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Thank God for this site. But when I came here a few years ago I hung out on the Support page a lot without checking the Success page. That's where I found help, thankfully. So don't forget to check out the Success Stories. So how's the new year going everybody?

Just curious ..... Would you say you are an introvert? Do you have funny, if not strange, little habits? Are you a cautious and careful person? If you could be a square or a circle, which one would you be? Which do you prefer, red or blue? Do you get annoyed justifying your actions to people...

What feelings do you get when your T bothers you?

This week my son told me his friend who plays in a rock band told him he's getting the "Beginnings" of tinnitus. My son told him he'd better talk to "His dad," me. I was thinking of the folks here as I was explaining to the young man how T works. Unfortunately he thinks the "Beginnings" of T are...

I can't help but notice the strange reactions of people when I stick cotton in my ears or cover my ears with my hands. They stare, laugh and have said things like.. "Oh you think THAT'S loud?" Or, "Ya my ears ring too but I don't think about it," or "Just ignore it," and "But you should be used...

As long as I can remember, fans, furnaces, TV's and all kinds of background sounds have really bothered me. Often, I'll ask people to repeat themselves because it seems like small background sounds are really quite loud. I read somewhere that this is another manifestation of tinnitus - that all...

More good news about the 'Back To Silence' technique and how it's working for me. I spent yesterday visiting at the hospital and hanging around the waiting room. Very quiet places to be. Today I do not remember responding to my T once. Not once! As I was saying last week, if you're working on...

I'm done trying to hope for silence. I'm done trying to ignore my tinnitus. I'm done worrying and wishing and obsessing. This has been a nonproductive pattern. I don't want to listen to it, listen for it, describe it, have it bother me, slow me down, interrupt me, or sadden me anymore! It's...

I've got a little story about my ankle that I think can shed some light on how the attention switching exercise works. In other words, my recently sprained ankle got me thinking about my T and my "Back To Silence" tinnitus coping technique. I've had GREAT success with this technique. After 40...

I want to provide some encouragement for the folks trying out my recently posted attention switching technique. I posted it recently in a thread called Back To Silence. I've read of some folks here on the forum trying it and I want to say - Stick with it. I explained it to a friend out here in...

Got a Prednisone IV at the hospital in the middle of the night for breathing trouble, wow, sent my T crazy.. CRAZY. Today, on a pretty big dose of oral Prednisone, back to baseline. Weird.

Hello, I learned a technique from one of our fellow posters here and to me it's been a cure. I have not felt this good about my tinnitus in 40 years. My tinnitus is loud, in both ears, it changes frequencies, sometimes accompanied by hyperacusis, it spikes now and then, and it's here for good...

It's been a couple weeks and I'm off Ativan for good. The T is no worse, no better. I was put on Ativan 10 years ago. Somehow this short term drug became part of my life and 3 different doctors just kept it going. A few years ago I expressed concern to my current doctor and she agreed that yes...

Hello friends, I've been gone a couple months. T is the same, in the background, thanks to some cognitive self talk. Same old T since the 70's. I'm finally off Ativan (benzo) and am SO happy. It took me a long time to wean off it, my doctor said go VERY slow. During that time the T went up and...

Goodbye everyone. And special thanks to the person who posted the info about measuring my response, not measuring the T. It got me over a big hump.

Got up this morning. I was happy, relaxed... laid in bed a while thinking about what I'd do today. Probably 10 minutes went by. Then I was surprised to hear myself think... How's the T??? And SSSSSSSSSSS, ... there it was. I guess it's a good sign that my "Measure your response, not the T," IS...

After reading about one of our members here wearing earplugs, going to the movies, and experiencing more T, more new tones ... I feel obligated to give this warning. Earplugs will NOT shield us from the harming low, loud bass frequencies. These sounds go through the skull, especially the hard...

Isn't it wonderful that we can come here and learn about Tinnitus and how to cope? And learn about lifestyle changes, medicine or maneuvers that actually make us feel better? And there are people here so much smarter than me that explain this stuff and make me wonder what kind of relief is...

I worked in the medical biz for 34 years. I witnessed hundreds and hundreds of people snoring and grinding their teeth in their sleep. Apparently it's common. I even do it. I wake up sometimes with a sore jaw and even sore teeth. My throat is often dry and sore and irritated from snoring. I...

for starters, I've had T for 40 years after my ears were blown to bits by loud music. I'm interested in opinions. Just thinking tonight... - When did all kinds of non-rock music (at concerts) start to reach the 'rock' level? - Why, of all places, did churches start to ''crank it up?" - Why...

Missed Breakfast Emergency at the hospital Failed Easter BBQ - dogs & steak fell in the coals !! Car wouldn't start Evening came, I sat down, flipped on the TV, grabbed the laptop, HELLO T. I guess I need more crazy days.

Here's a method I've been using since the 70's to knock my T down a notch when it flares up. I figured this out when I was a teenager. I'm 55 and it still works for me. When my T gets annoying, I stuff cotton in my ears for about 2 weeks. During this time 3 things are obviously happening - 1...

I've sold a lot of instruments through the years just because they bothered my ears in a certain way. I'm talking acoustic. I can't do electric music no way no how. Recently I saw a guitar online and liked the description of the neck and string spacing being wide, which is nice. I went to...

I mentioned my "Mega T" in a response in a post and feel that member "Mark" got some good preventative info. I want everyone to know there is T beyond T. It's big, it's horrible and scary and you don't want it. I'm talking about folks like me who diddle with loud music and should know better...

OK, I've had T for 40 years. Music induced. Ups and downs. Scary times through the years. And until a couple weeks ago I was getting a little freaky... for some reason it was always right there, and loud. I guess it reached a new plateau. Anyway, someone here suggested "Gauge your response TO...

Man, I guess I'm an old timer. Ah, the old days. EVERYTHING revolved around music. And there was lots of loud music around. So, who's pre-74 on the T list?

Went to the ER the other day for a weird throat swelling allergic thing. They gave me a shot of Prednisone and Benadryl. Then I tapered off with pills of the same for a few days. As the medicine was faded out, T started increasing like my ears wanted the stuff. I think this may have happened...

.... because that person has changed my life. I can't quit smiling!!! It didn't happen right away, but about a week of measuring my response, and not the T itself.. has changed everything. The only time I'm noticing it is when I get up in the morning and when I'm here on the support forum...

From 1974 til about 2002 I came up with all kinds of excuses to subject myself to loud music. I'm paying the price. Little by little, spike or no spike, I knew the loud music was making my T worse, little by little. They say you can put a frog in a pan of water on the stove and turn it up slowly...

Wow .... do I feel good !!!!!!!! Tinnitus, ya.. when I think about it, when I listen for it.. it's there. It has been for forty years. Only lately, like a month ago, did it really get serious. Of course, I've had my spikes through the years. ANY ... WAY. Enough about me. Yes, I feel GOOD. My...

I going back to Inositol. It's in GNC's 'Solotron' multivitamin. Years ago I was arguing with someone about the Atkins diet being drastic and possibly dangerous, but in the Atkins book I was skimming there was mention of "Inositol" supplementaion being recommended because of course restricting...

Here is a picture of an album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, 1975. I was 17 years old with bad tinnitus (I'm 55) and I didn't like to look at this picture. It bothered me. The music was great though. Man, that was almost 40 years ago. Here's the 'support' part, I've been a little careless through...

I'm 55. I grew up listening to scratchy records and hissy cassette and 8 track tapes. I mean, LOTS of scratching and hissing. And everytime I talk to a buddy about those music formats, we agree, "We never noticed."

I'm a lifelong teeth grinder, chomper, chewing in my sleep first degree Bruxer. I've got the flattened teeth, cracked teeth and even the roots of my rear teeth driven up into my sinuses to prove it. I've been doing it all my life. Usually if I have a bowl of cereal before bed, I won't grind. I...

Today, January 12, 2014, my buddy Fred was over. We were talking about our ringing ears. We were reminiscing about 1974, when Rock and Roll died - as far as my friends and I were concerned. This new "Soft Rock" was all over the FM radio. We used to think AM radio was for the cuter top ten and...

Do earplugs prevent tinnitus sufferers from further damage? I believe they do not - not totally. I believe if you have tinnitus and think earplugs will block out damaging volume, you're wrong. Plugs may slow down the progression of tinnitus in my opinion. I've been playing with fire for years...

The weirdest, most wonderful thing happened today. I listened to an old half hour TV show on YouTube with headphones. It was a BAD recording. Probably something from someone's VHS recorded over 3 times. Anyway, it was not like our digital stuff nowdays, it was unclear and had a LOT of hissy...

By age 12 I'd already been exposed to a lot of music that was too loud. But when I reached teen age, I began playing music that was too loud. Of course, in the early 70's, good rock concerts were 5 or 7 bucks to attend. I'm talking about Queen, Kiss, Humble Pie, Aerosmith, Uriah Heep, Alice...

In 1978 I started playing the fiddle. The old boys I played with warned me that I'd get neck problems, a 'knot' on my jaw, and ringing in my ears. Actually when I think about it, the fiddling and all the electric music I ever played can't compare to the 8 years of band in school. Wow. I remember...

When I was a kid, my cousin got an eye shot out. I have a little sound in my head. I'll take tinnitus, thank you. My best friend had Muscular Dystrophy and died young. I'll take tinnitus. My brother just finished chemotherapy for lung cancer. I'll take tinnitus. My buddy at work, Dan, laid his...

In addition to protecting my ears with plugs after a spike, and masking, and habituation, I've recently included a behavioral approach. And it feels good!! It seems that after a couple weeks of daily "Listening for the silence beyond the noise" exercise, some part of my brain is actually...

Peter Townsend (The Who) was practicing with the band in the 90's for a Tommy tour. I remember reading of how they put him in a big plastic box to prevent further ear damage. He also said he really hated the idea of playing live in a box. He solved the live box problem by having his side...

I had a few hours of silence, amazingly, after doing accupressure on the two little indentations in front of the ear. Here is a diagram of the areas - http://tinnituswars.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/acupressurepoints1.jpg

I've had ups and big downs with T since 1974. A few years ago I was reading an interview with Pete Townsend, who's probably caused more tinnitus, even to himself, than anyone on the planet. He works closely with the best ear doctors and stays on top of new treatments. He said he has lost the...

Here's some of my do's and don't's To sleep, I lay on my back with a tube shaped pillow behind my neck so my head goes back and I don't clench my teeth in my sleep. I'm very cautious of slamming doors - house and car. In the summer I don't roll my car window down and let the wind in my ear...

Hello everyone. I have 'Rock and roll ears.' When I was a kid I played in bands and when I wasn't performing, I'd drum to LOUD music in headphones. By my 20's, I realized I had a problem and switched to acoustic music and was fine til I went back to electric music in my 30's. I was stupid to do...