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I'm not on any drugs but every now and then a new high-pitched whistle comes in both ears, then thankfully subsides after about 30 seconds. Scary to think it may stay one day as it is very intrusive. (I am gradually getting some habituation with my 'normal' T but this new noise is disturbing).

PS I have to retract some of my snipe at medicos - Dr Nagler on this forum is extremely knowlegable and helpful - I always look forward to his posts, full of common-sense and understanding (he is a fellow sufferer). So, no, not all medicos are uncaring, and I'm sure there are others out there...

Hi Mike Just to say Hi from West Aus - as you can see I am a 29-year sufferer, however the volume of me 'ole mate Mr T increased (30%) about a year ago. I just wanted to mention Neuromonics - I gave them $5G about 15y ago and it did absolutely nothing for me. But I have to add that it seems to...

I prefer to use the word 'distraction' rather than masking, because I'm unable to mask my singing white-noise T (it's too loud), but I distract myself from it so I don't notice it. I use sound a lot - all night and in quiet times. I have mp3 players on which are white and pink noise, plus a few...

Hi Alan The posts above by the other guys are spot-on. With them I sympathise with you. T is a bully that is best positively ignored. You can train your brain to ignore this and by so doing will not allow it to impact on your life. Keep active to keep your mind off it and avoid quiet times...

Me too Telis. For example, I don't know whether, when my T gets so loud that I can hear it OVER and ABOVE everything else, whether it is actually that loud. Or is it just me, reacting too much to it? <sighhh> all I can do is go back to my white noise machine - but I don't take any comfort in the...

I acquired T from an unprotected .243 which in the list is around 155db... stupid stupid stupid me. IMHO It's a no-brainer: Use ANY sort of ear proection unless you want 29yrs of T, on-going like me.

I developed my T long, long before I developed an addiction to a good Long Black - my T doesn't alter one way or another and I'm not going to give up one of my real pleasures while I have to put up with a howling head. I have good T days when I drink heaps of coffee and have bad days when I...

Hi Rhea. I can only agree with you. Jastreboff's model of T and his Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, which is a habituation program, strongly recommends to avoid silence, which is what total sound-blocking earplugs like foam will do. He refers to an early trial where ppl (who did not have T) were...

Hi Clive - my wife and I are also motorcyclists, although not Harleys - unfortunately wind/engine noise makes my T worse but I use noise-cancelling earphones and play an mp3. Afterwards the T is a little less. T is definitely not going to stop us from what we enjoy - we ride across the country...

I do not want to come across as being mean but I am... so I hope this punk gets a Yeast infection in his acne covered hemorroids, followed by panic inducing heartburn causing incurable TMJ and deafening tinnitus. LOL - heh heh... brilliant RaZaH. Love it!! (BTW - How do you guys get to have...

Yep the telescope doesn't work all that well, seems to be out of focus - wouldn't be my eyes would it... <sighhh> maybe just as well, I get onto enough trouble without this...

Hmmm... just found a telescope in the spare room, dusted it off but haven't found any neighbour ladies yet... Amazing what you can learn on this forum, all sorts of tricks... heh heh... PS Jen doesn't do this forum. Lucky for me. She has a mean straight left.

Hi Marlene. I relate to teaching Jen to ride a scooter; she's fallen a couple of times and at our ages it takes more than ages for bruises to heal... so it's a long process but she's determined - she may give up yet, hope not but we'll see. I've often been fascinated by, of all things people...

Hmmmm... agree T-Man. I'll stick with my little ole mp3 player methinks - seems like a fancy masker to me... but let's hope we're wrong...

Sorry Cher69 - should have said Hi - this is your thread and thanks for it, great idea. We need to forget this T thing and this is a great way of doing that.

Hi Marlene Great to hear your stories. Ive just turned 68, now part-retired (work 2days/week) that keeps me out from under mother's feet - been married for 44yrs (on my third 'life' sentence! - so is Jen I guess). Done many things through life, some with some success, others not but have worked...

Agreed. I am a coffee addict and although my T has increased in volume over recent years I doubt it has anything to do with coffee. These 'research' things are popping up all the time - coffee's bad, coffee's good, this is bad, this is good, etc. I tend to ignore it all, everything in moderation...

Believe me when I write that I've tried everything to rid myself of this ringing, from the simplest pill to the purchase of a $5200 Neuromonics unit. Placebos, really. What did start me on the right track, however, is having finally realized deep inside the truth. That this thing can't/won't...

Thanks for the guitar work guys - great stuff. Rich, you're right - not Kiwifruit - just out of idle curiosity I tracked down the fruit we ate - it is the Lilly Pilly, native to Aus but also with varieties in California: LillyPilly Acmena smithii Syzygium paniculatum Myrtaceae Magenta Lilly...

Hi Steve Many thanks for your album - excellent stuff! Perfect for my night-time 'distraction' sounds. Cheers Ray

Hi David. Yes I agree - I don't notice my T when I'm busy and distracted, and I manage to 'mask' / no, not mask - wrong word - as its still there - 'distract' is a word I prefer, with white noise. I also grew up on a farm in rural Western Australia. As kids we used to gorge ourselves from a...

Thanks Sunshine - This is uncanny - you wrote your post describing exactly my T journey as well. (I am on my way to my second habituation. Hard going but I'll get there). This time I am using 'distraction' sounds (I prefer 'distraction' to the word 'masking' because I can't mask or blot my T out...

Agree with everything others have said Jordan - you must not concentrate on your T - keep yourself occupied and in quiet moments have some quiet noise or music (sorry not grunge) in the background and concentrate on that noise which will let you forget abut your T - I'm sure this will fade over...

I should have given credit also to Clyde Wychcliffe (Hush Tinnitus) who recommended Jastreboff to me - I also got some white noise from his site, and other maskers from Stevearrison on this site - these guys are selfless and IMO heroes in the world of T.

Hi everyone. I've had tinnitus since 1984, I'm 68 this year, coming up 30 years with T. I self-inflicted by years of driving open tractors and headers, by using rifles without ear protection, and working a lawn-mowing round for many years also without ear protection. For many years I was only...

May be because it's quiet when we wake up and that's when T kicks in more - same thing happens to me because I have always liked to sit quietly at sunup with a coffee to start the day - so I've made it a habit to plug in a radio with earphones or mp3 with quiet masking in those quiet times, then...

Yes Martin about fifteen years ago, Neuromonics - it was expensive but there was no counselling, just a music player with classical tracks, followed by monthly hearing tests - in those days there was very little wrong with my hearing, there was nothing in the program to do with my T - it was...

I agree with you earsnothappy and Marton69 - I cannot ignore my T because it is loud, intrusive, and it is there always - TV, conversation, if I were to block it out with sound it would require very very loud noise, so I block it out by concentrating on other things (distraction). So I can't...

Hi guys Has anyone else got this Internet Ad., it's typical as it goes on for twenty minutes or so with McCall talking about everything but what his program actually does - I am wary that some things people advocate can actually make T worse, and I'm very very sceptical - there are going to be...

I have constant fullness in both ears and fairly loud T. I have a lot of wax but last time my doc checked she said wax buildup wasn't a problem. But ears always feel blocked - have done for years. Like some others I can't help thinking that there are some physiological issues that contribute to...

Thanks for this thread chronicburn - amazing how similar most of our symptoms are. I started the neck stretches several weeks ago following another post on the subject and some headaches which I put down to a head cold disappeared almost immediately. Just a curious point - when I do the neck...

Yes Ladydi and RichL - the program I paid for only ran for six months, and the machine stopped working before the end of it. I was so sick of just going in for hearing tests with no information on what it was doing and with no reference to T, only my hearing, that I didn't bother to get a...

@derpytia I feel for you and can't add anything to what has already been written so eloquently by others. I know where you're coming from - but there is a chance that your T will lessen with time, it's early days as they say. If I can add just one thing that helps me enormously, when T gets...

Yes the machine was a Neuromonics Markku - can't recall who was running the show but I've seen some posts on the forum from people who have used Neuromonics now with some success - maybe back then (probably 12-15 years ago) was early days for them and obviously they've developed the program to...

Thanks PhilB - I'm on a steep learning curve here and us old fellas have problems with slopes...

For what its worth, guys - several years ago I embarked on a tinnitus therapy course which cost me $5000 for a fancy mp3 player (that packed up after three months anyway!). This machine played pieces of classical music. There was no counselling - only monthly meetings which consisted of a...

Understand what you're saying Nills but as someone who has suffered tinnitus for close to 30 years, and only having recently discovered 'masking' I will take 'squeezing my toe' in a heartbeat. Especially when a cure seems a long way off. And I don't agree that masking has to be louder than the...

Hello @HushTinnitus - you may remember I downloaded your Hush Tinnitus program some time ago. I find it gives me great relief, but I use mainly the white noise (65 type3a x 15mins) - in combination with several other sounds (@Steve's Bell Melody) and three others; Tropical Rainforest, River and...

Really enjoyed the video by Dr Salvi although much of it went over my head. I was so absorbed my T almost disappeared and stayed quiet for hours after. Don't know if it was the concentration or the hope it gave that there are people out there with incredible brains looking for a solution for...

Sorry should have made it clearer - the treatment was extra to my neck, it was aligning my jaw which he said was a bit out to one side. This treatment was separate to my normal neck alignment, which doesn't affect my T at all but means I can move my head... heh heh.

Deb I have white and a higher pitch in both ears. Recently had treatment from a Chiro who does my neck alignments and the T was worse after - he also gave me an exercise to push one side of the jaw and brace muscles against the push - this caused a significant increase in volume so I stopped it...

Years driving an open-cab tractor and a .243 rifle often, stupidly not using earplugs. Got me for life and serves me I guess.

Dr Nagler, I recently heard a radio interview with a neurologist or surgeon who is conducting treatment of stroke victims with something I think (I was driving at the time) was called deep brain-cell stimulation, where a micro probe was inserted into the brain. This probe is so small and it is...

Hmmm... I don't put much faith in this - I drink too much coffee (espresso also) and it hasn't helped me much - still buzzing away merrily, but then I'm not one of 70,000 women? I'll wait for next week when there'll be another study that says it works the opposite for men... <sigghhhh>

Hi Bill 112 - I am a 30-year sufferer (long-term noise induced - tractors and rifles) and was interested to read your experience with your jaw - I regularly visit a chiropractor for readjustment of a neck problem - he is good and has helped me with that immensely. Couple of visits ago I...

Hi Howin - you will find plenty to read on this forum - plus support from people who suffer from the same affliction. Welcome, I'm new here myself...

Sorry don't know what happened there - $#@%$# computers and Win8!! - Hi Athena Im new here but a 30-year sufferer of T and just started using masking sounds - try Stevearrison's Talk Player on the right side of the home page - open the sounds and see if one or two of them make your T less...

Hi Christine - love the emoticons! Could you also send me details of your white noise generator? Did you get the sounds custom-made to your T, or is it generalised noise? I'm also listening to Stevearrison's T Talk Player, but I'd really like something that is customised to my particular T...

Hello My name is Ray and I am from Gosnells, a suburb to the south-east of Perth, Western Australia. I gained Tinnitus from working on a farm most of my life - two things set T off, that was working long days on open tractors (no cabs in those days) when the roar of the engine was constant - the...

Hi Mal I've just joined this forum so I'm new to this. I can relate to two types; I have a white noise and above it and louder is a high-pitched whistle. I've had this since 1984 so that's 30 years... I managed to ignore it for most of that time, only the last couple of years it has increased...