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    Lucky me, I got VSS! In the cool club. Light sensitivity, floaters, negative afterimages...

    Lucky me, I got VSS! In the cool club. Light sensitivity, floaters, negative afterimages, starbursts, BFEP. Frontotemporal headaches. Yay.
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    @Christiaan, same! Wondering if your VSS is lessened on Dahlia4.

    @Christiaan, same! Wondering if your VSS is lessened on Dahlia4.
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    How to Mitigate/Reverse Recent Hearing Damage Caused by Lotemax (Steroid Eye Drop)?

    How did this play out for you?
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    How to Get the Quietest MRI Experience?

    I'm curious if @Baker could go through with the MRI? Did it go well? I'm in North Carolina and willing to travel to a quiet MRI machine. Does anybody know of one? I might have to do a brain MRI, and that will require a feat of mental fortitude plus some research, prep, and prayer. As far as I...
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    Acceptance of the Present, Hope for the Future: 4 Years on, I'm Good

    I am BACK to Tinnitus Talk because I thought my life was over when I first got here in 2020. I really couldn't see myself being someone writing "tinnitus doesn't bother me" on this success stories thread. But HERE I AM! This makes me pretty happy, and I want to share to give hope to others, as I...
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    Can Someone Explain to Me Why Neil Bauman Is So Influential?

    I'm going to weigh in here. Neil Bauman's was the first site to show for me that EYE drops of Gentamicin or Neomycin can cause hearing loss and tinnitus, mainly because he was compiling accounts of folks who reported it to him. Non-doctors can't report (other than VAERS) on adverse reactions...
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    Cannabidiol (CBD) — Epidiolex

    @StoneInFocus, looking forward to your report of how it's going for you. I thought I'd chime in with my own internet findings as I'm looking into things (other than red wine!) that will modulate my tinnitus (one theory is the GABA-agonist, glutamate-antagonist thing for alcohol; in thought, CBD...
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    Police Officer or Park Ranger — Career in Law Enforcement with Pre-Existing Tinnitus?

    In case anyone was curious, following up on the end of my story. I did enter BLET (Basic Law Enforcement Training) in July 2022 after testing my double-hearing protection at the audiologist. She basically vacillated between "it's a risk" and "you'll probably be ok." The director of the BLET...
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    Should I Get on Thyroid Medication to Ease Tinnitus (Hypothyroidism)?

    Hi! Can I ask, what do you mean by "made my body go bonkers?" My TSH is currently sitting at 2.87, subclinical, but my TPOAb are around 800. Considering thyroid meds.
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    Clarity on "No Cure" for "Permanent" Hearing Loss Induced Tinnitus?

    Thanks for sharing your story. I, too, am in the "hearing loss plus tinnitus" group. I used to scour the Success Stories to try to find someone who still had hearing loss but their tinnitus went away, not just habituated. I don't think I ever found one, unfortunately. I'd love to hear one, just...
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    Shooting a Gun in Police Academy — Could I Do It with Tinnitus?

    Hi @Tisyuck, can you remember where you read these accounts? I am having trouble finding lots of accounts of this (just so many more from shooting without protection, I think). Especially interested in the double hearing protection one. Thanks!
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    Police Officer or Park Ranger — Career in Law Enforcement with Pre-Existing Tinnitus?

    Thanks, all, for your replies. If you read/hear from anyone else who has experience with doubled-up ear pro on an outdoor range, please send them my way! I know everyone is different, but I want to just hear how they got on.
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Yeah, that one's tough. Did you ever get an audiogram for possible hearing loss? To me, that would help confirm what happened. My left ear is now worse than my right, which Neil Bauman at the Center for Hearing Loss Help pointed out would make sense if the eye drops that I used in my LEFT eye...
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    Police Officer or Park Ranger — Career in Law Enforcement with Pre-Existing Tinnitus?

    Hi, I've recently rejoined and posted about a spike I experienced/am experiencing. I am wondering, now, mostly about my future in the law enforcement and park ranger field. The training I have coming up is BLET (basic law enforcement training), firearms (with protection), and chainsaw safety...
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    Formerly OK with Noise-Induced Tinnitus, Experiencing a Setback After Loud Training

    JoeC100, are you still in law enforcement? Did you get through firearms ok without tinnitus issues? Trying to think through next steps in my career (taking BLET soon) and worried, even with protection, my tinnitus will flare up.
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Hi y'all, To be honest, I really wanted to be gone. I know it's not great that the folks who adjust to their tinnitus leave the forum so you don't really know how they are. But I was one of them and was doing really well about 2 years into the loud tinnitus, mostly ignoring it (it didn't get...
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    I believe I took the full Z-pack, can't remember how long that is. This was in 2013 when I had a really bad sinus thing that lasted over 3 months... turns out it was viral anyway, of course! The tinnitus didn't start right away, I don't think, so I didn't connect the dots till later. Does that...
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    Possible Ototoxicity re: Vigamox Eye Drops for Pinkeye (Conjunctivits)

    No, I didn't, the chalazion is still there. It's not what I'd want, but I'm not taking any more chances with my hearing. I hope you're faring okay!
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Hi @David077, yes, I still have the louder tinnitus. Before I had a high-pitched ring, now it's like I have cicadas in my head. I wonder if your eye doc might be willing to give you a steroid eye drop without the antibiotic component, or else corticosteroids instead? Although oral steroids...
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    Top Treatments to Consider in the Early Days After Onset

    Unfortunately, Lenire is only accepting "chronic" cases (I think it was a year after onset at the earliest). Their little intake questionnaire told me I had to use my hearing aids for a year before I was a candidate. Womp womp.
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    Finally able to load TT properly today; my ISP isn't playing nice with it...thank you :) I've...

    Finally able to load TT properly today; my ISP isn't playing nice with it...thank you :) I've started daily guided meditation and playing jazz music seems to calm me and distract me a lot better than rock (something about the voices?). The only thing that seems to mask it is the shower. I'll be...
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    Dimethyl Sulfoxide Therapy in Subjective Tinnitus of Unknown Origin

    @Davea0511, so curious to know how it all panned out!
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    Oh, it changes pitch? Mine seems to get louder when I run water, take a shower, or have a fan...

    Oh, it changes pitch? Mine seems to get louder when I run water, take a shower, or have a fan on, no pitch change though! Maybe I'm just thinking it's louder but it isn't. I would love for the volume to go down on its own! Fingers crossed! I'm about 3 weeks in at this point, it changes volume daily.
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    Does Neosporin (Neomycin) Ointment Over Blister and Cuts — Does It Make Tinnitus Worse?

    Just to follow up... https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/even-one-appliciation-of-neomycin-can-cause-hearing-loss/ I'm personally not touching the stuff again!
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    Has Anyone with Hearing Loss Had Their Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Fade or Experience Lowering Volume?

    @StubbyJ, after listening to the binaural beats did your tinnitus ever come back down? Or did you just habituate to it? I'm worried about trying sound therapy for that reason.
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    Hi @Christiaan Honestly while the hearing aids help, I can hear the T over other sounds and...

    Hi @Christiaan Honestly while the hearing aids help, I can hear the T over other sounds and adjusting to the amplification, the feeling of the aids in my ears, and the T has got me feeling not great. I had low t before but this is plain torture. How are you doing? Looks like your T is new too...
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    Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) for Tinnitus — Long-Lasting Everyday Home-Practiced Experiences

    After reading this whole thread, I'm trying to sort out whether this really is an option for me. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared by the prospect of LLLT having averse effects as some posters have had. My baseline right now is pretty hard to bear, but to make it worse...seems...
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    Mild to moderate hearing loss (slope from 20dB to 75dB at 8K); I wear hearing aids. Started new...

    Mild to moderate hearing loss (slope from 20dB to 75dB at 8K); I wear hearing aids. Started new habituation process 6/2020.
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    Sound Options Tinnitus Sound Therapy

    My main question with Sound Options is . . . exactly HOW is the music modulated? Is it amplified near the tinnitus frequency/frequencies? Is it notched? They just say "unique changes" are made to music; honestly, I get that they're trying to sell something and want intellectual property rights...
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    Has Anyone with Hearing Loss Had Their Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Fade or Experience Lowering Volume?

    @Juan, man, I'm sorry the TRT didn't work for you. Seems like everything is just a risk and a "maybe it might make it better" approach. I'm still mulling the options; for every treatment, there is at least one person for whom the treatment made it worse. :( The aids are definitely an...
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    Has Anyone with Hearing Loss Had Their Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Fade or Experience Lowering Volume?

    @Sybelle Wow, thank you for your story. :) Gives me hope! Church bells can't have been easy to habituate to. I have two frequencies that go from 2 to 8 loudness depending on the day. It's going to be a long road. @Juan, this just started for me (about 2 weeks ago), so yeah, I'm wondering the...
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    Has Anyone with Hearing Loss Had Their Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Fade or Experience Lowering Volume?

    @LindaS, I am wondering the same thing. I have mild in speech ranges and moderate in all high frequencies. If tinnitus usually means hearing loss, would more hearing loss mean more tinnitus? And why is it that some folks who have hearing loss don't have tinnitus? I feel like those people are so...
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Thank you. The stress is pretty out of control; I feel for my family who are seeing me like this. I never thought I'd identify with "one day at a time" as much as I do now, and I really want to have hope that something will be recovered, even though it seems pretty improbable according to my...
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Hey. I just got a knock to my hearing (which wasn't great already), I have mild to moderate hearing loss now and the tinnitus is just through the roof sometimes. I'm trying to adjust to wearing my hearing aids every day and that's hard too. It's all hard. If it was ototoxicity that did it, I did...
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    Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) for Tinnitus — Experiences (Dr. Wilden, etc.)

    Seems to me (although I haven't done amazingly extensive research) that LLLT or "cold laser therapy" is taking off here in the USA, for other things than tinnitus. Even this post from the Center for ENT sounds willing to admit there is evidence of it working...
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    Is Ototoxicity Degenerative? How Do You Control Fear of Tinnitus Getting Worse?

    Hi, do you still have that research? I'm very interested in seeing it . . . 2 weeks into aminoglycoside eye drop mistake. Looking for hope that someone who took what I did can really recover from this.
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    Is Ototoxicity Degenerative? How Do You Control Fear of Tinnitus Getting Worse?

    Hi, do you still have that research? I'm very interested in seeing it . . . 2 weeks into aminoglycoside eye drop mistake. Looking for hope that someone who took what I did can really recover from this.
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Thank you both; trying to stay hopeful; see what happens in 5 minutes, in 5 months, in 5 years. I do pray, so there's that. My posts seem to be directed to the wrong places currently; thank you for finding it!
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    Some Normal Background Noises (Fan, Water Tap) Make Tinnitus Worse?

    I'm curious, riding in the car seems to make mine worse, as does a fan, as do headphones piping in masking tracks. Went to camp by the river and its was suuuper loud, over top of the river noise even. Earplugs seem like the last thing I would want. I have to have something else to listen to...
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Hi. My tinnitus jumped up to I could say a 7 or 8 last Thursday. Could have been from taking Gentamicin and Neomycin eye drops, could be idiopathic or part of the progressive hearing loss I was diagnosed with as a kid after having bacterial meningitis as a baby. Saw the audiologist and ENT. I...
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    Possible Ototoxicity re: Vigamox Eye Drops for Pinkeye (Conjunctivits)

    Hi James, I just posted my own eye drop story, so take a look at that. Most people are like, "oh it's your eyes, you shouldn't mess around" but honestly I wouldn't have taken the drops if I thought I'd get tinnitus from it, unless my eye was really, horribly bad. I actually just refused...
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    Ototoxicity from Eye Drops (Maxitrol: Neomycin-Polymyxin B-Dexamethasone)

    Hi folks. I don't think I'm overstating this when I say this forum saved my life tonight. I was Googling "tinnitus and suicide." I was contemplating whether it might not be worth it to live the rest of my days as miserable as this one. I've had quieter tinnitus since 2013 and finally --...
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    Anxious and Need Help with Coping — Tinnitus Worsened Two Weeks Ago After a Camping Trip

    Hi Maddy, it's weird because my tinnitus got massively worse two weeks ago... and I live here in the Blue Ridge (Asheville). I'm somewhat sure, though, that my tinnitus is because of Gentamicin/Neomycin eye drops. Also, my friend in Colorado said they gave her Doxycycline potentially for...
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