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This morning I went to have a free hearing test with a local audiology clinic. They do this periodically so I decided to go and get the test. The test went fine; that's not my reason for posting. In the intake interview, when discussing tinnitus with the bright, competent audiologist with...

From a purely "blood pressure" and "ever-present inflammation" point of view, doesn't it make sense that the reason tinnitus "gets louder" when some of us lie down, is that: there is a longstanding inflammatory process in the acoustic nerve, associated areas, and adjacent nerve structures...

Believe it or not (and why wouldn't you believe it? :) ), I googled in search of low decibel vacuum cleaners and stumbled upon THIS posting of a bunch of violinists discussing their tinnitus. Lots of entertaining stuff here and a scattering of links and subjective info on things they tried. Read...

Hi :) If I had time to research through all the threads like the hyper-reader I am, I would. But I have a partially-erupted wisdom tooth and the gums around it get infected/inflamed every other year or so, and I usually wait it out and use ibuprofen for the pain. This time, I am waiting it...

I've had a pretty good run of days, lately! I'm not gonna post in "Success Stories" just yet, though I feel some success here. But I'm a writer/details person and when I do that one, I want it to be really well-written in a way that does the most good to whoever reads it. Also, I feel that I...

Not sure where to place this info, so if the moderators will please title it/place it the way they wish, that'd be great. This article is about new findings on Lyme Disease. It doesn't mention tinnitus. I just think it's an interesting article because it highlights what happens to people who...

That's my question! This jaw-clenching, neck-rotating that produces an amplification of the sound - has anyone whose tinnitus has reduced greatly ever had the somatic symptoms go away too? I will offer up that on the days the tinnitus I experience is lower, the sound I get from the...

I have two methods which I've had some early success with! I want to share for anyone it may help. First, a quick note about my level of tinnitus: I would characterize the tinnitus I'm experiencing as being in the mild - moderate range. I say "range" because there are days it can drive me out...

I remember in college, the dormitory fire alarm erupted (with some frequency) at a soul-splitting volume that would literally galvanize a dead person into a standing posture and make smoke come out of their ears to boot. I endured that with regularity. It would nearly make me SCREAM when it...

If, in the case of acoustic-trauma-induced tinnitus, it is posited that the brain reacts to the loss of certain incoming frequencies (via hearing loss) by "producing" them to fill in the gap, then ... HOW COME I can still hear external sounds that exactly match the frequency/volume of the...

It's pretty consistent with me. Whenever I have Indian food (about three times a month, because there are no restaurants close by), I wind up having a pretty good day the next day! The quietest ones! The past three days, I've had a flare of somewhat higher ringing and discomfort. I had a...

It appears that I often (not always) have a better day the day after I eat a nice big Indian food meal. What I usually have are: Pakoras (fritters made of chickpea flour, spinach and onions) with a tamarind dipping sauce Onion uppatham (a rice flour pancake with onions mixed in) I'm wondering...

Just asking this question because I'm not finding it easily online. For a 53-year old, my test in both ears goes at approximately the 10-20 decibel range until dropping down to 40 decibels at 8000 hertz. Is this normal/can this be considered age-related? Just wondering ... Thanks for any input.

being up since 3 a.m. with tinnitus. Just one of those nights (they're becoming less frequent, but still give me a "wake-up call" from time to time ... ). Soooo ... I ate a second dinner. I hung out on Tinnitus Talk and communed with people who are SUPPOSED to be awake, on the flip side of...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2016/apr/05/gut-bacteria-brain-myelin Wasn't sure where to post this, as it's not tinnitus-related research, per se. It does, however, mention many of the brain areas frequently discussed here, and points to the interconnectedness of it all...