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Hi all... uh never thought I'd be posting this but I searched forums and didn't find much info here or elsewhere online. What is safe to take to relieve constipation? I have never taken an OTC for it. I used to just eat prunes but I can no longer have those due to high histamine level...

Update: I finished up a 10-day course of Cephalexin / Keflex 500mg x 2 per day and had no real side effects. It was tough the first few days and thought I noticed some changes but it was probably stress or anxiety. I finished my last pill 1-2 days ago and things are returning more and more to...

Update: Took my first pill at 6pm and was very nervous. I laid down for 4 hours and distracted myself with games. I felt perfectly fine until I just got up and switched rooms. Now there is a noticeable but not huge spike that is louder than it was this morning before the pill. Normally I feel...

If you have a choice, go for an open MRI. The closed ones are much louder but higher definition. Ask your doctor if it's appropriate for what needs to be imaged. I did an open MRI to scan my brain about 3 years ago and with foam earplugs and the muffs they provide it didn't spike me at all.

I know it was a different med but can I ask how the spike went? Did it start right when you started meds or near end? How long did it last? How bad was the spike compared to your normal tinnitus? Etc. I feel like if I knew I'd spike and it would go away after I'd be able to get the gumption to...

Appreciate the replies, definitely helps me have a positive attitude. I hope this will go well for me. I have a lot of anxiety just thinking of Keflex as I took it right after my tinnitus started 7.5 years ago so lot of bad memories and anxiety around it. And controlling the anxiety is half the...

Update: I continued to use the topical ointment and I think it is fine for my ear spike. Maybe it was anxiety. The first day was the worst but now I have no reaction to it. Unfortunately, the infection has either spread or gotten worse. Saw the doctor again today and said I have to put steroid...

I tried the topical Mupirocin tonight and 20ish minutes later I had the weirdest spike, unlike any I've had before. I am at a loss on how this topical ointment could do this to me as I felt perfectly fine taking it and nobody anywhere has had ear issues with it as far as I know. I had a sort of...

Welp, I didn't get my eczema under control and now my belly button is apparently infected. I am very scared as my spike that started 7 months ago is finally getting normal and now I need to risk it all for antibiotics. What antibiotics are safest? Any experiences or pros and cons? Especially...

Thank you for the reply. I did look into antihistamines and tinnitus back in May. I considered stopping it just in case it was the cause, but I thought my ears were spiking from a bad allergy attack as the spike happened on a day where I was sick with allergies. Did not want to risk having...

I've thought about that Kenalog injection I got a lot and I am still convinced it was the main trigger. I was fine before it, 3 hours later I was not. I had an issue with the previous injection giving me headaches but figured I'd just deal with that again. It turns out steroids can really mess...

Thank you. Sometimes I just need a sanity check... the anxiety over not knowing what caused my latest issue and potentially making it worse is quite extreme at times. It could totally be a coincidence as I haven't found any steroids on an ototoxicity list. And nobody here on forums talking...

Hi Harry, hope you are doing well. I see a lot of people here commenting on your headphone usage being the cause of your problems. Which could certainly be true. But you also mentioned a cold that left your ears feeling weird after. This could easily be the cause as well. If you search around...

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this but I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with topical steroids before. I haven't found much information online or on these forums. Only a few posts about inner ear creams. I know Prednisone is used orally and even injected into ear...

My tinnitus still hasn't settled and I am waiting until then to consider a vaccine. I hope Novavaxx gets approved and is okay for Omicron-strain. That is my preferred vaccine at this point.

Day 209 Update I haven't updated in a while -- not sure if it was useful for anyone, but here I am nearing month 7 and things are looking up. Ear has gradually been getting better and better though I had many doubts between months 3 and 6. Yet just this past week my ear was lowest it has been...

Day 99 Update Just keeping my log updated in case anyone stumbles upon it. This past month was pretty good, I had some full weeks where I felt like I had it pretty well under control and close to baseline. Then some days where it was a real struggle and louder. Hoping by 6 months I will be...

Day 68 Update Hello again, things are much the same since my last post. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping for more improvement or more rapid improvement. I had two really good days around July 7th, one where I even noted "wow I feel 96% normal this is like my baseline again!" Gave me so...

Day 56 Update It's been 2.5 weeks from my last update and just wanted to post in case anyone is following along still or reads this in the future. My tinnitus is not back to baseline yet but getting closer and closer. Today is a bad day, however the last 10 days were pretty good with 1 iffy...

And sorry I didn't see this before to respond to -- I'm still not sure why my tinnitus spiked, as I've had allergies before. Maybe I sneezed and got some mucus in a place it didn't belong I don't know. But I did start doing steam inhalation a few days a week, I kept up with my allergy pills and...

UPDATE: Day 38 It's been two weeks since my last post and I believe things are still gradually improving. Today isn't a great day but it's nowhere near as bad as it was my last post, or even the week before that. Yesterday was a really good day, the day before that it was worst I've had in a...

UPDATE: I'm on Day 24 and the spike has gone down drastically. I noticed a large improvement after Day 16/17 and its mostly continued to hold since then. I'm still not at baseline... it's probably like a 3/10 now when before it was a 1.5/10. But the spike was a 7-8/10 the first 2.5 weeks. It's...

Have you had a positive change at all from when your tinnitus originally started? With my spike I don't remember having any real good days my first week, 2nd week I had 1 or 2, third week I haven't had any great days yet but the worst ones have been shorter. I'm flummoxed by this and hoping...

Whoops think I missed your post earlier when I was responding to Vicki. My bad! You know, I used to think the same way about my mild tinnitus, the 1/10 kind where in quiet rooms you can sorta hear it. It was almost comforting to hear it with me at times, as odd as that is to say now that I'm...

Luckily I've never really had much trouble sleeping with tinnitus. It was hard at Age 15 when it started as I just had to deal with it, and nobody not even myself thought about using a fan or something. Didn't click until months later that even turning on radio helped a ton. So maybe my young...

Sorry to hear you are struggling. Has your tinnitus changed at all in the past month since onset? Any good days or bad days mixed in? Or any change in trajectory at all? I was searching through forums to find people who have had spikes similar to mine (which I think is either random or from an...

Sorry I don't know much about the occlusion effect, but I've had a lot of cavities filled and notice you mentioning upcoming dental work. I'd highly recommend finding a dentist that will go slow and work with you. The 3-5 seconds on, then 10 seconds off really helped me. I also wore big...

I used to have sound sensitivity / reactive tinnitus following a noise exposure accident... never got diagnosed so I don't know if that is the word. But yeah dropping a cup on the ground would give me that full/odd ear feeling and increased ringing for a while. Sometimes for up to a week. But...

Sorry to hear that, did you have tinnitus before the vaccine? I notice under your name it says 'trauma' for cause. Also, how long have you been dealing with the spike? Glad to hear it is on a downward trajectory... some hope it will eventually ease right? I was doing a lot of vaccine research...

Hey Vicki, glad I could be of some comfort. Don't give up hope. 8 weeks have passed and I'm sure it has been torture but there is still a good chance that it will improve. Have you noticed any changes at all? Are you able to protect your ears? Getting a set of musician earbuds to wear when I...

Thank you, this gives me so much hope. I shouldn't expect linear progression on a long spike like this. I've had spikes before that were a few days, never this loud, but they all slowly faded with no hiccups. This is my first experience with a spike longer than a few days so I shouldn't expect...

Thanks for all the support, really appreciate it. On Day 14 now, yesterday was pretty manageable. I had a pretty okay day, though lived in fear that it would get worse. And now today it is bad again. I don't get this roller coaster... I thought spikes were supposed to just fade away, not up...

The worst spike I've ever had is continuing, and I am worried it might be permanent. I've searched the forums but I'm still looking for other people's experiences with spikes. Do they generally slowly subside or can they be roller coaster like? Mine started 12 days ago when I had a really bad...

Hi everyone, 9 days ago I had a bit of an allergy attack / day cold. Nothing unusual there, felt like crap all day, sneezing a ton, runny nose etc. Then that evening I had a massive increase in tinnitus, it was super loud, it tapered off a bit a few hours later but still way higher than...

Yeah maybe it is the g/f. I don't know if it's the beer. It was the first one I've had in 8~ months since my tinnitus went up to it's new level. I was having a hard time as it was just handling it that I didn't want to make it worse... even temporarily. It's still kinda up there but I went...

Yeah, just seems weird that it would hit days later. I also had a filling done on the Thursday before. We had a fight on Friday, then breakup on Monday. Ringing started to be worse on Wednesday. Maybe I had a delayed reaction like Mick? I guess I'm worried most about dentist now. I have...

Thank's for the support everyone. Appreciate it. Maybe it is a delayed response.. I just hope it will go away. It's odd as I don't feel any more stressed than the last few days it's all been going on. With the beer it's odd too. I have had tinnitus at a low level for 15 years. When I...

Hey everyone, My tinnitus has been okay-ish for a while now. Today, however, it isn't. It's louder than normal in my left ear and I'm freaking out. I don't know what is going on. My g/f just broke up with me on Monday but it didn't spike my T. I had known we had problems and I was filled...

Hello everyone, I just wanted to stop back in with my results. I had one filling done last Thursday January 15th and it went seamlessly. The lidocaine even with adrenaline caused no problems and the drill really wasn't that loud. The high speed one was actually far more of a nuisance than the...

Treatment starts with a splint. It's a mouthguard type of thing but not what you'd imagine. It has a large piece of plastic inside that repositions your jaw to take pressure off the joints near the ear. How long you wear the splint depends on how bad your TMJD is. Surgery is an option too...

Hey guys, I'm on a round of amoxicillin 3x500mg a day for 10 days for a tooth infection. I let my cavity go a little too far in fear of the dentist drill. Now, I know that it isn't ototoxic but can it still spike your tinnitus or do weird stuff? I just finished my 3rd pill and now I'm...

Hey @mamag , yeah there are doctors that are TMJ specialists. There are different qualifications each will have, but for example my doctor has this listed on her profile "• Graduate of 2 Year Advanced TMJ Residency Program" among other accolades. She works with several others who only deal...

Are you sure you have TMJ? I think you need to see a specialist and not just a regular dentist. I know some dentists say they have specialty in TMJD but I think you will get much better care from someone that does only TMJ and orofacial pain for a living. I have TMJD too and it was kind of a...

I haven't heard of this before but it definitely sounds reasonable. Everyone has different tinnitus triggers and if your temperature is off perhaps your body is then under more stress which makes the ringing worse. I do know that working out and sweating from that is supposed to increase your...

Hey guys, I picked up a bottle of NAC in anticipation of my dental appointment but even after reading through this entire thread I'm not sure on the dosage. From what I gather anything under 2g should be okay and prior to noise exposure you want to take a 1200 or 1800mg dosage. My pills are...

It depends on the masking for me. I'm in the A) category when it comes to water. After a shower, or heck even listening to a faucet, my tinnitus is so covered up I can't hear it. However, as soon as it stops its right there and rather loud for a few minutes until I can distract again. With...

@iAzra yeah I think you and I both need to get it taken care of ASAP. I'm more worried about my tooth becoming infected as it is starting to taste bitter now. In my mind I could put it off until after vacation because I didn't want to deal with a tinnitus spike or any changes during it. Plus...

@Ilija I'm really glad to hear that you are coming to terms with your tinnitus and taking some positive steps to feeling better. Taking a break from Tinnitus Talk will do you some good but please don't stay away forever! I know it's hard especially in the beginning as you want to search and...

I am not sure if masking is the right word but I definitely enrich my environment with sounds 24/7. I mostly stick to my room and I have a white noise machine, a small fan, my computer, and a television on pretty much all the time. This is if I want to really mask the tinnitus and it doesn't...

@Ilija I think you are starting to hit the nail on the head in your later posts - it's a mental/anxiety issue. I'm not saying that your ears can't get over sensitive from time to time... I know mine do... but I can say for sure that you're overanalyzing it. And that's coming from a person who...

Your audiogram looks pretty good to my untrained eye... if only a bit like a roller coaster. Everything up to 8khz seems to be okay with the slight dip at 2k and 8k being within the threshold... which I believe is 20db? After that one would expect the higher frequencies to continue going down...

@iAzra The more I read about NAC the more it sounds like taking 3 doses of 600mg a day is the way to go. I don't think you're supposed to take it all at once but again I'd also like to hear from someone who has used the product. My dental appointment is on January 8th but I'm not so sure it...

Unfortunately the answer is... it's both. Your tinnitus could get louder and cause your mental anguish. Likewise, focusing on the T can make it seem much louder too. It's so very hard to tell but the one thing we all know is that by ignoring the tinnitus it always seems lower. Hard to do in...

Step one would be having it diagnosed. I thought I had ETD for years with a full feeling in one of my ears... turns out I have TMJD instead lol. I'm guessing your ENT did the tests required. Did he offer you any medicine? Nasal steroids have helped me get rid of that unclogged feeling. I...

As far as I know it is about the least ototoxic of the antibiotics you can take outside of the penicillin's. I took a 7-day course of it early in the summer but to be fair my ear was on high alert from a steroid injection shot so I didn't notice if it had any appreciable affect on my tinnitus...

Hey there bwspot, I'm sorry about this big spike you've had but there are a few possible causes and I'm afraid the flying did no favors for your ears. When you have a cold and a runny nose it's common to have congestion. This is why your ears weren't adjusting on flight. This is also why it's...

Hey guys, I hate back to back postings but I wanted to give a little more information for anyone else searching this thread with our problem. I went to another dentist who does air abrasion and laser work. They said I had 11!!! cavities and wanted to charge me $4k to fix it. They used a...

It's hard to say and really depends on the person. Repeated trauma certainly isn't a good thing especially back to back concerts when your ears were ringing and telling you to rest them. That doesn't mean it's the root cause. My brother goes to concerts like every week with no hearing...

@1MW That is crazy that the meds suppress it permanently. I've had corticosteroid injections into the muscle for my eczema with usually no side effect to my hearing though this last one amped up my tinnitus and it never went back down to baseline. Now I can't say for sure it was the Kenalog...