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Hello all, I have had tinnitus for more than 6 years now and have endured 100+ spikes that always went down. At the beginning of this year my intestines ruptured, and I had to undergo surgery. After 3 weeks in the hospital, I could go home. I had been home just for two days when I had to...

Hey all, I banged my forehead hard a couple of times within a short time. Now I have an extremely bad tinnitus spike. Can hitting your forehead cause hearing damage? I did hear new chip chip sound a couple of times an hour later but that is gone now. Thank you for your advice!! Cheers, Chris

Hey all, I have a high pitched spike that started 5 weeks ago, during that time I had a very stressful situation and at the same time I changed my blood pressure medication from Valsartan to Candesartan. I don't know what to do. I am scared the the new medication might be ototoxic and might be...

Hey everyone, I have a question. I just started eating healthy again to lose weight and stay healthy. So I started eating vegetables and again my tinnitus spikes... I have read that salicylates might spike tinnitus. Did anyone of you experience something similar? Should I just stick to...

Hey everyone, I hope you had a good Christmas! I was just wondering if you kind of poke against you eardrum with a q-tip, could this cause damage to the inner ear. I know it is a bad idea but things happen and I poked against the eardrum :( I can't figure out the mechanism, I know sound...

Hey there, I have had tinnitus for over 4 years now. Last week I got sick with the stomach flu and my tinnitus went through the roof. I am still battling with being sick and I have the bad habit that when tinnitus is so loud I do the valsalva maneuver a couple of times per hour because it...

Hey everyone, I have a question, I am trying out this new Diet ‘’How Not To Die’’ This Diet includes a lot of vegetables and spices and all of them are high in Salicylates. I have had tinnitus now for 4 years and I noticed that if I do not eat certain foods my tinnitus becomes so low that it...

I fasted for 5 days, only water nothing else, I have done this before and this time I had the same result. First my tinnitus increases a bit but then on the 5 day or so it decreased and stayed that way. This was amazing! Today was the first day that I wanted to stop fasting and continue with...

Hey guys, I was just wondering if any of you ever spoke to an doctor about pressing on the Tragus? Do you think that if you press firmly on the Tragus to block out sound and then release quickly the pressure difference can cause damage to the ear ? I was just wondering because I feel a...

Hey guys, Last night in my sleep I punched myself on the ear while I was sleeping... Don't ask me how I managed to do that... That made me very anxious and I started testing if the punch was hard enough to cause damage, after a while I managed to go back to sleep. When I woke up my tinnitus...

I don’t know if some of you can relate to this. But my tinnitus was really manageable over the last couple of months. Last weekend I had a Panic Attack and it felt like it was never going to end. But then it did pewww :) During the 2 Panic Days I thought this is going to send my tinnitus...

Hey guys, I have a problem! I have been on Mirt for 1 year now and it really helped me! Feel great T lower but the weight gain is really a problem for me. Now the doc wants me to try Amitriptyline. I tried it for one night and it made me fell panic and i could not sleep. Thus i guess resulting...

Hey everyone, I am always searching through the whole forum to find information about ADs or other medications that helped people or not. Seeing that it's a drag searching throug all the posts, I would like to invite everyone that wants to share their experiences to write a little segment...

Hey guys, I have a question to those of you who have been or currently are on this drug. 1. Did anyone get a feeling it made their tinnitus better? 2. Is here anyone who stopped taking the drug and if so did you notice an increase in tinnitus or did it stay the same? I am currently stopping...

Hey everyone, I have a questions to those of you who tried Mirtazapine (Remeron) or is currently on it. I started using 15 mg almost a year ago. After a while alongside with healthy diet and exercise my tinnitus drastically reduced to a start where I sometime where standing in the kitchen and...

Hey guys, I am a bit worried about my trip to a party last night. I got my musician ear plugs last week and I thought i give them a try. I went to the party and mesured the db with my phone its was 106 db. My plugs are - 15db so i should come down to 91 db. Afterwards my T spiked and i looked...

Hey guys, I have a question about spikes. I have had Tinnitus for over 2 years now and i have to say that after taking good care of myself it got much better and i think you can call this the road to getting habituated. But right now i did not take such good care of myself and i have what...

Hey everyone, I was just wondering if there is someone that can give me some advice. I have T since 15 Months due to a diving accident which cause high frequency hearing loss above 8khz everything is gone. I did take part in the AM-101 trails that sadly did not help. After that i started TRT...

Dear Dr. Nagler, I will start TRT this week and I had some general questions in regards to the workings of TRT and my case. I had a diving accident last summer after which I started hearing a high frequency hiss and lost my hearing above 8000 Hz. Also I have a slight hyperacusis which I do...

Hey everyone I am new to the site and have so general questions I would appreciate if someone could help me in am in bad situation. I got my tinnitus from diving and I have a high frequency hearing loss somewhere about 7000 kHz upwards. I was wondering if it physically possible for the...