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I'm willing to donate some money, but how do I know where to donate it if I don't know which set of research is most likely to produce results? All these different projects ought to be combined on a global scale.

Sorry I hi-jacked the thread on Saturday night, I suppose I needed to. I think that one of the things I find as hard to live with as the tinnitus itself is that the most likely causes of it, in my case, were themselves either directly or indirectly caused by my family and society's...

Thanks foam, mine is the same for both ears. I've got another appointment with a hopefully better audiologist on 19th September, but I'm not holding out much hope. I doubt there's much they can do with hearing aids for those of us with very high frequency hearing loss. Looks like it'll be the...

I wonder if there's any way of working out the frequency range of that sound at 8'30" in 'Fool's Gold'. It's a well known enough song. There must be an easier way than tracking down John Leckie and asking him.

Life is a really great idea! The amount of people and things to discover and good times to enjoy and places to visit, especially if there were more planets like Earth and life on those planets, and a lifespan of thousands of years to enjoy it. But the reality is just so far short of that. For...

Still crying, still probably about seven hours to get through before my partner gets home. I know I'll never succeed in killing myself, but I don't see what's so wrong in saying that for now and for always, I renounce this life. If it was a product I'd bought, I would have returned it decades...

Thank you GoatSheep, I had some fairly unpleasant dreams, but nothing worse than reality. My life needs to change. A lot. I need to devote my life to serving others, because it's too late for me to enjoy it. I don't know how to get started, but I'll keep asking.

Thanks everyone who's given me a hug or a like or a helpful, it means a lot. I've dried my eyes now, I'm going to be OK. It's all a bit embarrassing really. I've never been one for liking posts, like this whole internet thing, it seems quite unnatural for me. I'm going to end up in a zoo for...

I got a hug! I got a hug! *dances* It's nearly as good as a real one. I want to give everyone a hug. Just take it as read that I've given you a hug, if you want one. Just noticed there's a member here called Jack Straw with a Grateful Dead avatar. Would be funny if it was the former home...

It does seem strange that only two weeks ago I was feeling that the tinnitus was going, it was almost non-existent, I was enjoying the hell out of it not being there, and yet now it's raging away again. What's changed? That's what I don't get.

Just been reading some stuff in the Research News forum which has made me feel a bit better. People are working on this stuff, and maybe it'll be available before I'm too old to get any benefit. I'm one of those people who believes that my tinnitus is related to hearing loss, simply because I...

I don't really eat that much junk food. I used to, I certainly don't eat as many packets of crisps as I used to. I need chocolate to keep my mood up. I've never been any good at cooking. I probably eat too much processed food. Maybe that causes tinnitus. I just find it a bit worrying that...

I remember being a child. I remember a world where people were pleased to see me. I'd give anything to go back and find a way to change what went wrong. If only there was someone to dry my tears.

Just had a good cry. Next time my partner goes to one of her motorbike events, I'm going with her, I don't care about the conditions. The biggest worry is the toilet situation, really. I think I'd rather take a bucket than be wandering about in the middle of the night. I'm watching some guy on...

I'm actually starting to feel tired. In an inevitably popular move, I think I might try to sleep. I may not succeed, and I may be back soon. But thanks for being there, imaginary friend, you've helped me a lot.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I ate a peach the other day! With no ill effects! I ate another one a couple of days later, they were nice peaches. I'm not a particularly avid peach fan but it's nice to know I can eat them when I want to. Until recently, peaches would set off the itching behind the...

I wish I'd been an American. We're not very good at dealing with intelligence in the UK. I had the misfortune to be born into a family of dimwits, and I've got an IQ score of 154. It just led to social isolation and false accusations of mental health problems I didn't have, and the ignoring of...

Funny thing about that whole God business, the way that someone mentions God, even in an off-kilter way like I did, and an atheist has to jump in and defend themselves from the horrible God idea. Yet, there are times when the thought of the possibility of God and an afterlife is the only thing...

My partner's away at Mallory Park for one of her motorbike things. Funny how she's the one with the motorbikes and I'm the one with tinnitus. I actually phoned them a few minutes ago in the hope they might ask her to come home. I won't be sleeping tonight. Is it OK if I talk to you as if you're...

I wish I wasn't alone tonight. It's not ideal, but do any of you live in the Warwickshire area and would be willing to let me stay the night?

I don't live an ordinary life. My hearing test is null and void as far as I'm concerned as no soundproofing was used.

I'd actually have attempted suicide this weekend if I was any good at it. My partner's away and I wouldn't be found until tomorrow night. But I'm just really bad at it. Haven't tried for years. Sometimes I wonder if Dignitas would accept any of my reasons for taking my own life. Tinnitus might...

It's much easier to believe in a trickster God than one of those weird religious ones though. I find it keeps me going to cultivate a mental scenario where if I kill myself, I lose the game to a powerful being I don't really respect.

Funny story, I've got loads of really bad stuff in my life that makes me suicidal, including tinnitus, but the thing with me is that once I think of several reasons for killing myself, I find they start cancelling themselves out. Maybe the solution is to think of other really bad things...

Audiophile here, can't hear much beyond about 10,500 hz. Only 42, don't know how it happened, just gradually in my mid-30s. Do they do hearing aids for hearing loss that high? I had a hearing test that only went up to 8,000 hz, fat lot of use that was.

So, I've been playing around with the tone generator in Audacity, and it looks like my hearing tails off above about 10,500 hz. I think my brain is just trying to compensate. Going to see my GP again on Monday, so we'll see what happens.

@glynis, Thanks for the hug! It means a lot. It's been a strange few weeks. My nasal symptoms cleared up amazingly quickly, and I can now eat a peach! However, the tinnitus, despite almost completely disappearing at one point during Week 2, has returned to pre-medication levels, and I still...

@glynis, One week update - I noticed improvements from Day 1, and now I can breathe easily through my nose, my hearing has noticeably improved and my tinnitus has definitely reduced. Hoping for further improvements in the coming weeks, as my GP said it would take weeks rather than days. Smiling...

@glynis I went to see my GP yesterday, and she was very sympathetic, being a hay fever sufferer herself, and she gave me a prescription for (and this is exactly what it says); Fexofenadine Chronic idiopathic urticaria, 180mg once daily. Quantity: 180mg tabs, 30 and Nasonex Rhinitis, 2...

Thanks Glynis! Funny how I just spent £355 to discover it's nothing to do with that and I should just try distraction therapy and/or hearing aids. Should I name and shame the guy I saw? I'm in England, incidentally, Warwickshire, so not all that far from you. I should get round to filling in my...

Hi, I'm Victoria, I'm 42, and I've suffered from tinnitus and some hearing loss for about seven years. I finally plucked up the courage to see an ear specialist about it, which happened earlier today, and I'm not sure I saw the right person. I think it's more of a dust thing. I've been living...