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Do you know if you have a bacterial or viral infection? The spray would be useless with a viral infection, any perceived benefit would be from the dexamethosone which is a very strong corticosteroid. You can get sprays that are purely corticosteroids I think. If this is just a mild cold, I'd...

Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I've had spikes last for hours through to nearly a year or so. I can give more specific examples if you want. Some spikes were completely random, some were coming and going when I was new to tinnitus (I think this is common), some were noise induced, some were...

Damn that's a shame, so they completed the phase III trial in 2017 but now nothing is happening because they have no funding???

I've had multiple long term spikes resolve themselves over the course of weeks and months. So stay positive and try not to let the spike get you too down!

Just hit up my GP and asked for Sulodexide and unfortunately it's not available in Australia. If any other other Aussies know a source, hit me up. Wouldn't mind giving this a crack.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2808686/#!po=2.77778 In this study, they were using 2 doses of 250mg in the morning and evening - is this correct? Because everyone else seems to mention 25mg. Bit confused.

Please don't do any surgery. I had severe hyperacusis from 2013 through to the beginning or 2015 and then continued from there to make a complete recovery. My hyperacusis is completely gone and my sound sensitivity is back to normal. My tinnitus is also much more calm. Peep my thread here if...

Usually I'm all for people going out, living life and enjoying themselves as long as they understand the risk and use proper hearing protection like custom molded musician's ear plugs. But you seem to be just days into your tinnitus experience. I would suggest against it: let your ears heal up...

I went from severe hyperacusis to no hyperacusis. Unfortunately still deal with tinnitus, but I did find that my tinnitus became much more "stable" and much less intrusive when the hyperacusis went away. The absence of pain meant I paid less attention to my tinnitus and I found my ears did not...

I seem to be in the minority here but I've been using in ear earphones the last couple of years and have had no problems. Was scared for a long time because of the hyperacusis I used to deal with but after that went away I slowly brought them back into my regime. Use them when traveling and...

Was actually talking to a friend of mine who had tinnitus as a result of concussion. Suffered with it for 5 years and then it gradually faded away for him until he was back to silence. Good to hear that it can go away for some people, even after extender periods of time!

Amazing!

The usual time frame that studies cite is 72 hours. But there are studies that suggest benefits can still be reaped weeks after an incident. I used to have these bookmarked years ago but have lost them since. I'm sure if you look enough you will find the same ones. Either way, try to convince...

I'd go on a course of oral corticosteroids like Prednisolone as soon as possible. Google oral steroids and hearing loss if you want more information. They can prevent permanent hearing loss and possibly prevent chronic tinnitus. Find a doctor who will be willing to put you on a course. Usually...

A simple way of going about it would be to go to your doctor and state that you've experienced an acoustic trauma and fear you have damaged your hearing further, possibly worsened your existing tinnitus and are experiencing severe hyperacusis. So, you could go in and explain your previous...

Don't worry. We all make mistakes! I've put my hearing in all sorts of danger when I've been drunk or high before, peer pressure has gotten to me a few times too. I quoted the above because it seems like there might be some acoustic trauma. The pain, blocked ear feeling and spike are...

Wow, @attheedgeofscience- you're still a douche.

I stopped believing a long time ago but I remember church being very loud at times as a kid and a teen. Bring some custom musician ear plugs and have them handy, I honestly believe they'll be enough to handle the sound of choirs, church music, group prayers, etc. Also, consider it a time to...

I've actually known of Sen for a long time. Used to post under another username. Also knew him from another forum unrelated to tinnitus. He posted about his issues there also. We got tinnitus around the same time, but he always had very bad hyperacusis and possibly developed trigeminal...

I remember this being one of the first treatments I discovered when I first got tinnitus back in 2012 and came to this forum. Is it actually any good or useless like many other of these types of treatments?

Great to hear! I actually made a post about the potential for mushrooms to help tinnitus (and other disorders) back in 2013. I should have tried it myself. https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/magic-mushrooms-repair-brain-damage-from-extreme-trauma.2818/ Might give it a crack soon and see how...

How has finasteride been for you over the last 10 years? My hair's been thinning for a couple years now I'm at the stage where I need to either decide to jump on it or not. The horror stories on propeciahelp and reddit.com/r/tressless have me a bit worried but it's hard to separate the real side...

Oh yeah for sure. I had tonic tensor tympani syndrome in both ears. Different frequencies would trigger it in each ear. Someone sniffing or sneezing would trigger the right and then snare drums and those sort of mid type frequencies triggered the left ear. Wasn't super severe but noticeable at...

To some of you in the thread still dealing with hyperacusis. I got severe hyperacusis in July 2013 and it took me about 3 years to fully recover. It was rough but it can happen, but sometime it takes time and patience. I had to also systematically desensitize my hearing over that period of time...

Glad I could help a little, and yes I can definitely relate. It's very common to be very sensitive to noise when you first experience tinnitus. I remember dreading washing the dishes because if I clanged the plates too loud it was torture. Or going to cut the grass, even with hearing...

Took me a long time to get over it. Didn't have so much trouble when I first got tinnitus, but the hyperacusis (funnily enough it was self induced with a bad valsalva maneuva by accident) made me very paranoid. Spikes and others things are common when you first get tinnitus, the anxiety and...

I became sort of a shut in when I had hyperacusis but realized I couldn't live that way for the rest of my life. Had to push myself and not over protect my hearing using ear plugs all the time, avoiding loud areas, etc. Once I pushed myself my hyperacusis improved (over a long period of time...

Give it some time. I've had spikes last months (and other things like hearing distortion) and then just one day disappear. I find with mild respiratory illness my tinnitus will spike for 2 to even 6 weeks, probably because of something to do with the eustaschian tubes. When I had hyperacusis...

Hyperacusis is a nightmare, but you can get through it. I don't want to hijack this thread but if you have any questions, shoots me some PMs anytime. I'm back to do doing most things including a little mixing.

Hell yeah! War Hunto. Yeah, my story is probably scattered through my posts on here through the years. The damage was noise induced. A combination of stress (cancer in the family) and going out to 2 gigs in one weekend with a flu. Was a recipe for disaster. Abused my ears for years with...

Yeah I would say it's calmed down. Early days I would have a lot of random tones come and go for any numbers of days or months. I would get spikes more often also. Overall the tinnitus is more quiet and I don't experience spikes as much. Many of things people claim that cause them spikes or...

I went through a bunch of different noises the first 2 or 3 years with tinnitus. Some would last hours, some would last months on end. Eventually settled though.

Fair enough! In my experience with hyperacusis, there were periods where my symptoms got a lot worse with no real good reason, which drove me crazy. I found that this isn't too uncommon though, and in my road to recovery there were many ups and downs - I'd have months of great recovery then...

Peep my thread on my experience and recovery from severe hyperacusis: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/completely-recovered-from-my-hyperacusis-and-chronic-ear-pain.14404/ Your experience with hyperacusis sounds similar to mine. It can be very stressful, and confusing at times because of...

I'm half asleep so I read through your post very quickly but here are some suggestions: Look into in-ear monitors with noise protection (there are many options - if you need specific suggestions let me know). These are custom molded to your ear like custom mold plugs but are monitors. Laidback...

Exercise was crucial in my recovery from hyperacusis and in dealing with my tinnitus. I can't recommend it enough to anyone struggling on here and if you go through my post history I usually make a point to mention it. It's amazing how much better I feel after rigorous exercise. There's never...

I could understand the 8khz limit back in the 60s, 70s or 80s, and maybe even 90s when technology was more primitive and much more expensive but there really is no excuse for the audiologists and ENT's to still be limiting hearing tests in this manner anymore with how easy it is to test up to...

Of course. I always have my custom plugs handy in case I'm somewhere where it's too loud.

You have a good attitude and I took the same approach with my hyperacusis. Took a couple years but I made a full recovery from severe, life debilitating hyperacusis. My approach was systematic desensitization as you yourself have described. Peep my success thread if you want any more...

Oral corticosteroids like Prednisolone/Predisone ASAP if you truly feel that some further damage has been done. Also like others mentioned, NAC, Magnesium... can chuck in some Niacin, Melatonin, B12 methycobalamin in there too. The corticosteroids are the most important though. Play up your...

Thank you for the kind words! Your experience sounds very much like what I had to go through. It took me a long time, and at times I felt that I was doomed to suffer forever but it did go away! You'll also recover, just keep a positive mindset, and as you mentioned: just use common sense and...

Yes.

It will take time to adjust. Do things at a comfortable pace and don't rush yourself. Get some custom mold musicians ear plugs and have them on hand in case you need them.

Good point!

When I had severe hyperacusis I just kept my car windows up. Never had to use ear plugs or ear muffs during that time and my hyperacusis was overall really, really bad. If I saw an ambulance coming right next to me I'd just plug that side of my ear and would be fine. Never had any spikes or...

Peep my recovery story here: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/completely-recovered-from-my-hyperacusis-and-chronic-ear-pain.14404/ Went from severe, life debilitating hyperacusis to complete recovery. It does get better!

I'd be weary of antipsychotics for tinnitus. They are drugs with heavy side effects and there have also been studies that claim that they can cause brain atrophy: loss of brain volume. Pretty scary in my opinion. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476840/ Not saying to completely...

The medications mentioned in your quote aren't antipsychotic drugs. Clonazepam is a Benzodiazepine and Gabapentin is an anti-seizure/anti-convulsant drug that is prescribed for a bunch of different disorders. Both work on GABA receptors though, so they carry the same risks of dependency and...

When I reference custom ear plugs I mean the musician's plugs - they're the same thing. They're just ear plugs that are custom fitted to your ears and usually have interchangeable or fixed filters. I currently use a pair from ACS with interchangeable filters which are really awesome. I usually...

When did you get tinnitus? When I first got tinnitus (before the hyperacusis which was a year later) - my perception of sound changed a bit. Some frequencies were definitely more obvious than others. Since you don't have pain it's hard to say. The ears go a bit funky for a while when you're...

Custom ear plugs with adjustable filters. ACS/Etymotic/etc. I don't like the idea of foam or silicone plugs that completely shut off the ear completely.

Thanks mate. I didn't do anything too specific, I think time was the biggest healer when it came to my hyperacusis. But I did use supplements like NAC, melatonin, magnesium, B12 (in methylcobalamin form) and Niacin regularly. Lots and lots of exercise - lifting weights, running 3-5 times a...

Not sure, haven't looked into the laser dentistry stuff myself! In my case - I have a stock of prednisolone from my GP that I asked to have handy in case of any sort of auditory damage, he was more than fine with it. Maybe talk with your GP or dentist about your concerns and take it from there.

Maybe have some oral corticosteroids like prednisolone on hand post treatment to limit any possible damage to your hearing.

At 0.5mg of Clonazepam I don't see any problems with the taper you've suggested. You could probably even taper off faster if you felt comfortable - but everyone's a little different. If you want to be super cautious about it, you could switch over the to equivalent dose of Diazepam (Valium)...

When my tinnitus were real bad I avoided anything listed on the internet as being ototoxic, whether it was from a study or some anecdotal report from someone on this forum or another. So for a couple of years I completely avoided NSAIDs like aspirin and ibuprofen, and also other pain killers...