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Hey Mikki! Time really helps I think. I went 35 years without it - then bam! The first period was far worse than the second, but both were rough. Now sleeping like a baby, doing well at work etc... I have adapted to sleeping in noise (it's actually soothing and I sleep better than I ever did)...

Hey all, My tinnitus started in April 2018. I had the usual experience. Felt awful, first genuine time I'd experienced anxiety and depression. Habituated to it in a few months - but it got worse in May 2020 (weird up and down high pitch ringing in left ear whereas the initial tinnitus was just...

Sage advice Glenn. The way I am seeing things is that regardless of the nuisance this thing is, it can't kill me and isn't physically painful (although emotionally it is). So everyday I think - I could spend time research it - or I could do something else and when I get to tomorrow, I'll feel...

Oh totally. First time I experienced this in 2018 I obsessed for months until it faded to a volume I could barely hear and learnt to sleep with masking. As of June this year I developed it again and the vicious cycle of obsession and checking starts again. It's natural I think. I 'm starting...

Update: just got in my car with doors shut. Can't hear anything... maybe some very very faint noise but cant really be sure.

Just an update. I'm having further progress. It's now at the level where I'm actively unsure if what I'm hearing is tinnitus at any one time and not electrical appliance ambience. It's now maskable by brown noise on my noise machine completely - whereas a few weeks ago I had to use harsher white...

Hey Lilsass. It's difficult to say. I'm not monitoring it as hard as I used to because I'm trying to take Neil Bauman's advice of seeing it as "like a fridge sound" and harmless. The logic is slowly getting through my stubborn OCD skull and I think I even slept through it last night despite it...

That's my problem too. When it's intermittent you're forever wondering when the beast will rise up! Causes anxiety in itself.

Hey Tony. Yeah it's really odd. Mine started up again when I woke up - but very low. It's almost like a sensation. It has stopped again now. I had a few beers last night - I do feel that dehydration kicks it off a bit. When I have a lot of water it stops... Fluticasone tends to be the...

So after a rough few weeks of a hell high pitch sound (about 14.5 kHz) in my right ear, it appears to be gone. As is my general head tinnitus, which all kicked off around the middle of June. I've had barely noticeable tinnitus for a couple of years now, so perhaps this was just a spike. Even...

Hi tbuzz, It was a tone that was about 4 level which reduced slowly to the level it is now. If i plug my ears i can still hear it but it's so quiet otherwise that i can't unless in a very very quiet room, and then its even difficilt to differentiate between usual head noise, blood flow for eg...

So I had a spike in March after my tinnitus faded to practically 0 from April 2018. The cause of my spike was obvious then. I had been to a nightclub, so my own daft fault. A couple of days ago I started to experience mild tinnitus to the left side of my head. It isn't constant - it comes and...

Hey all, Can confirm the spike has now completely settled and tinnitus resolved .. took 4-5 days Feel like ive dodged a bullet. I still have some 0.5/10 head noise i always had but dont think that even qualifies as t

Well it's got better now a bit - slightly above baseline... hopefully fully back soon. But yeah... lesson learned.

So after about a year of very low volume tinnitus where I struggled to hear it unless plugging my ears, I stupidly had too much to drink last night and went to a couple of very loud bars. When I got back I had pretty loud cricket style tinnitus, and this afternoon the crickets have gone, and...

Few things to remember:- It is very early days for you just now. It will probably reduce in volume or go completely, so you may recover that way. Even if it doesn't, you will recover psychologically and it will not - it is difficult to believe right now I know - ultimately bother you, unless...

Hey Lucy, Accept this is a pretty crap time for you at the moment. See it as having fractured a leg - but the healing process will eventually take hold and you will be fine. If the tinnitus stays, you'll be ok. If it goes, that's ok too. For sleep, learn to sleep with some noise - the gentle...

Hello all, A while since I posted here, having recovered from a horrid bout of tinnitus last year. The past 7 days, since going out on a cold/windy day which caused my ears to hurt I'm experiencing a pretty odd sensation. It's mainly in the mornings - and sometimes a couple of hours during the...

Hi, It's a mistake in profile - it started april this year ...faded very slowly over 6 months. First 3 months were very bad, then slowly improved over time to the point I can't hear it at all (probably could if i put fingers in ears) I have no idea if the tebonin i took helped, or the other...

Hello All, First off, I have to say - what a year. Never did I think at the start of this year, that something could seriously mess with my life as tinnitus did. I have always been calm, never anxious, never depressed. Boy did that change in April of this year. It all started one morning out...

I accept. Let's see how it goes!

Thanks Bob. That's kinda what I needed to hear. I really need to get a grip and realise that it could be far worse! I get alot of relief when I don't notice it - I'm amazed that some of you guys get by having no relief at all 24/7.

I really wonder what this is. I'm relatively sure it isn't me imagining it - even if the crickets are on super low the tinnitus/sensations stop. Has anyone else had this?

So I developed Tinnitus back in April, it was originally a shrill noise in my left ear (What you guys would describe as a 4-5/10) accompanied by "head zaps" which occurred at night. It has, over the passage of time slowly improved to the point that it is only noticeable in a quiet room and then...

Hi Hannah, My tinnitus now has got to the stage where I barely notice it in the daytime - it's only ever really apparent if I plug my ears and then it's quite faint, but faint enough to annoy me! But, it seems to come on loud when I wake up for reasons unknown. Have you had an MRI scan?

Hannah, I read somewhere else on this forum that if someone overuses earplugs the brain can actually create sound - as if it feels there is actual hearing loss. It has occurred to me, maybe that might be the cause of our tinnitus? Could be reverse logic, but maybe our solution is not to avoid...

Hi All, I have been lurking on here over the past couple of months, and I find it to be a place of solace and camaraderie. In April of this year I woke up with a ringing in my left ear. There was nothing special about the day before, except a couple of weeks before that I attended an awards...