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It has been almost eight months, and I think I am starting to habituate. My tinnitus is still elevated, loud, annoying, and intrusive, but I have not been aware of the sounds for more parts of the day now, and it is bothering me a bit less. My improvement started when I began to sleep better and...

I stopped wearing the hearing aids after about a month of consistent use. I was too focused on the hearing aids, changing from white noise to pink, changing the volume, etc. I don't have much hearing loss. I will live my life and subject my healing auditory system to regular noises so I can...

I am three weeks into hearing aids with tinnitus masking. There is no change in tinnitus volume or intrusiveness. In fact, I hear the white or pink noise and my tinnitus, which is pretty annoying! I think if the hearing aids help the habituation process, it will probably take many months. I am...

I really hope the hearing aids help me deal with my tinnitus; I have never had as loud tinnitus as I have now, and I do not have much hope of improving at this point.

My tinnitus is still as loud, annoying, and intrusive as when the accident and spike occurred. I am getting hearing aids in a week. I hope the correction for my high-frequency hearing loss and sound therapy will help. I am going to give my auditory system some time to improve. If not, I will go...

Almost 4-month update: One bit of good news, along with continuing stress and anxiety. Since the spike, there have been 2 new low-frequency pure tones that are loud and intrusive, along with my pre-existing high-frequency screaming sound along with an oscillating high-frequency sound...

I really appreciate your response and support: It means a great deal to me.

Thank you so much for the encouraging words: I am very glad that your tinnitus returned to baseline and you have given me hope that mine will as well!

I am not able to deal with my current spike anymore: I simply cannot get away from it and I am going crazy. Everything that worked with prior spikes is not helping at all. The only thing that helps is Valium, but that is not a solution. I have an audiologist appointment on March 12th: I hope...

I have a cautiously optimistic update. January 27th will be 2 months since the spike and today, for the first time, my tinnitus is slightly lower in volume, intensity and intrusiveness. I am extremely surprised as all of my prior spikes took much longer to improve at all. I am not yet ready to...

I was way too optimistic in my prior post: firstly, I thought more time had gone by when I posted my last update. The noise exposure occured on November 27th, so it will be only 2 months on January 27th. It is still extremely loud (8/10) and intrusive. I have had one decent day a few days ago...

From my long-term journey (40 years now) I can say that with the passage of time, and doing all you can to not subject your ears to loud noises, you should continue to habituate and improve. Good luck!

I can concur: I am about 6 weeks into my 11th spike over the past 40 years and I have habituated to all of them: they all took about 12 months to settle down...

This is Merci: absolutely the best help in managing my current tinnitus spike! Instant happiness whenever she's around!

Update: It has been almost 6 weeks since the spike and I can report that my head has cleared a bit and the tinnitus has marginally gone down in volume and annoyance level. I think the initial volume was from 2/10 pre-spike to 8/10 immediately after: now I would say it is still elevated but...

That is a great question: Initially, I assumed that the volume of the tinnitus went up, but as I have been so traumatized with this spike, now I am thinking one of my pure-tones maybe changed a bit from before... Also, I have noticed a bit more sensitivity to sounds in general since the spike...

I have had tinnitus for over 40 years, initially due to acoustic trauma, with several 'wrong place, wrong time' spikes over the years. My last major spike was in 2014 (which was the last time, until now, that I posted). I had about 8 years of habituation until a few weeks ago: I had an accident...

LadyDi: I should have been a bit more specific: I have been doing my own treatments that is modeled on the neuromonics and audio notch therapies......I also had been able, in the past, to habituate to my tinnitus spikes without much outside assistance. However, the current spike that I am...

Well, I can definitely say that increased stress does not increase the (still lower) tinnitus volume and annoyance level for me. I just heard from my (now) ex-girlfriend that she has met someone new: If that doesn't spike it up due to stress and negative thoughts, i don't think anything can! I...

I want to share my current tinnitus-spike-related experience in the hope that it provides some hope for other T sufferers that don't see any improvement and get discouraged. Some brief history: I have had acoustic-trauma-induced for a long time (over 25 years). Up until around 9 months ago, I...

Original tinnitus occurred 30 years ago after concert. Since initial tinnitus, I have had 6 different occasions where I was in wrong place, wrong time where I spiked it up in volume: In the prior 5 times, I was able to fully habituate myself (to be able to enjoy silence again) within several...

The best cure for tinnitus in my experience is time...