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Similar story to you. I habituated to tinnitus after like 2 years. Then I had 3 good years. Then in February of this year I had a pretty massive spike that freaked me out bad, felt like I went right back to the start but worse. Oddly it would cycle around 3 bad spike days, then 1-3 good days...

I think the most confusing thing for me is that if I engage in something meaningful and like fully get my mind off it, often the pressure goes away entirley. So I'm failry positive anxiety is at least a factor. This leads me to going back and forth as to if what I'm feeling is even "real" so to...

Thank you, I really appreciate the input. I'll give both those a try.

Perhaps you've already seen this but I highly highly reccomend it. I've habituated to tinnitus twice now and both times this post was very useful in the learning how to not check it. https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/back-to-silence.7172/

It's been a long time since I posted. Years I think. I've largely habitutated to my tinnitus (twice now) and it really doesn't bother me. The anxiety around it is still a problem but it's still quite the hole to come out of. Recently however over the last 3 weeks to a month I've been having...

Last time i ran there was this clicking sound in my ear that was in time with my steps, not even sure if it's T related. Are there any runners out there who've experieced this? Didn't really cause any problems but it's made me hesitant to run for fear that it is related to T though as i said...

So a piece of filling just came out, knew it was gonna happen eventually but darn it i feel pretty down. Last time i went to the dentist was a whole lotta stress and no fun and that was pre t so i'm really dreading this. The whole filling didn't come out so i'm hoping nothing needs to be done...

@ady Hmmm i've read one study dealing with topical absorbtion of salycidic acid which can absorb through the skin but only a little for relatively large doses and it had nothing to do with tinnitus. It just worries me to look at that long list of chemicals and then use it. I know i'm probably...

So one of my new fears as of late is my skin care products, I made the mistake of looking up the ingredients and found all sorts of scary facts, my cleanser has salicylic acid which I know can cause temporary tinnitus and while I seriously doubt this has anything to do with my own tinnitus I am...

I've gotten drawn into exactly the kind of paranoia You're talking about here and your right, it's not fun. It's down right miserable being afraid of common foods cause someone somewhere on the internet says it's bad for t. Seems like literally anything coupled with the word tinnitus on a search...

So I've been wondering this ever since I heard antibiotics were ototoxic. Are the common triple action antibiotics which contain Neomycin safe to apply to cuts and such? I read they're only ototoxic when ingested or injected into the vein but wouldn't applying it to a cut get it in your...

Oh snap, but now I'm thinking maybe I can take a blood test to see if I've been exposed, which could be a lot easier. I hope I don't sound toooo crazy here.

I have a doctor I like though were both in agreement that there's little he can do about the T. As to the solvents I'm gonna try and see if I can test the room somehow to see without a doubt whether there's harmful toxins in the air, though I'm pretty darn sure there aren't. And oooo ho ho I do...

Nice! To be honest I've read some of your previous posts and they gave me a pretty good scare, Glad to see that those posts are merely slices of life and not the trend as I'm sure we all have to realize. One of these days when I feel confident enough to post about my own successes I intend to go...

Here goes. About a week ago i noticed a strange sensation/sound in my head. It's pretty strange though, my "normal" t i perceive as sound but this feels like it's in my head, like im forced to think it, though my "normal" t remains unchanged.It also comes and goes, i won't perceive it in silence...

Has anyone experienced this? Lasted probably 20 seconds but it scared me real good, aaaaand now i'm a mess.

@erik I know this is a pretty old post but it was the only one I found that dealt with topical steroids being ototoxic. Everything I have read indicates that at most they can induce vertigo (specifically I was looking for Triamcinolone acetonide). Do you remember where you heard or found this?

I used to love HIIT but as it takes a lot out of you I slowly fell out of practice with it. Nothing better for making large gains in relatively short times I found.

Not sure what the frequency was, honestly I'd rather forget about it. it was just much lower than anything I've experienced so far. I've experienced fleeting T long before the onset of T but never anything like that.

So glad I read this post. Only had T for two months and I can't even count the times I've wondered whether this might be the case with me but I felt I had no real way of knowing.

Has anyone experienced this? Just happened to me on one of my bad days and really ripped me up emotionally inside but quickly went away just like fleeting T.

As far as musicians with tinnitus I get some hope from one of my favorite artists, Neil Young. I love his music up and down and to me it seems like he's living a pretty good life, and he's still making music. I'm pretty sure Thom Yorke has or had T as well he makes some truly great music, which...

Goooood Question. haven't tried yet out of fear but it's on my list of things to do, I didn't realize until I stopped what a useful social tool alcohol is.

pretty simple problem, I love playing piano but I am scared that it's too loud when I play it. Not sure if it is or not I just get this sort of fear/aversion which really bums me out. Are there any musicians out there with similar aversions and how'd you get over it?

2 months in, after the first month it got better and settled, 3 weeks ago a new tone came in in my right ear which was until then mostly quiet, that didn't really concern me too bad since I was at the time feeling better, though now it seems to have slowly ramped up and is scaring the crap out...

First day went well, didn't even need the hearing protection I brought, it is quite a bit quieter than my old job so this should be good for my stess levels. My only complaint is that I occasionaly have to work in a room with a fan, it's not loud at all it's just that the T gets reactive around...

@Naddesh, Congrats! I must admit sometimes I feel a little guilty that some members seem to conquer their fears faster than I have. Though I believe I'm doing better now than two months ago I still feel as if I ought to be in a better place by now, which I admit also scares me sometimes. I...

@Shawty, Thanks. I think I'll just have to wait out this anxious feeling for now, hopefully a positive attitude will help speed up the process. @glynis Thank you too. It's hard to feel like you're getting better only to get thrown back into these fears and feelings. Sometimes I feel like my...

@Gosia I think you're probably right. Perhaps now is the time to start learning coding so I can work from home one day. I start tomorrow and i'll bring some hearing protection just in case and see if I can't work something out there, perhaps I can find a way around it.

@Inge Congrats! You should think about posting in the success stories maybe. Either way I'm glad to hear yet another member made it to a good place.

I hadn't had a spike for maybe a month, got a few during onset but that was all over the place so it concerned me less. Since I thought the T had settled a bit this one really took me by surprise, didn't even consider it was a spike till maybe 30 minutes in, scared me witless. Today I feel like...

Bam you've been favorited. Seriously though thanks for posting. These stories are of such a great boon to me. It's so easy in these early days to get lost in the dark places in your mind it really helps to see that others have walked the same path and get to a place that I believe exists even if...

So I've been looking for quieter work since all this started since I work in a semi-noisy warehouse and I've been having trouble. Just had an interview that I think I nailed today for an ecommerce small shipping business and it seemed like a quiet place when I was getting the tour, until I heard...

Congrats! I too have been getting some crazy tense neck muscles and it just occurred to me today that it could be related to all the stress, hopefully I'll get all that sorted out soon.

I think it might've been helping me but right as things were getting better I slipped back into old habits of describing tinnitus and back down the rabbit hole I go, especially in regards to the past. Stuff like "what did it sound like a week or two ago"? which I know is just dumb. been having a...

Congrats! thanks for telling your story too, I know it takes mad courage. I've also told myself the same thing about sharing my story once I get better but I can see why there aren't a ton of success stories, once people get better the absolute last thing they'd want to do is go and revisit the...

@I who love music So I've been using this method since I had a mental setback about a week ago and it seemed to help at least a little with my mental state. Recognizing that I was scared or sad, then a few days later I could say I was less scared when I heard it which was of some comfort just...

@CarloZ It's hard to say, best bet at this time seems some minor neck trauma, I overdid it at the gym and tweaked my neck pretty significantly just before the onset. Just did physical therapy exercises for it today and it fatigued pretty quick, I hadn't realized how weak it had gotten. Ya it's...

Lately I've been getting better I think but am still having some serious hiccups. Yesterday I remember hearing the T and not really caring and it just faded away for most of the day, and when it popped up I just shrugged my shoulders and continued doing whatever and forgot about it pretty quick...

@Bazz where do you work might I ask? I've been wondering if I should protect mine more specifically at work, I'll probably just switch jobs though as it's causing me too much stress.

@I who love music I think you're right, I'll try. Measuring the sounds seems pointless at best and counter productive at worst.

@SteveSkis92 So you know, I had a tough day today. I read this again and it pretty much made me cry, in a good way. Just wanted to thank you again, it really helps.

The last couple of days I've been trying hard to make positive changes, I've got an interview coming up for a great job, getting back into dating, cleaned up and organized my stuff, shaved and got a good haircut, basically just wanted to start making some positive steps forwards but mentally I...

Hey we got T around the same time and it sounds like were in similar boats. T for me fluctuates between different sounds and is reactive around certain sounds like fans and certain running water but not all. So much of this is a mental game it seems like staying positive and calm are hugely...

I swear I practically tear up inside when I read these things. Not only cause I see hope in these messages but also because it shows the goodness in people that they'd take the time to try and lighten the burden for those still suffering. Especially considering to do so you must go back and...

Has anyone ever experienced just the deafness and not the T? I was playing guitar and all of a sudden it felt like sounds were coming from further away in my right ear. gave my heart quite the jump but my hearing went back to normal within a couple seconds. Good thing I'm already scheduled to...

Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? Sadly I saw one post claiming that because valerian root works in a similar manner to benzos that it could also worsen T through withdrawal symptoms. Now I'm sure this person had little idea of what they were talking about but I'm curious if anyone has ever...

@SteveSkis92 Thank you so much for your kind words, I'll be looking back over this post for the next few weeks for support I'm sure. From all the posts I've read I've gathered that the #1 healing factor in all this is time and therefore I gotta practice patience especially in regards to myself.

Awesome posts man. I completely agree about how the anxiety can be far worse than the tinnitus itself, as a small example I have gone large parts of the day unconcerned with my T but once something sets of my anxiety (could be anything) suddenly the T is my focus once again and I go straight...

Just had a caffeinated black tea ginger beverage at around 4PM, couldn't of had more than 100mg of caffeine in it, but after drinking it I realize it has caffeine and precede to freak out that I wont get any sleep tonight, which would suck as I'm already tired/sick/tinnitus blah blah blah and...

@Kara77 I'm right there with ya. Thought I was getting better about my fear of noises and then I got caught off guard a bit by a guy using a nail gun right by me. Don't even think it caused a spike but I can't help but worry. I think it probably has more to do with how we handle anxiety rather...

Huzzah! thanks for reposting your condition. Helps to know these sick spikes pass. As if being sick wasn't enough.

Think I'll pick up some Emergen C today too to see if I can't shorten this cold up. @MidnightOilAudio Ya this spike feels very similar to my first one which I believe was caused by the anxiety and stress of the onset. On the one hand it's helping me not to freak out, on the other hand it sucks...

So from what I understand it's common for a cold to cause a spike yes? and the spike should leave with the cold? I'd research through the threads but honestly I'm afraid of finding horror stories and lately I've been managing my anxiety quite well. The first two days of my cold had no effect on...

My process. Me: Hey google, I'm having some weird but non troubling symptoms, that's nothing to worry about right. Google: O hey Sam, well lets see, hmmmm well I'd say you're probably doomed. Me:.......Screw You Google!! And then I worry.

@Aaron123 Thanks, this is what I figured but it's always nice to hear others have had similar experiences and get some reassurance.

It comes and goes and for the most part isn't troublesome. Just worried that it might be a sign of something else? I am feeling a little under the weather (dry throat) but don't think I'm sick. I'm hoping it'll just come and go as most of my strange feelings do. I'm dealing with the stress much...

I'm for sure gonna start doing these, and I'm surprised the bent over row would help but that's a favorite of mine so all the better. Just realized yesterday that just before the onset of my T I strained my neck the worse I ever have doing lateral pulldowns, and when I've been going to bed at...

All the freaking time.

Looks like you'll be getting more than 6 hours of tinnitus freedom from here on out aye, Congrats!!!