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I have problems with my own voice too. It's similiar to your symptoms, @Willie Discus. When I talk, certain sounds in my speach vibrate in my worst, left ear , more if I talk louder, but sometimes even with very soft voice. Sometimes I just try to avoid certain voices like sch, ch, j, etc, the...

@fishbone and @Michael Leigh Thanks for your responses. Fishbone, my hyperacusis sounds exactly like yours, except that my tinnitus is a horrible too. with daily fluctuations. What you both said goes in accordance with what my ENT doctor recommended to me. Nor she or any other in my country...

Finshbone, I am struggling with tinnitus and hyperacusis. I am glad to read that you recovered from hyperacusis too with TRT. I'd like to know what kind of hyperacusis did you have, loudness or pain too? I am asking because I get sharp pains in my ear and sometimes even in my head, face...

Dr. Nagler, Thank you for all kind help and support you are so selflessly giving to us. I've been reading your answers regularly and most were very helpful to me. But even if you have answered some of my concerns, especially in regard to tinnitus, I still have some doubts and questions about...

That's a question I myself am struggling with. My doc also said there will not be any future damage done with moderate noises. When I argued that even lower than moderate sounds hurt me, she said it's irritation, but not damage. But we all know what is irritation like: pain has no time to go...

That's what I have too. Since last 5 to 6 months, worser last month. The best explanation is broken speakers, along with amplified high frequencies. I sometimes hear only high frequencies end even those are not just amplified but different too, more vivid, they also vibrate, like playing on a...

Juan, you summed it up very very nicely, thank you a lot! If I could live without job it could be easier to manage all that as I would expose myself to sounds as per my decision, even if that would mean not going to crowdy places for months. I wouldn't care. I know hearing can not be reversed...

Juan, do you suggest anything else? Due to lack of any reliable treatment one needs to take what is available, even if it is not a 100 % cure, I am afraid... I'd just like to lessen a burden of hyperacusis and habituate to tinnitus at one point of time, even if it doesn't go away. If I had...

Thanks. I ma just now listening to some some soft classical music at work to see if it will please me on the long run. I think I will be changing my background sound enrichment, partly radio with pink noise and partly just classic music and see how it feels. I am totally aware of those risks...

Thanks, Michael, I was looking at that book too, but as I know that counseling is a part of the treatment, I was a bit skeptical how much would it help me considering I will not have any counseling and also not WNGs. But I think I will buy one anyway because I am just too lost in this sad journey.

Thanks a lot for so quick reply. You answered my questions in details and I appreciate it a lot. I know I'd need a professional help, but can't get it here where I live. The most I got was advice, that I need to have sound enrichment all the time and stress management. So I must rely on myself...

Hi Michael, I've had hyperacusis since 7 months ago, 1,5 months after a got tinitus. It did get slightly better after few months, but not much. Last month it got worse again, so that everything is irritating me, including running water, people's voices, even my own voice. I was using sound...

I'was taking it for 2 months and it seemed to me to be less effective after that time, so I stopped it and have taken SJW instead now for 4 days with hope to gain some more sleep again. I still don't know how efficient it would be, but was thinking the same as you said: taking it for say 2...

Lane, I've just started to take SJW, 400 mg per day in evening (capsules). Mostly to calm me down and to get a better sleep (I started to get up at around 3 am and not be able to sleep back again, but that was my problem even before the onset of tinnitus). How long can SJW be taken without any...

Do you think that sounds up to 85 Dbs can therefore only spike hyperacusis, but can not do any permanent damage? I read some other opinions too in this regard saying that once ears had been damaged, they are more sensitive than healthy ones and therefore can be damaged more quickly.... In any...

Thanks for you reply. I think I am doing what you recomneded, or at least trying to do. I listen to what suit me at certain time, it is not the same always as my T and H is not the same always too. But I always have background noises on. I think I made mistake last week, it was feeling like I...

Alex, thanks for your reply. I can see you have T (and H?) since january, almost the same as I do. How are you now? Any better? What about hyperacusis? I read your post you referred me to, and Michael Leigh's reply and his posts too. Thanks. In mean time I had an appointment with ENT and...

Oh, I was hoping for Regensburg, it's nearer to my home... somewhere in north is almost as far as Dublin for me. Please, share information when you feel you can. It will be useful for all of us waiting for some nearer destination.

Do you have any information where in Germany do they plan to expand it?

I seem not to be able to be under guidance of any doctor here in my country to help me in dealing with hyperacusis. As I already explained in other thread here, I developed hyperacusis one month after I got tinnitus (which I've had since february 2019), most probably because of attending one...

Thanks, sure I will. Being in relatively early stage I need positive approach. I am not scared anymore, as I was in earlier times, but still desperately want relief. But I understand other sufferers too who have tried many things and did't get relief ... I guess everybody's story is unique. We...

Thanks for your encouragement! It is appreciated. All good to you too.

Thank you, John. Yes, I can see that there are many different types of tinnitus, for some it settles down with time, for some it remains wild all the time, unfortuanately. I myself still hope it will settle down somehow with time, because, as you mentioned too, it is very hard to habituate to...

Michael, I read all your posts in links you provided. You have been lucky to live in a country where TRT and CBT are part of NHS. I went to GP and ENT in my country. All I got was that ENT examined my ears with "otoscop" (?), whispered few numbers and concluded everything was fine with me and...

The same with me. I can get good sleep and bad T, or only few hours of sleep and almost quiet day. No rulls. Stress also doesn't seem to have any correlation with loudness.

@Michael Leigh I went to only ONE concert in more than 10 years, but obviously it was enough to develop T. I think I didn't put it clear enough, my english is not the best. I also don't go to clubs, cinemas etc. At work I use classic landline phone, I am not in a call center. But even that...

Thank for taking your time. Yes, my T (and H) was probably noise induced, I got it one week after really loud concert, first in more than 10 years and probably last in my life :( . I also have moderate hearing loss at 8 KHz (-45 Db) in left ear only, which I don't know if it was a result of...

I have the same scenario with my T, one day 1-2/10, the next 8/10 (I don't want to put 10, because I just can't know how loud it can get with others), but with 8/10 it's unmaskable in my case, I can hear it over TV, car diving on higway etc. There is no specific reason why it is fluctuating...

Thanks for the answer. I know they didn't measure influence on hyperacusis, but I thought that maybe as "side effect" patients might experience change in hyperacusis too. I don't remember it was said that it has no effect on hyperacusis, just that those with hyperacusis and tinnitus responded...

Is the question about potential reduction in hyperacusis also included in the survey (for those who have both tinnitus and hyperacusis)?

Oh, I feel with you. I really do. I somehow still hope it gets better, but it has been 6 months now and I must say things have not improved even a bit by now. I don't want to lose my hope, but I know that the ones that improve with time, have some signs with time, like T or/and H slowely...

Oh, I am so sorry for that. I thought that most with H improve with time, that was my impression after reading posts on this forum. Did you try any treatements, TRT or anything else? Do you have T too? Was your H noise induced?

Juan, I am so sorry to hear that. So you have it for longer period of time? H can be really hard to live with. And nobody understand it. :( I never heard of anything like that before I got it too. I also know noone with that disease (or better said: symptoms?). Mild T yes, but H no. My GP...

That would be interesting to know. What is also interesting is that my hyperacusis fluctuates regardless if I am less or more exposed to noise. Of course I am careful about noises, but lately it has increased and I have no idea why. There were no louder noises around me, just odinary as...

Thanks. What to do to promote healing? I can't avoid talking obviously even if that causes me the most uncomfort. Is it ok if I protect my left ear only (the one that causes me symptoms) in almost normal situations, which are potentionaly dangerous for me, like driving etc. ? If I plug in...

Hello to all on this great forum. This is my first post. I've had tinnitus since nearly 6 months now. It is no better so far. Maybe it was stress related, maybe because of noise trauma (I was on very loud concert one week prior to onset of my tinnitus, the only one in years....). Two months...