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First off, what does neurodivergent mean? So it's all one big umbrella really. I've also been wondering if there is a sort of link between tinnitus and neurodivergence (aside from the obvious ones where some people on the spectrum have sensory processing disorder or sound sensitivity)...

Hey guys. Some of you might remember me, some of you will not. But I'm back. Back again in the depths of despair. Worsening hearing loss and worsening tinnitus. I don't want to scare the true newbies. You guys will likely take the normal route of getting better and moving on with your lives...

I have habituated again to a point where I can now watch videos on YouTube on good ear days. Any recommendations for hilarious videos to get me laughing. Laughter is the best medicine! (Feel free to send me videos with any type of humor. I'm game for almost anything but please refrain from...

Since getting tinnitus, no matter your severity, what have you learned about yourself? Rules: You can post as many things you've learned as possible but you must at least post one "good" or positive thing that you've learned in each post you make. Sounds like a challenge but I think, if you...

As my tinnitus and hearing get worse every few months (my audiologists and other doctors don't know why because everything else about me is normal) I find it harder and harder to hold on and have hope. It doesn't help that the relationship between my mother (who provides for me and gets me to...

I'm so sorry I've tried so hard to be an uplifting and positive voice here despite my struggles but I can't do it anymore. I lost more hearing on the 20th (even though I was wearing earplugs the entire time) and my tinnitus has increased a hundred fold. No masking because I can't even hear...

I'm trying so hard to keep going I really really am. I even have days where I can call them "good" days even though the tinnitus bothers me. And then there's days like today that start out good and I'm doing stuff to try and better my situations despite how hopeless/pointless it seems and by the...

So I went into a new GP the other day as I couldn't see my usual one and she mentioned that only half of my ear drum in my right ear was visible because of ear wax. This was a surprise because I had better hearing in my right ear than my life. She suggested getting it out with a ear wax removal...

So because I have chronic ETD I get ear infections a lot (not overseen by an ENT bc most of the ENTs I have seen have been highly incompetent and/or inappropriate with me) but this one that I have just doesn't seem to want to quit. I was prescribed amoxicillin by an urgent care doctor a couple...

Here we go! I've always wanted to start this thread on here! So here is a thread where you can post some important things you've learned about life, yourself, etc thus far in your life! I think we all have a little wisdom that'd we like to pass on to others. :) Disclaimer: Most of these posts...

Here we go again. For the fifth time in the almost five years I've had tinnitus. Another permanent increase. I'm not going to explain the how or why but just now it was from someone being irresponsible around me and making loud noise when I was not expecting it. ... I am soooooooo tired of...

So Harvard found something out that might be of help to those with Meniere's... https://hms.harvard.edu/news/safety-valve "In a study published June 19 in eLife, the team reported the results of their investigation: the endolymphatic sac acts as a pressure-relief valve and is formed by a thin...

Well I think it's finally time to post here. My success story is one I wouldn't really consider a success story but rather an ongoing one filled with small successes, setbacks, failures, etc. I can't really talk about just how much tinnitus has effected me unless I talk about who I am as a...

Honestly, what am I holding on for at this point?! I wake up every day wanting to die. Antidepressants either made me violently ill or only worked for 2 weeks and then stopped working out of the blue. Four increases in the four years I've had this. I can't sleep. I can't enjoy music or...

I started Remeron a little over two weeks ago and they were the happiest two weeks of my life since my fourth tinnitus increase at the beginning of March. It really reduced my tinnitus to the level it was previous to the latest increase. I thought I had gotten a part of my life back. I was...

Sorry but I need to rant! FOUR FREAKING YEARS!!! Four years of my life gone and living in either misery or barely managed depression. FOUR YEARS AND FOUR INCREASES I have so much hearing loss. Even every day noises that don't affect people give me hearing loss. Literally a four hour shift at...

Hello hello TT! Long time no talk! Almost four years into having T (and three increases) and I've noticed something new about my T. I usually never ate salmon in the past because I just never figured out how to make it according to my tastes. Well I've been getting into eating healthy and...

Man, I am really really struggling with my habituation this time around! Third time's the charm? I think not! I could use some words of encouragement right now, guys. My tones are driving me to anxiety again. Ugh! How long will it take to habituate THIS TIME??? Still praying that a cure will...

Unfortunately. After a year and a half of peace the new year came in with a bang (quite literally) for me. I was at a very low key party (by low key i mean four people playing a card came together low key) and at midnight someone decided to pop open a champagne bottle... right next to me. I...

So I am looking to get my own car and I'm wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a car that has good gas mileage but is also quiet while driving so my tinnitus doesn't spike much.

I look at pictures of myself two years ago before I got tinnitus and then I look at pictures of myself now and Tinnitus has really aged me. I have permanent bags and wrinkles under my eyes, my mouth seems to be locked in a slight frown now and my skin and everything looks duller. I'm only 22...

So I've experienced this off an on in the past two years of having tinnitus and it doesn't really send me into panic anymore but I'm just curious... Does anyone else get this like brain/head tingle at sudden continuous noises? Not necessarily loud (or too loud) noises but just noises in...

To start this off, no I don't have a ruptured eardrum (I would be in pain and I'd know, trust me). But every day this weird thing happens once a day either in my right or left ear, mostly when I'm laying down, where there's just this moment of what sounds like air leaving my ear (more...

I keep acquiring new tones from (get this) NOTHING. Got a new one today in my original tinnitus ear from doing absolutely nothing but laying about. Literally I did nothing. Ate my usual food. Didn't listen to music. Just laid about and did internet surfing. NOTHING. F*** my life guys. This...

Just curious and a little worried about my own cold. The results will probably end up freaking me out even more but I can't NOT ask.

When I was younger I had great teeth! No cavities no nothing. It wasn't until I started going to college in Souther Cal, that I started to have dental problems! My mom says it's in the water. The city water, even when you filter it has fluoride in it. Whereas the water back home that I always...

Hey all, I've noticed a trend on here and on a few other facebook or online support communities for tinnitus and it's a trend that kinda rubs me and other people the wrong way. When someone is clearly suffering and panicking, or their anxiety is ramped up due to their T, I've seen a growing...

I never realized but in the Iron Man comics, Tony Stark saves Pepper by implanting a mag-field generator in her chest (just as he had to have) and it actually gave her abilities and healed her of a lot of stuff including her tinnitus and hearing loss. I WISH WE HAD A REAL LIFE TONY STARK. I bet...

I did it again guys. All I did was go to a friend's house for Thanksgiving. I came back with increased T again. Again right after I rehabituated. I'm so done with this! It doesn't get better and I can't go live my life. I want to die I want to die I WANT TO DIE. I can't do this again. I've only...

I find that since I've gotten T people say that sometimes I get a little... negative to be around? I find myself being kinda pessimistic and down and it upsets some people on here and out in the real world. I never used to be this way pre-T. It feels like I'm always caught between that pesky...

There's been A LOT of debate on this internet lately on this subject of fluoride in our drinking water. Some people are claiming that fluoride in our water has increased (especially in city water) and that it is causing an array of health problems and/or damage to a part of the brain called the...

So I ate a small lemon poppy seed muffin and boom! My T skyrocketed an hour later! :eek: Never happens when I eat my usual blueberry muffins. Must be the opium alkaloids or something... Anyone else have this happen to them?

Just wondering if there are any on this forum besides me. I think I've talked my friends' ears off (not literally lol). Started with the Hobbit when I was 6 and now I've read and watched just about everything and my obsession has not diminished! :D

So about three days ago I was getting into a car and I smacked the top left side of my head on the roof (I'm a natural klutz I swear) and about an hour later, this permanent increase I've been having decreased about 10-15% and has been that way for days. Not sure if it's related at all (I...

Didn't sleep all night on tuesday night and was up with the T and anxiety. It was so bad that I was crying and incoherant the next day and wishing I was not alive. My mother told me to either go with her to get my psychiatrist (all the way in SoCal) to approve more Xanax (haven't had a pill in a...

I'm looking for a change of career because with tinnitus I can't be around too much noise (including music sadly). But I don't want a job that is ridiculously stressful either. What do you guys think are safe jobs to do with tinnitus? (And please don't say 'whatever you want, don't let...

I really really miss being able to do normal things like watching tv, or driving, or listening to the radio. I really miss being about to go out with friends or go to conventions or social gatherings. I really miss sleeping. I miss being able to be happy and authentically myself. And I only have...

So after a year of T (and gaining a new tone due to my stupidity) I have noticed that I can move my eardrum at will? Not like the TT fluttering that people get (though I've had that too at the beginning) but like I can flex the muscles by my ear and make the eardrum move. I'm assuming this isn't...

So SOMEBODY decided it'd be a good idea to start construction in the mobil home neighborhood next to my apartment neighborhood and it's so loud it's like being next to a car that blasting bass music on the road. Even sounds like it has rhythm and everything. It started way before 8 am and...

I think it is in my best interests, despite what I said in my "Success Story" thread, to quit music for a long while. The other day I was helping set up for an event, and before I could put my earplugs in, someone starting riffing on their guitar with the amp near me cranked up to 115 db. I lost...

More of a thread for us ladies or female identifying people but anyone can comment. Warning this thread mentions menstruation and if that's not your cup of tea turn back now. :P So uh, apparently my birth control that i take to get rid of the ovarian cysts i have calms down my T a bit? And if...

This might sound incredibly childish and stupid to a lot of people on here. One of my friends invited me to go to Disneyland (we live about an hour away) with her and I had to decline. I went to Disneyland about a week or two before I got T and I'm way too afraid that if I go, even with...

I know a lot of people believe that the hope for a cure to our T lies in gene therapy. So I took some time to do a little research on what the scientific community has to say about it. I found two different sites that talk about it in different lights. One I found from the University of Utah...

Had a panic attack today in class and had to leave. Why? In the middle of class my tinnitus just skyrocketed to the point where listening to the professor talk was painful. So I left and went to the bathroom to cry for a few hours. I have a new and super loud tinnitus tone. I know I said I...

Hey all some of y'all remember me as a T sufferer who had just about completely lost it. I'm sure some of you might have been annoyed with my constant posting and questioning. The pas year has been really upsetting for me and really telling. It had it's ups and it's downs (okay, a lot of downs)...

At least once I year (Starting at age 13) I've gotten these weird migraines I've come to find out are called ocular migraines (Caused by stress or whatever can trigger a migraine. For me it's extreme stress and lack of sleep) where it starts with a blind spot appearing in your field of vision...

So I came back to my apartment one day (I use hearing protection on my way back and stuff) and I sat down and talked to a few people in a Skype call and suddenly everything seemed to get a bit quieter and my ear felt a little full (still does). Is this SSHL? Everything sounds quieter and I'm...

So recently on top of my fleeting tinnitus I've been getting these moments of dizziness. Not vertigo or feeling like I'm gonna fall over but like just in my head it feels a bit woozy and I can't move for a few moments cause everything just feel so off. But my T was caused by loud music so how...

I already had tinnitus and I was starting to habituate. I woke up this morning to the loudest and most deep tone I could have ever imagined in my left ear... I can't do this anymore guys I just can't. I don't have any hope and I just don't want to be here anymore. I am actually praying that god...

But do you guys ever feel something just shift in your head or ears right before you get a minute of that really loud spontaneous T that goes back to baseline after a minute or so? Cause it is like a physical sensation that I can feel and I'm just wondering if my brain is messed up or it's...

I was doing fine and then I flew home for Thanksgiving. Woke up on Thanksgiving with a headache, just barely got through dinner with my mom, spent the rest of the time in bed. Went out shopping on Black Friday and my ears were going nuts and my sinuses were messing around on me and so I had...

Couldn't sleep cause heart rate wouldn't go down and then woke up with a palpation that made the left side of my chest hurt for a second or two until I sat up straight. Wonder if it's from stress or something else. I'm only 21, aren't I too young for these?

So a few months after I got T one of my friends got it along with balance issues and headaches. Well her husband finally took her to the doctors and she got this shot of something and the doctor told her that she has a bunch of fluid in her sinuses and her lymph nodes are a bit swollen around...

So I have to walk a lot now that I'm back in school and I walk alllllll the way across campus very briskly which can be quite a workout. But when my heartbeat accelerates I get this not-quite-a-whoosh but more like air trying to go through my ear but it's actually my blood pumping through my...

So I've been diagnosed by a therapist with severe depression and anxiety. I think to some extent I've always had anxiety but never have I experienced the absolute beast that is real depression until after I got the T. I don't want to take anymore medications than I'm already taking for my health...

I finally finally have an appt with someone at the T clinic in San Francisco in 2 weeks. From there we can discuss a plan of action for me and figure out which tools I can use to help me habituate. And tomorrow I'm going to speak with a counselor about my other emotional issues I am going...

I've tried so hard not to let the T win but it really really has. It doesn't matter what progress I've made I just keep going back to square one. Now not only do I have anxiety I have severe depression. It's to the point where happy things and things that normally look beautiful to me just make...

So I can fine for most of the day and even forget about T for a few hours if I'm busy but then I hear it and for a moment anxiety pools in my stomach and kinda freezes up my entire body and all I can feel is depression and dread until I can snap myself out of it forcefully by trying to find...

There's far too much red tape for me to get into CBT! I've been trying for two months because I need help coping and I don't have enough mental power to do it on my own. First the only CBT therapist that can help me requires a GP referral, second my GP wont give the referral unless his staff...

My boyfriend took me to the movies tonight since I haven't been since I got the T and I wanted to do so since I've been spending my days in almost quiet environments except for the fan and the fishtank and occasionally the TV. I brought my earplugs and wore them the entire movie (we went to see...