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Dear Dr. Nagler, My name is Nina and I am studying Clinical Audiology at the moment. We have finally begun to cover my dream topic of tinnitus. We need to write an essay on tinnitus management options that Audiologists offer and also the management strategies of non-audiologists (such as...

Dear tinnitus members, Many of you dont know me, but I am the same as you. Just a regular person with tinnitus. When it first began I felt the same as you. Extreme distress, heightened emotions, despair, fear, anger, and many other negative emotions. I, like you, tried for months to find the...

Hi Guys, Many of you probably dont remember me from before but I used to be a regular on this tinnitus site. One day, out of the blue, for absolutely no reason, I got unilateral tinnitus in my left ear. It drove me to the brink of suicide where one night I was so afraid I went to emergency and...

Hi guys, Its me again. I'm still doing Audiology and its going well. Anyway, we have to do a year long project starting next year. I want to do something on tinnitus. I was tentitively thinking I would research the connection between mental illness and tinnitus distress. I was thinking, just...

Hi gang, So i've decided to do some fundraising. I'm going to ride 30km every day for a month, maybe 2. I want to set up a fundraising page, I have no idea how to do this. Do you guys know of an organisation that I should raise money for? Thanks Nina

Hi gang, I'm back! I still have tinnitus but in the last week it's gone down so I am so happy that I could jump up and down all day. I can sit in a silent room again, ALMOST! It's still there but only in complete silence. Here are some of the things I've been trialing for about the last 3...

Souvenaid is used for early Alzeihmers diease and works on memory and in slowing progression to Alzheimer's dementia. If Souvenaid induces synaptogenesis and improved synaptic function, it may provide benefits in other clinical conditions characterised by neurodegeneration. Seeing that...

Do you have tinnitus when you dream? I don't. Does this mean it's possible somehow to suppress it if you train your mind?

Hi, I know you're about to tell me I'm wrong, but I really do think that people that suffer with tinnitus compared to people that dont have a difference in the LOUDNESS of their tinnitus. I know that study, where normal people were placed in a sound proof room and 94% of them had tinnitus. This...

So i absolutely love Katy Perry. Like LOVE her and she's coming to Australia. Is going to her concert the dumbest idea I've ever had? Which earplugs attenuate the sound the most. I don't care about money. I just want the best ones in the world. But....is this enough to protect me? I could be a...

Hi, I have unilateral tinnitus which appeared suddenly one day 8 months ago. At the same time I developed a clicking crackling sound in the same ear which is audible to others and happens when I talk or yawn. It is uncomfortable and the tinnitus is also. I have an a few various feeble attempts...

Read this? http://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/brain-receptors-and-tinnitus/ Whadayathink?

Hello. Annoyed. Why can no one help us. It should be so easy. I hate that when you go to the doctor they tell you they have no idea and send you home. My partner is a lawyer. When a client comes to him and he has no idea, he goes home to research it and then tells the client the answer later...

Hi all, I just have a question. I have hearing aids (zero amplification, I have no hearing loss) that play white noise. It's better than living with tinnitus but it's also highly irritating and the volume needs to be up fairly high making it quite unpleasurable. Rain sound on the other hand is...

Hi family, How are you. I've really been missing you. I'm still doing Audiology and am on placement at the moment in a mining company. There's so much to learn. Before starting I thought the ear would be pretty easy, I mean it is just an ear after all. But, no, there's so much more to it than...

Dear friends, Thank you so much for all your continued support over this last 6 months. It meant a lot to me. Today I am started Neuromonics Oasis treatment. I really hope it will work. I am going to try my absolute hardest to make this happen. I will therefore not be able to talk to you anymore...

So just quicky, coz I deliberately set my alarm for 4am to study, but anyway, we were talking about unilateral tinnitus in class yesterday so after I went up to the lecturer and said "look, I've got unilateral tinnitus and blah, blah...." and she says back "Oh you dont have a problem then, I...

So I've only done 3 weeks of audiology so i dont have a clue what im talking about and we haven't covered tinnitus at all, but I have an idea that maybe tinnitus is due to hyperexcitability and has something to do with voltaged gated channels. Does anyone know anything about this? Voltage has...

So I have to write a thesis for my Masters, and we can pretty much chose any topic, provided it gets ethics approval and school approval. I'd really like to do mine on tinnitus. Do any of you have a possible topic I could do? It's a 2 year long project, so it has to be pretty specific. Any new...

So I've just done week one of Masters. It's so full on. I've been going to bed at 8pm every night and still waking up exhausted. Well, I've been waking up at 3am actually, but that's probably coz I went to bed at 8! We're at uni from 8-6pm every day and then after we're expected to study another...

So weird thing. About 3 weeks ago I suddenly thought "omg I can't breathe!". There was nothing wrong with me. And there is still nothing wrong with me, but I still can't breathe well and I have the urge to yawn but have not yawned in 3 weeks either. Can the brain seriously make you believe that...

It sucks. I just can't see how things are going to get any better. I am aware of it literally every waking moment. I'm so scared that it will be like this forever. I won't be able to cope. I don't want to have to cope. I don't want to die either. But my life just sucks so bad. No one cares...

I hate it when I go to psyc's and they spend hours asking about my educational background and then assuming that because I have an education that I am more capable of coping with life. Sigh.

Thanks to everyone that posts on this forum. It's really comforting to know you're not alone. It's also good to get a second opinion. And it's a good way for me to release my anxiety and get back positive hopeful posts. I check this forum every day and I really don't know how I would cope...

I don't know if this is relevant or not and I've never mentioned it to anyone before so I thought I'd ask all you smart people! So I only have tinnitus in my left ear and when I go to the gym (which is every day), my left ear gets blocked and stays blocked throughout the entire gym session...

Just a wild theory. I was wondering if tinnitus could be the result of the artificial things that we have in our lives, such as artificial sweeteners, hair products, soaps, medications, additives and a whole heap more. Anyway, if you're bored have a read of this about Aluminum. I think it's...

I fought with anorexia for 10 years and finally won. I never gave up fighting. Tinnitus is the same. Some people get over it in a shorter time, some people battle for years. But eventually we all get to a point where we realise that we can not accept the continual poor quality of life when you...

So my psyc has gone on holidays and I can't get a script for triazolam (a benzo sleeping tab) so I may as well stop using it but I have read that discontinuation of benzodiazepines can cause tinnitus. I can't find anything concrete on the web that states that triazolam does. My sensible brain...

So I've been here for a long while know and a lot of you have helped me and made me feel a whole lot better so I feel like I know you even when I don't, but anyway, here are some things about me I'd like to share with all of you: Here are a few things about me so you can get to know me a little...

No matter what I do. I think about tinnitus. I don't (or can't, dunno...) focus on anything else. I'm pretty sure that a normal person would have just accepted or habituated to this by now. It's nearly 5 months now. I wake up so optimistic and by lunch-time I feel like I want to die. I'm so sick...

Heya everyone, I want to start by saying thank you to everyone who has commented on my posts, especially the earlier ones. They meant so much to me that I have printed them all out and re-read them every day and it gives me strength to start the day positively. I no longer want to kill myself...

What the hell is happening to me? I feel like I need to sneeze and can't. I feel like I need to yawn and also can't. It's been about 2 months now. Surely this can't just be anxiety. I try to stay calm but ugh, I suck

Heya all, I bought a loud ticking clock and hung it in the living room. I want to see how long it takes me to habituate to that and whether I habituate faster than the tinnitus or not. My partner already doesn't notice it after 1 hour....meanwhile the ticking is driving me crazy!

I don’t notice the fridge is running until it turns off. I don’t hear the traffic unless I actively listen out for it. My microwave emits a high pitched ringing that I hear when I walk into the kitchen area. The sound of the wind is louder than my tinnitus yet it doesn’t disturb me at all. I’d...

Heya guys. So if you are sad, which I'm sure you all are, or were perhaps, please go watch Anchorman 2. It's hilarious. You wont need earplugs (it's not loud) and it'll do you some good to get out of the house. With much love, Nina

Hey guys! So I've been reading about TRT and Neuromonics, and Notched Music therapy and CBT. From what I understand about TRT, it recommends enriching your environment 24hrs a day, whereas both Neuromonics and Notched Music suggests 2-4hrs a day. For the past 4 months I've been enriching my...

Heya, When I first got tinnitus 4 months ago I was definitely set on suicide. Even had worked out when and how and where to do it (NYE 2013). The thought itself was awful but the relief from that same thought was also liberating because I didn't have to hold on for much longer. I believed that...

Merry Xmas everyone! I was at my sisters house yesterday for Christmas Eve. At the end of the night, everyone started cracking those Christmas crackers. I nearly had a heart attack!!!!! We did about a total of 20 and at the end of it all I just thought, well, if I didn't already have tinnitus...

Heya, I have spent almost the entire day reading through the "treatments" tab, which was amazing but also overwhelming. There are so many options it's difficult to work out which to try, which to ignore, which to keep in mind etc... Basically, I'm starting Neuromonics in February but am unable...

Hi all. I apologise for the multiple posts - I'm just trying to find a solution that produces long term benefits. I seem to spend my entire day reading about tinnitus, trying to understand journal articles that are far to specific, researching possible cures (yes, I know, they don't exist)...

I'm so sick of this. I'm so sick of thinking about this. I'm so sick of talking about it. I'm so sick of hearing that it'll get better, which I bet it wont....I'm so sick of being so negative and scared. Why haven't I habituated when everyone else seems to be able to do it? I try to not think...

What are "spikes" that you all seem to talk about? I never have them. Mine is constant, never quiet. Always loud. Losing the plot. Can't wait to knock myself out with sedating meds each night to get a break. Have any of you tried Neuromonics?

Does anyone know if ototoxicity is permanent or reversible? From what I've read online, some sites say it is, others say it isnt. Or maybe no-one really knows. Do any of you know? I'm on a bucket load of medication and I'm thinking that this is why I have tinnitus. Thanks xoxo

Hi all, I've been trying to work out what happened 4 months ago for me to suddenly get severe tinnitus with no decline in volume yet. The only thing that happened is that I stopped taking antihistamines (phenergan 50mg), and I increased in Amitriptyline to 200mg. Initially I thought it was the...

I can't keep living. It's not worth it. I cant deal with this noise. And I feel that I will never deal with this noise. I know it will never get better. I'm too scared to die. I don't know what to do. I'm so scared and sad. When I wake up in the morning I'm disappointed because I always go to...

Hi Guys, here is an except of something I read today and I have a question about it: Please read the following: Treatment with TRT has two components, and each component addresses a different aspect of habituation. The individual with problematic tinnitus first must habituate to any emotional...

How come I don't notice traffic noises, or the fridge, or the oven, or the lawn-mover even!? Why does my brain focus so much on the tinnitus? I'm trying to listen to it and not react emotionally. I try for about 10 minutes, then get so frustrated, and scared, and angry that I just mask it up...

Does it really get better? Mine hasn't changed at all in almost 4 months. I've been to all the doctors, done all the right things (except thinking about it 100% of the day....). I am so hopeful when I wake up in the morning, and so earth-shatteringly devastated when I realise it's just the same...

Everytime I swallow, I feel/hear a popping clicking noise. Everytime I talk I can feel a popping/clicking sound. This happened at the exact same time my tinnitus started. No-one in the medical field takes this symptom seriously. No one credits the fact that the two may be related. I'm so tired...

Am I making things worse by researching and posting here? I try to focus on other things but I literally cant force my mind away from the Tinnitus. My partner seems to think I can just focus on a book, or a conversation, or a TV show and by doing something else, I will not be thinking about my...

Hi, my name is Nina. I've had unilateral tinnitus for just over 3 months now. It's high pitched, its extremely distressing, and unable to be masked out. I hear it all the time. I've read millions of tinnitus journal articles, websites, books, everything. I've seen an Audiologist, and ENT...