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My family is from Поділ and some still there, others are spread throughout Europe and the US, like Portugal, Switzerland, France and Florida.

Yeah I love that cartoon :P Yes most of them are from Kiev

I really like you @Bill Bauer you had quite a positive impact in my recovery and also I appreciate your darkish humor. In terms of spikes I never had them unless you are referring to fleeting tinnitus which i have quite often still, what i have noticed is that whenever I have fleeting T my...

I dont know if i had a serious otitis but i did have a pretty strong sensation of fullness in the ear a few weeks on and off until the beeping started. I would say it lasted for 3-4 weeks. I did get used to it but it was pretty annoying in the beginning. I just tried to get busy with life which...

It did go away and yes i did have a very bad cold and also got my earwax removed around the same time.

Try the anti-histamine hydroxyzine it's extremely powerful and will calm your CNS in no time.

So last Tuesday after doing one of the procedures with a nurse to remove ear wax my left ear had a ringing which subsided in the same day, however on the following day before going to bed I heard this computer sound in my head. Now I hear it pretty much all the time, it sometimes goes away and...

I can relate, sometimes all you want to do is run away, but I could've never done that to my parents, I know I would miss them.

Family can sometimes be unsupportive but I'm sure they care about your well being. They just don't understand what you are going through. Maybe homeschooling doesn't mean you can't go to college, can't you do your SATs and then apply to University? If you can't then you can consider working for...

Maybe this will raise some proper awareness.

And the worst part is that sound travels better through denser medium meaning that earplugs wouldn't save us from noise damage as the instruments' vibrations would just be conducted through the skull into the inner ear.

CRISPR-cas9 news are always exciting, it really is a new era for biophysics and biotechnology.

I'm very interested in linguistics but am very lazy towards learning more on that topic.

My favourite hobby is probably doing mathematics and wasting time on youtube.

Yeah I do agree it might not be effective enough for an initial sufferer. It didn't put me to sleep in the first two months.

It is quite a relief.

If you don't have one I advise you to buy a white noise generator, these devices can really make a difference when its time to sleep.

No problem :)

A neat trick I recently learned with another member to test if you are zinc deficient is to buy liquid zinc and taste it, if it tastes like water then you are zinc deficient if it tastes like regular metal than you aren't zinc deficient.

If you want to sleep better at night try some natural relaxants, there's also vallerian root extract which works really well and it's not a placebo. Also sound enrichment is fundamental for your brain to tune out these auditory excitations.

Interesting results.

Benzo is in fact a benzo but there are so many reports of clonazepam doing a lot more harm than other benzos for some reason. It was a very interesting read, I hope you are doing better now. Also requiem for a dream is a very scary film imo, extremely good though.

I can't say Julian Cowan is a charlaton but I can't say he isn't either. I'm not in the position to really judge his work without actually testing it for myself but from other accounts he is a charlaton. It never hurts to test it out yourself even if there is no outcome from it.

Clonazepam sure isn't a viable treatment but I know a few people who don't have tinnitus who are completely dependent on benzodiazepines, in particular they are depedent on diazepam. One of these people is a mother who is 53 years old and has been taking diazepam for a little more than 20 years...

Which one works best for you?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136369/ I'm not sure if this has been posted on this forum before but I found a list of compounds that might be beneficial for some people with tinnitus. I know this article is somewhat old but maybe someone might benefit from looking through this...

Maybe there's a benzodiazepine that completely surpresses these neural excitations.

A very good comprehensive overview.

By the way @Bill Bauer has a good thread on 70% recovery, which shows that even people who suffer hearing damage from terrorist attacks where their eardrums get ruptured can still recover.

I understand your position, I too felt desperate and sometimes still do. I also got my girlfriend worried about my behavior towards this issue, it's not uncommon to feel hopeless about this. You need to try and be resilient, there might be something you can do about this problem, you just have...

I do notice an improvement when using it, the ringing sounds less intrusive and more bearable. Also sound enrichment might prevent your ringing from staying in your brain.

Unfortunately I don't think you will find a reliable db meter for less than 200 USD. Go with Michael's advice and try not expose yourself to dangerous levels of noise. Being on the street you probably won't encounter any dangerous sound levels and if you do your brain will be sure to alarm you...

If the solutions don't work which I think it will, you will atleast have an aligned jaw which is always better than having a "broken" jaw. Do you use sound enrichment at night?

Nice hopefully you will get the relief you deserve. Don't wanna jynx it though(yeah im superstitious like that xD), it all points to what you think it is. Do you have any theories on how you might have misaligned your jaw?

I think you are spot on then. I had ETD from a cold and it sounded like the vacuum, if i move my jaw it gets worse, it turns into that single frequency.

Damn valsava maneuver. It might be ETD from your posts. Have you tried beclometasone dipropionate? It would help with any sort of congestion in your E-tubes. Also does your T sound like there's someone vacuuming next door or does it just sound like a regular single frequency tone?

Interesting mine gets worse if I move my jaw to the left. Do you remember what you did the day when it suddenly reduced/disappeared?

Maybe it will help even if it doesn't make a big difference.

Are there any conducted studies on the link between GABA and tinnitus?

Thank you Bill, I'm sure I will run into some questions that I can't find the answer to, in that case I will definitely send you a message. Thanks :)

Have you been exposing yourself to loud sounds or using headphones? @Michael Leigh advises not to use headphones at all and I agree that It might cause further damage. On a personal note, I've had fleeting tinnitus which was getting worse everyday 2 months ago and then it started to get better...

Although I imagine that other stereocilia would also get damaged generating other sensory input into the cochlear nerve?!?

That makes a lot of sense actually.

I personally believe that the future of treating tinnitus is in the drug industry and gene therapy.

I think awareness is one of the main channels to get the proper funding, we need something that moves the masses so that investors can see the potential for inputting their money and getting more out of it.

If it is an acoustic neuroma your chances of recovery are extremely good. My cousin had an acoustic neuroma and he recovered really well.

I don't understand what is the mechanism of action for LLLT?

If the capital invested continues to grow the chances of getting a cure within the next decade also increases. There's a ton of other research not directly related to tinnitus that also contributes for the likelihood of a cure, areas of research such as biophysics, neuropharmacology, molecular...

Funny enough I'm learning ukrainian as I'm gonna be spending christmas eve there and wanna feel somewhat familiar with their culture.

I would try and have a few specialists from different medical areas look into that. Hope you recover well.

I think you should politely demand for more tests not just that hearing test and otoscopic inspection.

I wonder if it's possible to completely remove the stereocilia from the outer hair cells by extreme noise exposure.

Unfortunately it didn't work so well for me, I used ear drops 3x a day for 7 days my problem with both proceadures is the pressure, and I felt the nurse and doctor were careful it's just the precision and function of the machinery that is not delicate enough for my narrow ear canals. As I...

From personal experience I don't recommend syringing at all. The best way to remove wax is with a curette, I don't know why doctors waste our times with microsuction and with syringing when these methods are really invasive.

If it's genetic then it's a completely different problem, I wouldn't be hopeful for a cure but you can try to live a fulfilling life. Who knows!? Maybe in a few years CRISPR-Cas9 will be made into some form of genetic cure for epilepsy so that you and your offspring can live without seizures.

There's some people who fully recover from epilepsy, I had two friends who had epilepsy, I don't know if they fully recovered but they live pretty fulfilling lives. I had a friend who felt some drowsiness in the beginning of his epileptic journey of taking the necessary drugs, but thankfully...

Maybe you would benifit from taking anti-epileptic drugs, your brain must have gone haywire when you banged your head. Sometimes these things fade away other times they remain, the best you can do is visit a doctor and describe everything you've described to us, I'm positive there's something...

I also experienced ringing for a small period of time before it turned into a way doable hiss. We are still young and our exposure to sound wasn't as bad as some other successful stories out there so hopefully this will go away. But if it doesn't we need to just accept it, imagine if you had the...

Thank you very much for the warm and supportive message :)

Has anyone experienced a ringing sound kinda like the sound from a singing bowl after using ear drops? I recently went to the doctor and they said I had a lot of earwax build up so they told me to use some ear drops so that I could have my ears syringed, after I apply my first few drops I...