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Has anyone had any new experiences, positive or negative, with Novavax? Still debating if I will take this.

How did your booster shot with Novavax go? I'm getting to a point where I might try it myself. I want to be sure I am as protected as possible from COVID-19 as it seems impossible to live in the US without eventually getting it.

Thanks for the update! Did you have an increase with the previous vaccines?

I continue to be amazed how little data there is on Novavax. I guess not a lot of people are taking it.

Thank you for sharing. I hope it remains good. But I'm surprised only one person so far. I thought a lot of people with tinnitus were waiting to take this Novavax.

I wonder how many people are actually getting tinnitus from the treatment of COVID-19. It's very common to prescribe Azithromycin which is known to cause tinnitus (except for the doctor who prescribed it to me of course, but every doctor since has been in shock they gave it to someone with...

Now that Novavax has been approved in the US, I'm looking to find out what the experience of people who have tinnitus already have had with Novavax (doesn't matter what country or when). My tinnitus got worse with the first Pfizer shot and I've been waiting for an alternative ever since. Many...

Thanks for the encouragement. It's still up and down but it is not as bad as it was. I'm trying my best to shut tinnitus out of my mind so I haven't been engaging here too much, but I did come to read your responses in the last couple weeks and appreciated the encouragement.

Not yet. It is not as bad as the night before I wrote this, but it's still a lot worse. It's just like the worst of when it would vary. I am still hoping it goes down. Also worried it feels like maybe I lost some hearing, but could be just that the width of the ringing got wider, not sure.

I've had tinnitus for 27 years. It got taken to a whole new level in 2018 when I was given Azithromycin and told it would not hurt my ears (I lost the top 1/4 of my hearing range and gained 4x worse tinnitus). I survived that (though barely - long story I ended up in the emergency room) and...

I saw a report where there was no heart inflammation issue with it which it has been thought that this would be the same thing that would be making tinnitus worse. But there were only reports of heart inflammation I believe with the mRNA and still J&J is actually the only one that even confirmed...

You are brand new to this and you are feeling traumatized by it. Do not let it affect your college plans. Go to college. Whatever you're feeling about it now, you will be less bothered by it in six months. Yes, you have a very low level tinnitus if you really only hear it when it's quiet. But...

Have you ever tried playing the pitch back into your ear... not too loud... but play it for about 20 seconds and then rest it. Then repeat this a handful of times? You can create pitches with phone apps like Tone Generator. Just make sure you are careful with the volume. The idea is to just...

Has anyone who had worsened tinnitus from the first vaccination shot tried using Turmeric (Curcumin) or any other method prior to getting future shots? What was the results? Not everyone who has tinnitus is having issues with the COVID-19 vaccination shots. But undeniably many are. But the...

I spoke to an ear doctor about this once and he said potentially both in the jaw muscles could alleviate the clenching if it gets to a dangerous degree. Definitely use a night guard or your teeth will suffer.

Sorry for the late response. Dental drilling I'm not sure what to do about. For cleaning do not use the sonic cleaner. At my office they do this as standard, but for me they simply don't and it's fine.

Tinnitus severity almost always goes down from the initial onset overtime. As for fullness or pressure, I'm not sure. As for the dental cleaning - it's pretty loud in high ranges which are the most sensitive so it's a bad idea. I even have to wear earplugs when I'm at my dental office...

It started after I got tinnitus. I don't remember it before then. When I grew up, I would occasionally have ear fullness. I also had extremely high range hearing, so was pretty ear conscious. But the crackling really didn't happen until after tinnitus.

Yes, it's possible it's totally a temporary spike. But, more importantly, for sure it will not be what it is now over time. I started with audio damage and it was made worse by medication. Opposite of you. But basically once your ears are damaged, they are more likely to be damaged. But what I...

Based on your situation, don't mask it. Work on habituating by simply not giving it active attention or emotional attention. But also please avoid loud sounds and ototoxic medications. You have the warning now. That's where you're at. The warning shot. Now you know that you have the potential...

I experienced something like this when I took Azithromycin. i had already had tinnitus for 23 years and was familiar with the various spikes and fullness and such. But when I took Azithromycin not only did some incredibly harsh sounding tinnitus get introduced, for a while I was feeling like...

More likely depression or any medications you're taking would be affecting your sex life. For myself it was actually when I was most free of tinnitus, because my head was focused on the activity versus the tinnitus. But if you're experiencing issues, examine what else changed including if it's...

I would not use olive oil. I did that for years and kept having to get my wax removed. Eventually I stopped using it and haven't had to have wax removed for years. I would only recommend an ENT using the curettage to get ride of the wax. The irrigation was a little aggressive I felt. I did that...

One thing you can try is download a tone generator app for your phone and fine the tone that is bothering you usually using sliders and then play it softly - NOT super loud - just loud enough to hear it for 20 seconds. Then stop for 20 seconds. Do this a handful of times. Sometimes this can...

I can hardly remember a time now when I didn't have the crackle. You'll get used to it. But... I did speak to an ear surgeon who suggested that the fullness could be related to jaw tension and said there were some recent studies about it. I had mentioned sometimes my ear itched and he said...

Recently I was at the periodontist for a cleaning and they used Lidocaine gel because I have recession and pain and they used more this time than usual - so much that my tongue got a little too numb and didn't totally work for swallowing. But on the way home I realized something and checked it...

Sorry for responding late. I try to avoid too much thinking about tinnitus. But the symptoms, while improved, have also gotten worse in some ways. They did not go back to baseline. If you have tinnitus, you know that it can be confusing what baseline is, but I definitely know it's louder in...

Have you had any bad (temporary or permanent) reactions to medicine before with regards to your tinnitus?

I took Pfizer first dose. Tinnitus increased that night but really kicked in 3 days later (as others have reported). And 5 weeks later now my tinnitus is still like 50% worse at least. If you have a history of tinnitus from medication like me, I would say don't take the vaccine. I shouldn't...

I had the first dose of Pfizer. There was an initial increase in my tinnitus, but that was not surprising. It was my usual tinnitus but louder. Then 3 days later new tones and a lot of variety showed up and got worse and haven't stopped. I started taking Turmeric pills as a long shot to...

I had the Pfizer shot 3 weeks ago. First shot. My tinnitus increased a little that night and I had a bunch of unusual new tones starting three days later... probably a 25% increase in annoyance. After three weeks it's maybe 15% increase or 20%. I'm not doing the 2nd shot. I wish I'd taken...

I'm one week out now from the first Pfizer dose. My tinnitus had gotten notably worse 3 days after (like some other posters'). It reduced from that spike, but it's definitely still spiking, especially in my more damaged ear. I think 25% worse than normal, but it varies. Different tones come and...

If the Magnesium Oxide doesn't work, I had an ear surgeon suggest to me some of the oddness in my ears (other than the tinnitus) was related to my jaw and TMJ and I did find the looser I kept my jaw and more aware of the tension a lot of the odd ear things went away. Can't hurt to make an...

I did a ton of research and determined that the risk of getting COVID-19 and it making tinnitus worse was too much. The stats I had showed the Pfizer to be the least risky. I'm about 3.5 days after the first dose. The first day there was a little bit of rise especially in my worse ear. But...

Flu like reaction could affect sinus and that could cause tooth pain for sure.

Actually this isn't quite true. Z-Pak is a one pill version of Azithromycin and that's going to be more likely to cause tinnitus damage than Azithromycin over a period of time because it's a lot at once. I don't know if this is relatable at all to the J&J vaccine, but felt it was worth bringing...

Nine days isn't long enough to know if it's a permanent change in my experience. In my 25 years of having tinnitus I came up with something not super scientific, but a rule of thumb where spikes lasted 2 days or 2 weeks or 2 months or 2 years to habituate. Generally a real spike would take...

In my experience that is a good sign. How long after the tinnitus showed up did you start to take the Prednisone?

As for the surgery - make sure you research the medications. The antibiotics especially. I'm very sensitive to them, but some are more tolerable than others. Generally a hospital has a few options for everything. Make sure you ask what the options are and research. You can research them...

First time I got tinnitus it was 8khz and I thought it was the worst thing in the world and it took me 2 years to get my life back together. I had to protect my ears all the time from that time foreward which changed my life a lot, but I did find happiness again. that was from accoustic...

The light popping is probably Eustachian tube noise. It is not uncommon for people who get tinnitus to start to get a fullness in their ears and the clicking. I've had the little crackly popping sounds so long I truly don't think about them, I forgot when I did not. The fullness bothered me...

Hi Pete. I don't check this forum much, but saw that you started your thread a while back and are still struggling and thought I'd say something. I got tinnitus in 1995. And when I first got it, my life was over. I also was asking permission to end my life. And I won't tell you that your...

I had what was supposed to be two simple filling replacements but it turned out it was a much deeper cavity and they were warning that I may need a root canal in the future. What I've gathered as advice on the forums AFTER I did it. 1. Don't wear ear plugs as that keeps the sound in your head...

I've been taking Gionkgo Biloba for over 20 years for tinnitus. I stopped about 10 years ago when I ran out and by then I was sort of feeling habituated. But then at one point it started being noticeable again, so I started taking it again. Honestly I doubt it helps. Probably a placebo. I...

There is some new research that suggests that ear itching can be from jaw tension (as can fullness). My young ENT who is also a surgeon told me this when I was trying to solve the ear fullness. I tried a bunch of things to relax the jaw and amazingly the fullness was starting to decrease and...

I was so focused on the lidocaine concerns I didn't think about the sound of the drill, it's been like over 30 years since I've had a drill in my mouth and I didn't research what to do. I used ear plugs (when I guess you're not supposed to). I didn't use NAC. I didn't ask to have her stop...

I just had dental work today with lidocaine with epinephrine. My research said that was the better bet, but it wasn't that much of a difference. The drill was loud in my head, I wore ear plugs, but that didn't help too much. I don't know if it would make it worse - they are thinking it...

I went in today for the dental work (two fillings). My teeth were feeling a bit sore a week ago and I thought I'd better take care of it. By today they were okay, but I figured I'd better solve the cavity issue. It was supposed to be very surface and simple, but it turned out to be much more...

I used this. In fact, it's sitting about 1 foot from me right now because I would let it sit on my desk so I would use it often enough. It didn't work at all. I actually met someone a couple weeks ago and somehow we started talking about ear issues and such and he mentioned he had one of...

Generally Hearing tests are only going up to 8khz which is ridiculous because so much of tinnitus is above that and above 8khz is where the most likely hearing loss can occur. If you have hearing loss over 8khz it's going to make things sound a little bit muted as though your ears are...

Just need to vent a little about my experience. Today was the day I was supposed to have the dental work done. I went in and they were all set up and I wanted to just confirm that it was going to be lidocaine they used and he said "with epinephrine" and I'd not heard about this and didn't...

I did until last October when I took azithromycin and it lowered my upper range hearing. Prior to that I had noise induced tinnitus but "n

You could look up TRT and see how some of the techniques work. There are online tone generators you could use - just please use them quietly. there are mobile apps as well. And there are some theories that if you can find your tones and play them into your ear for short period of time again...

I got noise induced tinnitus in 1995. It took me two years to gather myself. When it first started it was the loudest and changed a lot. I don't know exactly when it settled down, it might have been the two year mark. By 11 years later someone asked about it and I said without thinking "it's...

I controlled my tinnitus for over 20 years by not using earbuds nor headphones. Never going to concerts or any uncontrollable volume situation. I wore earplugs in movies and any driving that would last over an hour. And if you ever find yourself raising your voice to talk, you need to leave...

Thanks to everyone who responded, I'll respond in one post. Initially I check ata.org's list of ototoxic and also another site. I also check ehealthme.com though the propofol stats and the Zithromax stats are not that different, yet anecdotally it seems that zithromax (azithromycin) is much...

I had tinnitus for 20 years already before taking Azithromycin totally unaware that it could cost me my high range hearing and quadruple my tinnitus (which it did last October after just one Zithromax Zpack). After 20 years of being so careful I couldn't believe that one pill (that I didn't...