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My thoughts exactly! I'm still not done figuring it out but there are some really cool electric bikes on the market already. If they weren't so crazy expensive...

That’s a good example of what I mean. If it actually was 90 dB and your hearing protection was applied correctly, there can't have been any physical damage to your ears. Either it was not really 90 dB (a-weighted measurements don’t show the real noise exposure), the hearing protection was not...

Hey Michael, I agree with everything you said. Hearing protection has physical limits, and it must be used correctly to achieve the level of protection it’s designed to provide. However, I’m not talking about situations so loud that noise exposure can't be brought down to a safe level. I’m...

I’m reviving this thread because I’m currently trying to figure out if motorcycle riding works for me. I’ve owned motorcycles, mostly Harleys, for most of my adult life until my tinnitus severely worsened around 2016. After that, I sold all my motorcycles because every time I rode, my tinnitus...

You’ll be fine. 95 dB impulse noise is far from dangerous. My tinnitus is quite reactive and I have never had any issues with any spikes whatsoever when shooting my bows (recurve and compound).

Hey @defender, i don’t know how it occurred - it just started gradually. I actually did not take the antibiotics because i went to another urologist who did not believe it was an actual bacterial prostatitis. I drank a lot of herbal tea and it went away eventually.

I don’t know if this helps you but my tinnitus eventually did get better after a few months. The refrigerator hum is basically gone. Still got tinnitus obviously but it’s really not as bad as I initially feared.

You should definitely stop using noise-canceling headphones. If you search this forum you’ll find they have aggravated tinnitus for quite a few people here...

Hey Rust. How have you been doing since then? Did your tinnitus spike subside eventually?

Supposedly they are but when it comes to tinnitus a lot of things that „aren’t supposed to happen“ actually do happen and you never know when or what it will be. I had a balloon pop in my car and I was 100% sure that it must have aggravated my tinnitus but it did not. I also went to an event...

I am not a doctor nor am I claiming to be able to give medical advice. But I used to work in the scientific field and consider myself somewhat „scientificically literate“ - from what I have read Paxlovid does not make any sense unless you have severe pre-existing conditions or your COVID-19...

No one?

The bad news is that you will probably have to learn some new skills. The good news is that there are many different types of remote jobs that you can do. You just need to find the one that suits you. Some ideas: - Learn coding (probably the hardest on this list but you’ll be able to earn a...

No, I try to stay off any medication. I have Melatonin here but I never used it...

I wake up every night between 3 and 5 am. It’s hard to get back to sleep. Most days I just surf the internet until it’s time to get up. It is just the way it is now.

I also suspect vibration to have caused a really bad spike for me. I was getting a tattoo finished last week and although I never had any issues with tinnitus after getting a tattoo (I have a lot), this time I used earmuffs since the tattoo machine was annoyingly loud. Unfortunately I think the...

Update Day 10 after the incident: Spike has not gone down at all. Actually, I feel it has even increased in the last 2 days. I have taken NAC for 7 days now, will stop it today to see if that might have caused the further increase. During the day I can cope quite well, but the nights...

Hey Rhea, I initially also thought that it can’t possibly have been long enough to actually hurt my ear. But it seems it did anyway. It’s day 7 after the incident and i still have a very loud hissing sound in my left ear. The fact that it’s only in the left ear makes me pretty sure that it’s...

Hard to say. In hindsight I believe this one was more caused by stress and anxiety than actual hearing damage. I think it was a few weeks though.

I can relate so much to this. That’s basically my story as well. Only that it was an ambulance with sirens passing very close to me. My spike is only 3 days old but over the years I have a fairly good idea about when it‘s just a spike that makes me hear my tinnitus more and when it is an actual...

I did not end up taking Prednisone, I am just too scared that it will only add to the spike (as it did before). I do take NAC 600 mg daily now, plus Curcumin 288 mg, 400 mg Magnesium and some vitamin C and Zinc. My sleep has been impacted by this spike unfortunately. I wake up a few times at...

I have had mixed experiences with Prednisone. It seemed to spike my tinnitus even more on 2 occasions. I had an IV course with 3x 500mg that did not do anything though - neither good nor bad. The tinnitus is definitely louder than before. Wasn’t sure about that yesterday but now I am. I pray...

Yesterday I was riding my bicycle when I was suddenly passed by an ambulance with sirens on. I was riding within a group so I kinda could not stop immediately to cover my ears. I was able to cover the ear facing towards the ambulance though. The ambulance was really close, like 1.5-2 m away and...

Sorry for digging this up but I am also contemplating starting to ride motorcycles again. I sold my Harley in 2016 when my tinnitus got really bad after a club visit. I have tried to ride different bikes a few times but I always felt it spiked my tinnitus. I have habituated quite well in the...

Update: I have been prescribed Cotrim which is the same as Bactrim if I am not mistaken. I searched the forums for Bactrim and there's obviously mixed experiences... Has anyone got any more info?

Hey, So I have been off the forums for quite some time since I did pretty well in the last year and was able to cope with my tinnitus. Today however I was diagnosed with a prostate infection, streptococci and enterococci to be precise (although very small amounts only) but my doctor told me I...

This is actually the first time I ever heard of this calculation method. it doesn't seem to make much sense: 30dB NRR are actually only 11.5dB reduction because you have to subtract 7dB from the NRR and then divide the remainder by two and that is then the real reduction?

Ok, here's a tricky question which probably has no "right" or "wrong" answer but I'll ask it anyway: Has anyone here experience with shooting rifles with suppressors while having chronic tinnitus? I know rifles are loud, like in "crazy loud" but I always dreamt of getting my hunting license...

Try refrigerator noise on YouTube. Works for me!

Until last week I would have answered: I would definitely be cool with that and probably live a life 99% as happy as anyone else. Now my tinnitus has become substantially worse and I have e really mind-wrecking low humming noise which keeps me from sleeping. With that I definitely would NOT live...

I still just can’t figure out how this can possibly have been too loud for my ears? I mean even if it were up to 105 dB in the low frequencies (which it wasn’t) and even if the plugs only did -15 dB that still means 90 dB for less than 15 minutes. That can’t really damage anything... I am so...

Hey Folks, Unfortunately, I’m back :/ After a major worsening 14 months ago (hearing tests at ENT with tympanometry) I kinda habituated and felt good for the last 6-8 months or so. Last Friday I went to an opening ceremony of a local co-working space. There were quite a lot of people so i...

Yes, it did, although I do experience ear fullness from time to time for no apparent reason...

Hey! I‘m actually not really active here anymore. My tinnitus went down eventually (although it’s still worse than 2 years ago), but I’m doing pretty fine most of the time now :)

Hey, I will need a revision of my root canal (left upper jaw, premolar). That itself doesn’t bother me too much since the doctor doing it is a specialist and will not use any ultrasonic tools and was in general very understanding. But he advised me to get a crown prior to having the canal...

Hey TC, Sorry, I actually am really busy atm but I still think we should give this open letter thing a shot. If you want to go for a draft please do so as I would probably not be able to do so in the next 2-3 weeks!

The problem with these oral regimen of steroids is that when compared to a control group they really do not make any statistically significant difference. There was a meta study in 2017 done by German health insurances in which they analyzed all available studies on oral steroids for SSNHL and...

As some might know I have had a major exacerbation of tinnitus from a tympanometry along with an acoustic reflex test. Tinnitus went through the roof that same day. What still kinda baffles me is that I developed a new tone about 3 days later. Until now I thought that it was related to the...

Considering that his tinnitus was caused by Mèniere's I wouldn’t throw my hopes out of the window just yet. Mèniere's might very well be a rather „special“ case.

Can we push this again? I honestly do believe that we need to draw their attention to this!

They did acoustic reflex on one ear and tympanometry on both. Left ear is definitely worse a bit but I think right ear is affected as well. Also there’s reports of people having their damage only from pure tympanometry. Your call....

I also found out only by VERY explicitly asking that they tend to do tympanometry and acoustic reflex as a 2-in-1. I declined the test to be done on my right ear so that might have at least saved a bit of my hearing. I definitely hear the new noises more on the left.

Könnte man fast annehmen.... :/

I‘d say: no. I probably have mild ETD too. But now I have SEVERE tinnitus on top of that because of the tympanometry. So definitely not worth it.

That's cool. But as long as that hasn't been proven to be an effective treatment against tinnitus on a larger scale I think we shouldn't just lean back and wait.

I think @another sean is on the right path with his idea. We need audiovisual content that triggers emotion. Heck, I have had tinnitus for 21 years now (although only the last 3 years were a problem) and I have no idea who Josef Rauschecker is let alone having any idea he was doing a fundraiser...

I totally agree with you. Remember that Rick & Dick Hoyt video? Makes me cry every single time I watch it. I don't want to sound heartless or anything like that but in order to raise awareness you HAVE to show the tragedies around the suffering behind all this. Do you need any support with this?

Ok, give me a few days, ok? Maybe that's the issue then? How can you not know it's a fundraiser? Needs better communication then! Ok, should we draft up an e-mail to them then? I know a thing or two about social media marketing though. I'm sure there's others around here, too. Yeah, I agree...

Sorry to hear that - did your tinnitus turn down a bit after the tympanometry or did it stay the same all the time? p.s. Ich seh gerade, auch aus Deutschland! Hallo :)

I wrote them on Facebook but got a standard reply (I guess). They have no definitive date set but hope to roll out in 2019... so I don't think it'll come out too soon.

After I had my tinnitus worsened by tympanometry last week (still hope it's just spiking) I took prednisolone twice (60mg Saturday evening and 60mg on Sunday morning) but decided to not take the next dose on Monday because I developed a new, very low drone noise Sunday night. Actually the...

Hey Markku, I will try to do my best. I have already reached out to Joe Rogan and asked him to do a podcast with someone from tinnitus research. Do you have suggestions who might be willing (and eloquent enough) to do that? I live in Germany and don't have that many contacts in the US - but I...

Since I've been fighting with a serious exacerbation of tinnitus right now I feel the urge to somehow help research for a possible cure advance. So far the efforts made by ATA and/or BTA (don't even get me started on our "German Tinnitus League") don't really seem to have a big effect which is...

How long did it take to resolve?

I don’t know exactly. During the day it’s not as bothering so I guess a „richer“ sound environment masks it better. The last 2 nights were hell though because a variety of different noises (pink/white/waterfall) couldn’t mask it. Watching tv shows was a tiny bit better but still very hard...

Actually it’s really hard to mask and I‘m wide awake now. It’s 3:30 a.m. here...

So almost one week ago I had a major exacerbation of my tinnitus due to tympanometry. 2 days ago I woke up in the middle of the night because my tinnitus had changed again. Now there's a low humming sound that "feels" kinda different than the other rather high pitched hissing noise I have...

While I do believe that this CAN be the case I'd strongly advise not to take this mindset with you on your path. As long as we don't have a cure, we will have to use workarounds like habituation or TRT or whatever you want to call it. From my own experience I can say that both my first onset in...

Yes, I have heard of tinnitus caused by earwax buildup. Let a doc check it BUT BEWARE: Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES let the doctor remove the earwax by so called microsuction! This is extremely important!! Even if he tells you not to worry. INSIST that the only uses manual tools! Microsuction is...

I don't know about potential ototoxicity of Robitussin and couldn't find any hints on the internet either. What I did find though was a warning not to take Robitussin when pregnant because it can interfere with fetal brain development!