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Spoiler: This won't be a helpful comment. I used to click on those things all the time. They always add up to exactly what I already know: good habits, drink less, positive mindset, centering meditation, skip the salt, good diet, exercise, and rain-checking Led Zeppelin tribute bands.

I'm switching from electric and acoustic guitars to a classical guitar. It REALLY helps, as there was a sort of overtone in the steel strings that set my tinnitus off much more aggressively. With some of my instruments, like keyboard and mandolin, I've found an interesting trick: I only play...

Iron is the new stone. _Sarum_ starts in the Stone Age, if I remember rightly. A couple of Rutherford's books follow that basic pattern: but they cover eons, so they might not be what you've got in mind.

I doubt it; but only because my H and my T can be separated fairly readily. Clearly, hyperacusis aggravates my tinnitus: it basically stops my ears and shuts out all masking clutter-noise, as well as creating painful sensitivity to sound. But I can't say it causes it, since I had tinnitus...

I understand your predicament here. Probably a lot of us have stories about how we explain tinnitus to loved ones. I can't be the only one who explained it by setting my phone on the table and setting off a synthesized tinnitus sound and leaving it on during the conversation. (I used the...

Could be coincidence; missing my mineral supplements yesterday resulted in marked worsening of T. ≠ double-blind, but nearly double-deaf.

If I could address your post in random order, I'd start with the "worry" part. Tinnitus does come in many forms, and so your doctors are right that it's not certain how permanent or aggressive yours will be. Which is to say, worrying about the unknown is natural, but pointless. Instead...

Chilly wet day. Tinnitus sharp and painful. I think I'll get crawfish pasta for lunch to tell it, "Fuck you, I like Winter."

First: see if you can find a local physical or occupational therapist that will see you regularly and is covered by your insurance. Lots of repetitive motion problems can be addressed with astonishing simplicity, and probably cheaper than it would be to go to a doctor and have the full workup...

Bad T, but sitting with my son in a groovy coffee shop and helping him cram for an EngLit final: T sucks, but life does not.

Rough day with T.

It is not unendurable. For many people it becomes incredibly acute, and suffering can be intense. For others it can be almost debilitating. Also, I expect that people have different abilities to "tough it out." Make no mistake, it's a different life than you'd have without tinnitus. But...

I was up early this morning and walking with my son, and thinking, we really don't lack anything we need. We're a family, and we're not alone, and we could do a lot worse than this.

I had a similar event, though with T, not H. My T is pretty responsive to my sinuses, and a bad cold had set my T off like a banshee. I ran the Neti pot for the usual reasons, and thought I had unleashed the fires of hell in my brain. My T was off the chain for about a week and a half... the...

Glad chest-hair is fashionable again... I have it all over my back.

Hold onto this thought: It got better, even if only marginally, on its own. It can do that. This isn't like falling off a cliff with only one direction. Even if the ENT (hell, they're only human) says there's nothing s/he can do, it still got better on its own because it wanted to. I'm...

Hey, Gustav. I'm a veteran of loud music, and I can tell you: take a deep breath. Breathe. Two things: One, take steps not to aggravate the damage anymore. Less alcohol is good, and skipping the loud events is really, really smart at this stage. (I swear, they make these things too...

Friend: You should try vodka for your tinnitus. Me: I never pour alcohol in my ears. Never.

Friend: You should try vodka.

Either it blocks out surrounding clutter and I focus on the T or it makes it worse... logic would suggest that it's the former. I suspect my brain in the absence of clutter focuses on the most noticeable thing. Today I drove 300 miles in the rain, and it was incredibly soothing. I did some...

Drove all day in the rain. Soothing.

Good advice. I've had mine since 2013, and I've tried a few reprogramming apps, at least one of which either contributed to or caused or coincided with a marked worsening. So I'm pretty careful about how I monkey with my neurons; like disposing of nuclear waste, I find it best left to the...

Will do, Bill. Many thanks.

Thank you for the welcome. I actually wrote a pretty dark song about it called "75". It was a rotten song that sounded like a self-pitying junior-high emo-journal (which is how I felt at the time): but as it fades out I digitally produced that tone we know so well. A few people I played it...

I had a pretty full workup last year, and my hearing seemed to be pretty good. Unfortunately, sounds produced by nature aren't the only things I hear really well.

I'm a fairly soul-less individual and will go with the double-blinds nine times out of ten. Imagine my irritation when I experienced some mild and temporary relief when a friend smeared ylang ylang in a carrier oil around the outside of my ear. (She also warned me in reproving tones not to put...

Deeply concerned about the culture giving up on the difference between "lay" and "lie." We cannot lay to ourselves any longer.

I played in rock and blues bands most of my life, through college and graduate school and well into my thirties. More than once I left gigs at three or four in the morning with my ears ringing, a muffled quality to my hearing for a day or two. I didn't think much of it. I was careful to...