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I'm sure H is the brain's way to protect damaged ears from more harm. If the H goes, great, but stay on your guard, or the T will spike.

Great to hear(!) of your recovery. My upper frequencies seem to be coming back too. My acoustic trauma was in Oct 18. After that all music sounded distorted and dirty, as if though a broken speaker, and I couldn't hear cymbals (I am a drummer.) I'd say the distortion effect has 80% cleared, and...

The docs says ears don't regenerate (we know better!) Plus I suppose the brain is rewiring itself, reassigning hairs to higher frequencies.

Gradually hearing cymbals again! Although they don't sound the same as I remember them. But they're coming back...

@MarkX Also have non-somatic hiss in L ear. Got T through years of drumming and one particular noise trauma last Oct.

@MarkX All this somatic T has completely disappeared twice for 8 hours or so after consuming large amounts of curry and alcohol.

@MarkX ... and I get a hissing crunch in my ears with each footstep. This can also be almost removed with the same actions.

@MarkX I can largely stop the static buzz and pulsating whoosh with neck movements or pressing down on my cranium.

8 months in. H is much better :-) somatic hissing/static pulsating T still bad :-(

Hi Paul... stress level has been very high for months, but due to changing circumstances should come down soon. The footstep hiss is always there, but when I'm less stressed I don't really care about it. Currently the thing that's getting me down is the pulsating somatic T (not PT...

@PaulFi Hi Paul, thanks, it's so rare to hear from somebody who has the footstep hiss! Is it improving? Mine isn't. Although one night after a lot of curry and alcohol it completely disappeared for 12 hours.

My somatic T *completely* disappeared the other night after eating a very hot curry, consuming a fair amount of beer and chatting to friends. It came back the next morning though. It had never disappeared like that before.

Curry+alcohol *completely* silenced my somatic T last night. How? Back again today though...

When I lie down in bed, my tinnitus goes mad (this left-ear hiss goes tonal, the right-ear whoosh sounds like a tsunami). On a good night, it calms down but remains louder than when I'm standing. On bad nights I have to take Zolpidem. And always in the morning, the hiss is very loud. A lot of...

Rare to find a beautiful song about T... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiC-JAND_u8

Watched the film "All Is Lost" last night. Great film, plus the ocean and storm sounds were very soothing for lug-holes :-)

Damn, def increase in hissing in both ears today after foolishness 3 days ago. Delayed spike. Slid down a snake to where I was 2 months ago.

I think this is a very useful thread. I like the opening window/door slamming advice. I've learned the hard way too. I always wear earmuffs in the kitchen, even if I'm just making a cup of tea. I wear earplugs if talking in a group, especially in a pub or cafe. Group voices get loud, beer...

I regard all that as the new 'silence' and I'll be happy if I get to that stage permanently.

Hi Bill Even when the hiss has 'gone' there's always something- the softest hiss or an ambience which is not quite a tone but not silent.

Hiss disappear for an hour or so today, so back to intermittent :-)

L ear hiss intermittent until yesterday, when somebody whacked a bass/kick drum before I could protect myself.

Thanks Michael! I've found your reply very reassuring. It sounds like you symptoms were much worse than mine, especially the H, but they sound very similar. I still hadn't found anybody with the same symptoms, especially the footstep hiss. My ENT said he'd never heard of that before, and sent me...

Hi again all. This thread is confusing my addled brain. In my R ear I have a pulsating whoosh which is absolutely 100% perfectly in sync with my heartbeat. It appeared a couple of weeks after my noise induced T, and only very occasionally disappears for a minute or two. Occasionally it flares...

I have noise-induced 'normal' T and a pulsating T that appeared a few weeks afterwards *at the same time that my hyperacusis appeared* The PT is not vascular (according to my MRI) so the only believable explanation I've been offered is that it's the ears becoming hyper-sensitive and hearing...

Thanks Michael. Actually, I read your advice 'to do nothing' several weeks ago and took it to heart. I stopped my notch therapy, and stopped using the sounds from 'HushTinnitus.com' And I have resolved to only attempt TRT after 6 months, as you suggest. I also stopped using headphones. I did...

I'm pretty sure I'm a member of this club. I have pulsatile T in the R ear that gets very loud when I lie down, but if I jam my cranium up to the headboard, it almost disappears. In the L ear I have a short hiss with each footstep (very annoying). If I clench my teeth while walking, this hiss...

On this forum he states that he lost the hearing in one ear by 'walking in front of a speaker at Notting Hill Carnival'. He doesn't seem to mention that in his books though, and that doesn't necessarily mean any of his tinnitus is caused by that hearing loss. I'm going to give sacralrcranial a...

This is all good. But it's H (I think) that is making music distorted / unenjoyable for me. So I don't listen to my favourite stuff any more. I listen to stuff I've never heard before so that I can't compare it with how it used to sound. The exception is classical music because the distortion...

@Lex Hi Lex. Your post about more or less recovering from hearing music as distorted and weedy has halted a massive panic/grieving episode I've been having for about an hour. Thanks :-)

Thanks Greg. I've normally (but not always) used ear protection with acoustic drums throughout my career. I don't mind that the sound gets altered. If I go acoustic again it will be the plugs and very highly-rated defenders. Thanks, I'll go *very* gingerly! The thing about IEMs is that I'm now...

@Ross - same here. I have, in reverse order of vileness, T, PT, and somatic PT (there's a thread about that on this forum.)

Thanks Greg. Yes that's me. I do have e-drums too. I've recently done a gig on cajon, that was fine. I'm seriously considering attempting a band rehearsal in January on acoustic drums, placing me behind the backline to avoid the bass- and wearing foam plugs + industrial defenders. Playing...

@Contrast But many sources say that PT can occur because of heightened sensitivity of the ear... which can occur after audio trauma. I believe this is what has happened to me.

Thanks James. I have friends who say "don't worry about a little buzz in your ear, you'll get used to it" but when you have a troupe of tinnitus banshees all competing for attention it's impossible to tune them out. Have you quit listening to all music, even quietly without headphones? Thanks...

Hi all, As we know, pulsatile tinnitus is the sound of blood cruising around and through the ear. Can lowering blood pressure make this sound quieter?

Hi all - my tinnitus arrived after a DJ gig in a small club 7 weeks ago. It wasn't particularly loud (I was able to chat at near normal volume) but the small sound system was distorting, sending daggers into my ears. When I left the club I was surprised to find my ears ringing. After two weeks...

I have PT from acoustic trauma. At least, that's when it started. My tinnitus cocktail is (in reverse order of nastiness) 1) Intermittent low hiss in left ear 2) Singing in both ears when I chew or put jaw forward. 3) Heartbeat pulsatile tinnitus, low whoosh in right ear. Sometimes too quiet...