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Sometimes it still feels like stuff is moving in .y ear and it's freaky

Tired of reactive/fluctuating tinnitus, wet ears and my ears popping and vibrating when I yawn or burp

Predicted the Euro win correctly (before it even started lol)

Update: only side effect is a very sore arm. No change in T at all.

Had my first Moderna shot. Not going to worry about it - whatever happens, happens.

Yeah, I know, should've said one of few or the most common but I was in a bit of a hurry :angelic: but my point stands that it doesn't tell us everything and many of us have perfect audiograms etc, despite having severe tinnitus.

Wish doctors would take me seriously and treat my spine, neck and jaw properly

My audiograms are perfect. Straight up perfect. I have at most a -5 dB dip. My speech in noise test came back at 100%. Yet I have several loud intrusive reactive tones. Obviously anything that may improve my tinnitus isn't going to improve my audiogram because it's literally impossible to...

T gets worse from showers but not a restaurant and hours around friends. Makes me think it isn't noise reactive.

Encountered so many cars blasting music today. How do these people not have tinnitus and I do? Unfair lol

I'm not sure I'm necessarily suicidal these days. I have a lot of things to keep my mind occupied and it helps, but I'm about to lose my job and due to other illnesses/conditions and no formal, completed college education there's really not much for me to do. Were it just one thing I was...

Here's me sometime in 1998 (I think). I believe this was taken on holiday in Germany :LOL:

Picked up inline skating. Probably not gonna do anything for my T but getting exercise is nice.

Hey Tara - I just want to give some words of encouragement. It's totally okay to be upset and worried and mad and whatever else you are feeling right now. I'm at a similar time frame as you and I still get very worried and often feel defeated. However, I've also picked up some hobbies again and...

Mine changes with the second sometimes. What it reacts to is never ALWAYS the same thing. Sometimes the shower spikes it, sometimes it doesn't, etc. I'm trying to stop wondering and caring, I just have incredibly intrusive and reactive/fluctuating tinnitus. That said I picked moderately because...

I too believe that if my tinnitus were completely stable - with the exception of one tone - it would be 100% manageable. What's strange is that I have no hyperacusis symptoms except for really oddly presenting reactive tinnitus. It's can react to any sound/frequency but seems to mostly react to...

Prior to chronic T, I never got fleeting tinnitus. Now, I regularly get fleeting tinnitus. Genuinely the most bs mechanism to exist.

Not everyone is in the know about medical research. It's generally only us who spend a lot of time on this forum. That said, I think many of us would kill for alleviation and if this brings us any we'd be very happy. I know I would be.

At this point I'd settle for something that stops my T from changing every minute

The sad odds of getting T bad enough you end up a regular on a support forum... out of all millions of people with tinnitus

Tinnitus is NOT helpful when you're overstimulated and about to have a breakdown let me tell ya

After a year with pretty bad T, I'm starting to have moments I'm like the old me again. Feels good. T still sucks royally tho

Tfw visual snow makes it hard to look at snow

If only my T wasn't a multi tonal reactive hell

If this is true I could largely go back to a semi normal life (while taking good care of my hearing of course). My baseline is annoying but not life disabling. The reactivity however, very much is.

I do listen to music again now. If I don't continuously listen to it, it's still quite enjoyable. Nowhere near the same feeling but better than nothing.

Pretty sure alcohol quietens my T just a little. Happy new year, T Talk! May this year be full of hope for us.

This might lead to just that. To date there is no way to measure tinnitus objectively. Anything that might help us is based on anecdotal reports. This could help us as it would prove treatments work.

@Diesel @Drachen For myself I know I had no tinnitus that I was ever able to detect prior to this year. I can't really explain how or why, but I just know that I'd be in bed late at night and hear ny charger or my lights make noise. When unplugging these or plugging my ears while they were...

Some people have tinnitus so minor they don't realise it's tinnitus. Some have had it so long they think the noise IS silence. That said, for the majority, they DO know when they have tinnitus. I periodically checked and looked for noise - especially if I heard electrical static. It was NEVER...

Every new day is a day closer to a working treatment. It's tough, but I'm holding on.

Big hugs to everyone. It's my first Christmas with tinnitus. At the start of the year, when my tinnitus began, I couldn't even imagine myself still alive at this point. I didn't want to think about any holiday at all. I'm actually pretty excited for tomorrow, despite the tinnitus and despite the...

Seems like showers hardly spike my T now. Waiting for music to stop spiking it as well.

Waiting for that shiny synapse treatment... please.

My audiogram detected no significant loss whatsoever. Between 250 Hz and 8000 Hz, it's all between -5 dB and +5 dB. Yet I have several screaming, reactive and competing tones and other ear issues. Suspecting a combination of noise, whiplash and stress/anxiety for mine. Haven't had any...

I haven't had an extended audiogram, but I've tried putting on headphones and playing sounds and I can still hear 16 kHz when my laptop volume is below 10. Between 250 Hz and 8 kHz my hearing ranges from -5 to +5 I do want an official extended one done, but I'm beginning to guess my issue is...

I miss music being like air to me and I hope I can get back to that place one day.

Honestly though this would actually make a lot of sense in my case lol. I had whiplash and shortly after a noise incident (100 dB alarm for 2-3 seconds). No issues however, until a few days later I had a major panic attack that lasted several days (from an earwax blocked ear)... and then the...

Still hoping it will also work for reactive tinnitus. Seriously, if this helps my tinnitus from fluctuating as wildly throughout the day, I'll be happy.

Yeah, I don't get it either. Sure, with mild tinnitus I would be willing to do more than I am now, but no gigs, loud bars etc for sure. I think us on Tinnitus Talk just have the bad luck to have bad tinnitus and also be severely affected by it mentally (which all makes sense of course)...

It's a musician talking about his tinnitus that got me wearing earplugs and lower my headphone volume and usage (I'd take regular breaks). It's an unfortunate 100 dB alarm for 2 seconds, a neck injury and extreme anxiety/stress that got me into this mess, lol. Anyway, I've since found that...

My ENT didn't listen to any of other symptoms, told me I should be happy about my perfect standard heating test and told me that I "must have been scared by a noise sometime". Less than five minutes in her office. Glad my mum was with me because I don't know what I would've done if it wasn't for...

I had a little TTTS that cleared up months ago (and and was very on and off when it was present). Strangely enough this was in my better and less reactive ear. My other ear, which is more reactive, gets random twitching unrelated to noise. I actually think it's related to a tube problem, as...

My tinnitus competes and spikes to random noise, both soft and loud (and randomly because the same sound doesn't always cause it to get louder) however I have no noise sensitivity* or pain. * There's always been noises I dislike but cause no pain or sound louder etc. Just a sensory issue.

Still don't get how one's tinnitus can fluctuate so bad throughout a day.

My tinnitus has been incredibly unstable since the start. It can be anywhere from hardly detectable (rare) to super loud (also rare). Usually it's audible over most low background noise, and it spikes/fluctuates pretty randomly. My tinnitus is seldom the same throughout an entire day. It's been...