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Hi Kirstystired, I noticed you are a new member to the club no one wants to join. I hope you don't mind if I offer one or two 'thoughts' about surviving at the start. Read and trust this site, it saved me and a lot of other people. It provides you with information, and the 'I am not alone with...

Thanks for the support Kirstystired. Time is a thing that can be viewed so differently, I agree to give it time, it is just living through the time. Thanks. John

Thanks Midas for the input. I actually have custom made earplugs that I have been using for about 2 years. I was wearing my 25 dB plugs, but obviously they were not enough. I am a teacher and I will be off until Sept. 8th which is good as it will allow me time to protect my ears. In school I...

Thanks AJC for the thought. It may be worthwhile. I have had this before, it is just for some reason this time it is hitting me harder, I don't know why? I think I will pursue it if I don't get a handle on it.

You can read this. You don't know how much that means. I have posted and nothing was coming back. It made me feel very cut off. Thanks for the reply. I agree, but I could use some outside help right now.

Please excuse the rant. I was doing great. My tinnitus is in both ears with a high pitch in the right ear, and a generally lower tone in the left. In just over 2 years my tinnitus was really subsiding and was noticeable only several times a day, still loud at times (could hear it while driving...

Hi Jeremy I know exactly what you are feeling. I got my tinnitus 2 years ago, it was lessening over time and then 2 days ago at a friend's place with a nail gun, my tinnitus is back to where it was, loud and consistent (I am floating around a 7/10 in the right and a 5/10 in the left). I am...

Hi Elfin Thanks for the info., it matches with Michaels very well.

As always your words are focused, insightful, and helpful. As always thanks.

Hello everyone. I may have to go on blood thinners due to an irregular heart beat (which hopefully they can fix with an ablation). I am already on 81 mg. of aspirin and it does not seem to have an impact. I am worried it may exacerbate my tinnitus. Will it? Are there certain blood thinners...

When in doubt seek some help. If you don't have a doctor that you see regularly, go to the walk in clinic, or if you know a good ENT that will listen go there. I would also see about going into a hearing center and talk to an audiologist, especially one that has been around for a while and has...

Hey Tracy, and you too Riley. Just wanted Hey Tracy, and yes Riley too. Just wanted to say 'Hi' and check in to see how you are doing. You are not forgotten, and I wanted to make sure you knew this. I hope it is getting better. I must admit, the world of t. is not fun, but it is where we find...

Hi Heidi Sorry to hear about your experience. Anyone with t. understands how this is not a fun time in one's life. My t. started in July as well, in the left ear first, the right about a week later. The tone fluctutates for me, sometimes quieter, sometimes just angrier. As I have read on this...

I would also try while meditating to work on balancing the energy between the left and right sides of your brain. I have found that doing some energy work in the brain (the 6th and 7th chakric points for some) has also resulted in a minimalizing of the sound in my right ear particularly.

Even though my geneder precludes this possibility, if it got rid of my t. I would volunteer for the first male-to-have-a-child program.

Hi Tracy After having taken a little break from the forum (a little mental balancing for myself) I have returned to the forum and I told myself that when I do, one of the first things I was going to do was to send out a note your way to say hi and see how you and Riley are doing. I have...

Hello Michael As always I have found your advice to be very informative and useful, and so with that said I have a question (or 2). I have found my situation to be very similar to Timothy's with regard to recovery. Mine may fluctuate from very quiet in the morning (on the rare occassion), to...

Hello Everyone. I have noticed that when I yawn, the tinnitus in my right ear gets louder, but then goes back down. When I have been in a conversation with someone, after a number of minutes my tinnitus fluctuates up and then down, and sometimes when I am eating it goes up, and then with time...

Hi Luminox You are not alone, because what you wrote is pretty much a carbon copy of my experience. The difference would be that mine started aroung the 17th of this July. Glad to meet you, and you are right, it is good/comforting to know that there are others out there and that they too have...

Hi Tracy As I write this, the t. in my right ear is getting so loud it is hard to focus on writing this. Did I do anything wrong? No, it just happened, I turned my head and it happened. Should I blame myself for turning my head? No. Should you blame yourself for taking Benzo when you did not...

Hi Tracy We all make mistakes, some bigger and some smaller. I am wondering did this mistake affect your t. directly (going to a concert without ear protection), or did something happen in some other part of your life that caused you to stress, and that stress has affected your t.? Let me...

Hi Greg, So that is your kind way of saying I not only missed the boat, but that it had left the bay for Australia and should be docking any moment???

Hi Greg After all the help you have given did you really think I wouldn't respond? Actually I am on Nortripyline (different spelling than for Glynis above - could it be she is in the UK and I am in Canada?) and it has been great for me. My doctor told me it was not really for the t., but for...

Hello Staci I too am new to tinnitus, not yet 2 months in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very stressful...

Hi Ty P. Yes =, they are the same, just called different things. Explore different sites. I did and for some they worked better with me than others. I play different ones on different nights, it depends on the volume and pitch of my t. at the time. Glad to hear that the weeds worked, do you...

Hi Tracy, Mistakes are really just practise runs until you get it right. I am still in the learning curve myself. When I go out, ear plugs in or not? Should have put them in, ops, ears just went, and I just learned something. I am finding that not just living with t. but rather life itself is...

Just read this post from the Success Section, maybe you should read it to, but if not here it is. It is from Allyssa Lee Hi all! I remember when I first got tinnitus, there was a lot of worry and anxiety about it all. There were nights when I couldn't sleep because of the stress! I was...

Hi Ty P. I too did wake up to my tinnitus, though I do not feel it is as prominent as your situation. I was using a tinnitus sound therapy web site (the ones that go for 8 to 10 hours) when I was sleeping. My doctor gave me some Nortripyline to help with sleep/anxiety, and I found I was able...

Hi Sarah Everyone knows what you are going through, and you are not alone, you have support at this site. There are others who regularly read, support and answer your questions. Just realize that this site is a world wide site, so if people do not respond right away, it is because they may be on...

Hello Ty P. I am only a little ahead of you in the t. world, just coming up to 2 months. I have found a couple of things have helped me, and so I thought I would share. I hope these give you some thoughts. How do you get off the vicious cycle of t = anxiety which ='s more t which ='s more...

Hi Tracy, I just wanted to reach out and see how you and Riley are doing?I just read some of the posts above, and I thought I would share with you some thoughts on Nortripyline. I am not a fan of medication, and I feel fortuanate that in my 50's the only meds. I am taking is baby aspirin. Then...

Hi AliciaJay Just thought I would reach out to see how it is going. The start is the hardest, but it does get better, and it really is amazing how the human mind can adapt and overcome this 'issue' that got in our way. While, I will admit it was not easy, I have been trying over the past...

Hello Joeymeatballs While I am relatively new to this world as well (less than 2 months in). I was wondering if you have tried searching on the web for tinnitus sound therapy web sites. I listened to different music, some spoke to me, some didn't. I have it on during the day, and at night I...

Hello Aliciajay I too am new to tinnitus, not yet 2 months in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very...

Hello Jeff I too am new to tinnitus, not yet 2 months in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very...

I would contact Greg Sacremento or Glynis, Michael Leigh, or Bill Bauer. I am new to tinnits (just less than 2 months in), but I have learned that this group is pretty good with picking up on symptoms. Have faith, best wishes and good luck. John

Hello Glen I too am new to tinnitus, not yet 2 months in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very stressful...

Hi Mary oj I hate to disagree with you but not are not going through nothing. Being unemployed is something, especially when it gives you all the time in the world to think of your situation, which just feeds how you feel about your situation, and it thus creates this loop that can, at times...

Hello Dawn I too am new to tinnitus, not yet 2 months in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very stressful...

Hello Striveon I too am new to tinnitus, not yet 2 months in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very...

Hi Fally Well guess what? I now have another reason to be happy, in sort of a sad way, to share that I live in Toronto, Canada, and yes, the coffee shops do not really play loud music, though sometimes the conversations get loud (remember Canadians drink the highest amount of coffee per capita...

Hi Fally Just one suggestion, but please do not sit in silence. Silence only makes it sound louder and also makes your brain focus on it more, and makes the world close in all that much more. I live alone and lets face it the walls can close in pretty fast. I am very grateful in that I found...

Hi Fally I wish I could say with great confidence that I researched this and that on this and that site, but I didn't. I went onto Google and typed in sound meter app., and a selection appeared. I used the one that was rated higher than others. However, I think I did that just to make myself...

Hi Fally One of the hardest things I am dealing with right now, is the fluctuating for no particular reason. I have been chatting with Bill B. and others and apparently fluctuating t. can be normal, especially at the start. What fluctuating t. means after 6 years is a good questions to ask...

Hi Fally I know exactly what you mean. I am a teacher in an inner city school in Toronto, Canada. Quiet as a mouse is a phrase rarely ever heard in this place. The students are loud and aggresive. That is one of the reasons why I have taken time off to get used to noise, and not, for lack of...

Hello Fally I am relatively new to this world of tinnitus, and I am on the steep learning curve of how to deal with it. One thing that I have been wrestling with is the 'I should have known better' re. ear plugs, going past noise and wondering is this going to spike my t.? I was walking in a...

Hello Jesus Jack I think you will find this forum is filled with a lot of good advice from people who are well informed. However, with that said, I am not neceassarily one of them, as I am new to the World of T., only 6 weeks or so in. I would suggest that you do read the success stories...

Hi RCS Well, I have no choice to sound positive, you see I am a teacher and it is bred into us to always see the silver lining on every cloud/child. That is why I will never go on a boat cruise. I have this vision that there we are floating along, and BAM, the boat sinks in 5 mins. There are...

Thanks Bill, so what is NAC?

Day was going well. Then I walked past a store and a lady, by mistake put a piece of clothing near the front and set off the alarm for merchandise, directly into my ear. I mean I was in the perfect place to take a full blast directly into my right ear. Yup, 10 sec. later my ear that had been...

Hello Elizabeth I am new to the World of T., so while I desire to give you insight about do this, this med. can go with this, and this is caused by this, I can not due to my newness to this world. So all I can offer is my support and best wishes. There are others on this site who are quite...

Hello Jemina I too am new to tinnitus, just over a month in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very...

Hello Teabird As I read your post, I could help but think about how strong and resilent you have been throughout your ordeals. As unfortunate as it is, growing old is not for the faint of heart, but I could feel through your words that you have lots of heart. With time and experimenting with...

Hello Holly Sorry to hear about your T. and the concert. I too am new to this and I too am facing some of the tougher questions, re. doing what you used to do, living a life. I don't know if this will help you, but I thought I would share how I am trying to 'habituate' aka. adjusting to the...

Hi Jemina Hope is the best thing, especially at the start, and as hard as it can be to see at times, patience with yourself, thinking and seeing it can get better can help you habituate (get used to it). I think everyone makes mistakes at the start (going to the movies without ear plugs for...

Hello Jemina I too am new to tinnitus, just over a month in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very...

Hello Sky High I too am new to tinnitus, just over a month in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very...

Hello First things first, you are human, like all of us, and you know what that means? It means that you, like everyone, tries their best to deal with whatever situation they are in the the best of their abilitities. We all have made mistakes, done things we are not proud of and otherwise...

Hi Tracy Just thought I would drop you a message to say 'hi' and see how you and Riley are doing. So HI to both you and Riley!! If you are thinking about practising or learning about meditiation, I have been doing that for years, so if you have any questions, please feel free to send you a...

Hello Kelly I too am new to tinnitus, one month in. I am glad you found this forum as it gave me the hope and the support I needed from a lot of different people who are united by one element, tinnitus. From what I have read and experienced, the first couple of months are very stressful. You...