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No, it wasn't hyperacusis. It was a bad reaction to my T. The sound of my T is loud and full of many different sounds, but it has a certain fullness to it. If I listen to it, it can feel painful. I really don't have a good way to describe it - but it feels like genuine pain. Of course this...

I've had T since 2008. It has absolutely crippled me in the past - the noise actually "felt" like pain. I have complained about this pain on this forum in the past several times. I now realize this was an extreme reaction to the T that is most likely explained by the Jastreboff feedback...

Calories, Several weeks ago I was in bad shape. I've had tinnitus for awhile, and for me it's up and down. However these past 3 weeks have been a consistently smooth ride on the tinnitus rollercoaster. When I'm doing bad, It's as if I have very different tinnitus then when I'm doing okay...

This was really nice to read. Thanks.

Do you think resiliency and innate willpower are a contributing factor for those that habituate? I read a book by Dr Richard Davidson, who is a Harvard-trained (yes, "Harvard-trained" sounds as obnoxious to type as it does to read) neuroscientist. In one of his books he talks about people...

I believe that meditation and relaxation exercises are beneficial for people, but if your distress is caused by painful tinnitus, it seems that these exercises actually create more distress. TRT says that your pain and discomfort from tinnitus is due to your automatic reaction. Conscious...

Not sure if you plan on giving us updates or if you're gonna do the no-forum thing that TRT recommends but good luck, either way. My thoughts are with you.

Transparency in the medical community in general. I mean, if something works - it will get adopted immediately. I don't really know the board members that well but I do keep up with the "Treatment and Research" part of the forum. I am just saying this as an outsider looking in, really. And...

I mean transparency in general. It just seems that if something like this really worked, it would be acknowledged as a working treatment and venerated universally in the medical community. Tinnitus is so common, after all.

I don't understand why Dr Wilden is given such a vast amount of benefit for the doubt on this forum. And the doubt is huge considering the transparency of the medical research. I mean, come on.

The direct to english machine translation from the PDF is surprisingly readable. Google never ceases to amaze me. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.skane.se/Public/HAB/5-Omoss/FoU/rapporter/fourapport-2009nr04.pdf&prev=search Probably still not worth the effort...

I am not on anything at the moment, but for what it's worth: I've been on Celexa, Prozac, and Lexapro, Cymbalta, Neurontin, and amitriptyline. None of these things have increased or decreased my T. Celexa really helped me for anxiety but with the caveat that I felt emotionally numb (couldn't...

I have not done TRT, but I believe the sound generators are a big part of the program to dampen the tinnitus signal. If you look at this: http://studentacademyofaudiology.com/sites/default/files/journal/JAAA_11_03_05.pdf it is a paper authored by the creator of TRT. And scroll to page 169 it...

A few months ago I was humbled when I spoke to a teenage girl who had T that didn't seem bothered by it. She may have had it very mild or maybe she had habituated it, I don't know. People of all ages get this, so don't focus too much on your age. And for what it's worth, you won't have to...

There is no consensus on what foods increase or decrease tinnitus. Dr Nagler says that Thai food increases his tinnitus - but he doesn't care as he has mostly habituated his T and so it isn't a problem to him. Thai food doesn't do anything for me. In fact, I have never encountered anything...

Interesting!

I am not habituated to my tinnitus. My tinnitus is very intrusive and is even painful to me when i am in a quiet environment. However, when I am in a place with a lot of sound, I am able to forget my T is there and I am no longer in pain. My ears can relax. Obviously my tinnitus hasn't gone...

This was a very bizarre experience. I went to the dentist for a root canal. I was very resistant to the initial injection of lidocaine as I was feeling pain during the surgery. The dentist eventually injected my jaw with a lot of Lidocaine - much more than he initially thought was needed...

If I am not mindful of my tinnitus can I still suffer? That is to say, is tinnitus still a bothersome condition if I am not worrying about it? This is confusing to me because I can forget about my tinnitus when I have ambient noise around me (even though I can still potentially hear my T in...

So I will eventually be able to have extended moments where I can forget about my tinnitus even in silence? Oh that is comforting. My idea was completely wrong then. I was purposely staying in silence so I could "teach" myself how to habituate this noise. I figured that trying to get used...

Silence seems painful to me, which is confusing. In terms of tinnitus, is there some biological activity going on in silence that isn't happening in ambient noise? I ask because in ambient noise I don't necessarily feel pain, or my attention isn't drawn to pain and i can forget about my T, but...

I had mine when I first got tinnitus. Mine didn't go above 8khz either. It showed loss in the ear that I have tinnitus in. It was fine up until 3 or 4 khz. I can't remember.

What does it matter? The goal is to figure out how to live with it. What will we do with the information regarding whether or not everyone experiences is it in a quiet room? It is like when people bring up statistics about how many people are suicidal or are living disabled by the condition...

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I can't tell when I have a low or high T day. The sound is seemingly loud, yet hard to gauge. If it bothers me more, I don't necessarily think it's louder. Anyway, if it's not the T that has changed, maybe your 'quiet' days will expand.

Rhea, my father is a very old man and has seen countless movies in loud theaters without earplugs and has never had ear problems. I think seeing a movie once in awhile, especially with plugs, isn't gonna do a damn thing. I had a week where my tinnitus was ok, not perfect, but ok. And this...

True, but even a small step is a leap if you are incredulous. Then again, when I true to approach tinnitus without any judgements, I do sometimes make progress with how I feel about it.

The problem occurs when tinnitus becomes aversive even when you're not actively deconstructing it and rationalizing the effect it has. It's in the background and yet you have a bad reaction to it without thinking about it. Thus you conclude that it is innately composed of bad qualities and it...

This is fascinating. I wonder what makes Lidocaine alter tinnitus and if the qualifying factor can be captured. Really interesting stuff.

Hello, I was recently prescribed Lorazepam for helping me deal with tinnitus. When I take the lorazepam, tinnitus becomes much less of a problem - but I cannot figure out if it is because the signal has abated or some affected part of my brain that the lorazepam affects has dampened down my...

Sometimes I think about how little we know about tinnitus and how to effectively abate it. Then I read a book about modern engineering and math and I realize that people have figured out and accomplished things that I cannot even conceptualize properly. So much so that I feel embarassed to...

Tinnitus has taught me that there are kind people that are willing to help for the sake of helping. It has introduced me to a world of empathy that people are capable of.

Yes. That is fair enough, Michael.

My ear sounds like Star Wars. So yes.

Being critical of something that has purports to treat suffering people, takes suffering peoples' money, and hasn't proven itself in any objective way - is NOT being hostile. Preserving the integrity of information regarding treatment options is the only thing that is going to keep suffering...

You'd think there would not be a debate about this. If something worked, it would be obvious. Tinnitus is almost ubiquitous the world over - the second anything that really works is available, it would be obviously prescribed. This is like when I tell people I struggle with this and they tell...

You're right. I went to a wedding and didn't think or hear my tinnitus. Today I was at a function that was just as loud as the wedding and it's all I could hear. I heard it over everything. The loudness of my tinnitus didn't change - I was just hooked on the sound. So, you're right about...

Thanks Ashley. I did trt and took a mbsr class. However, I didn't do trt correctly because I didn't wear the generators much long. Some days are better than others, you're right. I am actively trying to habituate to it - maybe that's my problem.

I'm in Virginia. If you have an extended visa (is that how it works for Canadians coming to the US?) and don't steal stuff - my casa es su casa. PM me if you want to talk about it.

Sure. You can come live with me if you'd like. Whereabouts are you?

...I will devote my life to helping people... Just so this suffering isn't in vain.

If I had no morals and wanted to hawk LLLT to tinnitus sufferers for a quick buck, I would just pretend that the technology only works in the context of tinnitus. Yet, it's advertised as this magical cure all to literally every ailment you can think of. It doesn't even pretend to take itself...

Well, I had read Jastreboff's book (TRT: Implementing the Neurophysiological Model) as well as any and all literature I could find on habituation - and she knew her stuff. She was a good communicator and had tinnitus herself, and seemed to be living fine with it. I guess I cannot objectively...

Yes I did have the counselling by a very competent clinician. I know all there is to know about habituation, I think. However, I did spend a lot of time on message boards that promoted "negative counseling" - which I probably could've done without. Ultimately, I don't think I bought into all...

Thanks for the responses. I was having a bad night. I have calmed down. I woke up and my brain took a little time to find the tinnitus, but before that time I felt no pain. That does seem like it's probably my reaction - even after all these years, I must still have this bad reaction to it...

Maybe this is circular logic, but I don't think my thoughts are distorted. I have tinnitus that feels bad and my feelings about it are confirmed by it feeling bad. I cannot say to myself, "This isn't so bad" or "my thoughts are making this bad" because it is the tinnitus itself that hurts. I...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've done TRT - but I didn't wear the generators for very long. Maybe about a week. I just didn't believe in them. I thought it was voodoo to listen to white noise all day and have this painful tinnitus just magically be benign. I am willing to give it another...

Hello, I will make this post short. I've have tinnitus for several years and am not doing so hot, though I am better than I was when I first got it. How exactly does CBT help you with tinnitus? You have a loud, painful noise in your head that you perceive all the time. What exactly in CBT...