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My answer to the title of this thread would have been different 1 year ago, but now the answer is 100% yes, I enjoy life at least as much as I did before I got tinnitus and (mild) hyperacusis. My joy has actually increased since developing my earhole afflictions because everything that teaches...

I understand your concerns and offer the following thoughts for you to consider regarding your decision. 1) When I developed tinnitus earlier this year, it is accurate to say that I was devastated and deeply questioning my path forward. I am a biological researcher with a PhD. I work for a...

If you are still experiencing muffling, as you noted yesterday, I wonder if taking prednisone would be beneficial for you. Prednisone can have a protective effect on the ears after damage. I think it acts by reducing oxidative stress in the ear, which is one cause of damage to the auditory hair...

Amazing and heartwarming to read this. I have also set my mind to the "brain rewiring" approach to healing the hyperacusis and tinnitus symptoms I experience. For one thing, it sets me in a much more positive headspace and makes me look forward to the cool shit I'll do to feed, refresh, and...

I received the Moderna vaccines and the booster shot. The second vaccine dose was rough, but the booster shot produced one of the strongest headaches I have ever had. Neither influenced the tinnitus symptoms I experience.

Right on, man. I look forward to seeing his paper after peer-review. Of course, if you wish to take a quantitative look at the numbers that you already have... holler and I can help.

The best way to address this question is to do actual research on this, like I suggested when I requested data from you. But I still have not received any indication from you that you want to or will share data.

I completely respect where you're at. I didn't mean to insinuate that I know what's best for ya, and I'm sorry if it came across that way. I really hope your situation improves. Cheers.

Nah I'm for sure scared, but I weight that against the sense that I'll be disappointed if I miss my time-window to give this a shot. I'm trying to get enrolled in trials and have now spoken with recruiters at three clinics. They're all telling me I'm too far away from the clinic to trust that...

I hope you reconsider enrolling in the trial. Here's why: Even if you get the placebo, your participation would help to get the drug to market sooner. So if the drug works, you either win by getting the drug early in the study, or if you get the placebo then you win by getting the drug after...

Side effects for me = terrible sleep if I take NAC after like 4 pm. Otherwise, I've been taking 600 mg/day for like 6 months. Not sure it's doing much, but it acts as an antioxidant and, to my knowledge, hasn't been linked to any health problems, so I figure why not keep chugging the stuff?

Good. From the small bit of attention I've paid to this thread lately, it seems like their sample sizes tend to be smaller than we might all hope for. We need a healthy balance of selectivity and inclusiveness of participants. It's certainly not an easy task, and my heart goes out to those poor...

I'm sorry to hear of your situation. The constant nature of your symptoms remind me of stories I've read by others on here (@Forever hopeful comes to mind) who have reported similar constancy followed by complete remission after like 2 years! Hopefully that's what you (and I) experience. Cheers...

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing! Let us know here if you keep doing it and seeing improvements :) Best of luck.

I am a PhD researcher in biology with an editorial role in a prominent science journal. Oddly, since gaining tinnitus earlier this year, I feel better at what I do at my job in all ways, and it does not seem coincidental to me at all. I think dealing with tinnitus forced me to operate in a less...

5, unless it's actually for something weird, in which case: 1.5.

Hell yes. That's the power of regenerative medicine, and the reason we are all here ;)

Referring to proximal versus ultimate cause? At any rate, correlation does not imply causation. So the story goes, we in fact cannot say with precision that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer, but we have extremely strong correlative evidence of a relationship between smoking and lung...

Sifting through 98 pages of literature to find data points is not a good use of my time. You are the expert of your system, so if you indeed have data, I will donate my expertise in statistics to analyze those data, as I suggested. Keep in mind that missing data (i.e. folks who don't provide...

I've used the basic Loop earplugs when I've been on an airplane and around noisy family members lately, mostly because Loops are comfortable and seem to muffle sounds "enough" for me. I just don't go to really noisy places, and won't while I'm in this recovery phase (which I am arbitrarily...

For sure. I bet your chances of healing are pretty damned good. My point was that you can cause further damage by wearing earplugs all the time because, as some people here strongly believe, that can train your ears to be over-sensitive. You are correct to protect against loud noises, but not...

I strongly recommend reading the material @Michael Leigh has provided to this community regarding the symptoms you're experiencing. Depending on where you are and how loud it is, wearing earplugs may be one of the worst things you can do for your ears, and unfortunately it seems like ENTs...

Well said, @AfroSnowman! I'm no doubter or naysayer, @R. David Case, but I do believe in the power of statistics to sort fact from fiction. Doing stats and coding are a big part of my daily job. That said, if you have data you could supply to me that shows the number of people who have tried...

I re-pierced an ear a few months after developing tinnitus. To me, there would be no logical connection between an ear piercing and a worsening of tinnitus (unless you psychologically will a connection into existence... anything is possible). Now I have a decoration on my jacked up ear. If it...

Hi @SD7, Yep. A damned whistle. After doing an obsessive amount of searching online however I've seen that my situation is unfortunately not so rare. Referees and others who use whistles frequently have reported hearing damage that seems related to whistles. They can get quite loud (>115 dB)...

Hi @aura, Great questions! During the first couple of days following my injury, I had notable aural fullness, dizziness, headaches, and sound threshold shifts, all of which were worst in the left ear (which is where the tinnitus remains worst... I rarely hear any phantom sounds in the right...

The distortions sounded like a mixture of the tinnitus sounds (fuzz/hiss) with the person's voice that would set it off... usually because the voice was a loud or abrasive tone. External sound never produced beeps/whistles for me. I think the term "recruitment" might be best to describe the...

Dear Tinnitus Talk folks, TL;DR: While a very mild hissing tinnitus tone still remains with me, I noticed recently that I am no longer alarmingly startled by moderately loud sounds, nor do loud voices sound like distorted threats, which had been the case for months. These changes are a huge...

I find these to be sooooo much better than all the other earplugs I've tried: https://www.loopearplugs.com/products/experience ...actually comfy enough to wear on a plane for hours without hating it.

Same here, I first experienced RLS when I started taking NAC. I haven't had RLS now since avoiding NAC later in the day. I take it only before noon now just to be safe.

Thanks for sharing, Jeff. I haven't heard of this, but I have an appointment coming up with my doctor, and I'll definitely ask him about his thoughts on it. He has a degree in biochemistry, so it should at least make for good discussion. I look forward to hearing about how your longer trial of...

Mine is the same.

I just looked into my magic 8-ball, and it said "It is a sure thing". It was right about me dating my high school sweetheart, too, so I'd say we are good. Just gotta wait.

Regarding the title of this post... This is precisely why one should not be defecating in attics. Sorry ;)

Thanks a bunch for sharing your success, and huge congratulations to ya!

Hmmm. Why? If sound can produce tinnitus, why can't sound eliminate it? It's not like we know any damn thing about the mechanisms that actually cause it :p

Well, there was only a 50% chance of you actually receiving the drug rather than the placebo, so it's not necessarily a loss (except in terms of the potential to add another datum to the study).

Yea, airplanes suck for ears. I write this as I wait to board an airplane :/ As a little kid (<10 years) I once had severely muted hearing for a week after a flight of only a couple of hours duration.

I'm considering it again now too. Clinics are just so far from me it's quite a task to participate... but hella tempting after hearing this good news!

Thanks very much. With any luck I'll have my just-in-case prednisone stash soon. Last time I tried to acquire it to no avail was directly after I was exposed to a brutally loud sound, which made my ears feel full and freaked me out a ton. I talked with folks at my local urgent care office, who...

I like your style, @Matchbox ;) What has worked for you in the past when you request Prednisone? What excuse have you used that has caused your doctor to prescribe it for you? I will see a doctor in mid-August, and I'll give it a shot.

That didn't seem to be the case for me. My sensation of hyperacusis is definitely fading now after 6 months since it set in, following exposure to loud sound that also resulted in tinnitus. Seems only sound-induced, plus whatever stress I was under at that time (pre-COVID-19-vaccine, pandemic...

@hanekawasimp, I'm sorry to hear you're going through a rough time. For anxiety relief, I find major benefit from being in natural areas, especially in the summer when the sound of insects masks my tinnitus symptoms. I also find some relief from deep breathing exercises, focusing on the breath...

Awesome. Thank you for the reply, and for providing the link. This is exactly the kind of constructive dialogue I was hoping to stimulate. I maintain that until citations/evidence is presented, a claim remains unsubstantiated. So, thanks for substantiating your earlier statement so I can learn...

I urge this community to be more careful about the propagation of unsubstantiated claims, such as "microdosing doesn't do enough to provide the 'reset'..." There are multiple citations in support of the concept that low-dose administration of THC may promote brain plasticity via neurogenesis...

This is not dramatic at all.

Hi All, I am sharing an observation regarding how NAC can negatively impact my sleep if I take it late in the day. I've experimented with taking NAC at different times of the day and have noticed that taking NAC within a few hours before bedtime gives me restless leg syndrome. For those who...

A healthy dose of paranoia, or rather caution, is certainly warranted. As soon as paranoia leads to anxiety, however, the complicated brain chemistry that appears to be involved in these symptoms seems to run amok. As tough as this sounds, it's best to not let this dominate you and your life...

This is "citizen science" in action! Science conducted by the people, for the people. Although for this to be truly scientific and objective we need accuracy and more participants. I wish I could obtain the drug and partake. Thank you to all who do end up experimenting with this and reporting back.

If nothing else, perhaps the high cost of using Saffron as a treatment leads to rapid habituation because we're dishing out so much money for cures, so we decide to just not care about tinnitus symptoms instead of going broke looking for a cure. This sounds like a psychosomatic approach to me ;)

It has quieted down in the past 5 months for me. Most noticeably, when I talk to people now, I don't notice it at all unless they have super loud abrasive sounding voices (lol I sound judgmental). In the first 3 months or so I was distressed by distorted sounds accompanying everyone's voice...

Yea, so where are things with this drug? Anyone else have any experiences to report? Worth trying?

Firstly, I'm sorry to hear of your symptoms. It's no fun, and yea it's crazy how rapidly it can set in from something that seems perfectly safe, like being in a bar once in a while. My situation is similar... I blew a mouth-whistle a number of times at a gathering and walked away with tinnitus...

Maybe check yourself into a hospital first? :D

Sorry for my ignorance, but I see a lot of details about in-ear masking devices and why to use them, but not much discussion from folks who can say definitively that they have benefitted from using these things, much less a particular model. Does anyone have success stories they could share...

I think providing a thread here on particularly useless ENTs could be very useful for others. I have a couple of ENT names I would like to add to such a thread.

Since the etiology of hearing disorders is so poorly understood, it seems like we might just need to try everything we can get our hands on as soon as treatments become available.

I'll be super interested to know about your experiences with all of these approaches!

The 50/50% split between a trip and a correct mindset being necessary for a brain "reset" you noted seems so very likely. I've read many places that development of tinnitus due to an acoustic trauma is most likely to occur during a stressful period, and that was definitely the case with my...

Hi Leif, I feel for ya, especially as you were wearing hearing protection. I wanted to share the following things that have helped me as I navigate similar symptoms as you: - Awareness that there is a good chance that we will experience spontaneous remission of our symptoms within 6 months...