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You know I just realized something. I haven't had wet snot in a long time. It has been dry for years with almost always a congested nose. Ever since I got hyperacusis perhaps. Anyone else in a similar boat? I am starting to think that I miss a lot of fatty acids.

When I used to smoke, it always made my tinnitus worse. Glad I quit.

Yes I do too.

Just want to see how many have this relation. My hyperacusis is worst when my nose feels clogged. I always had sinus problems though so it could be something that started to become a problem after time? Maybe.

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Hi guys. I just want to be sure. I have been dealing with tinnitus, and I have also been dealing with hyperacusis caused by avoiding noise too much. The thing is, I don't feel vibration in the affected ear. The affected ear doesn't vibrate when it hears sounds so I looked around and researched...

Anything I could do about this specific thing? To me this has been the most annoying part about hyperacusis. Good news is that it used to be way worse so I guess little by little it has been improving. Couldn't even listen to low volume before my ear would go crazy.

It is sound induced I'm sure. Or maaaybe it could be tense posture from sound irritation, but i don't think that's the case. It's noise induced quite clearly. Once I hear a sound that annoys my ear, at the same time the right ear and right side of the nose starts to feel clogged. Maybe it's a...

This only happens for the right side of my nose and ear. Does anyone experience the same and what could this mean and lead to?

My thing is that my ear reacts and changes in hearing from particular sounds. It just changes as if it lost its calibration.

Did you use pink noise?

My ears havent felt muffled in a couple of days. This is a new breakthrough. Could cry of hapiness from the good sign

Indeed, to God we belong and to God we shall return. RIP.

Agree. I was recommended all kinds of noises but I believe everyone's cause is different which makes the cure different also. I just recently found out that brown noise (being low frequency) is finally recovering my ear to hear certain sounds again. My ear was so distorted by pink noise and such...

More often have my ears gone to a regular state since some time. Seems hearing becomes less distorted every day.

It's usually videogames with a lot of synth type of soundtracks. Those really tick off my ear, and then when I quit it goes away again.

I wonder how often the OP drank the ginger tea. What was the regime OP?

Hyperacusis is faaaar worse than tinnitus.

Can anyone add to this? Does discomfort even at the lowest volumes need to be avoided? I would think it would perhaps be better to face it instead untill the ear adapts and discomfort dissapears or doesnt it work like that?

So I've been dealing with distorted hearing and a bit of reactive tinnitus (hyperacusis I know) from some sounds. Things are getting better and better despite me living normally everyday, but you kind of never know for sure if something's damaging or not with this disorder. I just wanted to be...

Hopeful post, thanks.

If pink noise used to hurt and it doesn't hurt anymore, maybe fewer things will hurt as time goes on. I would love that. I still have a lot of kryptonites.

Right now pink noise is the best noise to listen to and it doesn't hurt me anymore. Some extra information: I used to work a very loud job until January 2019. I just want to ask, is this part of the habituation? Am I finally getting there? A lot of sounds don't sound as sharp as they used to...

I appreciate what you're doing Michael thanks a lot. If there's a god may he reward you in a way. I think the magnesium hopefully adds to the recovery like you recommended. Hopefully I'll notice something sooner rather than later.

Can't edit my post anymore, but are you saying that time is the cure for this? I bought 2 magnesium variants. One that says citrus and one that has b12 but without really having a subtitle like citrus or whatnot. Don't know what citrus stands for.

Michael I honestly can't afford going through all that. I think maybe this'll make sense of it all. I was working quite the loud job until just January. Drilling with ear protection yes, but I'd feel very sore at the end of the day. Did the job for 1.5 years with tinnitus. I also did go to ENT...

Thanks for the reply. My issue with my ear is that certain sounds/frequencies can like make my ear react and then dial itself. I wouldn't say adept because it still doesn't hear accurately. It's like a muscle reacting to certain sounds. This sounds like a physical issue ie maybe nerves or...

Hey there Micheal. I stumbled upon this post and it got me to try out magnesium. After a couple of days I almost want to say that it is doing wonders for me, but just in case I just want to ask when it starts taking effect. Is it immediately or a week later or something? When do you notice that...

No I don't.

Thanks for your update. That's what I was curious about. Tinnitus is so weird. I remember going to a very loud lounge/bowling place dating a girl and when I entered I was reaaall worried but my tinnitus didn't spike after it at all I really didn't understand it.

Thanks for this post. I feel like I really need to quit. But when I read that nothing changed for you I get doubts. Also staying home doing nothing seems miserable in my mind. Such a tough choice.

Yeah that kinda helps. I didn't mean work home. I meant quitting work to heal. I have never really given my ears time to recover, and you know in the big city with all those cars, my own car, it is just holding things back. I tried working. I really did. But I need to recover. What would you do?

Did it used to be distorted? Bro you are blessed, you don't even know. I hope I'll get there soon again so I can hear music the right way again.

I can tell you it isn't. It's what made my tinnitus way worse. Only use it when necessary but do without them in normal circumstances. If noise 'hurts' then you are still in a low sound tolerance (hyperacusis?) phase in which I recommend listening to sound therapy. I have one I recommend. Let...

Mine seems to de disappearing after a whole year. Not a couple of months. How is your hearing. Is it distorted or normal?

So if you got tinnitus from acoustic trauma which is better? What is the most ideal? Staying home in your own regulated area or go outside, drive the car to work and be among all kinds of everyday noise. What is better for recovery? If someone reads this thread; I have to know soon. Tomorrow...

Thanks for your contribution again Michael Leigh. I think I can conclude from experience that total silence is the biggest enemy of this whole disorder. I learned that again today after sleeping with earplugs through the night and going to the supermarket and all of a sudden hearing the fridge...

Thanks a lot guys. I guess I'll use it when nescesary.

Yeah I remember. I honestly don't even want to talk about it but to give a hint there were a lot of issues at home. A lot of annoying sound related ones. I remember that the stress made me long for silence too much. Like way too much. That's when I found out that there was a pitch noise in my...

Keep us updated ^^

I am wondering whether sound therapy can work as a cure for tinnitus because I am ready to ditch it completely since it just gets annoying to carry with me after a certain time. I have been carrying it with me for a long time but lately it hasn't been practical. I am going to live together...

It really always does for me. I don't get why but it is telling me that my tinnitus is very much acoustic trauma related. When I wear a cap over my ear, in which sound doesn't go directly into the ear, it feels like the ear is able to go through the healing process. Seems maybe preventing sound...

I feel like I have been able to handle my tinnitus quite well in my everyday (working) life. Sometimes the reliefs come unconsciously and there was a time where I wore caps during outside work and I forgot how at those times I would feel pretty good overall. So I forgot about this until...

Pooping always relieves my tinnitus and I dont know why.

I tried every noise but it was white noise that was the cure all along. Too bad I ignored it all that time because of bad first impression

In this video there's like a sharp background sound that my affected ear hears as a very sharp noise compared to the other ear where it sounds normal: What does it mean when that's the case? Is it a sound I need to avoid or is that the noise that I need to challenge my ear with? The sound is...

I found out guys. It's 12 kHz. I'm in disbelief but this seems to have got rid of all the disoriented and muffled hearing I've dealt with for a year and a half. I'm assuming this is a good sign. What I did is checking this YouTube channel. Played the frequencies each for 10 minutes to see what...

Basically what the title says. I've been listening to a sweeping noise video on YouTube and it has been relieving as hell more so than anything else. It's been relieving me for months but at some point one of the frequencies within the sweeping started irritating me, which leads me to believe...

This thread is a tinnitus thread but I'm posting it here because I thought I had hyperacusis for a long time, which doesn't seem to be the case after I found a solution to my problem. For a long time I've been coping with tinnitus, ear pain, muffled and a change of hearing, but at the same time...

Frequency hyperacusis sounds quite accurate honestly.

Thanks for the suggestion. Tried to tickle with it and it's not really doing the trick. I still appreciate it a lot. I think everyday sounds may be able to do t he trick. There had been a time where I thought ASMR videos would be absolutely rediculous to try out, but I realized that it's a...

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Any examples? Thanks for the suggestion. Edit: This has kind of worked so far. But I always get disappointed after some time so I'm going to wait till I can say if it really works in long term.

It's too bad any sort of sound therapy cure is based on constant non changing/static noises. I am someone whose hyperacusis may have been caused by static noises and it is my kryptonite basically, is what I found out some time ago so pink or white noise the exactly what I should be avoiding. I...

Yeah I'm trying stuff that works better. I don't know why pink noise is pushed so much but perhaps it's because the majority finds relief in pink noise and we're part of a minority. It's so bad for my ears, it's unbelievable.

Any other sound can be anoying but pink noise actually hurts my ears. It just hurts and this is odd when it is the noise that people mostly recommend for hyperacusis sufferers. Who can relate?

Just bass sounds out of speakers. There's a lot of low tone sounds in everyday nature like winds etc, which feels great to hear and to listen to, but when I listen to wind sounds for relief from a speaker with even the slightest bass, it causes some discomfort. I think the bass out of speakers...

And what do you do to relieve it?

Well after a couple of days I can definitely say that this doesn't work. It also ain't damaging thankfully so it was a nice experiment. It is a good way of getting your mind off the condition and making you feel like the ear is in a normal condition. That helps in some sort of strange way.

Why does pink noise irritate and do me so much harm? I tried it again yesterday just to see what it would do and t made my ears hurt and ring like crazy. I don't get why pink noise of all does this. Regular sounds don't do this. Static noises may just be my kryptonite.