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    Does Stress / Anxiety Literally Worsen Tinnitus?

    Simple question, but somehow this distinction seems to get lost in translation. Does anxiety make the experience of having tinnitus more stressful, WITHOUT any effect on its volume? Or does tinnitus LITERALLY make tinnitus louder?
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    "Chirping" Tinnitus

    Can someone who has "chirping" tinnitus tell me what their experience is like? This is the one word that seems different from all the other forms of tinnitus that I see described. Ringing, buzzing, hissing, roaring...these all seem like steady tones. But "chirping" seems like an intermittent...
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    Rapidly Fluctuating Unsteady Tinnitus Tone: Impossible Get Habituated!

    My tinnitus isn't the usual run of the mill steady tone. It's erratic and clicks rather loudly, not to mention it reacts to tons of stuff. This means I can't mask it, and I hear it all day long. It's impossible to ignore. If I run a fan or my air conditioner, I just hear even more click click...
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    Don't Understand How People Survive This.

    I have another thread I just posted, but I think the really important thing I wanted to say got buried in everything I said. My tinnitus fluctuates. And no, I don't mean like it's 4 / 10 for an hour and then 8 / 10 for the next. I mean it's like morse code. As in when it decides to click /...
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    Induce Steady Tinnitus

    I have this super erratic tinnitus in my ear. When I'm calm, it just kinda clicks every 4 - 5 seconds. Actually, when I'm drunk and have completely cleared my head, this clicky shit is gone completely, but in my normal state of being, it's rattly / clicky / super hard to get used to. I had an...
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    Rapidly Fluctuating Tinnitus

    Some quick background: got an ear infection 2 months ago, definitely had lots of ringing over the next several weeks, tones of many different pitches. That ringing has, I would say, gone away 100%. Now, however, I'm left with a really unsteady noise that I will do my best to describe....it...
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    Advice for Newbies

    A couple of months ago, I got an ear infection which I'm still trying to figure out whether has caused me the kind of tinnitus that everyone on this forum has been dealing with. After only a few weeks of the condition, I would wake up in the morning and listen so closely to my ears and try to...