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Hi. Been trying to stay off the forums, for my own good. Still have a bad habit of checking in which tbh never makes me feel good, there is just to much pain in the threads and reading success stories can be good, but most got milder versions of tinnitus which makes me feel even worse. I could...

Okey. My dad had chrons disease for 40 years, he lives a VERY good life, he had 2 surgeries for it (shorten dead intestines or something) but he have no problems with it really, he watches what he eats and take his medication for it. No problem My sister + my half brother also have Chrons, they...

Thanks for the post. I read so many posts lately about how people overcome their new tinnitus in just a few weeks or months. Which is great for them. But they all have very mild tinnitus that can be only heard at night. Reading those just makes me feel worse. I am in the same situation as you...

Only WNG. They don't even have a therapist right now ;/ So no follow up or more in depth counseling, they will get a therapist but it could take 2 months before they get someone. So until they get a new therapist trained with tinnitus coping I guess I'm on my own ;/ He did not explain much...

I got my Siemens duel purpose hearing aids yesterday. I have no big hearing loss (a -30 dB drop at 6.5-8k in my left ear) so we decided to not have increased hearing on. So white noise only. I was told to use them for about 6 hours a day, not more, and could take breaks if I wanted. I can...

Same here. I could only sleep in 100% silence, I could hear every little annoying thing like electronic noises, water pipes and so on. Just coming home, planting myself in the sofa in 100% silence, and just "be" mmmh. Or being in the forest, just hearing the leaves and nothing else, amazing...

That fighting 1 year on onset to live with tinnitus and living 3 years happy with it was not enough fighting. Did not expect to be back to square one after almost dying the first time learning to live with this garbage, now its even worse. Also taught me that biology sucks, never been exposed...

Day 5 on 10mg fluoxetine. I take it every morning with food and along with 10mg Sobril. Then another 10 mg Sobril in the afternoon. Doctor said to keep doing this for 2 weeks (as I said before planned to increase Fluoxetine to 20mg on Tuesday) Don't really feel the 10mg sobril helps all that...

Yeah rain have always been soothing for me. When I was a kid me and my mother often camped out in the forests etc, did that for like 15 years very often. Even on school days we drove out and camped. The best moments I remember are when the rain poured on the tent.

Do you remember what antidepressant and what dosage that made the tinnitus start when you got it? Or was it a withdrawl from one? Anxiety is a big part of insomnia, not just for T but for other cases of insomnia. Tricks like drinking something warm like milk, camomil tea, taking a hot shower...

@glynis 4th day. I called my doctor at the psychiatry, he said that I should go to the emergency unit, so been there. Talked to doctor there and well, not much that was done. He said that since I tried so many different AD and had severe reactions to almost all of them that fluoxetin is the...

Went to bed last night, woke up after 1 hour with the tinnitus screaming, was in panic and had cold sweats and had to take a diazepam to calm myself down and get to sleep. Woke up now and just shivering, feeling horrible and anxiety is raising through the roof. I dont know If I want to continue...

Here in Sweden they are very restricted to prescribe Diazepam, Xanax is close to impossible for example to get prescribed. And with me having suicide thoughts (and more) on paper makes it even more impossible. He prescribed more Sobril and told me to take 1-2 a day for a week now. Still not...

Thanks for the support all. @RaZaH Yes I dont like it either. But I had depression/anxiety problems years before i got T. And the fact is that I don't like my life really, I have no friends, no family, no job, live in a place I hate. And even with me having not cared about T at all for the last...

Sat for 4 hours this morning contemplating if I should keep taking it or not. But decided to keep taking it, will see how it feels tomorrow. But I want to see if it can help my depression,anxiety or not at least some what so I can cope easier. I still just feel that T is the only thing that...

Spend a week in bed with the silence reading books. Go to the forrest and enjoying the leaves blowing in the wind without the screams. Then again, I could do all these things for 3 years with T before everything went to hell.

I don't know really. Its more intrusive, it feels louder. But I dont know if its my anxiety that increases it even more or not. I feel I am in a panic state in my body. Dont know about spikes really, but its been kinda all hell since November with ups and downs in how I feel. I just dont know...

I am worried. I only taken 1x 10mg tablet yesterday and it feels my tinnitus got louder yesterday and still feels louder. I dont know if its all in my head or something else, but I am already afraid to take one today. Can 1 10mg tablet really effect it, with such a huge half life like fluoxetin...

Thank you all for the support, today have been really bad. So loud I cried half the day. Sitting a lone in my apartment without anyone near me does not help either, tried talking to some friends on skype to calm myself down but does not really help (they live far away) No family or friends when...

Started fluoxetin today. 10mg for a week then 20mg after that. I decided that I have nothing to lose right now, I cannot keep going as it is. I have been on fluoxetin in 2013 and back then it did not make my T worse, so I hope it does not effect it this time either. But I am still worried about...

Thank you all, the right side have calmed down somewhat, but it decided to increase the left side when it did. So I guess that is something positive about the right side at least. I am still hanging in there, but its getting harder every day. It feels like it or I am getting worse every day, I...

Thank you all, It means a lot. I been to the doctors, that sent me to emergency psychiatric at the hospital. I guess it did not really help much, he prescribed diazepam for sleep if it becomes to much and ordered me to call the emergency unit if the dark thoughts become to extreme (I guess he...

I was struggling with a increase in T on my left ear since November. I could fight it even with it being hard. But this night something happened with my healthy right ear. I was in bed at night and a sound started when I moved my head. And went silent when still. When I woke up the sound which...

Seems my problems never stop. I had a hard time from November until now, yesterday something happened to my "healthy" right ear. My TV-tone which have been super low for 5 years is now extremely loud, as loud as those short " beeeeep" you get sometimes, and its constant. I really don't know...

The tone does not change now. It's just there extremely loud and I'm crying. What happened. Why did this come. I cannot live with this tone in my right ear as well. If it does not go back I see no other way out then to end it myself :(

My previous TV tone in that ear that I almost could not hear even when plugging my ears is super loud now. Hear it clearly in the buss etc. And when I hold my hand over the ear it's very loud. Never ever been like this. How could this happen just like that. My ear still feels weird as well ;(

The problems never stop. Yesterday evening I felt a weird sensation in my right ear, like it was full or so when sound was present. I went to bed and noticed that I got a weird tinnitus tone, a tv-tone. That when I move my head it comes. If I lay still its not there, what the hell is happening...

Thanks for the support. Will ask my doctor about GABA tomorrow. I am so tired of this incredible volume ;( And even worse is the morsecode metallic clinging that clings like 10-20 times a second almost all day, its at the same place as the high pitch in/close my left ear. I always had this but...

Happy for you that it settled down, great news! Wish my increase settled down as well :(

Ps. not so positive post, so new people with T please avoid. I got T in early 2012, and had a rough year before I managed to get a handle on my T, according to my notes from then I heard it over most things and could not mask it. But I lived 3 years without any problems after that first year or...

Anxiety is the biggest trigger for increasing perception of tinnitus. If you can listen to some music and not paying attention of it already I would say you will have no problem becoming friends with it quite fast.

Going back would not help me, I have no Idea what triggered my onset of T. As I have no Idea what triggered my increase in November 2015, it kinda sucks. I want to know ;/ Maybe If I could go back I would go to China and become a Monk. But maybe the gongs would give me T then.

Some things in life you cannot fight, no matter how hard you try you will never win. The only way to win a fight like that is to give in to it, embrace it. Which ofc is insanely hard given how we as humans typical function, we want to fight alien things which are not normal to us.

Did it go back to your normal level when you got off the meds?

Sensitivity to sounds are linked to anxiety. Was for me when I got T 2012, all sounds were distorted, normal speech even hurt. It did not start right away when I got T, but several weeks later when my anxiety was at a peak and I fell into a depression. It got better when anxiety/depression...

Would be fun to know if you had any issues with it if you had it since you were born, increases, decreases. I guess you managed to put it back so you dont really hear it anymore usually, since thats how most conditions are if you were born with them.

Tried it for a few weeks but no success so far. Tried it after my T increased, but I guess since I got a depression and high anxiety it's hard to make it work. I am still trying to not messure the volume, just my response to it (just that I hear it 24/7 now again over everything so I would...

Going through the exact same thing, spiked for unknown reason, now I am back into a deep depression and high anxiety 24/7. Took me a year to learn to live with it when I got it as well, and I lived 3 years without any problems with T, until November when it increased. Now I hear it over...

Have a friend from Japan with T. Moderate t according to him,he can mask it somewhat but not only hear it in a quite room thing. He have been to surely over 60 concerts (big ones and indoor theater performances watching idols) Also been to several baby metal concerts. He wears custom earplugs...

I agree with everything you said. Anxiety and depression which I am in right now increase my perception of Tinnitus a million, it just screams over everything. If I take a Sobril ("lightest" benzo) I feel much better and my perception of T is lower and I can relax better, but I am trying not to...

Chances of it going away, slim. But since it is so mild as you only hear it when it's quite and it stayed for that you should focus on trying to learn how to relax when going to bed with it. Winding down before sleep with something you enjoy, drinking something warm etc. or natural supplements...

I guess I should be happy to live in Sweden since everything is free within the healthcare system, so it helps to push things.

I been to a few things like Qi-therapy etc and I always went into them neutral. Did not really help my tinnitus directly, but some helped me lower other things in my life like anxiety etc, which helped T in turn a bit. I also believe in it like my mother, that have fibro and arthritis in her...

To be fair, ENT's are not tinnitus specialists, far from it. They are surgeons that focus on physical problems within the ear. When I went to ENT 2012 I got help, she gave me an MRI, she checked with camera in my nose etc and everything she could do, hearing tests etc. She then refered me to a...

We all react different in different weather. My mother with fibromyalgi hates the cold, her pain is much higher in the winter months then the rest of the year. My T gets slightly worse when I been outside in the cold, probably because I already have problems with stiff neck/posture and the cold...

A little, but then I think that everyone gets these, T or no T. And it always goes away in few seconds. I guess people with T react a bit more to them then people without T though. I get it maybe 2-4 times a months at most.

I was on fluoxetine for 10 months or so in 2008 for depression and it definitely helped me raise me somewhat and take of the worst panic. But ye I was not cure just because of that, I needed help with therapist etc to fix the things that I had problems with. But then again I was really down in...

Therapy helped me a lot when I got T, helped me lower it when my anxiety and depression got better and therapy was a part of that. I got a good Tinnitus therapist back in 2012 that I really connected with, but she moved far away. But my current therapist is not working out, so looking to find a...

Ever since my T got worse got unknown reason in beginning of November I have been having a really hard time, and it's not getting better. I am quick to blame it all on T, it is a really big part, but now I start to wonder what is the biggest thing that I struggle with. Even when in the shower...

They are also a milion times harder to enjoy without silence in your head. Silence to me was being able to enjoy quite sounds without someone screaming inside my own head. But yeah, 100% silence is still something I miss. Coming home just planting myself in the sofa in total silence. Waking up...

To be honest 10k people is nothing at all :) Hundreds of million people in the world with tinnitus, maybe if all those could revolt more money would get into research ;) But yeah since the majority of people with T live without problems its another story.

Silence was the most beautiful thing for me in life before. I loved just sitting reading a book in complete silence, to sit out in nature and listen to the quite swooshing of the trees etc. Not everyone is a like Telis, what you like other people might not like. No Idea why that is so hard to...

You know, I do from time to time. The thing is, when I got T 2012 I did just this. Then I habituaded and lived 3 years without any problems with my loud T, not even noticing it most times. Now I got a very bad spike for unknown reason and I am right back to just this, seeing the future in doom...

Acupuncture helped me lower my T, I have problems with stiff neck muscles and lowering the tensions with acupuncture and stretches lowered my volume a bit. Acupuncture is worth a try if you know you have a problem somewhere, like stiff neck muscles, or blood flow problem etc. But yes its hard...

@Lorac Thanks, yes It got me thinking that my depression really is linked hard to my T right now since I think it lowered it shortly after having a decent time Christmas eve. @glynis Thank you. Yes I feel my depression really is sinking in and in turn making me hold on to T really hard. I have...

I hate to post this, I really do. I want to do only positive posts to help others. But the truth is I am struggling. My T increased in beginning of NOV for unknown reason, the most likely "cause" was a bad cold in October, followed by shot back, and before that I started to feel worse in myself...

My T match it quite well. I actually played some sounds around my own and it lowers my own T briefly when I turn it off. Same way this video acts. It's weird though. When I turn my head left right I cannot hear the sound at certain angles. Although a friend without T got the same thing. Could...