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Interstitial cystitis is tinnitus of the bladder: in the initial stages 24/7 you feel like your bladder is bursting, this is not relieved by voiding. It also makes falling asleep harder than falling asleep when you have tinnitus. Many people go on to develop pain. Like tinnitus patients...

I am aware of the fact that many people have been reporting experiencing serious problems following the use of headphones. Does anyone remember reading any horror stories on this forum involving people getting problems when wearing earplugs while playing music through headphones? @Michael...

Earlier today, I got some WD-40 (the "specialist" variety that is supposed to be somewhat of a gel and stay on longer) on the skin on my hand. I washed it off within 30 seconds with soap and water. About 4 hours later out of the blue I got fleeting tinnitus, that got quieter but hasn't gone...

I used to have an account on Demonoid. Then the site vanished. Now I see that it might be back up. Unfortunately it looks like my account is no longer active. If anyone has an active account there, may I ask you to please send me that invitation code that they require for one to get an...

Have you had any close calls/bullets that you had miraculously dodged? Earlier this week, I slipped on my concrete driveway and fell backwards. I had instinctively moved my arms in such a way that I landed on my elbow and ripped my jacket. I came very close to hitting my head against concrete...

A temporary spike usually consists of a period when one doesn't notice any fading, followed by gradual fading, until eventually one gets back to one's baseline. How long was your longest period during which you didn't experience any fading?

I wonder what fraction of us on the forum feel that tinnitus has made their body uninhabitable.

I wear earplugs when I sleep. Normally I shower in the morning. Recently, I had a shower just before bed. After this shower, I inserted my earplugs and went to bed. The next morning I woke up with a serious ear infection. In order to get rid of it, I had to take antibiotics. I believe I got...

The best a country has to offer is often located in national parks. What are your favorite national parks? In the United States, are there any good national parks in the east? All of my favorite national parks happen to be located in the United States. Ordered from north to south they are...

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I hear a pretty loud rumbling sound when I clench my jaw (I need to be wearing earplugs to hear it). When I move my jaw out, I hear a high pitch tone. The rumbling sound is very different, and I think I might have always had it. How common is this?!

I wonder what fraction of tinnitus sufferers who get an MRI end up making their tinnitus worse.

I am having a spike. The only thing that changed compared to last week, is that I had increased my consumption of eggs. I am still not sure whether chicken eggs can cause tinnitus to spike. I couldn't find much on this forum. The only thing I found was...

In the past, I would often experience the symptoms of TTTS. I would hear a fluttering in my ear whenever I would stop talking. Sometimes I would hear it when other people stopped talking, or following some other sounds. Earlier this evening, for about five minutes, I had felt/heard random...

I moved the phone out of my home office, so that it doesn't ring close to my ear. Several days ago, I took the phone off of its charging station and left it on my desk. Turns out that when the battery is low, when you press "talk" on the phone, it makes an unbelievably loud beep. If I were to be...

I developed tinnitus after a sonic toothbrush came into contact with the opening of one of my ear canals. It delivered vibration and noise to only one ear, and that is the ear where I had developed tinnitus 10 days later. Eventually I began to wear an earplug in that ear whenever I would be...

It would be interesting to find out what fraction have suicidal thoughts, and what fraction stop having suicidal thoughts...

I was watching a YouTube video, and when told that you can take out an attacker by slapping his ear with your cupped hand, without thinking, I carefully slapped my own ear... I guess I was so relaxed and so focused on what I was watching, that I completely forgot about the policy of protecting...

The table below provides a good reference regarding the effectiveness of 3M earplugs and earmuffs: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1087607O/laboratory-attenuation-data-for-3m-hearing-protection-products.pdf Looks like Peltor X5A are, in fact, their best performing muffs. I will try buying...

My earliest memory is hearing a constant tone while looking at shapes that I couldn't make any sense of. I am not sure what to make of it. Could it be that I had tinnitus as a newborn?! If this is the case, I am glad that eventually it had faded. How common is it?

I had a root canal surgery done last week. Surprisingly, there was minimal drilling(!) It was a small tooth at the front, not sure how true the previous sentence is as far as the larger back teeth are concerned. In any case, first he drilled for 5 seconds to get access to the root canal, then...

If following the onset of your tinnitus you have had any dental procedure that involved the use of a drill, please participate in this poll. (For this poll, let's ignore the experiences of the people who have had a quiet laser drill used on them during the procedure. The use of those drills is...

As a result of tinnitus, I haven't done any traveling in 2017. Recently, I had a chance to travel in the United States. I discovered that these days, many hotels have air conditioning that produces a lot of noise and vibration. I don't remember this being a problem in the past (2016 and...

Recently, after being in a car for over 6 hours (while wearing hearing protection), I noticed a new tinnitus tone. It was pulsatile tinnitus and it sounded like a bow torturing a fiddle - a "wow" sound at every heartbeat: "wow...wow...wow...wow...wow." It is gone now, but it was certainly a...

I had my acoustic trauma on January 22, 2017. It resulted in ear fullness in one ear. I made an appointment with an ENT, and I was told to do a hearing test before my appointment. I had the hearing test done on February 2. My tinnitus had turned on in the evening of that day(!) I found it very...

I noticed some sawdust on the window sill, and saw a hole in the wall overhanging the window sill. When I sprayed WD 40 oil there, some ants came out. It looks like those are carpenter ants. I made an appointment with an exterminator. I am now worried that the exterminator will use chemicals...

The opposite of habituation is when the tinnitus sound that you used to tolerate in the past, seems to get more and more disturbing over time...

I grind my teeth at night, and I need to wear a mouth guard. The problem is that whenever I bite onto something hard (e.g., beef jerky), my teeth hurt, and sometimes (this has already happened twice) I need a root canal surgery afterwards. This is why I didn't use the $800 custom mouth guard...

I hope that in this thread people will post the descriptions of incidents that all of us could learn from. My tinnitus had improved greatly over the first three months (and changed to a hiss). After I accidentally pressed a loud landline phone (its volume stuck at Max) to my bad ear and the...

I left the door to the backyard open for 30 seconds, and saw a mouse running into my home. I was able to use a broom to get it to go back outside. However, at one point it ran at me, I couldn't help myself and screamed. Now I am experiencing ear fullness in my bad ear. Whatever you do, try...

I bought Peltor X4A muffs. I am happy about this purchase. Both X4A cups are as wide as ONE X5A cup. So X5A muffs are twice as wide. The problem with X4A is that their horrible chartreuse color will draw as much attention to me as the width of X5A. Has anyone figured out a way to cover up...

My ENT was completely useless. I got the impression that I am not the only one who has had a bad experience with an ENT...

News stories like https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-worst-ever-child-grooming-12165527 seem to suggest that British police are no longer protecting the public. If you live in the United Kingdom, would you say that tourists who travel to Scotland are safe? Would you feel safe to be...

It would be interesting to find out the cause of most spikes for most of us here. If you answer "something else" please let us know what it is, in the comments.

I just realized that I never looked into what one could do to promote nerve repair. I searched this site, but thus far I haven't found anything practical that one could do. Are you aware of any supplements that are known to be good as far as nerve repair is concerned? Is there anything else...

I began hearing a soft "click" sound in my formerly Good ear (that hasn't been subjected to an acoustic trauma). Sometimes I would hear it when I would chew food. Today I discovered that I can reproduce this sound at will by placing a finger into my ear and pushing it in and out. It looks like...

In case there is a fire alarm, I would need to use the stairs. I see that there are fire alarm units at the top of the doors leading to all of the stairwells(!) This means that in case of a fire alarm, I would have to walk less than a meter from the source of the sound of the fire alarm (I guess...

I booked a plane (Airbus 319) ticket and paid to choose a seat. The seat closest to the front of the plane that I could find was an isle seat in row 13. I just realized that row 13 is located right by the plane's engine...

In this thread, I would like to write about all of the important lessons about tinnitus (T) that I learned thus far. They are in no particular order. I will add to this as I learn/remember more. If you have lessons of your own that you would like to share, by all means post them here. The...

When did you become aware of bitcoin? Did you invest into it? I became aware of bitcoin back in 2014, the first time its price hit $1,000. I felt horrible about missing such an amazing opportunity, and then got myself to forget about it. Now I am kicking myself for not watching it and buying...

The effect of naltrexone on the perception and distress in tinnitus: an open-label pilot study "Overall tinnitus distress was significantly reduced for the drug treatment group, while for the waiting control group this was not the case"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/2533660 "The prevalence of tinnitus for those with monthly exposure to loud noise in leisure time was 17.1% compared with 7.4% for those without such exposure (odds ratio, 2.6; 95% CI, 2.3-2.9)." So this means that the risk of T is...

For close to a week now, I have been hearing a second tone in the formerly "good ear." It is louder and higher pitched than the regular sound that I still hear in my bad ear. Unlike my regular sound, I don't hear this second tone 24/7. My guess is that I hear it about 6 hours a day... I...

Let's try this again. My earlier thread about this topic got hijacked. I will quote the relevant content from that thread below. If you want to debate whether it is a good idea to protect one's ears, please do it in the old thread and not here. Here I am hoping that people will post places...

Some places where you are at risk of being exposed to a loud noise are not obvious. I am hoping that in this thread we can compile a large list of those places that we could all use to avoid spikes in the future. 1. If you open a window when it is windy outside, make sure to close all doors...

I discovered, the hard way, that I have cheap plastic Noisy blinds at my home. The blinds were closed, and I wanted to see outside, and so I pushed down a bit too hard and too fast on one of the blinds. The blinds made a loud noise and it was close to my ear. Now I have a full ear...

I have been taking NAC, Magnesium, Vinpocetine, ALCAR (N-Acetyl-L-Carnitine) for over 6 months now. Would anyone know whether any of the supplements commonly taken by tinnitus sufferers are unsafe to take long term (e.g., for longer than six months)?

This poll will not allow us to see whether one can reduce one's chances of recovery (or increase one's chances of getting a permanent spike at some future date) by attending loud events. It is still interesting what the results are going to be. Loud events are events like weddings, concerts...

My dental appointment is getting closer. I know that many people on this forum had dental work done and ended up not having a spike. One possibility is that all of these people don't get spikes easily. I discovered that minor noises cause me to have temporary spikes. I hope that someone...

I had a nap on a bed where I don't normally sleep. There is a phone next to that bed. The phone rang next to my head, and now my T is louder and more high pitched... What a never-ending torture... I am less sure than ever that I will be able to handle a dental procedure...

My T spikes for three days after a door is slammed near me. It spikes for the remained of a day after I hear a foot stomp on a carpeted floor. It is very sensitive. I am terrified of my upcoming dental appointment. I know I asked this before and many people said that they had no problems...

After reading the threads on this forum, I got the impression that the volume and the pitch of T that one ends up with is usually different from that during the first month. I would like to see whether this impression is correct.

I was told that unless I have a filling replaced soon, I will have to have a root canal done (which of course would involve a lot more drilling). I am terrified that this procedure will make my T even worse than it is now. My dentist agreed to drill for at most 5 seconds and to pause for 10...

I used scholar.google.com to look into Intratympanic injections as a treatment for tinnitus. Some studies seem to have positive results, especially for patients treated within 2 weeks or 3 months of onset of T. Looks like it is too late for me. Too bad the ENT I saw two days after my onset...

If you had a dental filling replaced 5 to 8 months after your acoustic trauma, did it result in a temporary or a permanent spike? Did it stop your progress as far as tinnitus is concerned?

I've been using the "crickets" setting on my sound machine to provide sound enrichment. I can hear high-pitch cricket sounds when I turn the machine on in the evening. When I wake up after sleeping for several hours (with the machine on), the sounds I hear resemble a rustle - I guess I stop...

Just before I made this post. I set the volume on my PC to 1 out of 100, and I set the volume on the site to 1 out of 100. When I tried to find my frequency, the sound felt too loud (not good when it is high-pitch). I was able to turn it off after 1 or 2 seconds. Turns out I forgot to turn down...

You could be watching a movie and begin worrying that the loud sounds of gun shots may give you a temporary spike. At the same time, voices might be too quiet to hear. Here is what you can do. The instructions below are for VLC player...

Several weeks ago I was told that one of my filling needs to be replaced as there is a small cavity underneath it. Now that tooth began to hurt. After reading the horror stories on this site about people's tinnitus getting worse after dental treatment, and taking into account the fact that my...