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  1. Jaka

    The Nightmare of Loud Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Is Back — Sudden Worsening in the Middle of the Night

    Hi Nadia, Even if it doesn't look like it, I think you'll soon have tinnitus under control again since you managed your condition very well in the past. The spike might still go down. But that is actually irrelevant currently. You are already doing things to get your sleep back which is the...
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    I Got Sucked in to the Sonus Complete Tinnitus Scam

    Please don't say that you deserve to be laughed at for getting scammed while looking for a cure. There are people who tried even drastic things hoping to get rid of tinnitus. Since your case seems to be noise induced it is good that you are giving your ears a rest. Also consider getting custom...
  3. Jaka

    Hmm... there should be a box at the bottom to write a reply, like in forum threads. But I...

    Hmm... there should be a box at the bottom to write a reply, like in forum threads. But I agree... this webpage is a bit strange with some points. I'll write my email address in the PM just in case :)
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    Hi Steph, I'll send you a PM with a longer answer, but otherwise swimming only helped me...

    Hi Steph, I'll send you a PM with a longer answer, but otherwise swimming only helped me. Actually I started to swim again after getting tinnitus. Until quarantine I did it 4-5 times a week.
  5. Jaka

    4 Months Into Tinnitus That Started Out of the Blue One Morning

    My tinnitus also started suddenly with no apparent reason. End of April it will be 5 months. Mine is now high-pass filtered white noise (kind of electric sound) fighting with standard "eee" (sine line). Loudness varies with days. Some days are very good, which means very faint "eee" with even...
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    Tinnitus Changed from High-Pitched Eeeee to a Low Hissing/Fizzing Sound — Good Sign?

    Mine is doing this right now as I write this. It also feels like that the hissing/buzzing electrical kind of sound is fighting with the "eeee" in the background. I hope that this is what neuron rewiring sounds like and that it will sort itself out. High aerobic physical activity usually helps...
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    Dr. Will Sedley Requesting YOUR Input — Predictive Brain Processing for Tinnitus

    It would be interesting to know if the reverse also applies. That listening to certain sounds can influence the default prediction of silence to tinnitus. I am way out of my league with this material here, but there are a lot of people who have expected hearing loss for their age, no other...
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    Ear "Resets" with a Microsecond of NO Tinnitus... What Is It? Avenue for Research?

    I experienced both "phenomenons": 1. The "reset" when for a second or so tinnitus completely went away. At that time real sounds did not vanish. 2. Fleeting tinnitus, which actually turns off my "normal" tinnitus. My fleeting tinnitus is always lower in frequency than my "normal" tinnitus and...
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    Preventing Tinnitus from Becoming Worse

    Dear Dr. Nagler, First of all let me say that I can't thank you enough for helping tinnitus sufferers all over the world with your advice and for your "tinnitus 101" set of documents. To some extent I have acknowledge that "my horse has left the barn" (while still hoping that he may one day go...
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    Tinnitus Ear Oversensitive — I Can Hear a Frequency That Others with No Tinnitus Can't?

    From what I know Tinnitus is often associated with hearing loss, BUT you can have all combinations. Ranging from tinnitus with perfect hearing to total hearing loss with no tinnitus. My tinnitus is like notched white noise around 13khz and I can hear up to 16khz. I have colleagues who don't...
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    Feeling Hopeless and Sad — Why Do I Have Tinnitus?

    Yes, I had MRI because of tinnitus. Majority of MRI machines are loud. The doctors will give you hearing protection, but please make sure that you are wearing it properly. If in doubt ask the radiologist to help you insert earplugs.
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    Tinnitus Started While Sitting in an Office

    Office environment noise level is pretty normal. People talking from other side of the office can be heard. There are fluorescent lights and computers in the office. But there is nothing even remote loud enough to be able to cause hearing damage induced tinnitus. And I refuse to believe that EM...
  13. Jaka

    Suicidal

    My electro-metallic buzzing gets softer and sometimes sounds "broken" when I go for a run. Swimming used to have even more drastic effect before, but now that my cardiovascular system got used to swimming and my pulse does not go up as much during swims the effect disappeared. My pulse stills go...
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    Tinnitus Started While Sitting in an Office

    Well I could not really choose a silent MRI machine. I could only choose the magnetic field power :) So I decided to to take a risk with the machine loudness, since noisy places have zero effect on my tinnitus. But I made extra sure that I had properly inserted earplugs. I believe I was in the...
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    Music Teacher with Tinnitus

    With some people body posture affects tinnitus sound characteristics. In my case massaging the neck makes the sound softer and dipping head under water (just below the water level is enough) to make the sound go away completely (I have read online that similar thing happened to others as well)...
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    Poll: Was the Advice You Got on Tinnitus Talk More Useful Than Your ENT's Advice?

    My ENT checked Ears Nose and Throath. Said that everything is fine, that he also has ringing ears and he does not give a damn. Suggested distractions to not focus on tinnitus. No further diagnosis necessary.
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    Noise-Induced Tinnitus — 5 Gigs Since Spike — Not Getting Worse

    The linked article mentions shooting guns and considering the fact that you are holding the gun the sound levels at ear can definitely reach the "stupendous" level. I am going to be cautious about commenting loud cinemas now with provided measurements at concerts :) In the cinemas I went to in...
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    Noise-Induced Tinnitus — 5 Gigs Since Spike — Not Getting Worse

    120+ dBSPL at ear does kind of classify as stupendously loud. And it is definitely true that low frequencies will not just vibrate your ears but the whole lot of you together with your earplugs :) Also as I said before the 20-30dB earplugs will not have same attenuation over the whole audio...
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    Noise-Induced Tinnitus — 5 Gigs Since Spike — Not Getting Worse

    @Michael Leigh Please don't understand me wrong. I completely agree that anyone (with tinnitus or without) should be careful with noise exposure. Also I have read many of your posts and I don't want to be even a slightest bit disrespectful to you since I believe that you are an exemplary member...
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    Noise-Induced Tinnitus — 5 Gigs Since Spike — Not Getting Worse

    Are you sure about this? In my opinion the external sound would have at stupendously high dBSPL to achieve something like this. I agree that bone conduction could potentially cause ear damage if you pressed a vibrating device directly to your skull, but air sound waves would require extremely...
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    Tinnitus Started While Sitting in an Office

    An update for anyone interested comparing the progression of my case. I believe that the overall volume is still decreasing slowly, but the most bothering parts of the sound are still there (but thinner if that is the correct way to put it) A metallic-electric high pitch filtered white noise...
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    Tinnitus Started While Sitting in an Office

    I believe mine was not a particularity bad case. My hyperacusis started to ramp up gradually. At first it felt discomforting when my better half raised her voice to the children. I also felt bothered by a noisy restaurant. Then this increased to a point where I could not stand being in a noisy...
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    Tinnitus Started While Sitting in an Office

    Hello First a short summary: Start: 22.11.2019 Cause: Unknown, got it while sitting in an office, maybe mild ear infection? Definitely no noise exposure, possibly lack of sleep, stress Sound: High pitched metallic/electric noise (around 12-13khz), noise not constant, changing, but completely...