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I've never been tested for B12 deficiency but I've read on some websites that B12 supplementation is not always good. Don't we get enough B12 vitamins from food especially meat? I however take other vit B but individually. I've been tested for B6 and it came out that I had way too much of it...

I think high dose of melatonine is more then 5mg ... I've personally changed strategy a little bit, now I take 2mg of Melatonin and 100mg of 5htp which helps to sleep at least 6-7 hours. I really felt very good the last two days thanks to that combo and in some situations T felt down to a very...

For me it's the other way around I started with high pitched tinnitus 20 years ago and then had a few more when I had my burnout 4 years ago. But again I manage to get rid of some tones in some cases, it's hard to reproduce but it has to do with emotional balance at least for me. Anyway...

Yeah like a real orchestra ... ;)

Thanks Picassocat for the links, I also found quite a lot of links on the benefit of melatonin on other health issues including cancer etc, and then my own conclusion might be that a lot of T sufferers have sleep issues as well, I have had sleep issues since I was young and it became worse since...

Yes you're right, melatonin seems to do a lot of good things, especially when taking it long term. For the moment 2mg works best for me before going to sleep with 5htp and then one other 1mg if I wake up at night, I even tried 7mg one night but then I wake up more often.

Thanks Alex and sorry for my late reply, I had some very hard and busy weeks here. From what I read I guess there are a lot of people with multiple sounds then. I managed to lower and even cancel out two sounds last week, don't know how I did but it seems the high dose melatonin + 5htp...

Wow that's quite a lot. 20mg does that really works? And up to 120mg wow that's killer! I've been thinking of taking more and I read some people take 10-15mg and feel absolutely fine in the morning so why not. I had a terrible night, I'm awake since 2AM, it's 7AM now and work day starts, sigh :(...

Yes it's a complete concert in times :( I had a terrible buzz (fortunately it's gone) which drove me nuts but again it was during extremely difficult periods with few sleep and financial issues. From what I learned today, is that I can modulate some T's with supplements and stress management...

Did you try the following supplements? NAC Calcium (I know a lot of people talk about magnesium but calcium also can have a positive calming effect in some cases if you don't have enough dietary calcium intake which is my case) it also promotes good sleep Taurine 2-3g Melatonin before going to...

yikes not cool ... but this shows again the complexity of T, take care :)

Sounds a bit like mine Tybs, they often change, and again stress is the real reason for the onset of some new and sometimes fleeing T's, so that's what I'll need to work on. Today is a little bit better, I took NAC yesterday and 3mg of Melatonin and Taurine this night to sleep more. How did...

Thanks, good to know I've always thought that most people just had one sound. Yes I'll habituate, just a bad period, we've been there before ;)

Indeed, hereditary can be possible, sincerely hard to be sure, each time I got mine after intense stress periods as did my recent new tones, so there must be a link. And you're right on nylon stringed guitars are safer then electric guitars :)

Get her the guitar Don, playing music is great, not all people will get T and it doesn't necessarily come from noise either, many other factors are at play here. I'm a pro musician, most of my friends have been to concerts and/or played gigs for most of their life but only a few have mild T, and...

Hello, I'm living since 20 years with high hissing tinnitus and had a few new tinnitus sounds since a burnout 4 years ago, I was happy to get on the better hand lately and got relief from a few supplements which even helped me to calm down my tinnitus at moments, I believe my tinnitus come from...

It's really hard to know exactly what causes T, I have several T's and it got a little worse more then a week ago while it was getting progressively better right before. I also started taking vit D3 for winter hours recently, so may be related to this or the Magnesium I took at the same time...

Another old one but... in case. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.1902206 A type of progressive deafness associated with roaring ear noises occurs in persons suffering from vitamin E deficiency. It can be relieved permanently by the administration of vitamin E, wheat‐germ oil or...

This is not new, but I wanted to post this here in case it wasn't reported yet: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645155/ Discussion The generation of tinnitus have been linked to damage to the central and peripheral auditory systems, even in cases where an impairment could not be...

from my own experiences so far I can only agree ...

Congrats, great story ! :)

Hi, Yes seems comparable to mine but in most cases a shower doesn't even cover my tinnitus, only very loud environments like concerts, what is strange is that in a few cases contrary to you I had mine drop a lot, I could easily hear the difference comparing to environment noise. Maybe you're...

How do you define your severity Don? Mine is quite severe at moments, high hissing since 20 years which varies on a scale from 7-9 /10 as I can hear it in very loud environments but in some rare cases it drops to 3-4. And several tones I can only hear in silent places and at night or when...

I also noticed that my T is worse if I stay too much time in silent rooms and better when I listen to music at higher levels. Maybe the silence isn't that good after all ...

Even if the study is incomplete as it doesn't say what came first stress or T, it's still interesting to me and maybe other people. Reading this forum I find that there is quite a lot of research going on, so I don't understand some of the reactions here, and T isn't the only disease they are...

Who said it's their fault? Listen, I have had the most dark ideas when my new sounds appeared 4 years ago right after a burnout, and even if it's much better today, it still is hard for me to cope with on some days when I have a lot of stress from work. I have several T tones, so I call myself a...

With lifestyle changes, that can be quite a lot of things, eating habits, exercise, trying to cope better with stress doing yoga, mindful meditation, etc. more social interaction... Don't get me wrong, I have had tinnitus for 20 years, and I always was hoping for a magic solution until I...

I completely agree with you, I'd also like to find a solution for my tinnitus, but people seem to forget that lifestyle change may be as important in curing your tinnitus as finding the silver bullet.

Thanks this is very interesting and glad you feel better, and your report again confirm my own conclusions, I think I have had this condition since I was young and it followed me for a big part of my life, but it's much better now. I don't take meds, only a few natural supplements like taurine...

Thanks Hazel, indeed very though question From living with tinnitus since 20 years now, self experimentation and a lot of lecture regarding tinnitus (thanks to this forum) & other health issues (I also have fibromyalgia since a few years & sleep apneas) I think I'm on to something. and if I can...

Sophrology is very powerful in many regards, I'm considering to do it again this year here in France. I already did a few sessions 15 years ago but not for T just handling traumas and it worked very well but as with everything you need to practice which I didn't do since. I know a few people who...

I tried this diet, but it didn't do anything to me to be honest, I only tried 2 weeks, but I felt a lot of tension when eating that much meat as if I was too energetic all the time. My Testosterone is always way way too high and I have T since 20 years ... the only thing to seems to help is less...

It's true that exposure to music, even if it's loud seems to help better then silence here ... but what actually helps most is less stress, more sleep & especially emotional balance. From my experience living almost 20 years with T that's what I need to work on, it's not just the ears, and my...

This is very interesting, my tinnitus seems to be much worse when I clench my teeth at night, so the jaw muscles may play a role here?

Yes indeed we're all different, I can only speak from my own experience and just like you I'm almost constantly in fight/flight mode since I started working as freelancer 19 years ago. If stress can give you other health issues why not T? For me it's more and more clear now that we need to work...

That's really difficult to confirm. A friend told me and he had tinnitus when he had stressful periods when he was child, and and that time he didn't had any hearing issues and the tinnitus went away when things calmed down for him. In some moments when stress and especially emotional stress is...

Saw this earlier today on Facebook, interesting. Seems neuro-inflammation can come from different sources (stress, food, even noise at it seems, ... ) so maybe this can explain why some think it comes from noise and others from stress, food, ... ?

Interesting, I have some form of PTSD and my cortisol levels are too high, which isn't good. A friend suggested to do sophrologie, and the more I learn about tinnitus and the harmful effects of stress on life, the more I agree that maybe the problem starts there for a lot of people, not just...

We're not all the same and I've never said it's "only" stress or anxiety related. Tinnitus can have different causes but in my case and those people I talked to there's definitely a link to stress and anxiety, not just exposure to noise like all ENTs seem to claim. For example mine went down...

Full article: https://clinical-practice-and-epidemiology-in-mental-health.com/VOLUME/14/PAGE/264/FULLTEXT/ Not sure if this has already been posted before. It has been published on 31/10/2018. --------------------------------------- ABSTRACT Background: Emotional stress is frequently...

Hello, Interesting, may I ask you which food additives had a real effect on your T? thanks,

Because I felt that I could obtain the same results with other techniques and keeping stress lower.

Some update 2 weeks after my vacation. Some of my T's seem to come back from time to time and the pattern is always the same and related to stress. Yesterday I went to sleep, I only could hear my old high hissing T and I felt very well, relaxed, then this morning I woke up with sleep apnea and...

That's strange, wasn't that already tested before ? I have heard that after cutting the nerve some people still had T ?

I had this done twice, last year and the first time it worked very well, had indeed less T in the morning and slept better, but it doesn't last very long, at least for me.

I agree with you, all of the ENT's I saw just made me feel worse because they told me it's 100% noise and hearing damage, and there's nothing we can do for you, this is not just related to T, but a lot of other health issues, doctors are not always giving hope. A good book for understanding this...

I took some Methylfolate + a coffee + nicotamine ribosone this morning, my high hissing T has lowered significantly. I also had good feedback on my work and took a break walking with the dog so must also have played a role ;) But it shows how much stress makes my T fluctuate.

I believe there's a link between OCD and T, I have both (+PTSD) but since my EMDR therapy I feel things are getting better, a lot of sleep, and some work from yourself can distract you from obstructive thoughts, for me I had a lot of health and money related negative thoughts and I now try to...

GABA is good for relaxing, but it makes me very depressive after a few days, but the same goes for Magnesium, very strange.

Well in the first days two of my T's were completely gone, no way to hear them even with the biggest effort, but one seems to come back (morse code type of T), the other one also but at a very low volume barely to hear and I think it's because of my teeth clenching/sleep apnea which is worse...

Thanks John!

Indeed and I have the impression that getting back to work is not really helping things, I can hear slightly the old T's coming back, it's much much lower as before, hardly noticeable so we'll see, but this really is interesting and learns me that I definitely need to change some things in my...

Hi all, I'm a musician and have had tinnitus for 18 years (very loud hissing) and since a burnout 2 years ago I had new multiple tinnitus sounds (low freq buzzing, new flute sounds, morse code), for me this was a real hell and I stopped playing music live as my ENT said it was because of music...

Interesting post. I know for sure there are several physical issues that can cause Tinnitus (loud noise, ear infections, sleep apnea ...) but I must agree that there is also some kind of psychological reason for T, at least for myself, I have experienced much lower T when I felt good, low stress...

I finally stopped taking most supplements, even melatonine seems to worsen my sleep apnea, really strange, everything that makes me feel more relax and helps on the T side also makes me somewhat depressive (magnesium, melatonine, tryptophan, ...) so I'm taking as few as possible.

Done ;)

Hi Autumnly, I can understand you and I have been there for the last two years too, don't give up, the road may be long but there are solution that can reduce T. I'm not sure how you got yours, but stress and anxiety is probably where to start in many cases, not just with T. I'm not cured either...

oh sorry if my mail came over like that Autumnly, certainly wasn't the intention, more the opposite and I don't think I said this will help most people either. Please again, don't get me wrong, I have had quite a lot of health issues and I agree that T can come from different sources, in my case...

This is the problem that most of us T sufferers will never accept that the problem may lie in our way to see/feel things, I really feel that in my case I have a mix of different origins for my different T's, but i also agree that negative thoughts or thoughts of anger will get you further away...

this is interesting, I have mixed results with Mag, it makes my sleep apneas worse, I have used too much Mag in the past years, Magnesium bysglycinate seemed to help a bit at some point (see my mails about it) , but actually it isn't as good as other solutions. I now try to balance with Calcium...