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There's a company in Hungary who buys ingredients like L-Theanine, NAC etc. in bulk and capsules it themselves. Their prices are 50-70% cheaper compared to "name-brand" suppliers. I use their stuff. (www.vitaltrend.hu)

Yes, as far as I can tell. My audiogram's stable, and I haven't noticed any deterioration in word comprehension in noisy places etc. I am extremely careful with noise. I don't use headphones, don't go to concerts. And if I must attend a possibly noisy event (e.g. a wedding), I wear earplugs...

I got my first AstraZeneca dose on April 8. It absolutely floored me for the next day, I had such a splitting headache that even lying motionlessly hurt. Then 3-4 more days of fatigue. No effect on tinnitus. I got my second dose on May 13. Three days later a tinnitus noise which has been quiet...

According to a study released today, "7.6% of people infected with COVID-19 experience hearing loss, while 14.8% suffer tinnitus" (that's 1 in 7). The study doesn't say how many tinnitus sufferers ended up with it permanently, but anything which has an 1 in 7 chance of giving me even a long...

Glad to hear. There's a risk either way but in my mind, the risk of COVID-19 increasing tinnitus is vastly greater than the vaccine increasing tinnitus. And the thought of being stuck at home for years is unbearable... prison is considered to be a punishment for a very good reason.

Slightly offtopic but I wouldn't worry about Magnesium. The problem is when you take something which bypasses the body's own homeostatic regulation. That's when you get a backlash as the body corrects. Magnesium is just a building block, it's "within" the normal bodily process. In fact, you...

I'll most likely be offered the first dose of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine in the next 4-5 weeks. I'll take it gladly, COVID-19 is literally neurotoxic and has caused or increased tinnitus in many people, plus it regularly kills even healthy 30-somethings like me; the choice is between getting...

It works on orexin receptors, not GABA. I don't touch anything that screws with GABA, not even alcohol.

Omg - what kind of accident can you have with a soda can that causes permanent tinnitus? I'm eyeing my Coke suspiciously now.

I'm sure that'll help. Waking up, immediately dashing to the gym, then to the office, then to some social event until I was so exhausted that I just crashed out was how I coped for a long time. Really miss this.

Well I only need 6-7 hours to feel well rested, but sure, I get that much on most nights. I've found sleep restriction to be very useful. It's grueling at first, but sooner or later the brain gets the message, and falls asleep the minute it has the chance to do so.

Your tinnitus is mild and recent, it'll either fade away or you'll get used to it. Let your ears rest for a few months and you'll be fine. However, in a single post you listed 1) taking psychedelics, 2) smoking weed, 3) smoking cigarettes, and 4) knowingly subjecting your body to harm and not...

Same here. A few years back when I developed a new tone I was of course obsessed with it and vividly observed this phenomenon lots of times. I sleep with earplugs so the tinnitus is audible crystal clear. As I start to drift towards sleep, there is a state in which I retain some conscious...

Okay I've done an objective comparison (I use my fridge's motor hum for this purpose) and it seems my tinnitus volume is unchanged. Its characteristics (pitch etc) are also unchanged, I know these very well. It still seems a hell of a lot louder. I think what happened is that when my father...

Well, I celebrated too early, the spike is back (today is Day 5 following exposure). I hope that getting some fading is a sign that this isn't gonna be permanent.

If anybody finds this later: the spike seems to have gone back to baseline by the end of the 3rd day following exposure. Thank God.

You couldn't have known... you're absolutely not to blame. May you get better and may your children live in vibrant health.

I get waves of bad stuff (in 2020 I had a "regular" spike, a bout of pulsatile tinnitus and a bout of middle ear myoclonus AKA "clicking"). However, between the waves of crap, I also get good periods. Met a sweet girl, had some success with investments. Or just simpler stuff, like back-to-back...

Visited family on Saturday (COVID-19-safe, they all already had it) and we played a card game where if you drew a certain card you had to slap the table. Started out nice and quiet, but my father decided to be super-duper extra funny and slammed the table with his palm full force. It of course...

I'm trying to be polite here so I'll just call her an ungrateful idiot. The lesson she learned from literally years of suffering with tinnitus-caused insomnia was... abusing ears is OK?!? Ear damage is cumulative. One day, she'll hit a tipping point and wake up with tinnitus ten times worse...

Also I'd recommend looking at alternatives such as CBD oil or L-Theanine in the management of your anxiety. I'm using both and I actually prefer them to Xanax, because they achieve anxiety reduction without causing sedation. There are many other anxiety/insomnia meds mentioned on the forum which...

I'm 32 and I've always had it. In fact finding out that silence is actually silent for most people was a genuine surprise.

Sounds like TTTS (Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome). The tensor tympani is a small muscle in your ear which contracts when you hear a loud sound to protect your hearing (acoustic reflex). In certain people these muscles can become overly sensitive and react to less loud noises. I think this is what...

After that initial episode of 2 weeks back in September, the pulsatile tinnitus only came back maybe twice for 1-2 days, but it was almost completely absent for 4 months. It's definitely back again, though. Not on full blast (instead of 30 seconds on - 30 seconds off, I get 20-30 seconds on -...

Glad it works for you! Sleep is crucial and finally medical science is starting to churn out sleeping pills worthy of the name. Sorry to hear you had an adverse reaction to it, @Dolgoruki. May you find something that works better for you.

Children are loud, stressful, and keep you up at night. Also, they deserve stable parents, and can't be turned off for a couple of weeks if Baby's crying spell gives Mommy a long tinnitus spike. I think that if you're not in a place where your tinnitus is stable and has been a nonissue for a...

Thankfully I've been sleeping very well lately, so I haven't been taking Dayvigo.

Don't want to hurt my parents and siblings, plus fear of death. Also, I have had a months-long tinnitus spike go away, and pulsatile tinnitus also came and then completely resolved. So it really gets better, not just through habituation, but through an actual decrease or even elimination of the...

Of course there are, all meds have side effects. I didn't have any, personally. You could check the studies for what the researchers have found - it was low-impact stuff like next-day somnolence and headache for around 5% of study participants. Seems pretty trustworthy to me, but it's fairly...

I think that was also me, sadly. I read the same thing. It's annoying as hell, especially since you have much longer bursts than I do. But look on the bright side: it'll most probably go away on its own, and if not, there's surgery for it. Compare this to a good old fashioned tinnitus spike...

I also noticed stapedial myoclonus a few weeks back. Thankfully it's infrequent, often stays quiet for hours, and even when it comes on, the most I get are 5-10 clicks in one batch. I think it's related to face mask use. I'm using KN95 masks with ear savers, meaning they loop tightly around my...

Grey market (just Google it).

The vaccine's side effects are real and worrisome. Nobody denies that. Why am I still enthusiastic to get that vaccine? Risk management, my man. If I contract COVID-19, even as a (relatively) young healthy person, I have a roughly 1.5% chance to either die or get a long-term disability. If I...

Hungary has 10 million residents and out of these, merely 300K have registered for the vaccine so far. This means I have a fairly good chance of getting it early, in 1-2 months from now. I'll most certainly report back once I have gotten it. We'll probably get the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine.

I'm all fine. Still getting fleeting tinnitus pretty regularly (several times a week). Mostly it is just the usual pure tone that fades completely, but sometimes I get a longer-lasting residue (longest was a whole 24 hours long I think). Sometimes it's even weirder: the residue is quiet, but...

I know that you aren't talking to me but I must make this point. I need you to understand that the most frightening aspect of COVID-19 is not death (even though it has already killed more Americans than World War 2). It is long COVID-19, that is, long-term disability from viral damage...

I work at a cancer research biotech and so far we haven't gotten any of that sweet bribe money ostensibly given out to suppress cure research, lol. But after all, this is exactly what I would say if I was one of them, right? Once the pandemic is suppressed I hope there will be serious legal...

Have you been wearing a mask with a fairly tight strap? I've also gotten MEM lately and I suspect it's caused by the constant pressure/irritation on my face and scalp. Sensitized some nerve. I've registered for the vaccine both on our govt page and at a private clinic that offers...

Last status was pretty bad, heh. Pulsatile tinnitus cleared up. Normal tinnitus behaves itself. Feeling as fine as you can in 2020.

They compared Dayvigo to Ambien (which is benzo-like) and trial participants preferred Dayvigo. However, benzo withdrawal is a serious matter and you should talk to a doctor about it. The United States and Japan, currently. I've been following sleeping pill development closely for the same...

Pretty sure it was just the better sleep. It's often lower in the morning for me. The key takeaway was just that the drug didn't make it worse... unfortunately, I didn't expect it to make it better, there's nothing in its mechanism of action that suggests that it could affect tinnitus. Thanks...

Well, it does sound like typewriter tinnitus (just on one side, comes in bursts). If I were you I'd print this Nature article and bring it with me to your doctor: Typewriter tinnitus revisited: The typical symptoms and the initial response to carbamazepine are the most reliable diagnostic...

Hey folks, Just wanted to share my experience with Dayvigo (Lemborexant) which is a brand new sleeping pill, came on the market in early 2020 in the US and Japan. A lot of us struggle with insomnia. It is my #1 complaint every time my tinnitus spikes, too. I haven't really found any good...

How are you, Billie?

I found that 25 mg of broad-spectrum, THC-free CBD (cannabidiol) calms down the clicks for a good 5-6 hours after taking it. It's available in Hungary but its legal environment was tricky. However, the EU has just declared it fully legal in very recent days, so it should stay available and...

Could you dig into the "beeping" more? 1. Does it have a sharp, staccato quality, like gunfire/a typewriter/popcorn popping? Is it something that comes on, beeps for a few minutes or hours, then stays away for a while? Is it always on one side? 2. Or is it more of a quiet Morse code like...

Hey, I'm a software engineer which also requires long periods of concentration and lengthy chains of abstract thought. Tinnitus and various other ear-related issues have been torturing me all year long, yet I just had my end-of-year performance discussion and according to that I did splendidly...

My hearing loss is negligible and yet I still have noise-induced tinnitus. I'm certain it's hidden hearing loss.

Lots of ear issues this year. In the beginning of the year, I had a tinnitus spike caused by Lenire. That mercifully ceased a few weeks after I stopped the Lenire treatment. Then I had an episode of pulsatile tinnitus. Also cleared up after I got new mattresses/pillow/standing desk, was probably...

My experience parallels yours somewhat. I first got pulsatile tinnitus for 2 weeks in 2019 May, after a night on an exceptionally bad mattress that caused serious neck pain. That cleared up in 2 weeks (that was a friend's bed and I never had to sleep in it again). I got it again in 2020...

Update: I got a head/neck MRA and a neurointerventional radiologist looked at it and said it's completely clear. The initial bad bout of this pulsatile tinnitus cleared up in roughly 2 weeks. I suspected that it's posture-related so I swapped my shitty old uncomfortable bed mattress and pillow...

I decided to cancel laser eye surgery. It would have rendered me ineligible to use contact lens later in life. Because eyes deteriorate naturally, surgery would have given me maybe a decade of perfect vision, but then doomed me to eye glasses later in life. My #1 reason to do the surgery would...

That is very common with tinnitus. I have had tinnitus for over 30 years (am 32 and always had it) and I still get random fluctuations. What matters is not your hour-to-hour trend, but your month-to-month trend. Try not to worry if you get a bad day. Is it lower in general than it was 4 weeks...

Does it occur infrequently and go away within a few seconds or few minutes? In that case I think it's normal, just a temporary elevation of blood pressure. You might want to ask a friend with a blood pressure meter or a pharmacy or a doctor to take a few measurements of you, though. Might be an...

Okay, I just wanted to offer that you can borrow mine, since we both live in Budapest. It didn't help me (although ultimately it didn't hurt me, either), and it's just sitting here gathering dust. Maybe it can help you.

Kriszti, do you want to try Lenire?

Damn thing is 95% gone. I've now had 7 nights in a row when it was either very easy to ignore or completely absent. The bad part lasted roughly 2 weeks, exactly like back in May 2019. On one hand I'm happy, of course. On the other hand I'm worried that I never got to the bottom of this. Before...

Not every instance of "full ear sensation" means that you hurt your ears. If you get out of a pool, or lift off with an airplane, and your ears feel full, it simply means that your ears are full. What is meant here is full ear sensation after noise exposure. Say you enter a loud club, stay for...

Count yourself extraordinarily lucky. You have mild tinnitus. It is virtually guaranteed that you will get used to it and your quality of life will return to what it was before onset. I know it is very scary right now, but what you have is the tinnitus world's equivalent to the common cold...

You know something's off in your society when leaving the house requires a formal donning procedure... disinfect hands, put on KN95 mask against the virus, musician's earplugs against the city noise, disinfect hands again, enter the hot zone, hope for the best. I fondly remember those times...