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Yes, you should protect your hearing at all costs, in any way you can. Avoid loud environments whenever possible. If you cannot avoid them, use effective hearing protection that works well for you.

My tinnitus is unaffected by sleep. It is constant—no great days or spike days, regardless of how much sleep I get. It is just always there. I am a lifelong insomniac, but I do occasionally have nights of good sleep.

There might be one reason to visit the audiologist again. It’s possible that your Lenire device is not properly calibrated to your hearing. You could ask the audiologist to re-test your hearing and adjust the settings on the Lenire accordingly. Considering the cost of the device, it’s probably...

Count mine as one. What a waste.

There was a recent change that hides posters' information on the left side of each post.Now, I must click a "V" shaped symbol to reveal the information. I always like to see the information. Is there an option or setting to always show the information?

@ChrisPK, are you currently taking any medications that might be ototoxic? That could explain the “out of nowhere” onset. If you’re unsure, feel free to list your medications—if that’s not too personal—and someone might be able to suggest a possible cause.

There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ night guard; you should have one custom-fitted for your mouth.

I’ve had several colonoscopies with different prep methods, and none have had any effect on my chronic tinnitus.

I have a prescription for Lorazepam (Ativan) for anxiety. 1 mg twice a day, but I actually only take it when needed. It doesn't alleviate my tinnitus, but it helps me care less. But honestly, a vodka martini helps about as much.

You should get an electrocardiogram to rule out atrial fibrillation (or anything else an EKG might reveal).

In 2024, a web search for "electric motorcycle" turns up plenty.

I would need to be allowed to choose my cellmate.

Yes, I get those brief tones occasionally, maybe once a day. I think it's my tinnitus saying, "Stop ignoring me." I don't have a visual disturbance.

Please try to make peace with it however you can. You are far too young to succumb to this. I've been dealing with it for decades and I ain't dead yet.

Page 11 of the user manual: I can't find the cost of the Tonguetip, but I think I vaguely remember about $100 USD.

I don't believe in prayer, but I do believe in better living through chemistry. Have you tried all the hypnotic prescription drugs? I have. Really, all of them because my health insurer wanted me to find the cheapest one that worked. The only one that works for me is Zolpidem (Ambien). If you...

Yes, there's a thread about Cortexi. It didn't work at all for me.

The two have nothing in common.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I run my white noise generator all night and it helps me sleep because my brain is distracted from my tinnitus.

I was just about to ask about auditory hallucinations and found this old thread. I have had them occasionally for a year or so. They always sound like real sounds, e.g., a dog barking, my wife calling my name, an electronic device beeping while on mute. The disturbing ones are like someone...

Alcohol has no effect at all on my tinnitus. But I'll keep trying... :beeranimation:

Go to the link in @AfroSnowman's post. Scroll about 1/4 of the way down and you will find links to 2 interviews.

I paid US$3949. At least it's income tax deductible as a prescribed medical device.

Sorry for the delay in replying. It took me all this time to find them. I have the QC25 wired phones (no Bluetooth). I believe I paid around US$300 for them in 2015.

Here's a twist on this topic. Today I had my teeth scaled ultrasonically. I really dislike the scaler, but hygienists seem to like it and I guess the session goes faster than with manual scaling. I tolerate it because it doesn't spike my tinnitus, I just find it annoying. What really bothered...

I am happy to report that the clicking sound in my ear has subsided, so I must retract the above statement. I'm essentially back to where I was before 5 months of using Lenire; no permanent damage appears to have been done.

Here's a 5 month update, having started Lenire on June 25, 2023. In my previous post, I noted that Lenire had added a new sound to my tinnitus on November 15, 2023. It was a clicking sound and quite annoying. At its worst, it sounded like a Geiger counter next to a radioactive source. Lots of...

I had no side effects other than a sore arm for a few days.

I have 2 noise-cancelling over-the-ear headphones. One is Bose, the other is Sennheiser. Both cancel airplane noise, lawn mowers, and such, but the Sennheiser's controls are incredibly confusing and unlabeled. I have to pull out the instructions every time just to use them, so I seldom use them...

Where can you get these? Several years ago, I was with friends in a Las Vegas hotel restaurant. The "background" music was so loud that people literally had to shout to hear each other at the same table. This caused me to walk the round-trip mile to my hotel room to fetch the forgotten...

Hoftstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

During yesterday afternoon's Lenire session, I started hearing a new sound in my right ear only. In addition to my usual high-pitched ringing, I started to hear very brief high-pitched "ticks" or "dings". At first I thought Lenire was malfunctioning, but the sounds persisted after the end of my...

Yes. This is because science, unlike religion, learns from past mistakes and conducts further experiments to get closer to the truth.

I'm not sure. If I clench my jaw, my tinnitus gets louder. It returns to its usual level when I un-clench. This is the only action I can take to modify the sound; nothing else makes it change. Does this indicate somatic tinnitus?

I hope we haven't hijacked @DanT's thread. How are you doing, @DanT? Any improvement months later?

I don't know what "zoning in" means, but yes, there's definitely causation there. I was surprised at first, but did experiment to verify. What I haven't yet experimented with is to find a dosage "sweet spot" where the cannabis has only the desired effect and not the undesired. I've had tinnitus...

Work on the neck. Have your therapist perform or prescribe cervical traction. It is easy and painless, and just might pop something back into place.

That's news to me. Can you provide a citation?

I never heard of using a drill to extract wisdom teeth, but what do I know? You could ask for general anesthesia, then you won't hear a thing.

Having recently bought the book Surely You Can't Be Serious, I just re-watched the 2 Airplane! movies at home on Blu-ray discs for the hundredth time. Sadly, they are very dated and some of the jokes have expired. But still classics.

I was saddened to learn about your Lenire experience. How awful! But it raised a question in my mind. You said you bought Lenire at a seminar. Was your device properly calibrated against your audiogram and tongue sensitivity? Mine was, when I bought it from an audiologist. I wonder whether you...

Speaking of ENT clothing... way back when my tinnitus started, I didn't know what it was. I went to see an ENT (which is short for otolaryngologist) who turned out to be one of the most beautiful women I had ever met. A true 10 out of 10 from head to toe. Sitting in a chair across from me (no...

I contracted COVID-19 some time between September 7th and 10th and started Paxlovid on the 13th. Paxlovid had no effect at all on my tinnitus. The only side effect I had was diarrhea, which was OK because I was isolating at home with toilets nearby. :depressed: I believe Paxlovid shortened my...

This is why our country is in such deep shit. Idiots vote for idiots.

Everyone is different. I find that cannabis does aggravate my tinnitus, hours later or the next day. How annoying this is. I first enjoyed hash & weed in 1969. I remember being a dues-paying member of NORML in the 1970s and always in favor of legalization. Now that it's...

12 week update from the USA: I've now been using Lenire for 3 months and notice no difference in my tinnitus, either positive or negative. It might be 1-2 dB quieter, but that could be my imagination. The high-pitched ringing is still there 24/7 even if it's maybe a tish quieter. Every once in...

Cannabis edibles aggravate my tinnitus, sometimes the entire next day. What a bummer! I waited over 50 years for decriminalization and now I can't enjoy it.

@BuzzingBay, did you ever find a pillow speaker you like?

Drat, that link above no longer works. I did find a few other articles, like this one from 2020: Reintroducing Brain Plasticity Lost in Adulthood I wonder whether any further progress was made. I'll continue searching around. My interest in this is to gain information on whether my 25 year...

Many years ago, my cat nipper managed to neatly puncture the dome tweeter of one of my Thiel CS2.2 speakers right through the cloth grille. This made a subtle but audible difference. When I phoned Thiel, the representative was surprised a neat puncture would be audible. Fortunately, they sold me...

I wouldn't think 2 drops would do anything. The instructions say to take 2 droppers per day. I did that and it still had zero effect.

Are we still arguing about voting on this? Here's my vote: with tinnitus, live rock concerts are out. Done. Forget it. Without earplugs, your hearing will be toast, possibly forever. With even good earplugs, you won't be enjoying the music to the fullest. And don't forget the noisy fans all...

It varies, usually mild to moderate. Every once in a while it gets to screaming loud and at that point I'm likely to slap on the Lenire 'phones and run another 30 minute session at +1 volume just to drown out the tinnitus. I've had tinnitus for 25 years, so I'm accustomed to hearing it all the...

There's new firmware available for the Lenire device. My device is dated 2023-04-13, so not terribly old. But it has always had this annoying glitch where, twice during every session, a "scratchy" noise lasting about one second would occur. It was annoying but not really terrible. But I found...

I tried one bottle of Cortexi. It had no effect.

The title character in the movie "Baby Driver" has tinnitus and it plays into the movie's plot. Wikipedia has a list: List of People with Tinnitus

@haha ear go eeee, time has passed. I wonder whether you found even a partial solution? My first reaction was the same as the first responder to your post back in May: move.

I responded "temporarily worsened." But I don't think I have any ultrasonic household products. What I do react to is the so-called "ultrasonic" dental scalers that hygenists use. They're clearly not ultrasonic because patients can hear them -- directly through bone conduction, which is awful...