an effect on some nerves...

Epic fail. Most promising things on the horizon now are Susan Shore's device and Lenire, both of which I have serious skepticism about, Neosensory which nothing I've seen about it indicates to me that for $500 it's any better than free home-made notched sound therapy, and XEN1011 which has...