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Advice for noisy events and situations: -Go! Have fun! Relax. If you take precautionary measures you'll be fine: - For loud music/bands, take really good earplugs (30dB reduction at least) and make sure you insert them correctly per the instructions. Sometimes earplugs can momentarily cause a...

Hi guys, If you haven't already examined whether you have eustachian tube dysfunction, it might be worth doing. This a common cause and/or exacerbating factor in tinnitus. If you have slightly "clicky" or "poppy" sounds going on with your ears or feelings of fullness, eustachian tube is...

I absolutely refute this. Julian Cowan Hill's advice has helped me tremendously. He does not make much money (if any) from his YouTube videos and books. He is a really genuine, warm-hearted and well meaning person who wants to help people as much as possible. He also knows a lot about the many...

Happy to report I am tinnitus free now and have been for some time :) I am VERY careful with my ears now - I even wear earplugs in our shower (which has a really noisy fan).

No hearing aid but he says if his hearing loss was as profound in his right ear as it is in his left ear, then he could hardly hear a thing.

Yes - hearing loss and tinnitus. Quite loud and constant in one ear. He says he only notices it when someone talks about tinnitus and the rest of the time doesn't think about it at all. I never realised he had hearing loss/tinnitus until I started complaining about my ears ringing all the time...

Cranial sacral therapy is awesome for tinnitus. I am glad things are going well x

Probably just a temporary spike - most people find their tinnitus gets a bit worse when they have cold or flu. It should subside when you start to feel better.

@jdjd09, the hearing loss won't affect your ability to think or write algorithm/code. I work in a team of lawyers and a couple of team members have quite severe hearing loss (one guy basically can't hear out of one ear - has been the case since he was 13 years old). He is brilliant and carries...

I'm pretty sure my anxiety had aged me - I decided to take steps to do some damage control! My solution was to eat really healthy, drink lots of fresh clean water, exercise and do yoga/meditation. I also bought a bunch of expensive skincare products (lol) after doing research on the best ones...

Mine appeared into my consciousness after a period of high anxiety.

No. Doctor did nothing - in fact made it worse by making me panic about it and telling me there was nothing I could do about it. An ER nurse rolled her eyes at me and told me to "get over it"... I had far more success going to an osteopath and massage therapist.

Working in finance and studying CS is a full-on workload. Perhaps you need to scale back a bit for a while? Having said that, it's good to keep busy. I have no problem with you coming back here to express your feelings. This is a tough time for you and you need support and someone to understand...

@jdjd09, I would recommend giving Julian Cowan Hill an email. He is a qualified psychotherapist based on London and does Skype sessions. He had tinnitus himself for 16 years and is nearly deaf in one ear. Julian is an experienced practitioner (specialising in treating clients with T) and an...

@Telis, this is not helpful. Please stop posting on this thread Telis.

@jdjd09 you need to seek immediate medical attention. This isn't you thinking these thoughts, it's your depression and anxiety. This can and will get better dude. But myself and everyone on here are concerned for your wellbeing right now. Many, many of us have been there. I myself have been...

Cranial osteopathy was a huge help to me. It's so relaxing and the relaxation makes it pipe down. I don't know about doing it yourself - I would see a professional.

Yes there is DEFINITELY a connection in some people between GI tract and tinnitus. I did the "Clean Gut" diet by Alejandro Junger for 3 weeks and in that time, the tinnitus piped right down. It is an elimination diet which gives your gut a chance to heal, by removing potential inflammatory...

Continue socialising as you did before. This will help you with your recovery and habituation. Get some custom earplugs made (musician's plugs are amazing) and rock them whenever you feel it's too noisy. I have a decibel reader app on my iPhone and I will measure the noise levels. If it's too...

Also recommend craniosacral, it makes the volume go down for me too.

I'm also from New Zealand, welcome. I was told by a doctor at ER that the hospital has an audiology department who is able to help out. I never pursued it because my tinnitus went down in volume so much, but I would pursue the public health system option a little further if I were you.

On topic: SSRIs are meant to be quite safe. Having said that, I took Ecitalopram (having taken it before without any issues) and developed low pitched pulsatile tinnitus! Temporary, thankfully - it stopped after I stopped taking that medication. I find I get very anxious when I start new...

@glynis is an angel! She is so wonderful and supportive. :thankyousign:

@Alue Brings to mind this video by Julian Cowan Hill about the "Nocebo Effect":

Stress can be a trigger for tinnitus in many - including people (such as myself) who may have damaged their ears earlier from noise/ear infections and then didn't have tinnitus. So happy for you. Congratulations.

Night time is when tinnitus is most bothersome for me. Have you tried masking sounds? Everyone has their own preferences...I know the crickets masking noise is popular but I find it really irritating. I personally prefer rainymood.com

Mine changes all the time too. I'm in relative silence about 50% of the time, mild tinnitus for 20% of the time and then the remaining 20% is constant loud (often) pulsing ringing tinnitus at various pitches. The loud will often switch in and out, from mild to loud again (in the space of an...

Awesome Bill :) That's great news. Hopefully the silent stretches keep coming back. Mine is also completely silent at the moment - no ringing whatsoever.

I totally agree with this. Crying is a great stress reliever and catharsis. I don't like to do it when others are around - automatically I clam up. Sometimes if I'm having a bad day, I'll jump into the hot water, turn the fan on, lock the door and bawl my eyes out. Maybe that sounds depressing...

Can tell you are an American with that attitude to welfare. :-) Here in New Zealand we are proud of having a social safety net for people who need support!

I'm a daughter, hehe, but thanks nonetheless. :) An only child at that... The tinnitus has gone down somewhat today. Honestly though, I would be fine with the tinnitus going up in volume if someone could promise me Dad was going to be OK! :( Dad is extremely fit...he plays ice hockey every...

Of course I'm going to see him. Thanks for the reassurance....:facepalm:

Hi guys, I just found out yesterday that my Dad needs urgent bypass surgery for severe coronary artery disease. He's one of the fittest people that I know, so it's a real shock. They're keeping in hospital until the surgery takes place (likely to be in the next week or so). He doesn't live in...

Could be benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. That's the most common cause of vertigo. Have had it myself several times. Best to see a doctor about it as they will give you some exercises to help relieve the symptoms.

Hey. Just remember that everything gets better in time. There are some really subtle hearing aids available out there which are barely noticeable. There is a guy at my work with hearing aids - I've been there 7 months and only just noticed that he had them a few weeks ago. They are that...

I seem to be OK with cheese but high lactose foods (e.g. milk and ice cream) and anything containing wheat sets me off big time.

The "AWARE" technique is really good for panic attacks: http://www.anxietycoach.com/overcoming-panic-attacks.html

Have a look at the thread I created with tips to help with sleep: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/cant-sleep-try-these-suggestions.14574/#post-174635

In this journey of mine, I have found that panic and anxiety make tinnitus worse. Much, much worse... in many people (myself included) panic/anxiety/depression are a trigger for hearing tinnitus. Because you are in a state of "fight or flight" or "red alert", your ears listen out too acutely and...

Yoga!!

Hiya, I did the "Clean Gut" diet by Alejandro Junger which cuts out all grains for 21 days, except for small amounts of pea protein, lentils and quinoa. I felt absolutely awful in the first 5 days of doing it then on the 6th day, I felt phenomenal. By day 8 my tinnitus had completely...

Yup. It has been a huge help to me.

I haven't tried fasting but I went on the Clean Gut diet for 3 weeks and it resulted in a noticeable reduction in volume.

I very much doubt that your IQ is in freefall. Catastrophising based on some random internet article is pretty much the worst thing you could be doing. My Grandmother has quite severe hearing loss and is fit and healthy. She's in her 90s and very bright and onto woman. She lives in her own...

I really rate you Julian, thank you for all that you do!

So I decided to give eating wheat and sugary foods a go earlier in the week and it was a big mistake. Tinnitus not only returned but was louder than I have ever heard it before... and stuck around. Will not be eating wheat foods again anytime soon! Thank god for yoga and cranio osteopathy, I...

Went to cranio osteopath yesterday and did some pranayama practice and butyeko breathing exercises. Woke up this morning and it had disappeared again, phew. :)

I very much doubt that your IQ is in freefall. Catastrophising based on some random internet article is pretty much the worst thing you could be doing.

You guys need to learn to "think positive". What is the point in dwelling on all this negativity?

I have taken zopiclone on a short term basis. As noted above, it is for short term use only. I have taken a small dose of seroquel (an anti-psychotic) for sleep when I was really struggling some years ago (not through tinnitus, but through anxiety). I would not recommend this due to the nasty...

Google neuroplasticity. You can re-wire your brain for positive change, too. :-) It's a gift and not a curse.

I have another suggestion for relaxation - Butyeko breathing. Google it! It is also very helpful for asthmatics. Developed by a Russian scientist and backed up by science. Give it a go next time you can't sleep. :)

I have aged for sure! I've aged by about 5 months, lol (time since onset) :) xx

That's interesting! I find the crickets sound really irritating. I guess it depends on the person. :) Definitely recommend trying out different masking options though and finding one that suits you.

Hi, Sorry to hear you're suffering. My audiologist said that anxiety induced tinnitus is quite common. It should go away once the anxiety settles down a bit.

Thanks guys for the supportive messages. My tinnitus is far more manageable these days, thankfully. A lot of the time I don't hear it at all... Unfortunately my anxiety has gotten quite bad recently and the tinnitus has reared its ugly head again! Not too panicked about it this time as I know...

Annoyingly my tinnitus has piped up again since I've been posting on this forum the last couple of days, grrr. Hopefully it should pipe down soon...