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The doctor still has no recommendations and says there is no cure or effective therapy yet. I’ve been seeing him for 16 years and trust him. Some people ask why I continue to go. The hearing exam is very advanced—each year, I receive a detailed graph showing all the ranges and any changes. Since...

People experience enough inflation every single day that the debate last night will be forgotten before the election. The Biden/Harris cluster**** sent inflation through the roof.

I haven't been on here in a while. I still go annually to see a neuro-otolaryngologist who is highly regarded in his field. My next appointment is next month. I imagine that if I wanted to try Nortriptyline, he would prescribe it. However, I would never take such a medication. If you take that...

Yes, you are correct that Tinnitus Talk seems to have more chronic sufferers. A poll will be lopsided. Tinnitus ruined the type of work I was in and made me change lines of work. I have always been self-employed and more or less made a lateral movement withing my line of work that got me away...

You should try a cross country ski machine, like the old original Nordic Track. I still use one regularly. You can find them on eBay or on Craigslist. It is a very vigorous workout with no impact.

Heavy metal? Are you trolling this forum? Unbelievable question if you have read this forum at all. You have tinnitus. Concerts are a thing of the past.

It doesn't sound like you have the typical noise induced tinnitus, for which there is no cure. It sounds like you may be lucky in that it is something to do with your sinuses. I bet a good ENT can help you.

I mostly had to give up music. It wasn't as much of a loss to me as apparently to you. I can do without it except for during exercise. I never have music on in the car.

They use a manual scaler on me now. Try requesting that.

First question is Yes for normal. Stress is likely the reason. Everyone on here wants an answer to the second question. Just don't go to the extreme that I've read some have. You'll be alright.

If you are on one floor and the renovation is on another there should be no effect on your T at all. They aren't going to set off dynamite in your home. If you need to pass through wear ear protection. I've been around construction through the years. Jackhammers, tile saws, nail guns, and...

Anything that jars the brain can exacerbate Tinnitus. I would not run with T. There are plenty of other good exercises that don't jar the body.

Adderall is a horrible med. It causes all kinds of problems. I have never taken it. But from what I can tell about one person on it, I think it should be banned. It alters sleep, mood, digestion, overall general attitude. I hate that shit!!

I'm trying to guess the number of days it has ever settled down just a little. I can't quite put a number on it.

Mine spikes after vigorous exercise as well, but doesn't last very long. It probably has to do with an elevated pulse.

Vitamin D3 is recommended by some medical sites for Tinnitus. Congrats to the OP if stopping it helped you. I think it has been reported in recent years that Vitamin D is one that most of us are low on. I started 400 IU of D3 in the past year. I can't tell if it or any of the other many...

Distraction helps me. I love the sounds of outdoors.

If your brain can "memorize" T it looks like it could memorize the quiet you experienced before T. Your ENT pulled that out of his ass.

I couldn't tell you about a rainforest in Texas. When I'm outside with the wind blowing, especially in the fall or winter with leaves blowing, my T goes from very loud and intrusive to somewhat ignored. The same can be said for being on the water in the wind, especially with the waves...

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Kamala Harris.

It changes a lot, all the time. Some days the left is so loud that I don't notice the right. The good days are when the left settles down from a steady eeeeeeeeeee.

Folks, I have gotten some great information of this forum. And I have read some things where I just have to say "wait a minute!" I have read that drug list before and it is loaded with medications that are prescribed every day by great doctors. A top ENT in Dallas put me on Diazepam to help...

Here is a YouTube video showing a chase. There was a shootout during the chase. The the cop fired many rounds from within the inside of his car, through his own windshield, at the car he was chasing. You know that cop's ears are forever damaged. They have to be.

I have bad tinnitus and use good quality noise cancelling ear muffs and shoot from time to time. That is what you will use in the academy. I don't think you will have any instruction where you are required to remove your hearing protection. What I would be concerned about is that we are in a...

357 pistol without ear protection. A 357 to me has a louder crack, or higher pitch noise, than even a 44 mag.

Different types of pavement, with various types of tread, especially in a lightweight car, makes my T worse by the end of even a short trip. I think it has to do with a fine vibration caused by the light weight of the car, harder road tires, on a courser type of pavement. Ear protection...

I think the title of your thread fits quite a lot of us with Tinnitus. Each condition sort of exacerbates the other. The T somewhat causes ADD for me, as well as anxiety. I don't think I'm depressed. The anxiety makes the T worse, which then sort of causes ADD. I don't suppose that is...

Yeah Jazzer, I too hope you are doing well. I'm posting just to move this to the top and ask if you, and anyone else, to start posting some more of the great pictures again.

Meatloaf is sometimes like meat pudding.

In time you will be able to answer your own question better than we can. My experience most days is about the same. But the reason for mine may be different than for you. I wake up calm. Then on some days little by little the stress of the daily job causes a volume increase. I have...

I think it is possible to psych yourself into having spikes. If you dwell on it too much you will. OP, You took the necessary precautions. The volume wasn't that high. Don't be convinced you'll have a spike. Its not like you went to a much louder event unprepared. Be convinced...

Idiopathic Tinnitus: Going to extremely loud concerts, riding around in vehicles with ground shaking stereo speakers. Yeah, sounds about right to me.

Only if the painter holds you down and fills your ears up with paint.

I've read the same thing and I think it is one of those statistics that was sort of "invented." I've learned in the past few years from statistics on other subjects, such as historical market statistics, that statisticians can literally manipulate or warp about any statistic around to say...

Those ultra quiet jobs mentioned above would drive me crazy!! I want noise, not NOISE, but some kind of distracting noise. I am at my best when I'm talking and interacting with people. It takes my mind of this eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

I would not go to Six Flags, or for that matter a haunted house with your kids. Good hearing protection is basically making you deaf to your surroundings. That is dangerous. You need to be aware of whats going on around you. There are some things in life that you just don't do anymore with...

My work gets my mind off of T.

There is only so much money for medical research to go around. Unfortunately Tinnitus is not even close to the front of the line for the funds.

I have a hard time believing that your hearing test was accurate if you have bad tinnitus. The reason being, I think your tinnitus would mask at least some of the various sounds used in a hearing test, and would cause you to not hear them. At least that's my hearing test experience. Possibly...

I agree with the blood flow theory, especially if you are lifting heavy weights. I knew a high school age power lifter that had a vein burst in his eye. He was lifting that much weight.

I had a relative that used to say something about various illnesses like "What doesn't kill you can make you stronger."

John Adams and newbie T, your exchange is of no use to anybody----idiots!

I disagree with some of this. I think the effect on people can vary as much as anything else. We have veterans like my dad that shot everything from 30 cal M1 carbines to 30-06 Garands, to 50 cal machine guns in the army back in the 50's with no hearing protection and then have no Tinnitus or...

I don't notice much difference while drinking some beer. But the T much is worse the next day.

I gave up salt for a while, no help. I gave up alcohol for a while, no help. Coffee or not, no difference. Spent a lot on supplements, no help.

I still can't say habituate. I've learned to tolerate or almost ignore it. Even after all these years, I still can't pinpoint all the reasons for ups and downs in volume. However, the one thing I've learned is that reducing stress helps more than anything, and distraction type background...

Jazzer, I don't look at the site near as much as I used to. But when I do I always check to see if you have posted any more neat pictures. As far as the rest of the site, we all have this T. So far there is no cure. The Support section is just the same old whining, and I just can't read it...

The first few months are the worst. Hopefully in time you will figure out how to cope. Unless you are lucky enough that yours is temporary, you better figure out how to cope. That's all you can do.

I can't stand hearing protection, unless my ears need protecting. I like noise all the time, just a very low level.

I take both of these every day, same dose as OP. I started them long after T and have found no adverse affects.

I'm familiar with the big Stihl handlebar string trimmer like that. It is a beast of a machine. Think about how you hold that trimmer. The handlebars are out in front. You are likely getting vibration sent straight up your arms to your upper torso, which is in some way, maybe even a small...

I quit running long before my Tinnitus came along. I've been walking or using other low or no impact equipment for almost 30 years. I'm pretty serious about taking care of my ears for my time left here on this rock called Earth. :)

I drink way too much coffee. It can cure a headache. I get headaches from tinnitus. So in that respect coffee helps. But when I don't have a headache, and am drinking coffee all day, I still have loud tinnitus. But my cause for spiked tinnitus could be different from others. So my jury is...

If it is your home put her stuff on the porch and change the locks. If it is a shared expense apartment or something like that then load your stuff up and hit the road.

It's bad that musicians with zero talent think that turning it up will make them sound better.

I can't answer that. I don't trust phone apps to measure noise levels and haven't measured anything with my phone in a long time. Also, what is an annoyance to one may not be to another.

It sounds like you have Hyperacusis. My ENT said I have Hyperacusis. And, like Tinnitus it is somewhat subjective. I have decided that based on the many threads on here about Hyperacusis that thankfully mine may be somewhat mild. However, there are some noises that wouldn't bother anyone...

I don't have to tell anyone that we have a very serious health care crisis. There are other health problems out there to deal with. I mentioned in my previous post my veteran dad and relatives without T. However, they were lucky. Tinnitus is the number one disability of veterans now. That...