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Hi, I have moderate hearing loss (although I never checked above 8 kHz). Along with this hearing loss, I developed terrible tinnitus in both ears, which tormented me and led to suicidal thoughts. I suffered for 1.5 years and was in absolute despair of ever getting rid of it. All the research...

Hi everyone! My tinnitus is the same, but I've gotten so used to it that I hardly notice it anymore. Now, I have a different problem. My chronic prostatitis has flared up again after six years of remission, which is really frustrating. It’s a tough condition to treat. I recently went to a...

Hey. I have not been here for a long time. I had started to forget about my tinnitus. Because of taking prednisone for my tinnitus, I then got more serious problems, I was examined for 2 months because I felt terrible. It turned out that I had developed adrenal insufficiency from taking...

Greetings I took prednisone for a tinnitus spike for 5 days. Dose regimen was 40-40-40-20-15 mg. On the fifth day, I had symptoms of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar). This is a serious side effect of corticoids (especially with long-term use in high doses). I started with dry mouth, polyuria...

Hello! Today I experienced a very unpleasant and unexpected incident. I decided to go to the bathhouse before the new year. When I washed, I could hear a very unpleasant loud knock in the bath, as if someone was loudly hammering an iron pipe with a hammer. I do not know where it came from...

Today a rather strange and dangerous thing happened. This was the first time in my life I experienced this. I was even surprised and scared that this experience could be for life! I bought myself a new sofa (couch), it is without side backrests. When I was sleeping, my pillow was on the edge...

My parents did not believe for a single day that organic changes happened to me, which caused tinnitus. My mother is still convinced that I was just mad, and I invented my own ringing in my ears. I have not tried to prove anything to her for a long time. They really do not understand that I...

Have you worked after you got tinnitus? Can you hold down a job despite your tinnitus?

Probably, many of you are familiar with the feeling that, in addition to constant noise in the ear, suddenly there is a feeling of fullness, deafness, and the noise in the ear changes the frequency. This usually lasts a few seconds or a minute. But today it happened suddenly in the afternoon...

Yesterday I decided to visit a public bath. I understand that for many participants from the USA and Europe, a public bath is not something they're familiar with. I went to the cheapest city bath. There were a lot of people there, and the sauna was already very hot, I entered the steam room...

James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for the development of a new revolutionary paradigm in the treatment of cancer. It is nice to see science advancing and that such important, history-changing discoveries are made. Cancer research is very well...

I got mold in my house. Workers incorrectly built a fireplace with a chimney on the roof. Rain began to fall through the pipe into the fireplace and the ceiling. This is damp. Mold was formed from the dampness. Recently, I began to experience a headache and tinnitus spikes more often...

Hello! Do you periodically, during spikes or constantly, feel a decrease in the sound quality, as if the sound was slightly distorted and you can't perceive the entire harmony / dynamic range? This is especially noticeable when listening to music or watching a video on the Internet.

Comrades, this thread is about the nonprofit research institution, the Hough Ear Institute. http://houghear.org/cause/hair-cell-regeneration/ The general director of Hough Ear Institute suffers from hearing and tinnitus himself. They declare that they are close to real discovery of treatment...

Today I was in a hurry on business, and when I got to the bus stop, I saw a shuttle bus approaching at the stop at a high speed (this is a small bus in Russia). I waved my hand to stop it. When the bus began to brake sharply around me, there was a terrible screech / squeal of brakes on a...

When you get a spike, what are the things you try first to make your tinnitus return back to baseline?

In addition to your normal tinnitus sound, do you also hear the sound of cicadas or chirping birds?

I'm interested in finding out what is the frequency of your main tinnitus sound?

I've been going to the hairdresser several times to cut my hair. Basically, the clipper is not very loud, but the trimmer, which she just shaves around the ears and whiskey with, very loudly growls and buzzes. When she brought it to my ear and started shaving the whiskey, it was...

Which companies and organizations associated with tinnitus and hearing loss research have you made financial contributions to? You can select several options.

In other words, if you consider the treatment hypothesis of signal timing by Dr. Susan Shore: "Do you have somatic tinnitus?"

I want to know if you believe that in the relatively near future we will have the technology for hearing regeneration?

Going back and trying to cover the whole situation with tinnitus in life, I still can not believe that this happened to me. It was the most powerful, almost intolerable blow to life. With this it is impossible to reconcile, everything happened so quickly and so silly that the mind simply does...

Hello! Everything was pretty good with regard to tinnitus. But today I went to lunch in the dining room. There was a lot of people there, but the worst thing was that I was standing in line, and suddenly the worker came up with a huge armful of iron spoons. He abruptly threw these spoons into...

What supplements and vitamins are best for protecting your ears and keeping your hearing thresholds? NAC, Acetylcarnitine. Maybe something else?

Tinnitus can cause a lot of discomfort in life - it's no secret. Not only is a person with tinnitus deprived of the natural and necessary right to stay in silence and relax, being forced to constantly listen to these obscure sounds in the head. The problem is also this - tinnitus prevents me...

Hello friends! I need to take antibiotics. I'm confused. The choice between doxycycline and ceftriaxone. In doxycycline, there is a side effect - noise in the ears in the instructions. There is no side effect in ceftriaxone, but it should be used intramuscularly, mixed with lidocaine, which...

Hello! Last night I watched the Russian-Uruguay football match. After the match, I discussed the match in the chat rooms of Telegram and other social networks. It was already late (the second hour of the night) - and I was doing it lying in bed with a smartphone, when I started to fall asleep...

Today I worked on a garden plot, repaired the crane. I twisted the nut with a large spanner, and the other lied on the ground. After the nut broke, I got excited, and threw the wrench on the ground, it fell on the one that lied on the ground. There was a rather loud and sonorous sound that...

Hello, these loud sounds seem to specifically follow me, knowing that I'm afraid of them. Sod's Law. Today I stood in line at the cafe, in general, in a good mood. Suddenly, for some reason, a loud fire alarm sounded right above my head. I was 2-3 meters (6.5-9 feet) from the fire alarm. This...

Hey. I took another short course of prednisolone with a shock dose of 55 mg for 3 days in the morning. Also, after reading some stories here about the positive experience of taking piracetam, and also taking into account the fact that the last month at the walk, I'm sniffing and clattering in...

Hello! How can we be sure that every spike is not a new hearing loss? I check the hearing to 8 kHz on the smartphone, but how can we test frequencies above 8 kHz?! If suddenly the hairs are damaged at a frequency of 12 or 14 kHz, would we feel it without special verification? After all...

Can steroids worsen tinnitus or damage the inner ear? I do not quite understand the mechanism by which they can help with tinnitus and ear damage. There is an order to take a large daily dose in the morning, from 6 to 8 am. Since at this time there is a natural production of corticoids by the...

Has anyone tried to take antipsychotics (antipsychotics) for tinnitus? Did they help you? They help some people. The most common are Sulpiride, Quetiapine, Risperidone....

Hello everybody! About three weeks ago I had a scandal, on the same day in the evening - a big event. Namely, my smartphone in the dark suddenly fell on the iron cover. After that, I started spike. It has lasted for three weeks, although before that my longest spike lasted about 1 week, which...

Hello! Have you ever had a spike in only one ear after high-profile events or stress? At that time, how is tinnitus in both ears? I have tinnitus in both, and spikes usually in both ears, but this time, for two weeks now, a spike in only one ear. Is this possible?

Comrades! I need your opinion, or experience. Today, I checked the hearing on the smartphone using the application "frequency generator" (link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detailsid=com.boedec.hoel.frequencygenerator). Checked in the headphones, and when the frequency was set to 14200...

Hello! Tell me please, who lives in Europe and the US, have you really been banned from palm oil in the food industry? I know that it was recognized as very harmful, but at the expense of real restrictions, so far only rumors. In Russia, it is actively used in many products, including instant...

@Samir, @Aaron123, @Markku Let me ask some theoretical questions about the physics of sound and physiology of the human ear. 1) Is it true that the loud sound that happened suddenly, unexpectedly for a person and did not even have time to prepare for this loud event, is more dangerous to the...

Comrades, Has any of you tried to use in the treatment of tinnitus and in the prevention of spikes, the so-called, vasoactive or vascular drugs? In particular, I am interested in the experience of using pentoxifylline (Trental). Does anyone have a personal experience? With some of these...

Greetings! Today, two unpleasant incidents occurred in the day - the first one - close to me, loudly slammed with iron doors. But this, albeit unpleasant, was almost forgotten to the background of the second case. I went to the bathroom and took a hot enough shower, at the end, when I was...

Since ancient times, people believed in miracles, Higher powers, Gods. They prayed, they offered bloody sacrifices and feared the wrath of heaven. Gradually, this faith was transformed. There were hundreds of different religions and gods - for every taste and color. Until now, the influence of...

How many times have you been forced to resort to taking prednisone after the onset of tinnitus? Do you try to use this glucocorticosteroid for every serious spike? How do you deal with prednisone during a short course, do you not have inflammations and chronic diseases from it? Did you feel a...

Hello! I have a question for you. Do you do regular audiometry at home in a program on your computer or smartphone? If so, do you observe some changes and inconsistencies in your hearing? Do you hear some frequencies a little worse at some time. Which frequencies are better? Thank you!

Hello! Misophonia is a strong aversion or intolerance to certain sounds, which can range from mild discomfort to jaw pain and even muscle cramps.

Guys, why are certain certain sounds so irritating to specific people? For example, the sounds of the metal, iron on the glass, creaking foam and so on. Me, for example, it is very annoying, so I even jump up as from a shock, the sound of a metal grinding - when the bottom of an iron kettle is...

This afternoon I was busy chopping firewood. This is quite hard for the ears if you do it without protection. Therefore, I usually use ORANGE disposable earplugs (although I use them several times, not once). Usually they are good enough and deep placed in the ear canal. But today, for...

Hello! Today I put on special noise-cancelling headphones when the neighbors made repairs, but then, when my phone rang, I somehow very quickly took them off, although I usually take them off carefully, so I felt the pressure drop on my eardrums. Could this really hurt my ears? How do you...

Hey. Did someone have this - with a loud event, for example, screaming near the ear that in the ear there was a feeling of stuffiness, what an uncomfortable feeling, Fullness of ear. Did it happen over time?

Last night I called myself a taxi to go to my mom. When I saw the car that came for me - I was shocked. It was an old collapsed car, but most importantly, it was that it looked like it was with a pierced muffler. As its engine made an unpleasant roar, uncharacteristic for conventional cars. I...

How do you protect your hearing, what kind of steps do you take? Do you take any medications / supplements regularly? Do you have an audiogram regularly on some home devices or in a clinic?

Comrades! A very important and touching question for many of us. Many of us, of those who are burdened with the problem of tinnitus, live in hope. Hope that scientific research will learn to regain part of the inner ear - hair cells, damage of which is the main cause of ringing in the ears and...

Hello! After a heavy spike on nerves, 2 months ago, I improved. This month passed so that I never even went to tinnitus talk. But recently, again, there was a scandal with my grandmother and her loud cries. And I got a painful spike. She does not hear well and therefore screams very loudly...

1) How long have you had tinnitus? a) Less than 6 months b) 6 months to 1 year c) 1 to 2 years d) Longer than 2 years 2) Has your tinnitus changed over time? a) Yes, it has become quieter b) Yes, it has become louder c) Virtually unchanged (+/-) 3) Is there any tool / method that helps you...

I greet you, colleagues! I have a question for you - How does heavy physical activity or a gym with weights (barbells) affect your tinnitus? Does this affect the level of tinnitus? Today I sharply lifted a large sofa (also on it sat my grandmother) and from this weight it seems I caught a small...

Greetings! Today there was an unpleasant incident - in the evening I roasted myself fried eggs. I took a plate from the dish dryer in the form of a grill (photo), but next to it was another, a deep plate (photo). I was 40 cm from this grate, when the plate fell with a crash on the other. Can...

I take 30 mg of prednisolone in the evening. Is it possible? The instructions say that it is desirable in the morning. Somebody took it in the evening. Is it dangerous?

Yet I do not understand Where my spike came from. More precisely, I understand - after the ringing of the lid I was very worried. The muscles on the arm even began to twitch. But bursts on a nervous basis usually took place within 3-4 days. The same already lasts the second week. And I can not...

How long can I take NAC and melatonin? Can they be taken with an SSRI antidepressant? I have been taking NAC for about 2 months for 600-1200 mg per day. Should I continue?

Why do we live so still .. 18 years of the XXI century passed. The nature of man is this? We have all the resources to practically create a paradise on Earth. But all spoil and destroy such human qualities as money, pride, arrogance. Why do billionaires need so much money? All the same they...