I have been having tinnitus counselling with an audiologist. I also completed Hashir Aazh's iCBT program online. Nothing my audiologist says resonates with me or my truth and I always feel like I am being patronised. I felt nothing but anger as I proceeded through Aazh's modules in the iCBT...
I have had tinnitus for 3 months and it is always high pitched crackling, chirping, ringing, crickets, static over both ears and brain.
Lately though I have noticed a lower tone solid ring that ebbs and flows along with my heartbeat. I generally have to block my ear to hear it over the racket...
I am 2.5 months in. I will be starting CBT next week.
I know that I must habituate to tinnitus (and somehow learn how to defeat hyperacusis), which seems like a mammoth hurdle for me right now given the mess I'm in emotionally and psychologically (not to mention the volume of my tinnitus)...
I have been reading this forum for days and still cannot seem to determine whether earplugs are recommended, or NOT recommended for hyperacusis and noxacusis.
I have 4 kids. Number 2 and 3 (ages 9 and 12) fight like hell, and number 4 is a toddler going through a squealing and tantrum stage...
Doctor has written me up for some benzos, and I have the bottle sitting there but I don't want to take them. I know that 10mg of Phenergan will give me a few decent hours of sleep.
Is there any risk to ears I am not aware of?
Thanks.
Hello, I'm new so thought I would start in the intro section. I am a 42-year-old stay at home mother of 4. I live in Australia. Now that my baby is 2 I had planned to return to work this year but tinnitus has just hit me hard, socially, emotionally, psychologically.
What could have triggered...