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You sound like tiny T. No offense, but if you had bad T, you wouldn't state this. You nor anyone else has any concept of how "bad" my or anyone else's T is, just as I/we cannot know exactly what you are experiencing. We're all different with respect to T, hoping to find some solace, comfort...

Relapse? This is not an addiction, it is an affliction. One either has Tinnitus or they don't. There are many catalysts that contribute to daily, weekly, or monthly spikes in severity. Regardless, it's still there, somewhere in the background. How one copes with it on a daily, weekly basis is...

In reference to The Voice, I often crank it way up on the sound system. Seems to have absolutely no effect on my Tinnitus later that evening or the following day(s). But then again, when you were a kid, did you ever experience prolonged ringing in the ears after a real loud or extended noise...

Just Google "Cicada Sounds" or "Cricket Sounds" for representative audio tracks. Found a few pretty close to mine, depending on the day, stress level, sleep, and diet influences. Played such sounds to my wife a few years ago..."Oh my gosh, Honey, That's what you hear!?" e.g...

Don't just lie down and take it...Power through it. Everyone in this forum is suffering to one degree or another; You are not terminally unique. Eventually, with or without improvement, you will have more good days than bad. The good days will come sooner if you accept your situation and move...

Some of these threads, like this one, have been going on for years, now. As I suspected early on, there is no real solution, no cure, no "one size fits all" remedy. Doctors, therapists, counselors, and the like don't know squat. They cannot offer accurate diagnosis on an affliction for which...

Thousands of professionals have found no effective, empirical treatment toward eventual recovery, yet this for-profit program/theory outside of the medical community is the answer?!

I've tried eliminating aspirin, naproxen, acetaminophin, and other over-the-counters on an individual basis with absolutely no results. Same with foodstuffs, although when a spike's coming on, I've found that some foodstuffs do indeed exacerbate the situation, ramping up the T significantly...

Great analogy by Dan T above. Neenie, if it is Tinnitus, you will, over time, develop internal coping mechanisms to get you through the day, week, or sometimes longer with little relief. I too was in a state of semi-panic the first six months, but over time came to recognize the symptoms and...

I have more quiet, or relatively quiet, days now than I did over the last couple of years. I'm convinced that they're coming more frequently because I've made a concentrated, conscious effort not to allow my T level to dominate my daily life. Bad day, high intensity T? OK, accept it the best I...

This forum works because nobody's trying to sell you on a particular product, treatment, and/or cure. And when an attempt is made to falsely promote some panacea, disguised as a caring, informed response from some quasi-professional, most people here see right through it, disuading people new to...

My own internal volume level varies from almost imperceptable (rare) to excruciating (occasional). I've found it best to try not to directly, cognatively recognize it on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis, although when it's excruciating it's pretty tough to ignore or accept it. Likewise, when I...

Over the last year I’ve come to realize that the only thing I have control over is my reaction to Tinnitus, not the severity of the condition itself at any point in time. Constantly monitoring the intensity tends to make a bad episode worse and a tolerable or quiet period shorter. Yes, sometimes...

Mine stops almost completely every once in a while. Don't know if it's minutes, an hour, or more, as I have learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth. If I notice it's really low or almost completely unnoticable, I try to think about something else. It ALWAYS comes back, so figure I better...

Are doctors more flexible with medications in the UK and other countries outside the US? I hear people talking constantly about trying this benzodiazapine or that, then bouncing to and from other medications. If I went into most any doc and asked specifically to try a certain prescription as an...

As a good friend of mine would say, "ya know, Paul, it's always about who you know." Or at other times of struggle, from various sources, "so life ain't fair...get over it."

I am neither well-off nor immune from agonizing about every difficult situation that tinnitus causes, yet I refuse to allow my Tinnitus to fully take control of my life, preventing me from overcoming the stress, anxiety, depression and bad feeling it attempts to inflict on a daily basis. I have...

There are still a few out there. I had a doc quite a few years back that, after running through all my ailments, made me give him a general picture of my life at that time, with a few poiniant questions thrown in. Instead of treating each and every little ailment and its manifestation, he took a...

I've gone through most of the stages and symptoms you describe, Tamalack. It seems T can take advantage of any weakness to wriggle its way into one's consciousness. I know it's not supposed to be funny, but I loved your analogies after expressing rage at the futility of the situation. But in my...

Reminds me of a line in The Shawshank Redemption - "time to either get busy livin' or get busy dyin'" Personally, I find the former much more appealing than the latter.

Because I started breathing? o_O I swear, it feels like that sometimes...only been awake mabe twenty seconds, and POW. Getting somewhat used to it lately, mostly because I know it could go either way in the next hour or two. I really don't think I anticipate it - It Finds Me. 'Tis a rare morning...

Obsessing over the intensity of the noise doesn't seem to make it louder in the way I perceive it, but it sure affects my overall mental health. When I notice that it's low I really try to think about something else - "Maybe if I look the other way it won't intensify." While that seems to help...

Mine's always there in the morning, too, almost immediately after awakening. If it's real bad, the odds of it simmering down throughout the day are slim. If I am not forced by the high level to focus on it the first couple of hours, often it stays mostly in the background as the day progresses...

RE: Edgar Cayce rememdies cited above. Sorry if this sounds a bit glib, but what I read into it is "try anything and everything and maybe something will work for your particular case." Spinal manipulations, particularly on the neck? Been there done that; on and off for years through treatment...

Yeah, I went through a period where a focused constantly on what I was eating and how that affected my T either later that night or the next day. I was pretty sure I could and was narrowing it down to at least identify some factors causing the worst spikes or dramatic changes in intensity. Long...

My T is neither quieter nor improved, and I have not habituated. It has pretty much stayed the same - some good days, some bad days, many fairly tolerable, with periods of extreme frustration and anxiety thrown in; some longer than others. What has improved throughout my tenure here is my own...

I use over the counter sleep aid gelcaps to help sleep through the night a few times a week. Unisom, Equate Nightime, etc. They're all the same, just antihistamines; diphenylhydraminehcl, in a larger dose gel form. Exactly the same as Benadryl. Tylenol PM contains the same stuff. I dont' know...

I don't know, Mahdi...in my opinion Tinnitus pales in comparison to the many tragedies and pitfalls that befall us over a lifetime of ups and downs. I believe that giving up, or rather, giving in, allowing T to be the precursor of all thought or actions in a person's life, offers it power well...

Does that mean you don't work at all? I so wish I had that option.

I'm not too sure about that...finding this particular forum, reading no-B.S. posts by informed people not afraid to put themselves out there, really helped develop my own coping mechanisms. Sometimes I return to the site for the sole reason of seeing a post where I might be able to offer the...

Driving, vibration, music, static, too loud, too quiet, The Voice....it doesn't seem to matter with me - the T's either sharply, excruciatingly there where i can't possibly ignore it, or it isn't; "back to baseline" as some put it. The only thing that seems to make a difference in intensity...

22yrs old, returning home to Nevada after a six week cross-country trip, three strapping buds in a compact car on a shoestring budget (amazing what broke kids can do on little to no money!). Had to camp out the last couple weeks of the trip, east coast to west. Got up (probably hung over!)...

I'm somewhat of a musician myself, same age, and have just started playing piano again the last few months after quite a few years neglecting the hobby. Stubborn determination; I'm not going to allow tinnitus to take music out of my life. While I find it virtually impossible to sit down and play...

Not knowing where to turn, I'd be willing to bet that most of us T sufferers tried a variety of "cures" and/or "treatments" that first year when tinnitus progressed from annoying to chronic. That early desperation phase is tough, making us vulnerable to unscrupulous salesmen and...

That's the crazy part... my mentor and coworker, a very nice young woman who shares many of the same duties, says background music or noise is really frowned upon by the manager, whose office is only ten or fifteen feet away. When I'm busy and focused, I'm fine. But when it's slow, as Mr. New...

I agree, Lord & Karen. Distraction is probably the best, sometimes the only, tool to change course on a bad day. Even if it only helps a little. I also work on compassion and keeping a sense of gratitude in my heart; things could be oh so much worse.

I haven't been sick like that for a few years now, which I attribute mostly to better nutrition. It's gotten to be a habit...I rarely crave a junk food/burger joint meal anymore, and keep the frozen ready-to-eat meals to a minimum. All the stuff a person can take battling a viral thing only...

Thanks, Danny. fyi, the file link was a little hard to find...spelled ciRcadas several places on the blog page. The recording's a little different than I expected; the cicadas that used to drive me crazy screeched in the daytime during Spring, masking all other noise. This is more of a nightime...

That's me all right. Even when I've narrowed down a certain food, group of foods, or specific ingredient to those most likely causing spikes, then later finding that limiting or increasing their intake really has no effect. So I decide this is rubbish...I'm not going to perseverate on that...

I've been at a new position just over two months now (very grateful for the job). Not only is that in itself stressful, but the office is SOOOO quiet, making a bad T day all the more pronounced. When it's slow I find myself at a loss at what to do next; being new I definitely want to appear...

I'm pretty sure my T finally set in for good after a series of nasty viral bouts a few years ago. I'd experienced prolonged ringing to some degree in the years leading up to that period, but it didn't become chronic until somewhere around that one particular time of extreme and prolonged viral...

An extremely large, acres-wide patch of chirping Cicadas, which I used to ride through in the Nevada high desert gathering cattle, is the closest I can come to describing that constant, high pitched sound in my head. Not many people have heard it at such high, unyielding intensity; used to drive...

Although many say alcohol can be a contributing factor in exacerbating the condition, I quit drinking completely for maybe two years before the onset of chronic tinnitus, and don't drink still. The condition worsened. Now, caffeine does seem to affect me, but only occasionally. I'm a very heavy...

I dont' come around here near as much as I did after first discovering this site (the best!). In fact, as my T has gradually ramped up again over the last week (it's always there in varying degrees of severity), I consiciously avoided logging on, figuring it was most likely detrimental; me...

That's what works for me the most...don't give it the attention it demands. When it gets real bad, like interfering with my whole day today, just decide to get past it. Yeah, maybe it'll stick around this bad for a few days, but there are better days to come. The more I focus on other aspects of...

Fight an internal screechy sound with an external one, eh? I can't imagine using that trying to get to sleep or past a particularly long and pronounced high pitch T episode. Whatever works, I guess... I still haven't found a particular sound sequence that quiets things down when having a bad day...

I, too, never gave much thought to the intricities of hearing. Funny... I've been able to easily accept the structural components going awry; back, knees, shoulder cartlidge - attributing such decline to over-use, abuse, genetical predisposition, and just plain middle age. But the nervous...

I liken it to a sine wave. For example, my T is very noticable lately a few short minutes after I get up in the morning. While I try not to focus on it, in the back of my head I'm thinking "are symptoms going to accentuate as the day progresses, or is this as bad as it will get today? Or will I...

I printed it out so I could give it a second look later on this week. Though I don't know if I/we can muster the perseverance it would take to watch all those items on a daily basis. I do know that since really trying to eat healthier the last few years, limiting processed foods and avoiding all...

Grew up on a cattle ranch in eastern Nevada. Returned to manage it in my early to mid-30's. Lots of farm machinery, big dozers, etc. My guess - just one of many contributors to my overall condition. For me, the whys and where'd it come from has little relevance in dealing with the present...

"Those who have had tinnitus for a longer time (and not necessarily anymore as bothersome as in the beginning), but who are interested in the community aspect, supporting others and sharing and looking up information, keeping up to date so to speak. " I'd consider myself as one of this type...

I started playing piano again recently, regardless of whether the Tinnitus is at high or low levels. For me, whether I play or not is mostly about my emotional state. During tough times, I can't even look at the piano. Finally through such a period, I am not about to let the condition dictate...

tinn-EYE-tus. Medical terminology generally pronounces "itus," or refering to a condition, as eye-tus. -Itis - a suffix used in pathological terms that denote inflammation of an organ (bronchitis; gastritis; neuritis) and hence, in extended senses, nouns denoting abnormal states or...

Short-term goal: try not to get upset and keep realistic when my T keeps returning with a vengeance after I expected it to subside after finally getting through recent and prolonged life stress events. Long-term: Stay focused on the positives while monitoring any progress and comprehensible...

Thanks Louise. I printed down the list, then did a little web surfing on glutamic acid. How can one possibly avoid even half of the items on the list in everyday food consumption? We've tried to limit processed food consumption for quite some time, but even that can be difficult in our...

Anybody have a recommendation on a good, inexpensive bedside white noise/sound masking machine? I'm back to using the Homedics SoundSpa SS-2000 ($19.95 Walmart) I've had for a couple years, and while it often helps divert attention while trying to get to sleep on evenings when the T is...

Not to worry... Wanting to avoid doc visits and pain meds, I got a medical marijuana card after blowing out a shoulder during our move to Colorado last Spring. While some people swear by it, I got absolutely no relief from either the shoulder pain OR tinnitus. If anything, it made matters worse...

In WA & CO, who recently made personal use legal, and in the 16 other states where it is approved for medicinal purposes, federal authorities normally don't bother anyone abiding by state law, so long as they don't openly flaunt their personal use or engage in unlawful production or distribution.

I believe that most people who question the underlying dogmas of the world's major religions learn to keep their opinions to themselves rather than offend those finding comfort in defending faith over fact, regardless of whether those facts contradict directly with the underlying basis for the...