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Yes, it can cause permanent hearing damage. I was slapped in the ear by my mentally unstable ex while I was turned away and not paying attention. The slap caused a large rupture in my eardrum. That was well over a year ago and I still have tinnitus and hearing loss at high frequencies.

Randomaccess, I think 90% of your problems are caused by stress and anxiety. Start a meditation program for an hour a day. If you can get in the right frame of mind and get your stress levels down, I think your other problems will start to fade naturally.

JurgenG, The T might go away completely, it might not. If it does persist, your brain will eventually learn to tune it out and you will not be bothered by it very much. You are almost certainly tricking yourself into thinking the T is worse than it is right now, because you are reading these...

A few times a day, a different, considerably louder tone emerges in my ear. It is probably 3 times louder than my constant tones. It used to scare the hell out of me everytime it happened. You will get used to the changing tones eventually. The more you stress about them, the worse and...

I gotta thank you Floridians for coming through for the Trumpster.

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Congrats on escaping the clutches of your narcissist. They are so captivating at first, then once you're addicted they will stop at nothing to destroy your soul completely. They are the most terrifying evil on this planet. I'm sure the next time you notice the signs of an NPD, you will run...

Wow this is a really great idea, and I think the results would be pretty phenomenal. I wholeheartedly believe that the things you are proposing are precisely the cures for tinnitus. I spent months and months suffering and not getting any better while I was reading tinnitus forums and...

The more you read and freak yourself out the louder it's going to appear. Stress makes this stuff 10 times worse. Accept that you are helpless in this matter and don't spend any time monitoring your tinnitus or trying to fight it. It's probably going to just go away in a couple weeks, but not...

Ah Nathalie, I still maintain that you will be fine. As soon as you let go of the melodrama, your ear problems will start to fade, and your life will return to normal.

I have had tinnitus for over a year. I am still annoyed from time to time by the ringing, and it is every bit as loud and piercing as it was the first day I got it. The reason I talk about mindset being important, is because that's the only thing that saved me from letting tinnitus unravel my...

I have no doubt that lots of people are seriously bothered by tinnitus. I was definitely bothered by it for the first 6 months or so. All I was trying to say is that I highly doubt that people are killing themselves solely because of tinnitus. It seems to me much more likely that they are...

Just chill out man. Laugh about it. Yeah it sucks, your ear is ringing like mad. At least you don't have cancer. It could be way worse, right? Do what you gotta do to keep it together. Don't let this bullshit take over your life. No matter how horribly annoying it is, you have to keep...

People new to tinnitus hate hearing this, but realistically the doctors and hypnotists are probably not going to help at all. Her tinnitus is most likely not going to get better until she improves her mindset towards it.

Eat really clean, work out a bunch, learn a new skill, have sex, go on a sweet vacation.

Your story gives me deja vu. Get ready to be thrown around to multiple doctors who have no idea how to help you, then finally to be sent to the tinnitus "specialists" who won't be covered by insurance. Then they will start trying to sell you the really expensive "treatments". After you have...

Go see if you have a busted eardrum.

You can indeed buy a noise machine. However, if you enjoy saving money, you can download one of the many sleeping apps on your phone for free. They do exactly the same thing. Good luck.

Don't give up. It can still go away. Even if it doesn't, you will be fine in a few months regardless. In a year you won't even notice the ringing unless you deliberately focus on it. Keep living your life exactly as normal and don't let your thoughts obsess on the ringing, that's the key to...

Moon, you are ALLOWING this to break you. Your stress and depression levels are almost certainly causing your T and H to feel considerably worse. Every time you let your problems push you backwards in your life, your stress and depression levels are going to rise. If you want this stuff to...

Everyone will habituate and be at peace eventually. How long it takes, is totally up to you.

I would guess that probably somewhere between zero to five people per year kill themselves solely because of tinnitus. That's in stark contrast to the thousands that whine about suicide on this board.

You almost certainly won't win.

Your fear of it getting worse is probably making it worse.

This is a question that I see on here over and over and over again. Most people agree that after 6 months or so it's highly unlikely that it will go away. The answer to your question is totally useless however. There is nothing you can do at this point to change your fate. You are actually...

You're gonna be alright.

There was probably a LOT more than just tinnitus going wrong in this guys life. Tinnitus alone cannot drive an otherwise mentally stable person to commit such crimes.

Hey Jason. I am going to give you the run down of what's probably happening and what's going to happen to you. This is exactly what happened to me, and many of the other people who go through tinnitus. Like me, you probably have hearing loss at a really high frequency and the test did not...

When you stop hoping it will go away, is when you will start habituating.

From everything I have read, it seems that after 6-8 months there is very, very little chance that it will go away on it's own. The day that you accept that it's not going to go away, is the day that you begin habituation. Every day that you monitor the tinnitus and try to determine if it's...

When I first got tinnitus, I used an app called Relax Melodies and cranked up the volume quite loud for masking, and I also had 3-4 shots of bourbon directly before bed. Until you habituate you just gotta do what you have to in order to get some sleep. Don't let your life fall apart from a...

You are doing great for only being 2 months in. Keep up the good attitude and you will be fully habituated in no time. Tinnitus sucks, but if you keep a strong mind and do not let it break you, then you will be fine. A year from now you will not even notice the ringing 95% of the time.

You can throw thousands of dollars at the tinnitus and see 100 different doctors and you probably still won't know what's causing your tinnitus. Even if you do believe some of the speculation they will throw at you, it is highly unlikely you can cure it by doing anything in particular. Do...

One of my frequencies goes away completely when I clench my teeth really hard.

Jack, you're getting there. As you can see, living your life normally and distracting your brain is the true cure to tinnitus. It won't be long now until 90% of your life feels like the day you described. Your tinnitus will be "way back in the queue" the vast majority of the time.

I know you probably don't want to hear this, but you have to stop with the emo dramatic shit if you actually want to start feeling better. You're not going to kill yourself. You are just frustrated and you're venting. The whole reason you are not getting better is because you are maintaining...

Yeah you will be fine, one way or the other. Maybe you will get super lucky and your tinnitus will just magically go away. If not, you will not care about your tinnitus in a year.

I used this forum just to read about what was happening to me, and get some advice right at first. Then I did not log on here for about 9 months. Checking this forum everyday will almost certainly stop you from habituating. Once you are in the frame of mind to start your habituation process...

Yeah I did manage to get my work under control. I was not very productive for about 6 months, but I did what I could to make ends meet. I work in a fairly quiet office, so dealing with the ringing was very difficult there. Of course I still hear it while in the office...but instead of feeling...

Honestly you're doing way better than I did. I freaked out for the first few months. I had to take time off work, thought my life was ruined, drank heavily to be able to sleep. Now, the tinnitus is EXACTLY the same as it was then, and I think about it maybe 3 or 4 times a day for about 30...

I just learned through exhausting every possible option, and spending a lot of money too. There are plenty of doctors out there with lots of ideas on how to treat tinnitus. They will offer you counseling, they will offering you medications, they will sell you programs that can create sounds to...

This probably won't make any sense to you at this point, and you probably will not ready to embrace this idea until you are a few months down the path...but the best thing to do is stop even trying to measure your tinnitus at all. Don't think about it, don't talk about it. Don't sit and wonder...

If you cant hear it over the shower, then don't even worry, that means you can mask it with music, or just background noise. It will be super easy to habituate.

id say get in the shower, and let the water hit you straight on top of the head. If you still hear it clearly, then it's pretty loud.

It is madness. Almost all modern critical thinkers are rejecting religion. It will take some time before the more dull minded will follow suit. Fortunately, If trends towards secularism continue, in 80-100 years the God of the Bible, the Torah, and the Quran will be as obscure and laughable...

Oh man, I can totally relate. I spent many months hating myself for getting into a situation where my guard was down and I could be hit hard enough to bust my eardrum and cause nerve damage to my inner ear. I would sit and contemplate for hours on end "What if I had moved my head an inch in...

Okay so you're saying that God is indeed all knowing and has the power to control anything and everything. If God possesses those two traits, yet still allows innocent people to suffer in such a horrible and cruel way, then I am not convinced that he is the moral authority that I want to...

OP, plenty of people have it way worse than you do. If God exists, he/she is NOT omnipotent and omniscient. No being could possess both of those qualities and allow what happens on this earth to continue. Whatever is up there is either impotent, or evil. Perhaps both. Be careful what you...

I did not use them for the first 6 months or so that I developed Tinnitus, because any loud sound just hurt like hell. I use them now though, just with lower volume than I used to before.

Sounds like you went through the whole run down of the doctors who don't have any solutions. Like you, I went to every doctors and heard all their BS about what was causing the tinnitus. I tried all their medicines, their jaw relaxing techniques for TMJ, did stress relieving meditation, even...

People tend to throw this habituation term around and make it seem like they are 100% cured and don't even hear the tinnitus. I doubt that is true. In my opinion, habituation basically means you have given up trying to battle the tinnitus and you accept it as part of you, instead of...

I can totally relate. I got punched in the ear and it busted my eardrum, which started the T. The ENT said the same bullcrap to me. "Wait 6-8 weeks and the ringing will go away". Now, 14 months later, same shit. You get used to it though.

If the T is solely from the injury, does it ever heal?

Yeah I have always had problems with grinding my teeth and clenching my jaw. It's an obsessive compulsive thing. I have never had ringing before and the ringing started as soon as I got slapped. I wonder if TMJ has anything to do with it though. Thanks for the insight.

Hello everyone, So about a month ago I was slapped in the ear by my ex girlfriend who has severe emotional problems. She hit me while I was looking away and not expecting it so I took a full force hit. The slap opened a 25% rupture in my eardrum and I experienced considerable hearing loss and...