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  1. Ilija

    If Your Tinnitus Vanished, How Would Your Life Change?

    It would end up being the same as it was when I lost some of my anxiety induced sound sensitivity. Day 1: Oh lawd it ain't there any more Day 2: Yes still not there Day 3: Already forgot about it ever being there. I would be happy but I would stop being massively happy after a week of furious...
  2. Ilija

    Rate Your Tinnitus With 6 Questions

    Well at first I wanted to say it's all bad but once I honestly thought about everything, I actually have less than 6P's My sleep is great, I fall asleep better now than before T. I feel at times sad but not depressed. So I'm guessing I'm at 4P's. I read about how stress can make the limbic...
  3. Ilija

    Whistle Blown in Ear...

    Don't worry, if it's of any consolation my ears take daily loud noises people yelling chairs falling and such in the class room and my tinnitus hasn't worsened, my hearing is still normal, I only have recently gotten a touch of reactive tinnitus after a really really loud couple of laughs mere...
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    Update on My Tinnitus/Hearing

    -Don't get a hearing aid unless you really need it. -No, well at least I don't think so, either way by the time you're 40 probably sooner there will be treatments and eventually methods to promote hearing cell regeneration in humans, it's already been proven possible they're just in the process...
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    Is This Reactive Tinnitus?

    For the last month I have been plagued by something new. Some sounds produce a ring like after tone which had developed after being exposed to a very loud environment. I have also gotten a new tinnitus sound, a electrical crickety echo kind of sound and of course this sound is made louder by...
  6. Ilija

    Hyperacusis Seems to Be Back :(

    Yeah I think I had that after the first cold and with the second one it just got blocked more. Since I have a really stuffy nose/sinus problems I should really go to the hospital and have my ears/tubes drained.
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    Hyperacusis/Hearing Distortion

    Ok, my last post was a panic induced pent up post. My feelings and life are nowhere near as grim. Look what I have is the following, my general hyperacusis-when car breaks hurt like hell has gone down. My original undertones -pc undertones are 90% gone. I think what I have is more of a reactive...
  8. Ilija

    If You Had The Choice?

    Neither because the great thing is in some 10-20 years there will be treatments and possibly cures. So yeah I'll take my mild tinnitus and wait it all out.
  9. Ilija

    Hyperacusis Seems to Be Back :(

    Dunno, generally with me it's 3 possible things. -Neck problems -Ears stuffed due to sinus problems -General extreme anxiety which I have only begun after 8 months to sort of let go. Excluding the 3rd one the other 2 I should really have checked out as it would probably remove some of the...
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    Hyperacusis Seems to Be Back :(

    Have you gone to an ent?, maybe your neck is very soar so it's pushing up on the bones in your ear making them sensitive. After 8 months my neck is stiff AF so I'm pretty sure it's contributing negatively, but I'm just way too lazy to get it checked out.
  11. Ilija

    Hyperacusis Seems to Be Back :(

    Generally my way of thinking is, if it goes away for even a minute that means it can and probably will move along in time. So far it's worked, in the beginning I only had air T after waking up then it ramped up to ringing 8 months later I wake up in silence and it ramps up to very mild air T...
  12. Ilija

    Antibiotics for a Cold

    I'm not taking them for a cold I'm taking them so that the bacteria in my throat clears up, which it did within 2 hours. But on the other side I feel sick in my head and my gut hurts so yeah, still hate drugs.
  13. Ilija

    Antibiotics for a Cold

    I have been given a combination drug which is Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, can this make tinnitus worse? Last time I took amoxicillin my left ear spiked for about 2 days after I stopped taking it but after that it went away easy enough. I'm afraid of a spike as after recently getting a mild form...
  14. Ilija

    Loud Classroom

    No, if it weren't for these 3-4 idiots everything would be fine. My hyperacusis was never really bad and it has only gotten better after time. I'm not asking for any special accommodations, I'm just going to stick earplugs in every time there's a break while they're loud and during classes when...
  15. Ilija

    Loud Classroom

    I didn't mean you don't understand what troubles I'm having with hyperacusis, I meant you don't understand when you said that they're normal volume and my hyperacusis is just making it worse, I never meant to insult or say that you are just fine and or don't know what hyperacusis or having...
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    Loud Classroom

    You don't understand, I can handle normal yelling, the kind of yelling and loudness people usually talk with. I don't have that hyperacusis I can handle say up to 100dB. But these people don't just talk loudly they yell at the top of their lungs. The kind of war cry yell you get at middle age...
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    Loud Classroom

    Lels student.
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    Loud Classroom

    It's not bad but annoying, some normal sounds have weird sponge rubbing on metal sounds that aren't loud but are clearly there. I'm hoping it's the same case I read someone had where after his tinnitus got worse the sounds he heard were metalic As long as you take some protection, or it isn't...
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    What Is Tinnitus Baseline?

    No yours will likely go down. For me I started of with a ring, then tv static, then quiet air sounds I could barely hear in the quiet bathroom, then I got a spike which I am having now where I have the air and another tone, the spike also brought along hearing distortion but as I understand it...
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    Loud Classroom

    No they're really loud. Like every teacher in the school says our class room is the loudest, it can even be heard from the end of the hall. They're just straight up idiots yelling pointless new viral youtube songs at the top of their lungs. And even when you tell them "Don't yell next to me I...
  21. Ilija

    Hearing Distortion

    After accumulating this little piece of work bonus, life has once more gone down on the quality scale. After asking around the forum and not getting any real information I was wondering if you had anything to share with me about the subject. It appeared after some people yelled next to my ears...
  22. Ilija

    Loud Classroom

    You know now I finally get why my tinnitus is taking it's sweet time with the healing. The God damn class room noises. Today after having to sit through some stupid idiots yelling out loud cause it's the only way anyone will ever listen to them seeing as how they're dumb enough to be failing the...
  23. Ilija

    I Did Something Incredibly Stupid

    Right now I'm having a medium spike after having a hair dryer next to my ear for 5 minutes? I'm having some very reactive T, the new T sounds get amplified by some other normal sounds. While I feel crappy I'm still remaining sure that it's a spike and in time it'll go away as my general tinnitus...
  24. Ilija

    Sound Distortion

    So after having some people yell very loudly next to me I got myself some hearing distortion where some sounds caused a sickly hard part of the sponge rubbing on metal sound that really bothers me most of the time. Then in all my NOT THINKING I DIDN'T WEAR EARPLUGS WHEN DRYING MY F**KING HAIR...
  25. Ilija

    Spikes After Loud Noises

    Nah I mean you think that will be enough? Generally other than this and the some sound sensitivities after finally stopping to monitor and just living life the past 2 weeks have felt like I felt "before", not in constant dread and stuff but just peaceful and actually enjoying myself.
  26. Ilija

    Spikes After Loud Noises

    So the last couple of days were very loud for me. 1st there was a basketball game where people at times yelled very close to my ear 2nd was a football game where the ball hit some metal wires and it was loud as hell (knew something would happen after that one) So after these two I started...
  27. Ilija

    Tinnitus Joke for Acceptance / Overcoming

    What did the Tinnitus say to the guy who was waiting at the buildings security door? I'll ring you in. Oh my God is it as bad as it sounded in my head?
  28. Ilija

    Hearing Distortion

    So I had a loud event where people yelled quite close to me for a few moments. After that I've gotten some form of hearing distortion. Say I run my foot through my shag carpet I hear the normal sounds but I also hear this somewhat distorted undertone, same goes for some sounds in the distance...
  29. Ilija

    Psychological Triggers for Hyperacusis/Sound Sensitivity

    3 days ago I went to a friends house, we laughed quite loudly and I thought to myself how this will most likely spike my Tinnitus and so it did. The spike was weird took a nights sleep to manifest, I firstly noticed a spike in the ear that absorbed the laughing if you will, so this got me...
  30. Ilija

    Hyperacusis — How Does It Arise?

    Well other than exposing yourself to really loud noises over long periods of time, nothing really. I don't mean that in a THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO WAY I mean as in unless you're actively thinking about it, stressing about it, imagining it, telling yourself this is so loud it hurts and stuff...
  31. Ilija

    It's Impossible to Avoid All Random Loud Noises

    I agree, what seems to make Tinnitus worse for me is my anxiety after these loud noises. Loud door slam "check tinnitus" "become neurotic again" and there you have it an anxiety spike. The sound sensitivity I have now is probably the result of me being neurotic and checking all sounds to see if...
  32. Ilija

    Got Tinnitus at a Young Age :(

    A week is nothing, well you and I both know that a week with Tinnitus is like a lifetime but hear me out. Generally it's widely accepted that it takes 1 year for Tinnitus to truly be deemed chronic, in the period of that 1 year anything can happen. For instance, in the beginning 3 months my...
  33. Ilija

    Tinnitus and Hearing Loss.

    I just wanted to ask, is it true that if you have Tinnitus your cells degenerate so you lose your hearing. For instance my hearing is normal now but in 5 years due to Tinnitus it gets a lot worse, I don't mean the common progressive hearing loss where I can't hear 18 000 Hz anymore I mean real...
  34. Ilija

    So Is This Recruitment or Hyperacusis/Sound Sensitivity

    Not really, I should but I'm lazy, I just found a youtube video that goes from 20-20 000 borrowed a friends 300$ headphones put it on the lowers volume and went through, I should probably see a doctor, I will eventually. But I don't think I can have recruitment for frequencies above 8000 in...
  35. Ilija

    So Is This Recruitment or Hyperacusis/Sound Sensitivity

    From what I understood from the explanation, I neither have sounds that are terribly loud, nor do I have fuzzy, in fact I can hear up to 18 500 Hz quite well, I think that what I have is phonophobia since the sounds are usually much lower if I'm not panicking over them. Maybe it's just sound...
  36. Ilija

    So Is This Recruitment or Hyperacusis/Sound Sensitivity

    I'm no sure about upper hearing loss, I got tested with the standard one and I showed no hearing loss whatsoever from 20-8000 Hz, although I might have some minor hearing loss in the upper frequencies.
  37. Ilija

    So Is This Recruitment or Hyperacusis/Sound Sensitivity

    Ok so along with my Tinnitus I have this thing. Basically, I hear undertones in mostly electrical stuff, my PC produces some high pitched windy eeee, also it is generally louder than it was pre Tinnitus. I've also been getting more undertones as I get in loud situations. Example: Friends come...
  38. Ilija

    Can Tinnitus Be Cured? What Is Going to End Up Being the Cure?

    Too everyone asking if it's possible since its in the brain, http://www.memecenter.com/fun/4325803/thank-you-science. Observe a condition they though was unable to be cured, voila. What I'm trying to say is the fact that it's in the brain wasn't the reason we weren't getting any cures/treatments...
  39. Ilija

    How Is Your Hearing After a Year of Tinnitus? Could My Brain Be "Thinking" My Hearing Is Worse?

    THIS. This is exactly what I'm having or rather am in the process of getting rid of. In the beginning every time I heard a beep or an eeee or something I would think about hyperacusis,tinnitus,anxiety,fear,all the horror stories and by doing so I developed sound sensitivity 2 days in. But then I...
  40. Ilija

    Eyo Guys How Ya Doin' :)

    Hi everyone, haven't been posting in a while since yesterday. I've mostly come to terms with my Tinnitus, mostly not habituated yet. Yesterday I had some weird pressure change thing that made my ear reactive as hell for bout half an hour, was worried it was an infection. It went away soon...
  41. Ilija

    What Is Happening?! All Sounds Make a Faint Ringing Noise, Like Extreme Reactive Tinnitus

    I think it was just a random spike of pressure. I have no ear pain whatsoever, also no pressure anymore or sound sensitivity. Just a little sound sensitivity maybe left, also I'm still scared like hell. But it seems to have resolved rather quickly
  42. Ilija

    Hello Again, Bit of A Pickle Can You Help Please?

    I felt a pressure in my ear, after that the pressure is subsiding but now I have some reactivity in my ear. Now I know you don't believe in reactive Tinnitus but every time I take the chips bag next to me and make sounds with it, when I stop I hear a ring stopping with it as well. I'm afraid if...
  43. Ilija

    What Is Happening?! All Sounds Make a Faint Ringing Noise, Like Extreme Reactive Tinnitus

    I no longer have the drum, and no longer have reactive ring, what I have now is well some sounds provoke a cricket sound. It's no longer full, I think this may be a spike or something. I'm afraid of an ear infection or degeneration, I already had some sound sensitivity which has gotten better...
  44. Ilija

    What Is Happening?! All Sounds Make a Faint Ringing Noise, Like Extreme Reactive Tinnitus

    OMFG WHAT IS THIS, now when I swallow I hear something like a drum in my left ear, is the eusachian or whatever it's called tube blocked?
  45. Ilija

    What Is Happening?! All Sounds Make a Faint Ringing Noise, Like Extreme Reactive Tinnitus

    My left ear has pressure, it's spiked a little, but the most horrible thing is now all sound make a faint ringing noise like extreme reactive Tinnitus. WHAT IS THIS, when I take the chips bag and move it around it makes my left ear ring, everything makes it ring, my own voice, the voice of my...
  46. Ilija

    Recruitment vs Hyperacusis/Sound Sensitivity

    I have finally figured out why my new sound sensitivity I think came along. It seems every time I have friends over and they get really loud it seems to agitate my audio nerve and therefore I get some new sensitivity. Now I'm not panicking because I believe that once I let it go, stop the...
  47. Ilija

    Losing It After a While

    You're right on just about everything. I was talking with a close friend of mine yesterday, and when I started talking about Tinnitus since we were discussing how bad something would have to be for one to take his one life, when I heard the anxiety part of me talk I corrected myself right away...
  48. Ilija

    Losing It After a While

    I know but it's still stupid though Yeah but the thing is I'm not sure this was caused my loud noises, I've had spikes from loud noises but this isn't it. Hyperacusis means low tolerance to noise, low sounds hurting, this doesn't hurt, also it changes as I focus on it, say I don't focus on it...
  49. Ilija

    Losing It After a While

    There's also a very likely theory, I think what might have caused my sound sensitivity was me listening in on every single sound and obsessing, this caused anxiety of the worst kind, fixating on all ringing beeping and so on sounds just to be sure it's not me, cold sweat, pulsating heart 24/7 I...
  50. Ilija

    Losing It After a While

    Hello everyone, hope your having a good day. About 2 months ago I smoked some weed and ever since that day my PC's sound has been 2 times louder which is annoying. Don't know if it was the THC or my friends yelling in my room a couple of times but hey it's Tinnitus an annoying condition that our...
  51. Ilija

    Is There a Chance My Tinnitus Will Go Away?

    Ne nije? Seeing as how most people here speak English I'll get back to it. For one there are people who say it's under 6 months and there are people who say a year, now I have talked with a lot of people and the ones with Tinnitus lost it somewhere between 8 months to a year and some. Next to...
  52. Ilija

    Is There a Chance My Tinnitus Will Go Away?

    If it was a rifle then I wouldn't be completely sure but one loud speaker doesn't seem enough to cause Tinnitus. It took a year of heavy and loud music on earphones plus some very loud gigs to give me some mild Tinnitus. I'm not so sure about mine going away, maybe like 75% but the rest that I...
  53. Ilija

    Spike Not Going Away After Noise Exposure

    Nah I wouldn't worry after my cold it took like 2-3 months for the rushing feeling to go away. Hearing cells are sensitive and need more time to heal than say a broken bone.
  54. Ilija

    Is There a Chance My Tinnitus Will Go Away?

    Well first of all that eeee, great chance of it going like mine. When I first got mine I had loud eeee and swoosh, then just eeee then after a month maybe less I got tv static but really low, now I got wind also low, so I sleep in total quiet np. Tinnitus actually resolves on its own a great...
  55. Ilija

    Does Tinnitus Get Worse Over Time?

    Exactly the board is great and all but people have to understand this is only 5000 people, not diminishing the suffering just saying. Out of the say 10 mil who have had or have Tinnitus how many millions just forget about it and move on like nothing. My grandma,great-grandpa have Tinnitus and...
  56. Ilija

    Does Tinnitus Get Worse Over Time?

    Wow, you see now why I say don't go around forums like these? Supportive when you're depressed as hell, absolute anchor when you're trying to make your life something more than Tinnitus. No getting older doesn't mean louder Tinnitus, I mean seriously people I realize you're scared but shit...
  57. Ilija

    Tinnitus Doesn't Bother Me Anymore

    Did you have sound sensitivity in the beginning? It's been 4 months since I got mine and I still have some sound sensitivity.
  58. Ilija

    Does Tinnitus Get Worse Over Time?

    No not really, that's not exactly how Tinnitus works. In lets say almost all cases Tinnitus either remains the same or gets better over time, it rarely and I mean really rarely gets worse even after a lot of time passing, as for you losing your hearing and Tinnitus getting worse, let me put it...
  59. Ilija

    THC's Effect on Hearing

    I have read somewhere that THC can cause sounds to be perceived louder as it enhances the sensations and senses. I'm not sure if it can make it last this long though. A month ago I smoked some weed and ever since then my standard PC noise has been 2-3 times louder I'm hoping it's the THC since...