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I wish I could do good behavior and get rid of this tinnitus shit hole!

@gameover, you have read many posts here, and I don’t know how much of anything I write can help. But I have had horrible high-pitched (11 kHz - 13 kHz, not sure) tinnitus for some eight years now. And I have been in hell all these times. To think: I used to keep a map of the quietest places...

Jack, My story is almost exactly yours ... started out of nowhere ... for no apparent reasons ... always taken care of my ears ... hearing stops around 11-12 kHz. Also have white coat syndrome ... What freq is your tinnitus. Mine is at edge of my hearing - around 11-12 kHz. I have had...

Someone find laser treatment helpful, that doesn't mean necessarily that it is the solution for everyone. Someone find acupuncture helpful, that doesn't mean necessarily that it is the solution for everyone. Someone find Vitamin B helpful, that doesn't mean necessarily that it is the solution...

Tinnitus started 6/17/2016 or so out of nowhere to something quite loud (12 KHz, heard over shower, air blower, jets taking off)

2 years 3 months in. 10% of the time it’s bearable ... that is I feel I have my “normal” life back. But rest of time I am almost constantly aware ... even if not constantly mad...

There is no cure... but that just means that there is no one thing that we can give that makes tinnitus go away. That however doesn't mean your tinnitus won't fade ... or go away ... or that - strange as it may seem - will become a non-issue. Like people who first wear glasses, or clothes the...

I don't like hearing aids. They amp up sound ... so we hear better. But I hear well enough. By amping up sound, you expose your hair cells to that much more sound, which reduces their lifespan. And then when they go, then what, turn up more? It's not sustainable. I am 47. Audiologists...

What you experience is very similar to mine ... except I don't have a feeling of "fullness." I was blindsided by the appearance of T. I estimate it to be about 12-13 khz, appeared out of nowhere. I wasn't sure what it was initially... but it kept louder over the first 3-4 days to something I...

I did ask my audiologists - but since my speech tests returned 100% - they say hearing aids aren't recommended. My understanding is that no hearing aid aims to improve things above 8khz (my loss is above that), at 7-8 khz, I have 5-15, maybe 20 db loss, but they say that's "mild." My loss is...

For the first year, I was yearning for a complete cure. Every time my T diminished, I thought I was on my way ... only to get knocked down to ground zero a few days (or hours) later. Now I still hope ... and yearn ... but I don't get "knocked down" any more when the spike hits...

Oh... I have seen 3 ENTS ... 2 GPs... 4 alternative medicine doctors ... 3 audiologists. I have not done an MRI (all mainstream doctors said my symbols don't justify it) ... but have done blood tests ... but nothing there showed anything to the doctors... I have followed the flowchart. I get...

One of the sad things about Tinnitus talk is that people get on each others' nerve sometimes. You don't know how miserably my T is. You don't know how bad T can really get. You are too negative. You are too weak minded. Your "facts" are wrong... etc. etc. If T really has a million causes...

I tried sleeping well ... but same (long term) pattern... Tried taking B12 ... same ... Acupuncture ... same ... Changing salt content ... same .... Various sound treatments ... same ... Drinking self squeezed fresh juice ... same ... Melatonin ... same ... etc., etc. All above tried...

I stopped piano for a few months when T started, but I have gone back to playing ... and composing ... even when T is blaring. I have found no cause. Nutrition, sleep, mood, health, anything and everything... No correlation. I have a pattern that sometimes change ...but for the most part...

Thanks for this... I know some may think you are overly "negative," but I myself appreciate your comment. I personally never cared much for being "positive" in dealing with T. The "positivity thread" sounds so "superficial": putting up a brave pretty smile sitting in a cess pool while...

I am with you... I guess what I am trying to say is even if a cure for T were to be found right away, soon I believe we will run into other health issues ... and we need to dig up the same mental fortitude we need to overcone or at least adapt to T. I am not trying to say T sufferers are...

So this is my two year anniversary (I take 6/18/2016 as the day my tinnitus started, give a day or two since it kind of sneaked up on me, low a first, and then louder and louder until I couldn't deny that something was wrong). It's been the hardest two years of my life. I debated what I should...

I sympathize with the author Michellejean here. Yesterday I went to a local park, which had a latin music band playing. It was nice. Lots of people ... young couples, families with kids, older adults. But to me it was loud, uncomfortably loud. I think to myself, how come everyone look so...

Yoga and meditation is great. However, like everything else, at least here on earth, it is a man-drive activity. So like everything else, be on the lookout potentially for snake oil. Just like there can be godly priests, so can there be priests who rape. Just because there can be true...

18 months for me. It goes typically 2 ok days, 2 bad days, with better trends of week here and there. But overall, hasn’t gotten better at all. :( Much more adept at handling this hell, but hell it is. I am reminded how fragile my existence, my experience as a human being is everyday. In...

I have seen several ENT and audiologists. They don't think my T is caused by my hearing loss ... but only (I believe) because there are many others with much worse hearing loss than me without T. I don't like TRT only because I don't like to "trick" my mind. I don't like T ... no matter what...

Ciaran88, I am 46 now, have had intrusive tinnitus started when 44. Thing is: if there is one thing I protect ever since I was young, it is my hearing. I have always protected my ears. I treasure my hearing. I don't go to concerts, and cover my ears when in loud spaces. Yet ... without...

One audiologist told me most people's Tinnitus measures between 1 db - 20 db. She explains to me about sensorial measurements - and by that measure, mine is 3 db on left ear and 1 db on right. I think sensorial db is B.S. By my own reckoning thought, on that day, which was a bad day, mine...

Yes. I think it was... I've had anxiety/stress for the last few months and depression probably last few decades ... but I do have -30 db hearing loss (-25 db being borderline normal) at 8khz. When I do a frequency sweep on 1/3 volume on my laptop speakers, my right ear can hear up to 13 khz...

I have emailed Dr. Wilden recently regarding possible low-level laser therapy (LLLT), but have not heard back. Anyone here have contact with Dr. Wilden recently?

I wish that were true! That would be awesome... But I see so many aged old people today walking with limps, dealing with arthritis ... that this can't all be true. If it were, surely they would have found relief (?)... Arthritis cost the nation billions a year ... this is no joking matter...

Will do. One of the things I have been struggling with is what @attheedgeofscience mentioned before, when it comes to stem cell therapy, you are expected to pay first and upfront a large amount, and then hope for some results that are hopefully good. This is the situation regardless of how...

I have a deep background in science and engineering and have followed @attheedgeofscience's posts with high interest. But the above shows that sometimes we can all be tainted by prejudice. To me, it seems clear that this "Hope Hospital China in Zhuhai" clinic is a subpar business organization...

@wags, Thanks. One thing I have "learned" through my recent trials is my compassion. I don't know why exactly ... It's not really misery loves company. It's just that now when people say they are upset or unhappy about something, I can truly understand - now that I have been dealt with...

I am a 45 old Asian male. It took me some 6 months before I decide to write this post because I had been hoping (secretively) that all this is a mistake - that Tinnitus would just go - and I never have to show my face here ... even though I have spent many hours upon hours reading here. I got...

Like this post. I just learned that I have tinnitus ... but I think I could hear a quiet hissing in quiet environment since very young - probably 5 or 6. It never bothered me till a week or two ago, when it became really loud. Still not sure why, but when I talked to my ENT friend, he told...