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I recently got a membership at the local swimming hall. The swimming is great, but there's also a diving pool with a 10m board. I used to enjoy cliff diving back in the days, and would really like to have a go here as well, but then of course I read about someone who got tinnitus from diving...

I for one got it free here in Norway, but I had to use my Kindle. I think it said "Prime only", that might have something to do with it. Thanks a lot, this is no mere pamphlet. Looking forward to reading it.

I was doing so well. In the ballpark of I can definitely live with this, sleeping better, positive thoughts... Then, at work the other day, I was receiving a shipment of goods. They came on EUR pallets, and if you've been around those things, you know they can make a real racket. Especially if...

So, I'm scheduled for a wisdom tooth removal in a week or so. I ordered it last year, because I had some sinus and jaw issues that might be caused by the tooth - it's not come out correctly and is bulging out the side of my gum . It's not infected yet, my dentist didn't mean it was strictly...

It's the same guy as in this recent video, Josef Rauschecker. So yeah, I guess they're making progress. I'd put my money on this approach rather than drugs or regenerative efforts.

Guess I do cures every now and then.

I think it's the calming effect that does it. And I have a lot to learn as far as calming myself goes. Even though the relief is only temporary, it's really a great boon to know that it's actually physically possible for me to have no tinnitus. It's even within reach somehow.

Happened to me last Friday. Went to a beer tasting the night before, consumed a fair amount of alcohol. Wouldn't say excessive, though, but enough to make me tipsy (I don't drink much anymore, so it doesn't take much). Almost complete silence in the morning. Good thing I wasn't stupid enough to...

If there's a separate aspie spectrum I'm not aware of it. But I guess I would be someone with "mild" Asperger. I'm living by myself, dress normally, working, blending in (or so I think). Unless you were an expert on the subject you wouldn't be able to tell - only a few close friends have...

I might have been using the term a bit awkwardly, but what I meant was that it is actual, something you can work with and acknowledge. "Positive" doesn't have to mean "good" or "pleasant". I mean, one can be HIV positive, right?

While I don't have a success story to report yet, I believe that the way to go is through learning, not willing. In some cases, for some people, it might be possible to force a change in outlook through willpower. But in most cases it's not. I myself have very little control over how I feel...

I think ritalin might help you to direct focus onto what's important, i.e. other things than tinnitus.

This is interesting. The true cure or alleviation could very well be along the lines of giving the brain something else to worry about, and it doesn't necessarily have to be sound. Perhaps trying to cure tinnitus with sound is misguided.

The Wikipedia article on nortriptyline mentions tinnitus as a side effect. Nowhere else does, though, so I guess I shouldn't worry too much. The challenge might be to get a prescription for tricyclic AD in this day and age. Anyhow, yesterday I bought a pack of Sedix, herbal pills based on...

I was wondering the same thing. So what you get from noise cancelling headphones is actual silence?

I think if cochlear implants help T, it might be due to the very comprehensive training process and therapy patients go through after the implant. They literally have to learn to hear all over again. So, if successful, their auditory system is pretty much rewired. Read a personal story from a...

Caffeine spikes my anxiety, that's for sure. But I doubt it directly affects my T. I've pretty much stopped drinking coffee for the last few weeks. Pity, because I love it so much.

Don't underestimate the stubbornness of highly educated professionals. It might be a bigger threat to progress than underfunding.

Could lithium be safe? I don't get the landslide of scary threads when I search it. Also, it's supposed to be good for neural plasticity. EDIT: upon further browsing and googling I'll definitely give lithium a wide berth

I think I might need something to take the edge off this situation. Four weeks into my latest increase I still haven't really had one good night's sleep. My psychiatrist keeps talking about antidepressants, but there is so much scary stuff to read about SSRIs and T that I don't think I dare...

A couple of years before my last T increase, I'm pretty sure magnesium put an end to a long period of insomnia for me. I'm on 600mg a day now, because I guess it can't hurt, but I'm not sure it's had an effect on my T. If magnesium deficiency and T are indeed connected, it's also interesting...

Interesting. I'll give it a go soon.

I realized last night that I've been able to hear my hearbeat in a silent room for as long as I can remember. Maybe that's my natural sound enrichment and I therefore don't need gadgets.

This confirms the thoughts I've been having about tinnitus lately. I think we modern people, in a pious-individualist manner, tend to prefer explanations that put blame somewhere. Our misery is our own personal fault for sinning. But if that were the whole truth, we wouldn't have tons of...

Not that I'm too comfortable, though the worst panic has settled, I'm hardly sleeping. But I don't feel enrichment is doing me any good at the moment, and was wondering if I should do it anyway, that it would be better in the long run. But I think I have enough to allow myself to go with what...

Yeah, I'm thinking enrichment might be something to consider when it's (hopefully) gotten more stable.

It's just that I got the impression that I definitely should be doing it without exception, that it's a vital step to getting better. But it doesn't quite feel right for me, and I'm confused. My goal is to get better, of course. Habituate and preferably lessen the volume (which I guess is two...

Thanks for the advice, not at all too sobering. Though I think at the moment I'm more at risk of becoming too careful and anxious. The problem is, I don't like the sounds. Or, I find them soothing in the morning, but at night, they feel too sharp, and it feels like it's rubbing my hearing...

Sorry about being unclear, I didn't mean "masking" as in drowning T in noise, but playing background sounds. I just don't see how sound enrichment when I'm sort of fine with the volume of T would do me much good. I get the logic when it's bothersome, but at my stage of T (worsened three weeks...

So my ENT prescribed me a bunch of sound therapy equipment - a Sound Oasis S-5000 and a pillow with loudspeakers. They arrived in the mail the other day. Whereas I don't think I'll be using the pillow yet, it's rather rubbish to be honest, the S-5000 is a nice piece of kit. But I'm not sure how...

Having had tinnitus all my life, I don't remember. That might be a good thing, I guess. Total silence is a dubious concept anyway. Enough silence is plenty.

Even if you have just the T? I've sworn by earplugs because they allow me to keep the volume reasonably low and still hear the music.

Finally got some proper sleep tonight! Took me a couple of hours, probably fell asleep at 2:00, then awoke 4:30 with louder T, then fell back asleep until morning. So about six hours, not bad. I think mindfully checking my reactions and not the volume of T helped a lot. I was a bit skeptical...

It's basically a pillow with built-in speakers, to put underneath your other pillows at night. I don't have melatonin, but I do have magnesium tablets, which have helped me sleep before. ENT would rather not prescribe sleeping tablets, preferred I asked my GP about that.

Just came home from ENT. He removed some earwax and did a test with a gizmo connected to some earplugs that made cartoonish sci fi noises. Said both my ears were perfect, and I shouldn't worry about my noisy carpenting misadventure. So I'm not worrying about that anymore. My hearing is...

Hi all This board has been comforting me the last few days, so I guess I might as well sign up. M33, had mild T all my life, I guess, but now it's bothering me. Recently diagnosed with Asperger, they say it goes with the territory. A couple of days before going back from Christmas, in bed at my...