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Took a nap with my cat using him like a pillow, he was purring. Got up and my ringing was replaced with an ocean in a very long tube sound.

It doesn't happen when I burp, but it does if I try to blow my nose, or even just exhale hard through my nose. It's actually how I got tinnitus over 3 years ago by coughing too hard and forcing air/mucus into my Eustachian tube. It only does it through the left ear now, and ever since after my...

Momentary spikes when I open my jaw. Ear feels like it goes deaf for a second. Been using a nightguard for a year. Anyone have any ideas?

Just want to add my 2 cents. I basically live to work out these days. I lift heavy and intensely, both compounds and isolations. I even do neck training where I attach weights to a harness I wear on my head. I've been at it for 2.5 of the 3 years I've had tinnitus. My tinnitus will spike when...

That's very interesting, I remember reading someone else on this site experienced the same thing. Out of curiosity, did you also have earplugs under your Peltors?

For me the mindset began to set in (not fully there yet) after I realized I either have to die or keep going, and I realized that I wasn't ready to give up on everything and I might as well see what comes next. As for sleep, oddly enough ear plugs help me. Mine is also quietest in the morning...

I understand how hard it is, especially soon after the onset. I seriously considered suicide every day for probably 6 months. I can say that mentally I am probably 50% better now, some days 75%, some days 25%, but no matter what I am better than I was two years ago. This tends to be the case...

I coughed fluid into my Eustachian tubes causing severe tinnitus. It did get better after 3 months, but has been stuck at a lower level for almost 3 years now. Sounds like you did less damage than I did, so I wouldn't be surprised if yours resolved.

Well I've tried just about everything else, I'll let you all know if it works.

Probably Eustachian tube issues. Partial blockage due to something like inflammation.

When you have a momentary spike, do you feel a physical sensation along with it?

Any noticeable crackling, popping, etc. sounds when you swallow? You will hear it right in the ear, not in the throat.

Ok that's good it isn't a constant factor, meaning I'd guess it probably isn't due to damage or something worsening. I know that anytime I wake up in the middle of the night my tinnitus sounds very high, so this could be a sleep issue that compounds with the higher tinnitus perception which...

Does it happen every single night? I've experienced this a couple times, though it is luckily not often.

In the nearly three years I've browsed this forum and other parts of the internet, I have seen many cases of acoustic trauma healing over time, I have also seen ones that did not or got worse. Best thing to do is probably what you are already doing and be very careful with your ears, you may end...

The sounds in this video blocks the tinnitus sound for me and helps me concentrate or get a little reprieve. Some people hate it, and it takes getting used to, but it may work for you like it does me. Just be sure to turn your speaker volume to zero, then click the link, turn the video volume...

I'd cut off two fingers to have static instead of the ring.

Hard to tell, but my left will spike while the right doesn't, so I put left.

I can't recommend any mental health professionals, but I can tell you that the beginning is the hardest part and most difficult to manage mentally. Assuming you don't improve which I actually think you will, but if you don't over time you will find ways to manage it better, and other things in...

I had burning pain for about two months after onset. Then it went away in the right ear, and couple days later went away in the left. Then maybe 6 months later it came back in the left ear for about a week, and went away again. Hasn't been back since.

Anyone here shoot at ranges? How do you protect your ears? I'm thinking earplugs under earmuffs, think that will be enough?

Meds made me pass out while standing, hit my head just above and behind the ear. Over about 5 sec. my T reduced to a pleasantly light hiss.

It's common for EDM artists to wear headphones while they perform. You can get ones that act like earmuffs that will play the music in the headphone at a reasonable level while lowering the volume of the outside speakers. Also you would likely be standing behind the speakers which is...

I am trying to figure out what is going on with my ears and Eustachian tubes. I have a strange sensation when I do the Valsalva where my right ear will snap open like it is unsticking itself from being closed, and the left one will crackle and pop as though it is opening section by section. It's...

According to the data presented by the CDC as well as other foreign entities equivalent to the CDC, those who die with COVID-19 have multiple co-morbidities as well as being over the average age of death. Even my 98-year-old great aunt got COVID-19 and was over it within a week without any...

Yes it can go down, but prepare for the worst case mentally.

Might be a lack of contrast with outside sound that causes it to be hard to hear the tinnitus with both ears plugged.

Well this is weird. I seem to be the only one here whose tinnitus improves with earplugs. It's actually something I do when I am overwhelmed. I will put on earmuffs and walk, lay down, sit, etc... and after about 8 minutes my ringing becomes a much more manageable hiss, temporarily of course.

My two cents: I've been using earplugs every night for four or five years and haven't had any issues because of it. I asked a few doctors I've seen if earplugs would cause problems while sleeping and they all said no, though I take doctors' opinions with a grain of salt these days.

Massive spike in left ear, happened sometime when I was in the gym. Ear feels plugged up and almost wet inside. Any ideas what I did?

I couldn't find any that specifically uses the combination of yawning and Valsalva, but there are a lot about the Valsalva. I might make a video myself, I will post it here if I do.

This is a minor success but I want to share it because I have seen absolutely no improvement anywhere else, except once two months after onset. For the last two years I have been told by countless ENTs to do the Valsalva, but each time my left ear would refuse to open no matter how hard I...