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Around a month into this whole tinnitus thing, I was exposed to some high-volume high-pitched noise for a duration of roughly ten seconds which induced a threshold shift. Since then, I've been really sensitive to unnaturally high-pitched sounds. For a while, I also heard what I can only...

4 month anniversary tomorrow. I really thought this would be over by now.

I live in Chicagoland, so news stories about gang violence are pretty prevalent in the local news. This has me thinking about how many people involved in these shootouts might have tinnitus. I can't imagine a gangster putting in earplugs before doing a drive-by. I tried looking up some...

damn i miss headphones

This is one of my favorite threads. I love the stories about people who recovered from acoustic trauma even after years of being exposed to loud sounds. I really hope I recover before winter sets in, my favorite part of winter is how quiet it gets right after the first snowfall.

I like to go on google maps and pick a random city in a different country, and then explore using the street view.

Just discovered this chick. Mad bars. Unfortunately, most of her other stuff is mediocre R&B.

Reading success stories at 2 in the morning is my new favorite hobby

I highly discourage anyone from trying this, or anything else like it. These don't work, and can even be detrimental to your recovery. If this was an effective method of treating tinnitus, audiologists would've capitalized on this a long time ago. Seriously, don't try it.

Way to go, buddy! Just curious, what's your history with noise exposure?

I can't think of another movie that featured tinnitus and hearing loss so prominently. It's a bummer that the film stars several prolific sexual predators.

I used to fuck heavy with noise rock. Lightning Bolt, xbxrx, Melt-Banana, Pink & Brown, etc. Now my musical diet consists of almost exclusively hip-hop. I miss my dissonance.

Yeah, I definitely misinterpreted the statistics, but I stand by the sentiment. I'm a words guy, not a math magician.

1 in 10 women and 5 in 20 men who suffer from tinnitus die from suicide annually. That's an insane amount of deaths. I don't know why the medical community isn't treating this as seriously as some of the other somatic diseases. "Learning to live with it" doesn't mean shit if you don't want to...

It started to quiet down a couple of weeks after the initial trauma, but I didn't start noticing any meaningful improvements until the 2.5 month mark. I still have bad days, but it's never returned to the volume it was initially.

Fuck this shit

When you say you have to "look for it" to hear it, does that mean you can exist comfortably in a quiet room? Because my problem is when I find myself in a largely quiet environment; I start to feel pressure in my head and the ringing gets louder.

I can't remember what silence sounds like

Ever since this started, I've been looking for ways to gauge the volume of my tinnitus to see if it was improving. I've been mostly using the fan in my bedroom as a metric. During the first couple of days, I could hear it over the fan on its highest setting while sitting right in front of it. I...

I felt like I was so close. Around the start of the month, my ringing began taking on the characteristics of a hissing noise. From what I've read around the web, that's a good indicator of tinnitus going away. I couldn't hear it over the fan when I had my earplugs in. I got so excited, thinking...

I've had tinnitus for almost three months now, and in that time, I've had to change so many things about my lifestyle that I feel far removed from the person I used to be. Things weren't perfect, but they were getting better. Part of my nightly routine for the past year or so was to take a few...

Hey everybody, Frequent lurker here. Up until now, I've spent most of my time in the success stories section because I'd rather have false hope than no hope. The reason I'm making this account and thread is because I haven't found any experiences similar to mine, and I'm hoping someone can help...