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The lady who cuts my hair has tinnitus and she doesn't know the cause. My mom's ex-boyfriend who was in the military has tinnitus from 'shooting guns and blowing things up.' He did these things without hearing protection. He is still a family friend.

This is devastating news. My heart aches for you, Dave. Your posts about Sylvia reflected your deep love for her and made me smile. I am so sorry that you're going through this. Know that you have the love and support from your community here on Tinnitus Talk.

Those quotes from Trump about COVID-19 were appalling to read. Absolutely appalling. I shouldn't be surprised though. I wish that people would fact check the information that they find online. I have some information that I need to continue fact checking myself. Luckily I didn't get the...

COVID-19 is freaking me out because I'm considered high risk thanks to one of my health conditions. I've been pretty isolated since March so I'm safe, but it bites that this pandemic has put me in between a rock and a hard place. I don't like being out of a job and I empathize with so many...

I'm sorry that your tinnitus is acting up again and I hope that your sleep improves. Sending positive thoughts your way. :huganimation:

Lol! :p I'm happy that you're caring less about your tinnitus and that you're reading more! I hope you're enjoying Armed and Magical. :D Schwab is great! I love "City of Ghosts" and "Tunnel of Bones" and I read them last fall. I'll have to look up which books are her first ones. Which books of...

Aww! :eek::huganimation: It really is nice! I'm sorry that your mom has dealt with doctors shrugging her off, but that doesn't surprise me. Yes, my hearing device is called a combination device. It amplifies sound in my right ear and plays soothing Zen tones that can help distract from the...

Tinnitus has become intermittent in my left ear. My left ear is silent sometimes. I have obnoxious tinnitus on the left side of my head.

I hope that reading with tinnitus becomes doable for you. I struggle when it comes to reading with tinnitus, but I'm trying my best since I've loved reading for years. The Deficit Myth sounds really good.

You should! Cartoons and animation are fantastic. :D Omg! Animaniacs. It's my childhood. :love: The trailer for the reboot made me laugh and smile. The scenes with Pinky and the Brain made me smile! Thanks for posting it. :)

I'm sorry that it's going to take you so long to see an ENT and neurologist. It doesn't sound like the CT scan will have results that apply to your hearing damage. The reason for that (your acoustic shock) makes sense. My aunt is really into Buddhism and meditation and so was my uncle while he...

There's nothing wrong with that. :LOL: It's annoying when alerts don't show up. I don't like missing out on posts either. That's true. We do go through ups and downs with tinnitus. Seeing an audiologist who is also a tinnitus expert on Wednesday helped me. I saw her for a sound therapy...

Thank you. :huganimation: I really appreciate your wisdom. It's great that you're putting less pressure on yourself to habituate. That's really helpful! I'm happy that you're reading again. :D I've been in a reading slump these past few weeks. Just started a middle-grade book on Wednesday...

Good point. I am new to tinnitus. I'm seeing a therapist. It bites that you don't have access to therapy. Thank you for the advice and the empathy. It's rough that you still put pressure on yourself about habituation. I can see how meeting and interacting with people with tinnitus and comparing...

That makes sense. People need to be careful about the medication that they take.

Thank you for your encouragement and optimism. I really appreciate it. :huganimation: I agree that it could take a while for my receptors to calm down. The zen tones in my hearing aid are helping my focus when I read. I also saw an audiologist today and talking to her really helped. I vented a...

That's all right. Lol! It's great that you're a cat person. :D My posts were in this thread. It's okay that you missed them. :huganimation:I have one post from Chinmoku that didn't even show up in my alerts. I had to go to the thread of posts to find it. Thank you for understanding and being so...

Yes, you did. I think I only skimmed the post where you mentioned Cinder's name. My bad! :oops: Sorry if I was too negative in the post where I mentioned my uncle's tinnitus and hearing loss. He was very resilient. Sometimes I struggle with that in regards to my tinnitus and anxiety. Habitation...

Do you still have to wait a year to see another doctor? Did you end up seeing a neurologist? I need to follow your example and read some books about mindfulness and Buddhism. Mindfulness and meditation have helped my aunt and she has Lyme Disease. I hope that mindfulness helps you too. I'm...

@annV, yes, I'm in therapy. I've had a lot of therapy since I was in elementary school and I'm in my late 20s now. Low self-esteem has been a struggle since I was a child. Loving oneself can be very difficult work.

I'm having a hard time habituating to my tinnitus and I feel hopeless. I feel like I'm existing instead of living. Staying positive is a constant struggle. Perhaps I need to meditate and work on getting myself in a better headspace, but I've always struggled with dwelling on the hardships in...

Does Lyrica cause withdrawal symptoms the same way that benzos and antidepressants do? I can't think of anything that's helpful either. Sometimes empathy can only go so far. I hope that you improve soon too for both your sake and the sake of your kids.

@Shera, I forgot to add in my last post that I love how your cat is chilling in your photo of the books. Your cat is so cute!

I'm glad that she's feeling better enough to walk. Please let me know if you want me to say another prayer for her. :huganimation:

I'm sorry that you feel so hopeless and I can understand your hesitance to take benzos. Benzo withdrawal can be torture for some people and it can trigger tinnitus even for people who didn't have tinnitus before. I've felt hopeless about my own tinnitus recently and I'm very new to having it. I...

I'm glad that you didn't have any discontinuation effects from Wellbutrin. Thanks. Ibuprofen made my tinnitus spike back in July, but I was fine when I took it in June for a headache. I felt mixed about taking it a few nights ago, but I was in pain so I decided to risk it. I can see how it...

@Elmer B Fuddled, Groucho is so cute! What a precious face. :love:

I'm not surprised that Wellbutrin gave you headaches. That's a common and crappy side effect of antidepressants. Did you have side effects or discontinuation symptoms after you stopped taking Wellbutrin?

Oh, okay. It's good that the Pantoprazole hasn't impacted your tinnitus. I don't blame you for being afraid of taking medication again. I took ibuprofen last night and it didn't make my tinnitus worse surprisingly. Fortunately, I don't feel like I need to take Ibuprofen anymore, so hooray...

Hi there. I'm so sorry that this happened to you. Antidepressant induced tinnitus is tough to deal with because you wish that your doctor--or psychiatrist in your case--had told you about tinnitus as a possible side effect. I've had tinnitus since a few days before Mother's Day, and while it's...

It's great that you found one dollar hardbacks of Magic Binds, Frozen Tides, and Gilded Cage. Hardbacks are usually expensive! Do you have a particular username that you use so I can look you up on GoodReads? Yes, you did pick right. The hardcover of Gilded Cage is beautiful!

Hopefully you'll like "A Cloud of Outrageous Blue". The main character in that book has synesthesia. I need to read more fantasy outside of the Skulduggery Pleasant books. Lol! What the Night Sings" has romance too. Vesper Stamper likes to include romance in her historical fiction books. Haha...

My brother read that book when he took a Jewish Studies class in college. He has recommended it to me many times. I should put it on my to-read list on GoodReads. Thanks for the recommendation! I loved "What the Night Sings" because it focused on the main character Gerta's life after the...

Thank you for thinking of me! :huganimation: I've had a rough week and I just got sad news about one of my second cousins, so that means a lot to me. I'll see if I can read a preview of "Orphan Monster Spy" on GoodReads. I really like the cover of "Gilded Cage" as well.

Again, I'll have to check Amazon. I finished reading "What the Night Sings" last Monday and I loved it! Such a beautiful book. Now I'm reading "A Cloud of Outrageous Blue" by Vesper Stamper. It's odd that you've met people who believe that the earth is flat. I don't blame you for feeling...

What is Pantoprazole? It's a relief that the NAC might be helping. Are you getting any side effects from the NAC? I'm glad that your tinnitus is reducing and bothering you less. I'm struggling to adjust to something that's so annoying (tinnitus). Also, I'm frustrated that my tinnitus has made...

I hope that your pupper feels better soon and that she begins to eat more soon. Pets are our family and it's scary when they're sick. :( I agree with @OnceUponaTime's advice about giving your dog a lot of cuddles.

I'll check and see if Vudu or Roku are available through my Amazon Firestick. That's disgusting. I can't stand Holocaust deniers and I don't understand why people deny the Holocaust. Is your dry mouth problem better now? It's been a few weeks since my last reply. What is the Tapping Solution...

I looked up Where Hands Touch. Unfortunately, I don't have Hulu but the movie looks really good. I understand your perspective about watching movies and reading books about the Holocaust and the British camps in Africa. You made a good point. Media about these genocides must be created for...

That's smart about the tissues. This is only the second book I've read outside of Number the Stars by Lois Lowry in middle school. So I didn't know that many Holocaust books don't focus on Jewish identity. I tried reading Night when I was a freshman in high school for assigned reading, but it...

Thank you! I started reading What the Night Sings on Tuesday and I'm already reading the second part of the book since the chapters are so short. I read five chapters on Thursday. I'm going to need to bust out the tissues soon because the main character and her father were just put one of those...

I can relate to ototoxic medication induced tinnitus. You're not alone when it comes to that trigger. It's great that you acknowledged the role that loud environments had with your tinnitus. Are you taking any supplements for your tinnitus?

Hello, I'm sorry that you're going through this. Medication induced tinnitus is terrible. :huganimation: My onset of tinnitus began a few days before Mother's Day from an old school antidepressant called Nortriptyline. The thing that's strange about Nortriptyline is that it can treat tinnitus...

I thought that the book would discuss her electroconvulsive therapy. Thank you! I finished a long chapter last night and I was pretty hooked. Now I'll be done after I finish the last chapter. I'm sorry about your sleeping issues. What is causing them? I rarely read Holocaust books for the same...

I finished the penultimate chapter of The Good Thieves. Tomorrow I'll finish the book. I'm glad that I'm continuing to read even when tinnitus makes it rough. Having the TV on for background noise helped me tonight. Valerian root is good at doing what it's supposed to do. I'm tired. =P I hope...

@Kmollls you're welcome. :huganimation: I found an article online that talks about artemisinin causing hearing loss. I'm going to link the article. I didn't know that certain herbs could cause tinnitus...

Good point. That was my mistake about the withdrawal. That's a valid thing to wonder.

Carrie Fisher was amazing. I agree! I know that she used to get electroconvulsive therapy for her depression. I believe she's written about her experiences with ECT before. Trying to power through the last two chapters of The Good Thieves. I've just been so groggy lately. I'm surprised that I...

Please stay away from ciprofloxacin. The medication has made it on to the news because of the damage that it can cause to a person's body. It can cause a laundry list of horrid side effects. I'm linking a video and two articles about cipro below. The articles might be long...

Hi Kate. I'm sorry about your Lyme Disease. That seems like such a rough condition to have. My aunt has Lyme Disease but not tinnitus. Have your doctors given you a prescription for antibiotics? If so, please be careful because antibiotics can cause tinnitus. How have you been coping with...

I didn't do anything fancy with the cucumber. It was sliced and my mom and I ate it with ranch dressing as a part of dinner tonight. The cucumber tasted fresh and crisp. Absolutely delicious! I'm attaching a picture of the cucumber slices. Eating something that I grew on my own was very...

Wow. That's beyond crazy. :wideyed: Wishful Drinking sounds like a good book. I love the title. Lol! ;) I'm finishing up The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell. I'm going to read What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper next or maybe Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink. Can't decide. Maybe it...

I'm glad that you reported him. He sounds like a creep. Oh my god, that's terrifying! What possessed him to do that?! I feel bad for both the puppy and the snapping turtle. You're welcome. What book are you currently reading? I was okay when I had a snack today surprisingly. The tinnitus...

Dang! He shouldn't have had so many pets. It's great that you helped him even though he wasn't sensible. I hope so for your sake! I'll think positive thoughts for you. Maybe I shouldn't read right after a meal. For the past few weeks to a month, my tinnitus gets really loud whenever I eat...

Same here, but my right ear went silent after a month. I've read about tinnitus occurring during antidepressant withdrawal. I wonder if discontinuing the medication has anything to do with your continued ringing. Just a thought. My left ear/deaf ear and the left side of my head still have...

I went to religious school with a girl who wore hearing aids long before I ended up with tinnitus. I knew her from middle school and onwards. I never thought anything of it and I considered her a friend. She enjoyed musical theatre and she sang along to prayers during religious services.