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I haven't been to the site in a long time, but here is an update. I have had tinnitus for a bit over 2 years now. I think I have become a little bit habituated. Throughout the first year, I was reluctant to acknowledge any progress out of a superstitious fear that I would jinx myself. Today I...

I think there is a connection with stress and anxiety. It doesn't seem to be immediate and direct. However, I've found that more stressful times roughly correlate with periods where tinnitus has been more intrusive. Weekends typically feel a little better and Monday is often the roughest day of...

I have just now seen your post. I have not been on this site much since December. After a while, there isn't a whole lot more to read about tinnitus. Every now and then it gets me down, and success stories help in those times. I'm hanging in there. Speaking generally, things are a little bit...

Absolutely. It can be very hard to ignore it at times, but I keep trying different strategies. One thing that I have been trying to do, when I find myself on the mental treadmill of observing and analyzing tinnitus, is to acknowledge what I am doing and articulate what the effects of this...

Yes, I agree with pretty much everything you said above. I am working through it with a therapist who has helped me to realize that... A huge part of me is really strongly still wanting to fight / solve the problem and I am not adequately addressing that. I'm mistaking the notion of...

I finally had my wisdom teeth removed about 2 weeks ago. There were no complications with that and it has mostly healed up by now. The incision pain went away quickly, but my jaw was pretty sore for about a week. I took a hydrocodone/acetaminophen combo for the first 24 hours; after that, 200 mg...

I've flown six times this year. I live at about 700 ft above sea level. I've been to Salt Lake City, about 4400 ft above sea level, and I've been at sea level in LA and NYC. I haven't noticed any differences in the tinnitus relative to flying or changes in elevation. I also rode between cities...

Maybe put all the male crickets in one cage and all the female crickets in another. I wonder how long it'd take to sort out 500 crickets?

This site has a pretty good tone generator also. It will output several different wave form types. http://www.audionotch.com/app/tune/

I got myself really worked up about the same thing back in May. Long story short, I had absolutely no change in my tinnitus after using Neosporin at that time, and I had it on my wound (about the same size as the one you describe) for a couple days. I worried about it a lot over the following...

Given that it is nearly impossible to completely avoid antibiotics in the modern world... I wonder if there is there anything that a person might do to at least mitigate the possibility of auditory / nervous system side effects while taking them, such as taking antioxidants (NAC, maybe) at the...

It was about 2 months after the start of tinnitus. I didn't notice any effects at all from the prednisone, good or bad. I stopped taking it, because why take something for no reason? That was my thinking at the time, anyway. I was also very cautious of putting any medicine into my body at that...

I'm glad this has been helpful. Hopefully things will continue to gradually improve... I have to have my wisdom teeth taken out soon and that is making me nervous lately. One of them has been slowly crumbling over the past year, and recently I can't chew on that side, so it's time for them to...

Yes. It seems doubtful that very many people have benefited or I suppose there would be a lot more written about it here. Nevertheless I felt it might be worth contributing what I had heard. On reading more about it, it seems as though if it was going to provide any benefit, it would be...

I have not tried this myself. However, I heard a positive report that I thought you might find interesting to know. I recently began seeing a therapist who has worked with some other tinnitus patients previously, to try to work on developing some better coping skills. He mentioned that two of...

Quick update. The "spike" I had at the beginning of August seemed to calm down after a few days, but tinnitus was still on my mind pretty heavily. On the Friday before last, I had a new buzzing sound which hung around for a couple hours and eventually went away; this made me feel quite...

When I go to an extremely quiet room, I can perceive a humming sound that is distinct from the other tinnitus. I do not hear this humming in other environments. The other tinnitus sounds (plural) are there also, but I can tell them apart from this "anechoic chamber" sound. I consider my own...

@Dilshaad Sorry this reply is a little slow in coming. Last week I was traveling, and tinnitus was mercifully not on my mind too much. Though I had some moments... I was driving around for a while with a passenger who TALKED REALLY LOUD, even made my ears hurt a little, and I was actually a...

I was taking Bactrim and Ibuprofen at the same time back in December (for an abscess on my leg) when it started for me. I was also under considerable stress at the time, so who knows. I also do not have any hearing loss that would show up in an audiogram. The tinnitus went away almost...

I use these also. I think there are several different varieties out there. The kind I got are called "sleep phones." I sleep on my side also, shifting from side to side a lot, and find these to be helpful since they tend to stay in position. I used them every night for a while. Lately, I...

If I'd been thinking of tinnitus much at the 7-month mark a few weeks ago, I might have chimed in to say that I was doing a lot better. But today I am having a bigger "spike" than I've had in quite some time. Otherwise I would not be on this site, I suppose. In 2015, I started keeping a...

It fluctuates a lot for me also. The "intensity" of the sound fluctuates, as well as the types of sounds. Exactly one week ago, I was staying in a hotel room and the only sound in the room was a very quiet A/C unit, but I was not particularly bothered by tinnitus. It was there, but I didn't...

This is the six month mark for me, so I suppose it is time to chime in with some thoughts. I just had my vacation, which included a cruise, and that was fairly enjoyable, despite having tinnitus. I was hoping that I would repeat my experience in my January trip and be sufficiently distracted...

I spent a week in DC and NYC back in January. Tinnitus was weighing heavily on my mind, as I got it less than a month prior. I was initially cautious about travel, but my flight out didn't affect it, so I was less worried. I didn't feel concerned about noise while in NYC; I spent a lot of time...

I came across these two recent articles (February and March 2016), and since they do not seem to be mentioned elsewhere on this site yet, I thought I would post the links. http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/20q-tinnitus-and-hyperacusis-226-16240...

It's been about a month since the last post, and a little over 4 months since I first got tinnitus. Looking back, I had a 2-week period in March and early April where things were pretty stable, and it wasn't bothering me very much. I had two doctor's appointments in that span of time and I was...

My situation improved a great deal in the past week. It seems that my increase was temporary. This was the first time I had one without any apparent reason. It took a few days but things quieted down by the end of the week. I was still kind of nervous afterward because of the up and down, but I...

It may be worth qualifying how good my "good" days have been. Maybe this will give somebody, perhaps myself, some hope, even if I am having a hard time right now. These were bright spots amid some rather gloomy times: Back in January I felt so completely confident that it was all done and over...

A few days ago I passed the 3 month mark since acquiring tinnitus. I thought I would update. Two steps forward, one step back. That's how it seems to be going. Right now I am in a "one step back" phase which is why I'm here writing about my experience, I guess. Maybe it's two steps back this...

Thanks. I'm hanging in there. I've gotten better sleep by making a few environmental changes in the past few nights. I used some relaxation techniques in the first few weeks, I might revisit those. Years ago, I used some mindfulness type strategies to mitigate some anxiety when I had worries...

Hello everyone, I've had tinnitus for about two and a half months. After an initial period of panic, I had reached a point that was fairly stable. Then i got sick and, presently, my tinnitus seems to be going through some kind of flux, or at least I am, and this has been a challenging time. I...

I had the same experience with Bactrim. In December too, no less. I was taking 800 mg twice a day for 10 days. This was for an infection in my leg. On the evening of Day 9, I woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn't get back to sleep. The medicine had given me bad insomnia all week long...