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I believe when you press or massage the side of the neck where the jugular vein runs, it stimulates some nerve that reduces your blood pressure and heart rate. I recall a doctor recommended it for anxiety attacks as well.

Some inner ear virus would be my guess. Temporarily lost some hearing for a couple of weeks, then when it got better, I developed tinnitus. I think my hearing is down 5-10% in that ear as well so whatever it was, it did some damage. The tinnitus was exclusively in that ear for about a year, then...

My high-pitched tinnitus gives me a physical sensation of pain/burning and a strange pressure feeling. Makes my eyes squint like hearing an unpleasant sound. When it’s really bad I also get these shock like feelings that shoot between my nose/forehead and brain. I know this is not all in my...

My tinnitus is worse when I have this pounding sensation in my head in sync with my heart rate. After a day or two, this sensation subsides and the tinnitus also subsides and goes to the baseline only to start up suddenly again a few days later or sometimes a few weeks later with a strong...

Yes, depending on where I place the device. At certain places, it sounds like a series of pulsed clicks like dolphins make under water and feels tingly on the site where the probes are touching the skin if I set the power all the way to 5.

Yup, 100% success rate in reducing but not completely eliminating the tinnitus. It brings it down about 80% while I hold the device below my ear and returns seconds after I remove it. The best way I can describe it is the temporary relief some get from doing the finger tapping technique.

First of all, I don't work for or have any financial interest in reliefband. I heard about the device through one of my podcasts I listen to. I briefly read about how it works and thought maybe I could do something clever with it. Reliefband is a watch-like device that you wear on your wrist...

I got the second Moderna shot yesterday. I was hoping one of the side effects would be a cure to tinnitus by pure accident but I’m sad to report no change in tinnitus levels.

My tinnitus was also very reactive in the beginning. As time passed, it became less reactive and the intensity less predictable. The strange thing is that I’ve been able to compare the intensity I have to my wife who also suffers from it and there’s a 70% correlation between my bad days and...

Yup. There are two possibilities for this in my opinion. One is that the feeling is just the neurons firing erratically and it feels like a crawling pulsing sensation. The second is the brain is picking up an external energy source and perceiving it as sound. I’m not an expert in the field of...

Scary stuff. This makes sense. I've also experienced days where the tinnitus is not in the audible range so I don't perceive it as sound but I can feel it as a pressure sensation. These are the days I feel more unstable/drunk compared to days where I actually perceive the tinnitus as sound. One...

Exactly. When I listen to white noise or some sound with any kind of pattern, all it does is cause ear burn for me and the tinnitus still comes through. What I mean by ear burn is when you listen to the sound for a prolonged period of time then stop, it feels like your hearing is muted for a few...

Thanks David. I picked up the 1More earbuds. I'll report how they compare to the Apple ear buds in terms to effectiveness. What's certain is that I've never had a whole week of feeling normal in the past year. I was in this constant daze of inability to focus on anything, inability to sleep...

David, I've been following this thread for over a year. I think I may have contributed to this thread early on but I want to let everyone know that I have been listening to David's audio and it has reduced my tinnitus 90+% in the past week. The first time I tried it was over a year ago with the...

If you own an iPhone and the Apple AirPods, there’s this very good hearing test app called Mimi Hearing Test. You need a super quiet room which is quite hard to find or you can do the test early morning when everyone is asleep and there’s no road noise. Get a baseline result when things are...

My wife has constant repeating notes in one ear and a typical ringing in the other. She hums the notes to me sometimes when we're both lying down. The term "musical" is not a good description for this condition. It's not music in the typical sense like a full band but rather distinct notes that...

Tinnitus, ear fullness and vertigo are the typical symptoms of Meniere's but not always. Sometimes the tinnitus itself is in such a frequency or intensity that it manifests itself as "fullness". That's the case for me. Typically the tinnitus does not interfere with my hearing but sometimes out...

Welcome to the club, unfortunately. I've had it for years now and no I'm still not used to it or figured out a way to deal with it 100% of the time. I have bouts of good periods and bouts of absolute anxiety, depression, sleep problems etc etc. It seems like certain times of the year are worse...

What if the vaccine has a positive effect on tinnitus? Has anyone received it and can report on it?

I'm not sure what your question is but are you asking what I think if my hearing was damaged by acoustic trauma and I had tinnitus, would I still think it would be worth severing the auditory nerve in the hopes of the elimination of tinnitus? I guess that would depend on how damaged your hearing...

In a selfish way I hope this isn't adopted because if it works, the headline will read "tinnitus has been cured" and we will be forgotten, research will dry up since there would no longer be incentive to develop a cure for a population of tinnitus sufferers that will eventually go down to near 0...

I have the Nutricost brand. It works almost immediately for me. I have been off it for a better part of a year and just trying to manage tinnitus with diet, sleep and relaxation but I was losing control and heading down a dark path so I decided to bust out the supplements again. I've been on...

Thanks. I ordered some NAD+ as I read some had good success. Ginkgo Biloba works for my head tinnitus, it takes the edge off. Good luck with the injection. Report back and let us know how it goes.

My wife hears a repeating melody in one of her ears 24/7 and a constant pure tone in the other. She can hum the melody. I find it fascinating.

I could totally live with tinnitus in the ear vs. the head tinnitus. I don’t know why but my anxiety and fight or flight goes into overdrive with head tinnitus. It’s a completely different beast. Head tinnitus is also unmaskable for me but ear tinnitus can easily be masked with music or some...

When I massage the back of my head, where you feel the bump at the bottom of the skull, my tinnitus drops 5-6 points instantly, and then fades back in several seconds later. No tapping, just hard pressure going in circular motion for a couple of seconds. Works every time. Any thoughts as to why?

I'm not buying the "It will stabilize over time". Going on 3+ years and it's more variable than it was at the beginning. It's a constant high pitch squeeeeeeeeeeeeeele that pierces the soul. Then one day it's damn near silent. No rhyme or reason.

Trevor, The reason why I bring this up is due to two theories floating around. One is that a damaged cochlea or damaged hair cells are the root of tinnitus. Similar to the microphone being damaged sending erroneous signals to the receiver and the other theory is the damage to the microphone...

Exactly. I also recall studies where tinnitus has been induced by earmuffs that block out sound. Again this does not support the damaged hair cell theory. I believe tinnitus is caused by abnormal neural activity from lack of acoustic stimuli. This also explains why people with no tinnitus begin...

You’re not alone. Mine also fluctuates and also started with an infection/fever. I have days where it’s a 1 and the next day it goes to 11. But unlike you, the intensity remains for the rest of the day. It’s very rare for the intensity to change by the hour. It’s usually set during sleep and I...

Thanks for the theories. Just want to make it clear that this phenomenon does not happen when I just wake up. Maybe it’s just me but I can remain in this semi-wake/sleep state for as long as I want. I hear sounds at normal levels and I’m conscious enough to take mental notes and decide when I...

I definitely have some hearing damage in that ear. I would put it at 5% as it’s not enough to be detected with pure tone tests but sometimes when I have very little tinnitus I can feel certain frequencies fainter but very minor. The thing with tinnitus is that the intensity is often not related...

Similar situation back in July of 2017. Woke up one day with a bad cold and a blocked left ear, no other symptoms. I shrugged it off (regret it now). The cold went away but the ear blockage lasted about a month. By the time I made my appointment to the ENT, my hearing was coming back and this is...

So every morning for the past several weeks I have observed that early morning when my wife and kids wake up and make noise, I'm in this semi-conscious state where I'm aware of my surroundings but still asleep. I have no tinnitus during this state and I'm clearly conscious enough to make a...

I went to a foreign country last year in July and during the three week period, I had no tinnitus. My tinnitus started again when I landed back in the US. It was a very undeveloped country. Could it be due to reduction of stress or maybe electromagnetic pollution? Is there a large Faraday cage...

I'm in the same boat. My episodes are cyclical with a very short almost instant begin phase and a gradual tapering to normalish for a random period between a day to a week then back again. Mine starts with a strange sensation on the right side of the head almost like a jolt of lightning...

In case you guys haven't seen this yet: I have much more faith in someone like Elon developing something that could help with tinnitus than any pharma or investor who is trying to make a quick buck based on some tinnitus research. This to me looks very promising for the fact that they...

Glad it worked for you. I stopped out it for a while after I ran out of the supplements and got lazy telling myself I would go back on them. It has been more than a year now and I've been getting spikes due to stress and lack of sleep so I'm going to start it again. Hopefully I get the same...

On bad days my head tinnitus sounds like the high pitched whining noise of an airplane's jet engine combined with the sound of the shrieking brakes of a subway train coming to a stop. What's also interesting about my head tinnitus is that I also get the perception of pain associated with the...

I tried a marijuana edible for the first time a couple weeks ago to see what it would do to my tinnitus. It made it 10 times worse for almost a week. Not a fun experience to say the least.

Our symptoms are very close. I too have fluctuating noise sensitivity. They correlate directly to my headaches. Also one of the symptoms of migraine is sensitivity to light and sound so again there's a correlation. Migraines don't always come with headache, especially the vestibular type. I'm...

Well there is no doubt that headaches could make tinnitus worse, that's well documented in medical papers. Whether or not your specific condition is related to headaches is the unknown. I know for me, headaches make my almost non-existent tinnitus into an all consuming monster so for me...

Doctors are mostly full of DoOdoo. They cannot think outside the box and go by what they have learned in textbooks from med school. I can tell you for a fact that my tinnitus bouts come with visual disturbances. Mostly flashing light sensation when I close my eyes in a dark room. I also notice...

Greg, your assessment is quite amazing to be honest. My BP without any medications is borderline hypertensive in the 140/90 range. I was on beta blockers for a 4 month period and the episodes were almost non-existent. My anxiety and mood changes were gone and my BP was down to the 130/80 range...

I have really bad episodes where I get this sensation that can last between a day and a couple of weeks. It typically begins during sleep so I wake up with it but it has happened to be a handful of times when I've been awake. It basically feels like someone took a cattle prod to my brain and...

Thanks for the kind words. I think so. Between the MRI and no fluctuating hearing loss, no aural fullness besides the initial condition three years ago and no vertigo. Maybe it’s some rare form of Meniere’s? By the way I get the shocking feeling in my head and bilateral tinnitus with no emphasis...

This June, it will be 3 years since my ear issues started. I feel like I'm not any closer to finding the cause of my issues even after many visits to multiple ENTs, neurologists and audiologists. It all started one morning when I woke up with ear fullness and numbness on the left side of my...

Same exact issue here. My default tinnitus is a slight noise distinctive in my left ear. I was diagnosed with vestibular migraines which causes severe head tinnitus, floaty out of body feeling, visual snow, aura, disorientation, confusion, unsteadiness when movement and a dull headache that...

I was inadvertently put on beta blockers for false high BP and it so happens to be a medication used for vestibule migraines so I was bout free for 4 months while on them. The medication was Metoprolol.

Does anyone know if tinnitus alone can cause you to feel lightheaded and feel like you have imbalance? Similar to being drunk? I'm not referring to ear conditions that cause tinnitus and lightheadedness/vertigo. I'm referring to tinnitus alone causing the symptom of lightheadedness when it's...

Honestly the best tinnitus app so far. It has so many features and they all work. I know it’s early but my two feature requests are: 1. Ability to cycle between silence and tone based on time interval. It gives the ear a rest and also shows effectiveness of the tone. 2. More sound selection.

I was where you were. It would hurt my ears while I was opening a pill bottle while the pills rattled around slightly so I know what you mean. All this happened for me a year down the line from when I developed tinnitus which was the strange part. I think it started when I was having severe...

I was reading an article in the Journal of Neuroscience titled "Ringing Ears: The Neuroscience of Tinnitus" URL: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/45/14972 I came across the study where when cats are exposed to loud noise that would normally result in tinnitus. If they go through recovery in...

Your issues may be due to a viral infection of the ear similar to mine that caused ear/nerve damage. I also went to ENT multiple times complaining of on and off tinnitus with hearing loss but every time I had a test done, it came back normal. Even the ear that I feel are missing some frequencies...

Things will improve. You have to find the things that affect your tinnitus the most. Everyone is different. Some people have no issues with coffee, alcohol, smoking etc and some do. It looks like you are on the right track using the process of elimination to see what helps you the most. What I...

Just wanted to provide some support. Hyperacusis almost always improves or goes away completely. Hyperacusis is also strongly tied to stress and being in constant fight-or-flight mode. In fact, all your senses will be more sensitive and sleep will also be difficult. When my tinnitus started I...

Hey Chris, I've had tinnitus for a couple of years now from an unusual viral ear infection that caused some mild nerve damage and undetectable HL. This set off my tinnitus one night in that one ear and I went on a two year old rollercoaster. All I can tell you is that it will definitely...

Hello Everyone, Just wanted to update you guys. So I’ve still been on the supplements and the tinnitus has been under control. It’s at a level that I can easily tolerate and forget about and that’s what is important This morning I found out how bad NSAIDs are for tinnitus. I’ve been having...

Yup. This sounds oh so familiar. Mine started distinctly in my ear and over the span of two years, morphed into head tinnitus that comes and goes. I had actually habituated to the ear tinnitus to the point where I could function. When it developed into the head tinnitus, I knew there was no way...

Something interesting I want to post... I skipped the supplements Thursday evening by just forgetting to take them. I had a busy day and it just didn't come to mind I guess. Friday I woke up to really bad tinnitus. I would rate it a 8 or 9. I thought it would be a good experiment so I didn't...