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Dear all, It's me again. I have not been on here for months since I was doing much better... I fought myself back to life over the last months. I was a nervous wreck by the end of 2018 and was afraid of every noise to make my tinnitus worse. I was wearing earplugs even when cleaning the...

I also think that tinnitus is primarily caused by hearing loss and that reversing that will quieten tinnitus back down. I guess I'm in that boat because my tinnitus clearly started after an acoustic trauma. Nevertheless I often read about people that got rid of their tinnitus (even if primarily...

Hi all, I have read through some supplement suggestions. I am taking one pill of these each day. I do not know the mg of the last three, would have to look that up at home if it is relevant: - Magnesium 600 mg - NAC 600 mg - Vitamin D3 + K2 10.000 i.e. (Depot) - Turmeric + black pepper 600 mg...

Dear all, when I got my tinnitus half a year ago, I went to the dentist because the tinnitus distress caused facial pain and teeth clenching. He did a bite splint for me which also should re-align the jaw. To manufacture the splint, they did a X-ray of my head. There, they noticed that cavity...

My history is tinnitus from multiple acoustic incidents (concert -> car hifi -> ultrasonic cleaning -> acoustic reflex test, all within 3 months). Each incident made my tinnitus worse / added new tones. I have slight issues understanding speech in noisy environments (dunno if it has already been...

After 3 months, I found that I gained the strength to start working out again. I thought I should start with something simple after such a long break and did some push-ups. After every set, when I stand up, I get this weird and really loud radio static noise which seems to be located in the...

Is there a connection between the nature of the tone and the cause of one's tinnitus? Like if you have hearing loss, you get a constant pure tone, because the hair cells are dead and are not working anymore in any way. Maybe you get a nervous, intermittent tone when the hair cells are not...

I have yet again received a new tone and a worsening of the existing tones ... I have tried the "everyday noises can't harm you" route for over 2 months now and received only setbacks and worsenings of my condition. It feels like it's time to plug it up on a daily basis. Yet I have some...

I am wondering if crunchy food can cause spikes or even damage in compromised ears. I have no found a thread on here where someone is stating that. I just found few threads from people who were worried after eating crunchy food with plugs in. If I eat chips/crisps, nuts, salad or onions, I have...

I am a bald man with few and short hair. Too short to cut it with a scissor. So I always used an electric hair cutter once in a month. Of course, that was pre tinnitus. Now I got a new machine that says 60 dB max. and low vibration. But I am still panicking when using it on my head. It is still...

Dear all, after taking a shower, I have water left in my ear which won't come out. Since my hearing is not muffled and I am not feeling any pressure, it can't be that much water left. It is just a "fresh feeling" inside the ear when air comes into it. This has now lasted for 2 days. It tried...

Since my tinnitus became a multi tone experience, I am trying to avoid anything that might make it worse. That's especially moderate to loud noises, stress and getting an ear infection. I am getting really paranoid about the ear infection thing. I am always having a bottle of hand disinfectant...

Dear all, I would like to share my whole story, in the hope to get some support, that maybe someone can relate and to warn others in their early days of noise induced tinnitus, if they might read it. I am 32 years old, male, from Germany, I have always loved loud music, was going to concerts...

Sorry to ask this, but since I guess many people are using musician earplugs, I thought I could get some advice from experienced users. :) How deep do you insert the musician plugs? How do you take them out? (Just pull, gently pull, circulate while pulling or whatever?) I noticed that if I...

How do you cope when it feels like every mild to moderate noise is giving you spikes and new sensations? I am wearing earplugs all day and am still getting anxious if I experience exposure to a loud noise (doors slamming, trucks or even just cars passing by, using tools or kitchen equipment...)...

I am 9 hours at work and there are various situations where I can't plug my ears, so I put them in and out multiple times per day. I have two different kinds of plugs, Earpeace musician plugs with filters and regular foam plugs. When inserting the plugs, that never goes without sounds that...

When I wear earplugs, I can create whooshing sounds when I open my mouth. When I have it half-closed, the sound is the loudest. When I bite on my teeth, the sound is gone. It's like I can hear the muscle activity of the jaw floating in my ears. Sounds like brown noise a bit. This is only when...

My tinnitus came 4 months ago with an acoustic trauma and was worsened 2 months ago by another acoustic trauma... Then, two weeks ago, I had an ultrasonic cleaning at my dentist which gave me a spike and a reactive sound in my right ear (pink noise like, can only provoke it 100% with a hair...

Today, I have been to the toilet at work. When I left the cabinet, I pulled the door behind me so it would close. Problem is, the door was squeaking like hell, it was very loud for like 2-3 seconds. I did not react fast enough to cover my ears... Since the room is pretty small and tiled all...

I am only experiencing this sensation at work: I work in an almost completely quiet office. The only thing I hear are laptop fans and another smooth fan-noise from outside when the window is opened. I experience this since the tympanometry has been made last Thursday: Intermittently, on the...

Dear all, this is hard for me to ask because I feel really ashamed to have made this decision... After I had been to the dentist 6 days ago, where my teeth got cleaned via ultrasonic, I decided to visit the ENT the day after to see if this did any damage. He then did an audiogram, an OAE and a...

I got tinnitus and hyperacusis from loud noise exposure (concert). I had to learn it the hard way that you should ABSOLUTELY protect yourself from loud noise after that no matter how safe you feel, decline every treatment including loud noise (dentist, ENT, Neurologist etc.) and don't attempt...

Yesterday, I went to a dentist for a "professional cleaning". Unfortunately, I did not search for the stories here before. I took my ear muffs with me since I expected it to be loud, put them in and told the dentists to watch out since I have noise induced tinnitus and moderate to bad...

Dear all, I have had mild hyperacusis for the last 3.5 months since onset of my tinnitus (noise trauma). Within this period of time, my hyperacusis went up and down, sometimes ear spasms, sometimes TTTS, sometims feeling of fullness. But it did not bother me much and only caused a little...

Dear all, first of all, I will tell my story "in short": I got tinnitus from a loud concert 3 months ago. The tinnitus I got from that was a 24/7 constant, very high pitched ringing in the middle of my head. I was traumatised and depressed first but somehow, I habituated very quick within 2...