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Hey guys. So I have had intrusive tinnitus from noise exposure for about 2 years. I went climbing a couple of days ago (which I do very seldom and probably won't do anymore now) and I hit my head pretty bad about 2 times. When I came home that night my ears were screaming loud and they have...

Hey! Well I am still struggling but I am much better than when I wrote this post. It goes up and down, sometimes I don't mind it sometimes its still very much a struggle. I feel like I have been a "worst case" though with terrible tinnitus and even I get better so I know time is the best healer...

I don't think I have changed anything really.... my tinnitus is always intrusive but now it felt even worse.. But I am hoping it will calm down. I could really need more people that has experienced this (over maybe 10-more years) and gotten used to it and living happy lives to write success...

Question, my tinnitus has been spiking really bad last days and I am trying to figure out why. I just now wondered if it is some kind of allergy, I don't normally feel allergy symptoms but now when i think about it i experienced blocked ears some days ago and they my tinnitus escalated. Can it...

I had the same problem with my ears about a year before I got tinnitus. Long cold resulted in totally blocked ears, couldn't hear a thing, almost had to cancel a trip because of it! No tinnitus that time though what I remember. But nose spray definitely solved it all, it just took couple of...

I strongly agree! It is something I have started to notice after having problem with tinnitus and its just super annoying. Now all my friends have also gotten very aware of sounds because of what has happened to me and all of them agree that it is often unnecessarily loud at many places...

I see and I agree on success not being linear based on my own experience as well. Im over a year in now and is still struggling a lot, but hopefully things turn around for me soon. All the best

Do you remember when you started to feel better? And how was year 1 compared to year 2? Happy for you and your success!

When did you start seeing improvements in your tinnitus? Congrats on your success!

Hi @Digital Doc and thanks for that. I just feel like "making an effort" is an understatement of what I have been doing these last 12 months. I have completely changed and adjusted my life to tinnitus which includes following all of your advices. I wouldn't touch a vacuum cleaner even if someone...

Thanks for your respons @Digital Doc . I am a year in unfortunately and still struggling a lot, hopefully I feel better soon! Glad to hear your doing better. Would you say you are 100% back to old you?

I appreciate your answer and help but the thing is, my tinnitus had nothing to do with stress. When my acoustic trauma happened, I was very happy and mentally strong. I had never dealt with depression or anxiety before. I have been determined to not stress about other unnecessary things, such as...

Hi Michael and thanks for your respons. I have been extremely careful with sounds since the onset of my tinnitus. I have had no life at all really, first 6 months i stayed at home at the countryside at my parents house, it was a very quiet atmosphere. I have not used headphones since onset, I...

Hi everyone. In a couple of days I have had my noise induced tinnitus for a year. My tinnitus is quite severe even though it fluctuates a lot from day to day but it is mostly high pitched hissing ringing, kind of electrical. Like a saw in my ears. I was in a constant phase of panic for first 6...

Damaging my ears has completely destroyed my life and I can't help to think of all the things I would be doing right now if I haven't got it. The fact that I did it to myself makes it all so sad. Even though I haven't noticed any improvement over the last 9 months I was hoping I was improving...

I can relate to "putting life on hold", I feel the same. The fact that you had 3 days of near silence seems like great progress, hope it goes back to that or better.

My ears itches as well sometime (I think it's because I use ear plugs so often) but then I use some ear oil (the kind that prevents wax and so on) from the pharmacy and it disappears right away!

I have the exact same question! I got noise induced tinnitus 7-8 months ago and I have been on citalopram since 6 months. I went to a very experienced doctor and I asked him this question about a thousand times haha, he told me there is no risk that my tinnitus could get worse from it. He said...

I have a question though, since my acoustic trauma I have been taking Citalopram (citopram) because I was so depressed at first. I asked my doctor "can i really take this? I have heard others gotten tinnitus by SSRI anti-depressive, specially citalopram. But he was like "There is no risk, I have...

Thanks for sharing :) That is literally me when something unexpected and loud happens - first I get a little heart-attack, then just trying to take a deep breath and forget about it, it really shows a persons mentally strength i think! Keep up the good work!

This condition is really both terrible and fascinating at the same time... i've never heard of "cycles" like that, interesting! Still, good to hear its a positive trend. But hoping for your "loud" days to calm down. I am getting closer to my 8 month mark, im hoping for a change for the better...

@Tom Cnyc How long did it take for your noise induced tinnitus to start improving? Thanks!

Yeah true. How long did it take for you before you got these random days of "good" (quiet) T? Did you have those days from the beginning or did it take like a year?

Some sounds in my right ear has actually faded or changed but its my very loud high-pitched head buzz that has always been the problem and that one is still there full force.. The left ear is the worst, it gets so loud at times it feels like someone is sawing into my ear so its super hard to ignore.

You couldn't have known. We make mistakes and like someone said "if you would go and do it again, that would be stupid". So don't beat yourself up for it. One good thing is I have warned all of my friends, and they now wear earplugs at clubs, i'm proud of that! haha Wow, i didn't know flushing...

I am genuinely so sorry for what you are going through. My experience is similar, after getting also really severe tinnitus in september my whole life was turned up side down. I quit school, went home to live with my parents for 5 months and did not function AT ALL. I have never struggled with...

Ahh I see, hmm I wonder what caused yours then. Did you use earplugs at that concert? Mine came like a BANG after my acoustic trauma. It also feels strange that you could harm your ears by removing wax! Your muffled hearing came back to normal? As I have understood, the tinnitus will decrease...

I see, but reading your post it seems like you have had a positive trend even though its been a small and slow improvement? And that is really good right? I am thinking that possibly you will have more and more days of relatively quietness and less loud days? T seems to really take its time...

I agree. I mean, a lot of things I am fine to give up. I have gone to many concerts already and after this experience I don't feel for it anymore. I just want a happy life. How loud is yours? Is it both ears?

I feel the same, it is so annoying when its so high pitched. You will get over the suicide part. In the beginning my thoughts wandered dark places but that has gotten a lot better naturally. Yours is also very new, anything can happen :)

Boy these past 7.5 months have been long... still counting the days although I know I shouldn't. This condition is incredibly hard to handle for me. I try to get out and meet friends and I manage to, but it still limits me from a lot of social activities, like going to pubs and so on... but the...

Well, I know all of these people so its not that far.

Well obviously. If it had been, lets say, my best friend getting tinnitus earlier I would not have been in this mess from the beginning. Then I would have been frikking warned!

I just read your story btw and I saw you think headphones are the source of yours. I think it is possibly that your ears are telling you "enough" with the headphones for a while. I think the best thing for you is to skip them for now and give your ears some time to rest! Try to listen to music...

I totally understand what you are going through. I have never struggled before with depression and panic/anxiety attacks but this has been the hardest thing I have ever gone through. It is natural to feel anxiety and depression and important to allow yourself to, but also keep in mind, that it...

I was exposed to a lot of noise during a short period of time! I have a history of going to concerts and so but it was after a loud siren going of near my head that i noticed it. Its been a little more than 7 months, but I am handling it a lot better now. It was hell at first and even though i...

Yes, I remember it being such an amazing thing for him. I haven't talked to him since I got tinnitus myself and back then I didn't ask so much questions since i wasn't as into the subject as now haha. Its on my stepfathers side so we're not super close but I will ask him when I get the chance!

thats great! Was hers noise induced?

I am currently struggling with noise induced tinnitus but here are 4 success stories I have heard recently (seems to me a lot more people than I though have or have had tinnitus!) A relative of mine had it for 3 weeks after a concert when she was young, it faded away to zero and never came...

Sleeping got back to normal about 6 months in and I am now 7 months in with severe tinnitus. I took 50mg Propavan (a type of Propiomazine when i google the name in english) which was great for me as I slept the whole night and doctors/friends with experience of it told me that it is not...

I know 3 months feel like a long time (an eternity when you're struggling) but you need to give your body more time to handle this new sound. In the beginning, sleeping was something totally impossible for me. I took lots of different sleeping pills which didn't bite on me since my body was in...

Yes exactly, I find it so difficult to wrap my head around how I have managed to get SO bad tinnitus with that hearing loss... just hoping it gets better. Glad to hear yours faded! Do you still hear it a little bit? How long did it take for yours to improve?

When did you get tinnitus? Has yours gotten any better since you first got it?

Hello! I am 7 months in today with my horrible tinnitus which I got after an acoustic trauma. Even though I am sleeping as normal now (big victory for me since I had HUGE panic attacks/depression the first 6 months) I am greatly struggling since my tinnitus is so load and high-pitched (truly...

Thanks for sharing!

Hello fellow members, I got an acoustic trauma from a concert 6 months ago and the first 4-5 months were hell. This last month I have been coping better and starting to see hope for the future. Ironically, I have been on 3 rounds of antibiotics the last 14 days due to tooth infection and then...

Thanks you all for your responses. That is so harsh that it can come out of nowhere @mache_salinas ! But really good to hear that you are doing better. I have also been working really hard with a psychologist and I am a whole other person than 4 months ago so I am doing better but since I...

Hello everybody! I am reaching out here because I am struggling a lot with tinnitus and it is hard to explain to people in real life what I am going through. About 4-5 months ago I had a couple of days where I stupidly exposed my ears to a lot of loud noise. I think what started it was a very...