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I got my tinnitus 3 years ago after the first week of taking Lexapro and then Celexa. Of course, I can't prove either caused my tinnitus, but the timing is suspicious. My doctor had recommended I try them to deal with severe anxiety I was having. Anyway the high pitched screeching in my ears...

I had just a B12 vitamin sub-lingual from the local grocery store. I think it was Nature Made.

I forget since I stopped taking it, but it was 1,000mg i think and it was sublingual. I found it at the local grocery store.I only took it for a few months. But ya, took it daily.

Hearing aids + TRT +CBT = semi cured mine. I can't really hear my tinnitus anymore while wearing hearing aids. If they are out, I can after a long time. It's been almost a year and it was loud AF in the beginning.

I think a lot of people are low on B12. I was still in the normal range, but some people have issues when on the lower end of normal. If I was below 200, I would be worried I had some other issue going on, but my doc isn't too worried. Also, I eat plenty of meat, but drink alcohol too everyday...

How far are you into yours? Don't lose hope. Eventually you should get used to it and it becomes nothing. I've got friends that had it screaming in their heads, and don't even notice it anymore. They too, have to search for it to find it.

Oh my gosh! Yes, thankfully I'm still considered in the "normal" range. Just the low end of it. The diseases you mentioned above are really for people under 200 pg/ml. But yes, glad I checked my levels, seriously think b12 supplements are helping.

Hi, I've had it for 8 months now, and started seeing improvements around 5 months. Although the improvements have been SOOOOO slow so hard to pinpoint when it happened. If you think in terms of months rather than days, you'll get an idea of the speed of my improvements. I stopped measuring in...

Thanks, I'm not trying to brag or anything. And to be clear, I do still have T. I posted this so other people get their vitamin deficiency's checked out. I didn't know B12 deficiency could cause T! Maybe it could cure others if they had T caused by a vitamin deficiency too.

Have you seen a audiologist? They got these hearing aids now that are amazing! They completely mask the T when it acts up. And have built in TRT therapy. I think they really helped me initially. Check out the new Widex Evoke hearing aids. Could really boost your quality of life.

So, I am having major, and I mean major reductions in my severe tinnitus. It's gone from screaming in my head, to a faint high pitched sound I can only really hear if I don't have my hearing aids in and other sounds bring it out. When I do hear it, it's soooo much lower in volume. I recently...

Try listening to this on a laptop while you sleep. Works for a lot of people.

I agree on letting your body do its thing. I'm 8 months in and it has gone down a lot. Still annoying though, but I'll count my blessings. The key is let your body do its thing and don't do anything to make anything worse.

@Kritish Gooriah sent me a message in French. I translated it and posted below: Good morning, I don't have much more detail. It was while talking with my mother, that I learned that her cousin had had tinnitus for 2 years, before (Tinnitus) disappeared. She apparently used a cotton swab to...

Oh no worries at all! I just wanted to understand what you were trying to say. Do you want to write it in French and I'll translate it for you and post it here in English?

Might be true, but broken english so it is too hard to understand what she meant.

Yes, stay away from Celexa! Caused mine.

Because eyerolls make sounds. Good one, bud.

If it doesn't bother him, why is that considered "giving up?" You only need to "give up" if you are in battle with T, which he is not.

Thank you so much for coming back!! Really glad to hear this and you have provided hope to a lot of people on this forum. Much appreciated.

Super jealous of you noise induced folks. Drug induced checking in, and we get the T combined with what the ef else did this drug do to our brains?! Cause this feels/sounds diff than what people describe here. It's like a noisy cafe of thoughts that have sounds combined with eeeeeeeeeeee (I...

How is that even remotely true? I'm 8 months in and mine has gone down a lot. Not gone yet, but def a LOT more bearable.

Sure feels good when someone says this! So thank you!

Update: Almost 8 months in. I'm still seeing small improvements in my tinnitus. I also went to an audiologist and turns out I had the complete wrong hearing profile assigned to my hearing aids. I did a hearing test and had the correct profile along with new hearing tips added that completely...

Please talk to your doc about a diff anti-depressant. Celexa gave me T when I was only on 10mg for 7 weeks. It hasn't gone away, been a really tough ride these past 8 months. Please tell your doctor Celexa can take a hike. But do NOT stop or taper off without consulting your doctor. And just...

Hi, no masking feature. I can still hear the high pitched "eeeeeee" but it is MUCH lower than without my hearing aids. I consider it a success at reducing the tinnitus. I am looking into getting new hearing aids that have built in masking, seems pretty cool to be able to take phone calls over my...

Have you guys looked into masking devices? Or do you have the kind that cannot be masked no matter what? It may help you code/program if you can listen to natural sounds at work like crickets. Just a thought.

I got mine from Celexa. I actually think what happens is that we took the SSRI meds, and the serotonin on our brains was being changed. This change likely altered our susceptibility to loud sounds. You said you noticed it after a concert. I noticed mine after a movie I saw that was pretty loud...

So you would advise a hearing loss patient with T, to not wear hearing aids? That's where the confusion started for me. On one hand, I'm told to wear my in-ear hearing aids, but then also told not to use headphones. In ear hearing aids amplify sounds too.

I seriously wish I demanded the doctor give me steroids in first couple of weeks. Too late. But great news for your sister and thanks for sharing!

I wonder if these are the older hearing aids, because mine certainly don't have a speaker where your #4 is. To Michael's point, they are just hollow tubes. I understand what he is saying now. Most hearing aids project the sound further away from your ear drum.

Thanks, ya mine was caused by medication, an SSRI called Celexa destroyed whatever filter my brain had in place to deal with the hearing loss I was born with. Didn't hear any T until 8 months ago, age 35. Are you sure hearing aids are that different than in ear headphones? Greg makes a good...

Wow, thanks for this. One thing, though is that my hearing aids are not white noise generators. They are regular hearing aids. I have had hearing loss since I was born and only start to hear most frequencies at the 40 decibel range (somehow this is still considered mild). Anyway, I do want to...

Dude, how is that even remotely a "health issue"? But congrats on beating T and thanks for sharing!

Great post, but not sure I agree. I wear in-ear canal hearing aids. Am I not supposed to wear my hearing aids when I have hearing loss and T? Everyone says to wear the hearing aids, but don't use headphones. To me, they work the exact same way. So, not sure what to do.

Absolutely. How is it not? In my opinion, if you ever get to the point you don't hear your own T, I'll take that! The point at, which my life gets back to 100% and I'm not feeling assaulted by this sound and being forced to wake up at 5:30am to this natural alarm clock, I'll call it a win...

I tend to think its more like my brain had a Tinnitus filter that was working well, until the medication came along and completely destroyed the filter. But then again, you hear plenty of stories where people stop hearing T after many years, so if things were really permanently damaged, how do...

Yeah, I was born with pretty significant hearing loss in both ears. I didn't have any Tinnitus until I took medication a year ago (age 35). It really doesn't make sense at all. I had terrible hearing, and PERFECT silence. In fact I preferred not to wear my hearing aids, since my world was so...

I really don't know. How do we know how each other's T sounds like? I'm def bothered by my T each day, but I've heard people describe their T as a jet engine, and to me that would be much louder than what I have. It's really hard to know how we all compare to each other.

TV like any sound will get my T really going. My T is quietest in a quiet room too. When I wear hearing aids though, it's a whole diff ball game. Hearing aids help mask the T, but I hear a static kinda sound through my hearing aids that I can always hear. I can hear it right now while the TV is...

Oh man, that happened to me in the beginning too. My T eventually found a baseline and seems to be settling down more. I sleep much better at night now than I did at the 2-3 month mark. Hang in there, I know how annoying that is to be interrupted during sleep from T.

Normal hearing range is 0 to 20 decibels in all frequencies. That's the volume you start to hear at. Mine doesn't start until you crank the volume to 40 decibels in all frequencies. If you cant hear until after 20 decibels, they just ASSUME you have had nerve damage to your inner ear, but nobody...

Hi there. I wear hearing aids in both ears, and was wearing them as needed before I got T this past year. I was born with hearing loss. Sometimes, I feel like TV is masking my T, and other times, if there are a lot of silent parts, the TV seems to be making my T, although its probably just my T...

That's very interesting. I've never heard of hearing aids making T worse for anyone, at least not yet. Did the hearing aids whistle in your ear really loud as the audiologist was making adjustments? Do you have Hypercaucis? Sorry to hear that hearing aids weren't helpful to you. The good news is...

Hey there, thanks for sharing your story. Really a touching a story, and I hope you find happiness in the very near future. So, I have hearing aids, and let me tell you, they are a massive improvement to quality of life for those of us with hearing loss. I HIGHLY recommend saving pennies until...

Thanks for sharing. Glad you are making progress!

First part: True. But if he isn't hearing T in his dreams, my point was that's a huge win. But yes, you are right. Choice of words here was poor. Second part: Apologize. Didn't realize how it sounded to long-term sufferers. Didn't mean it that way.

Exact quote too. Good job. You were one of the more pessimistic posts in a success forum. So ya, def sticking to my rec that you see a therapist and anyone else having a hard time with this. I'm going myself, so I'm not sure why you are so negative about it.

Well on the bright side, it can't be that bad if you don't hear it during your dreams. I hear mine in my dreams all the time.

Thanks for sharing this. My biggest fear in life right now is just that I'll end up one of those people that is still writing about how tortured they are 10 years later. I see them on here and other places all the time. Wonder why they can't habituate, but others can. It baffles and scares the...

What a bunch of BS, are you people kidding me? C'mon. First of all, most people's like mine, fluctuates in volume. Second of all, I hear mine over a shower, and if I listen for it, over a freeway. I still consider mine mild. If you talk to people on here, there are people that describe their T...

Could not disagree with you more. Also, not helpful to your fellow sufferers. Nobody knows the true extent of what causes Tinnitus. And if your neurons in your brain were truly screwed up, you would likely have other issues and not hear of any recovery stories. I've read lots and lots of full...

In your first year, did you feel at times it had gotten worse?

Duuuuude, thank you so much for coming back and updating us. This is HUGE for us newbies. I've heard this before, but not enough people come back to give positive updates, so thank you!

Have you tried playing this youtube sound clip to see if it masks your T like it does mine? If so, play that on a laptop or whatever device you have while sleeping. This worked for me.

Just an update for everyone. Hearing aids definitely seem to have helped tremendously. When I sleep at night, I don't hear it at all, even when I wake up for a few seconds. My T comes back in the morning when I remember I have T and check for it (yes, I'm trying to get better about that). BUT...

Right, glasses are viewed as fancy, because we ALL have friends/family that need them. People just don't know a lot of people with hearing aids so they see it as outside the social norm. I love my hearing aids. People make jokes sometimes, I just laugh with them. It's all about how you rock...

I've had hearing aids since I was 2 years old and played piano my whole life. Maybe I'm missing something, but who talks about hearing aids in a bad way? They are basically glasses, but for your ears. Big whoop. I don't notice I'm wearing them, and no one else does either. Most importantly, I...

Wait, why? I'm half deaf literally and wear hearing aids and its basically solved my hearing loss problem. I have better hearing with my hearing aids than all my friends combined. Do you have hearing aids? They make the best hearing aids of all time now! I can even bluetooth into my phone, take...

Not you, someone else :)