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I am living in constant fear of tinnitus (and other stuff). i never know when this is going to get worse. When the next spike will happen, what tone and how loud it will be. I take plenty of care to avoid loud noises and I still get spikes. I even worry whether it could lead to deafness?

i keep getting these spikes. Some last quite a long time, like a few days. Why is this? I've now got a 200hz tone ringing badly in my right ear. Stupid tinnitus

I've never had mine confirmed and never had any need to, but how is it confirmed that you have it?

what can be done in an emergency? when it becomes too loud to tolerate? sometimes you just feel like youve had enough of this ringing. i know that the ambulance wont be able to help me even if i called them

i had bilateral tinnitus for many years and now i hear a sudden change. Its gone from hearing many different tones on both sides to now only hearing one loud single tone in the right. I am not coping with this. It wont go away.

Do these make your tinnitus louder? I have been so stressed and busy with other worries recently that i didnt notice how loud my tinnitus was until now. It is ringing like a bell and very unpleasant. Tinnitus is one of lifes great miseries. How can it be so cruel and unfair. Not everyone...

What is even worse than tinnitus going on forever, is tinnitus which gets progressively worse. It can happen and I have gone through it. Even Mr nagler who has had excruciating tinnitus for many years, recently reported that it got even worse. There was absolutely no apparent reason for why he...

I have what would be described as screaming torturous tinnitus. Its not funny at all. At night, it is one of the many things which makes sleep difficult and in the day I have to constantly be trying to distract my mind. It is hell on earth

I felt suicidal when i first got it but such feelings went away and I have not felt like that again although i still suffer from tinnitus. Is it just the mindset? or can it really make you suffer that much?

The thing that angers me is that i feel i was unfairly chosen to get tinnitus. Why me? I avoid drugs and alcohol, (which are probably ototoxic) and never went to discos or even parties. I only used to listen to my music at home. The volume was fairly high but nowhere near party levels. The thing...

There are people who are deaf and people who are blind. These people will never see or hear again. But in our case we will never hear silence ever again. The importance of that depends on the person. A musician who gets joy and makes a living from music, would be devastated if they lost their...

many people report a fluctuation in their symptoms. If so you are lucky because at least you have quiet days. Presumably there are those that dont get fluctuations? is it true? How can this difference be explained? does tinnitus fluctuate in response to anything or is it just random?

We generally dont play loud music when we need to concentrate our mind on something like reading or studying. A lack of silence tends to distract us and makes us less able to concentrate. So could it be possible that tinnitus prevents you from using your mind as effectively as if you had...

There is no substitute for peace and quiet and silence. Think of what a piece of music would be without those silent pauses. Without silence your mind and brain is constantly being kept alert. The brain can never relax so you feel tired and agitated. TRT doesnt change your tinnitus it just...

http://tinnitus.org/ This site says tinnitus is not due to damage. Yet many people continue to say it is. What is the truth? Here are some quotes from that site: Think, now, how much of this treatment depends on being able to believe that tinnitus results from normal compensatory changes in...

i am going to need to have root canal treatment done i have been told. has anyone had any experience? is the drilling noise loud? how can i avoid the noise to prevent any worsening of my tinnitus?

does the tinnitus frequency correspond to the hearing loss frequency? or does it seem like that because we cant hear very well at those frequencies during the hearing test? could hearing loss just be a trigger for tinnitus rather than a cause? why dont people get low freqency tinnitus. its...

will it cure it? i have heard that even after it was cut the tinnitus still kept on ringing! It seems there is no end to this terrible noise! that would mean we would need to get into the brain to fix it since tinnitus could be coming from the brain itself and not from the ear?

whats the point of masking if it makes you hear an even louder noise in your ears? How is that going to help to diminish the irritation caused by the persistent noise? Would it not cause further agravation

There are all kinds of treatment out there and some people even claim they are very successful but how do we objectively measure how effective it is? The sound itself never goes away so how can we measure what improvement there has been when tinnitus cannot be measured except by what the...

I see many people who come on here and complain about their tinnitus, about how it tortures them and how it will go on for their whole life. The thing people dont seem to realise is that tinnitus is not the worst or only thing that can happen. Many more bad diseases or worse things can and do...

I am not a newcomer when it comes to tinitus. I went through the horrible process of habituation after i first got tinitus many years ago. I went through suicidal thoughts and it was very tough. Eventually i managed to learn to live with it. However, that was until a week ago when my tinnitus...

Imagine a car alarm goes off and has been going on for more than an hour. It is not loud enough to cause hearing damage but it is very annoying. Telling people to habituate to tinnitus is like telling someone to put up with that car alarm for life. It is not only annoying but it can be tiring...

how does earwax cause tinnitus? what tinnitus noise does it cause?