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    Regular Tinnitus Appears Worse After an Episode of Fleeting Tinnitus

    Has anyone ever experienced an increase in their regular tinnitus after having an episode of "fleeting tinnitus"? That seems to be what happened to me recently, which is unusual because I've had hundreds of fleeting tinnitus episodes over the years without any issues. Normally, the fleeting...
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    While I Was Inside My Car, Its Horn Alarm Went Off — Spike from an Acoustic Trauma

    Hey everyone, It's been awhile since I have been here. I was doing good the past few years but unfortunately had another acoustic trauma. I was just wondering if anyone has experienced a spike as a result to being exposed to a car alarm? I ran into a horrible situation a couple of days ago...
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    Tinnitus Worse After a CT Scan with Oral and IV Contrast — Anybode Else?!

    Hello everyone. I had to have a CT scan with oral and IV contrast 6 days ago. When I got home after the scan, that night my tinnitus seems to have gotten worse. It seems to keep changing from higher to lower every other day. I did some research before I had the scan done and everything I...
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    Tinnitus Spike After MRI

    I recently had an MRI a couple of days ago. I took precautions by wearing earplugs and gun earmuffs and then having the tech put rubber pads over the gun earmuffs and pillows. Despite this, I still experienced loud noise during the MRI, which involved six 4-minute scans with 3-minute pauses in...
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    My Dilemma — How Do I Stop This Vicious Cycle, Issues with Medications

    I'm in a heck of bad catch 22 dilemma, that I could sure use some advice on. I had an ototoxic reaction a few weeks ago after taking 1 zantac 75. It's not listed as ototoxic but for some reason it really spiked up my tinnitus right after I took 1 of them. I stopped taking them of course. That...
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    Zantac Ototoxic Reaction?

    I need some advice, I have been having a problem since about 3 weeks ago after taking 1 zantac 75 mil that was prescribed by my GI doctor to help control of my acid re-flux condition. I have had this condition for over 25 years and have been controlling it taking priosec with no effect on my...
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    Anyone Has Tinnitus and Pudendal Neuralgia?

    I was just wondering if anyone here has tinnitus and Pudendal Neuralgia? I may have this, it's so rare that there seems to be no test available to even get a diagnosis. It gets mistaken for a lot of other symptoms like "pelvic floor disorder". I'm hoping that's more what I have. Like having...
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    Another Acoustic Trauma (Neighbor Cut His Lawn with a Gas Powered Weed Wacker)

    HI Everyone I had something crazy happen to me this weekend that I have a hard time understanding or accepting. As luck has it over the weekend I had another problem, another acoustic trauma. I was sitting in my house and my next door neighbor decided to cut his entire lawn with a gas...
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    Has Anyone Taken Prednisone for Acoustic Trauma and Then Later Developed Tinnitus or Got a Spike?

    Hello everyone I have been trying to get to the bottom of a question for a couple of weeks now, but I still can't seem to get a straight answer. So I'm just going to ask a simply question. Has anyone on here ever took prednisone for an acoustic trauma, and a day or two later either developed...
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    Bell Tower Chimes

    Hi everyone I have not been around much because I have been doing pretty good, until yesterday. I went out to get a hair cut in a small town. I was getting out of my car and started to walk to the door witch was about about 500 feet away, when I heard the start of some kind of chiming song. At...
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    Should I Stop Taking Ativan or Not?

    I been trying to figure what I should do ? I have been on ativan for many years with no problems, but decided it was time to stop taking it, so the past few weeks I have been taking less and less trying to slowly taper off of it. I thought I was doing fine, then all the sudden 3 days ago after...
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    Strange Problem Taking Prednisone?

    New turn on my siren story, craziest thing I have ever seen. I decided to take some prednisone in hopes that it would help with my slight hearing loss in my left ear and tinnitus increase, it has worked in the past. So I took the first dose last night around 7:30. I took it right after dinner...
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    Ear Wax Removal Tool: Smart Swab

    This looks like a very good way to remove ear wax, and it appears to be safe, I thought that I would share this with you. It's safer than suction, or syringing... Check out the video. Louie Quietatnight https://www.bulbhead.com/smart-swab.html
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    Flare Audio's ISOLATE Ear Plugs

    I found these ear plugs advertised, I never seen them before, I thought about giving them a try. They are available in Titanium or Aluminum. They are supposed to be better then standard foam one's. Please let me know if anyone has ever tried these before. I think this link will work, but I found...
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    Backup Alarms on Trucks

    I looked all over the internet for some info on this, but did not find anything. When I looked on here all I could find were threads on Smoke alarms. I ran out of my home today to mail a letter and heard a Beep Beep Beep sound that was coming from a construction site where building a new home...
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    Manual Ear Cleaning

    Hi Everyone, I haven't been on here for awhile but some of you may remember me. Things were going pretty good for a long time until this happened. I had impacted ear wax for over a week and could not hear out of my left ear, so I went to my ENT to get the wax removed. I had it done manually...
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    Field of View Test

    I was just wondering if anyone has ever going to the eye doctor and been given one of those field of view test, where they put your head into a big white dome, and have you press a clicker every time you see a light appear. Well I had that done a few days ago, the machine has some light beeping...
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    Can Prednisone Cause Your Tinnitus to Increase While Taking It?

    Hi everyone, I just started to take Prednisone yesterday and I was wondering has ANYONE ever had their tinnitus increase from taking it? I know it's supposed to help lower the tinnitus, and prevent hearing loss. I have spoken with doctors and pharmacists and they say it is NOT an ototoxic...
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    Am I the Only One for Whom Every Sound Environment Is Just Too Loud to Be In?

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and ask a simple question : Is there anyone on here that has had their sound tolerance like ( LDL's ) drop so low that they can not drive a car, or even leave their house even with ear protection, such as ear plugs and or gun muffs, because EVERY and ANY sound...
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    Random Pains

    Hi, I haven't been around for a while, but I had some questions about Headaches, eye pains, and other facial random pains. I was just wondering if anyone is dealing with these sympthom's after an accustic trama of their tinnitus or hyperacusis. Any information would be appricated. Feel free to...
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    New to this Support Board

    Hi, Im new to this support board, I did not know where to start I know that this is an older thread, looks like around Jan 2013 so I just figuered why not just jump in here. Please bare with me breaking in the middle. First on a personal note : here is a little backgroun about me. I have had...