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Well. I'm lesbian and my hair is very curly and fluffy and a friend of mine once said that I was the rainbow sheep of my family. And it has just stuck with me ever since so whenever I have to choose a username and don't want it to contain my real name rainbow sheep is the first thing that comes...

I used to do horse back riding but Uni is eating all my time and all of my energy so now the only exercise I get is long daily walks with my dog :D

Yeah, I accidentally burnt some oil. I half forgot that the stove was turned on I'm not adult enough to adult :ROFL: Luckily the spike has calmed down today. I'm so relieved that no permanent damage was done.

I'm gay through and through, hah. I mean. My name is Rainbow sheep and my avatar is a rainbow sheep. It couldn't be any more gay than that :ROFL:

I accidentally set my fire alarm of while I was making dinner (don't know what that says about my cooking skills, hah.) Unfortunately the incident has spiked my tinnitus. Not to an unbearable level but loud enough to be more bothersome than it was before. Damn it. I have been doing so good the...

Thank you to both of you!

Since my tinnitus spiked in August 2017 I haven't been able to do anything without masking my tinnitus. It would get on my nerves, trigger me and make me angry or sad. But my spike has gradually faded and I have gotten used to the fact that I can now hear my tinnitus more than I could before...

So. I have always just assumed that my tinnitus is noise induced due to the fact that I have been stupid enough to go to a lot of hard rock concerts without earplugs. My tinnitus didn't appear after a concert though but appeared suddenly from a fleeting tinnitus experience that didn't go away...

Oh this is nice to know. I started taking vitamin B not long ago because I have started eating mostly vegetarian. And I was afraid that my vitamin B levels would get too low, though my doctor told me anything but my vitamin D levels looked perfectly fine last time I got a blood test done. But I...

The stats I have read says between 15 - 20% but that only 3% of those are bothered by their T in such a way that it damages their quality of life. So I suppose the reason why the stats seems to high is that it is only a small amount of People with T who is actually bothered or harmed by it :)

Same thing happened to me last year. I never really figured out what caused it but my guess is that it was tense neck - and jaw muscles from being stressed out. And probably also being too careless around noise. But it has gotten way better now that my neck - and jaw muscles aren't that tense...

So. I got another spike in my tinnitus the other day and I really don't know what caused it. I wasn't near any loud noises at the time. It was just one of those fleeting tinnitus experiences that never really faded entirely. It was the same way my tinnitus started. I haven't got a clue to what...

I think I have had them my entire life without really knowing there was a name for them. I kinda assumed it was a normal thing I guess. Anyhow they never really bother me anyway. I never really notice them :D

Mostly I just try to get on with my life the best that I can and do stuff that makes me happy. Seeing my friends, competing and attending poetry slam competition, spending time with my family and so on. I know it's damn hard but in the end that's what got me back on track again because I had...

My T is a "fleeting T" that just never went away. I still haven't figured out why it decided to stay at that particular day, as I have had experiences of fleeting T my entire life. But I suppose it's some kind of gradual noise damage that caught up with me in the end.

I have suffered from T for 4 years but got a nasty spike last year. My spike also got louder and louder the first weeks. As I was depressed and stressed out already before my T spiked I didn't think I would be able to stand it either. But my spike began to calm down after 4 months. And now, a...

I have the same problem. And I also work in a very quiet envoirnment. My theory is that it is stress from work. Not that I feel particulary(which I can't spell without a English dictionary, hah) stressed out but I'm significantly more tired when I come home from work than I am when I come home...

Sit in silence and enjoy the silence for as long as I possibly could without getting bored.

So I discovered this while I was searching through the news. It's an article about a boy who got tinnitus after a very loud rock concert. The title roughly translates to "webdoc: when the ringing moved into Adam's head" for those of you who do not speak Danish (which probably most of you do...

The problem with correlation is that it doesn't necessarily mean causation. And in this case I would say that it is very likely that developing T can make you more neurotic. And thus there seems to be a correlation between T and neuroticism. But there is no way to know if being high on the...

I listed restaurants and cinemas because I usually wear earplugs to the cinema. Depending on how loud the movie is. Went to see Love, Simon the other day which wasn't that loud so I forgot to use my earplugs. Luckily no harm was done! I usually don't protect at restaurants but I guess that is...

Need to share this. I just had a few seconds of complete silence. I don't know how it happened our why but boy to hear silence again after 4.5 years was nice. My T has returned but it just made my day to get a moment of peace even though I'm not that bothered by my T anymore. Maybe more moments...

Right now quite a few things. I have struggled with reocurring depressive episodes since my late teens. Right now I'm not depressive though so I just appreciate the abillity to be happy and feel it in my entire body and feel it for hours and hours. It is truly amazing when one is so used to...

A student who's paid to study ;) All jokes aside I'm studying to become a psychologist but in Denmark all students get economical support so that it (in theory) is possible for everyone to graduate, regardless of their background. Besides I have a student job at a homepage with a mailbox young...

Audio books are good if you love to read but have trouble with focus or concentration. It's not quite the same as seeing the letters on a page and reading the book yourself but it works very well for me!

I usually use et every day of the week, yes. Sometimes I forget it, though, hah. Usually, I use it in the afternoon when I'm already studying anyway. In that way I can kill two birds with one stone (wow that expression sounds so much more violent in English than it does in Danish, hah) :D

I have one that I use in the winter because I suffer from seasonal depression. I come from a Scandinavian country so the winters are quite long and dark up here. I am quite sure it has helped my tiredness and my low mood in the winters, but I'm not sure if it affects my regular depressive...

So. I decided to write this post because I was looking for stories like this when my tinnitus spiked in August last year. So I had had tinnitus for 3.5 years before it spiked. Before the spike I barely noticed it. I heard it at night but it didn't bother me at all. Then in August last year my...

It differs for me. Sometimes my T becomes almost non-existent when I lie down and other times it becomes almost unbearable loud.

I don't know actually. Mostly because I don't know if I became more acceptant of it because it subsided or if it subsided because I decided to learn to live a happy life despite the louder T and thus became more acceptant of it. There's always the question of what came first. The chicken or the...

Yes. My tinnitus spiked in end August/start september and it was hell the first three months. I didn't sleep properly, I was depressed and anxious and convinced that it was going to be that way forever and that my life was ruined. Like your I was completely adapted to T and my baseline T was so...

I have given up headphones but other than that I still live my life as I used to do. The only difference is that when I go to concerts, clubs, theatre, restaurants and parties I make sure to protect my ears and I make sure that I don't stand directly in front of the speakers. I'm only 21 and...

Tension in my neck - or jaw muscles seems to spike my T. Sometimes alcohol spikes it for a day too but mostly I can't seem to figure out why my T is spiking. It seems pretty random most of the time.

No I haven't found anything yet but I'm thinking about seeing an ENT for it. I guess they might be able to figure out what it is :D

I wasn't on them for long as they fucked up my anxiety levels so bad that I ended up having several full blown panic attacks a day which I haven't hd for a long time but I don't think I noticed a change in my tinnitus loudness for the little while I was on them, but I think they made it easier...

Either white noise or music. It depends on my mood and loudness of my T. If my T is loud I use white noise or pink noise to take the top of the T. If my T is low I use music to have some distraction. If I'm anxious or having a straight out panic attack (I suffer from panic disorder/anxiety on...

I just saw The Greatest Showman. I started without ear protection but I noticed the sound was uncomfortably loud during the singing parts of the movie so I ended up wearing earplugs most of the movie but other than that I'm perfectly fine. My tinnitus hasn't spiked at all. In fact my perception...

I have read somewhere on a Danish page that it can be due to ear was build up. Not sure if it's right but it makes sense that the water from the shower would block your ears even further if there's already ear was blocking them.

I know I'm not the only one who's in a bad place from time to time and I'm probably not the only one, either, who sometimes searches the internet for funny videos/songs/etc to cheer me up a bit. So my thought was, well. Why not make a thread for funny stuff that will make us laugh or smile when...

I have noticed that a lot of people with unilateral tinnitus tends to want to avoid sleeping with their bad ear against the pillow because the tinnitus becomes unmaskable for obvious reasons. Am I the only one who actually wants to sleep with my bad ear against the pillow because my tinnitus...

I sometimes get the feeling of pressure you're describing if my neck and jaw muscles are tense. Also massaging my neck has settled my tinnitus an awful lot so I suspect that at least some of my T might be somatic. Maybe the same goes for you?

I was put on Mirtazapin because of depression and tinnitus isn't listed as a side effect as far as I know. Sadly I didn't take it long enough to tell you if it caused me any trouble because I was too scared due to a bad experience with ADHD medicine, hah. However mirtazapin is a sedative as...

Will do, thank you!

Hello. I'm not sure how to describe it any better than I did in the title. Whenever I move my jaw in a certain way it seems as if air gets in behind my eardrum in the right ear. It doesn't happen to my left ear at all. It has been that way for quite some time, even years before my tinnitus in...

Thank you for your story. I'm sure it will help someone knowing that it can get better. I myself found some comfort in it eve though I'm already in a pretty good spot compared to others on this forum. To the loudness vs habituation discussion. I read somewhere (can't remember where, though)...

My T does the same. I have no idea why but it is strange...

Hi guys. I'm sorry that I post so much, haha. Anyhow it's just because I've novice something strange. I know alcohol is supposed to make tinnitus worse, however the exact opposite happens to me when I drink alcohol. My tinnitus gets better which would not be strange if it was the night where I...

The same thing sort of happens to me. At daytime it is only in my right ear, but when I go to sleep it moves to my left ear as well and whenever I wake up it goes back to the right ear. I can't hear a thing in the left even when I plug my ears during daytime. It is very strange.

Thanks for your answers, I really appreciate them! Tinnitus is a weird phenomenon. The same condition yet there seems to be so many different reasons to why it begins.

I owe to say though that the loudness of the ringing went down quite a lot the first few days of ringing after fleeting T that didn't go away. For the first 3 years I wouldn't notice it other than at night when I was about to go to sleep and even then it didn't bother me. However, I had a spike...

Just being curious. How/when did you tinnitus start? In a lot of the stories I read it seems that the tinnitus either started immediately after the acoustic trauma or that the person got it "over night." To me it is a bit different. I have had fleeting tinnitus for as long as I can remember...

Well. For some reason I came to think about this story I read on a Danish page in my early days of desperately searching through the internet in the hope of finding something that would help. Anyhow I thought that it might help someone and decided to share it in this forum. Well the thing is...

I'm grateful for a lot of things. My friends who stands by me even when I'm stucked in a black, depressive hole where I'm sure I'm no fun being around. My family who does the exact same thing. My dogs, my cat, my horse. Living in a country where education is free and even "pays" me for...

Blue eyed scandinavian here. I would have been a perfect fit for the scandinavian stereotype if my hair was as blonde as it was when I was a child :P

I personally like habituation stories. They give me hope that even if my spike doesn't go away I'll be able to live a good life anyway (though my spike has calmed a lot since the onset it is still louder and more high pitched than my baseline T). I've had T for 3.5 years so I know that it is...

Haha, you're welcome, and you're right. I didn't even think about that :D Let's hope that we'll someday get to rediscover the sound of silence! Uh and. Two other favorites I forgot. (Because obviously I have a LOT of favorites :ROFL:) Never Surrender - Like a Storm - one of my go to songs...

3 years with T so manageable and mild that I wouldn't even think about it. Four months with a much louder, but still only moderate T. Needless to say I will take care of my ears from now on and hopefully it will stay this way until someone has figured out how to treat this damn noise in our heads!

I've had the same problem in the beginning of my spike. Even when my tinnitus was marked by other sounds I would obsess about it worrying if it had got any worse or maybe less loud and. It was the first thing I though about in the morning and the last thing I thought about in the evening...

I would say it is, yes. Studying psychology I have seen how much progress there is in understanding the brain and how it works and thus also what happens when it malfunctions. For instance scientists can tell that people are looking at a cross, for example, in an MRI just by looking at the...

This is such an encouraging story! Thank you very much for sharing. I needed that as I am having a bad T day today. Not nearly as bad as the bad days in the beginning but bad enough to cause distress that I needed some comfort from.