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    Prednisone for Hyperacusis: Any Experiences? Natural Alternatives?

    Somewhat late reply, but relating to your temporary tinnitus spikes from sound therapy/hearing tests, I had a few questions because I'm experiencing something similar currently. I was searching for tinnitus relief after hurting my ear drums while cleaning them, and some of the white noise I...
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    Tinnitus Spike from Stress/Anxiety/Allergic Reaction/Noise Exposure: Could Prednisone Help?

    From my understanding, 'perfect' hearing from a clinical standpoint is different from actual perfect hearing. Most hearing tests do not test the so-called "useless" frequencies, and it's within those frequencies that an individual might have significant hearing loss. This can create the illusion...
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    Major Aggravation of Tinnitus: Prednisolone — Yes or No? Ototoxic or Not?

    Your circumstances are fairly similar to mine. I doubt you're still active on this forum, but I would value hearing what you experienced afterwards if possible.
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    A Perpetual Sounds of Crickets After Listening to MyNoise.net White Noise

    A couple of days later, my symptoms remain and my concern is growing. I've made an appointment with an ENT, but it won't be for about a week. I'm likely to head to Urgent Care to try and see if they can deduce what's going on, or at the very least, get a prescription for Prednisone before the...
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    A Perpetual Sounds of Crickets After Listening to MyNoise.net White Noise

    I don't think it was exclusively induced by anxiety, but I was suffering from mild panic attacks after losing a loved one on bad terms prior, so I wouldn't be surprised if it contributed to it in some way. This occurred before the ear drum problem. My tinnitus was improving notably after that...
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    I Started on Prednisone 3 Days After Acoustic Shock — Advice on Duration + Taper?

    Sorry to hear about your situation, but would you mind if I asked for an update on how you're doing now if possible? It doesn't seem you're still active on the forum, but I was considering trying to get a prescription for the same drug to help my recent surge in noise-related tinnitus.
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    Tinnitus of Unknown Cause (Stress? Sertraline? TMJ?) for 5 Months — Deeply Hopeless

    I hope you're still doing alright. Just in case you're still reading this forum, I'll offer some advice that helped me. Before I had what I have now, I suffered primarily from a mild somatic tinnitus. Pertaining particularly to TMJ, I was able to drastically increase the volume (modulate) of...
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    A Perpetual Sounds of Crickets After Listening to MyNoise.net White Noise

    Thanks for the reply. Your thoughts mirror my own which is very comforting. Tinnitus for me is a little bit like gasoline for the fire that is my anxiety -- so even though the tinnitus itself isn't usually intolerable, it really wreaks havoc on my mental stability at times like this.
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    Suicidal

    I deeply empathize with many of the posts in this thread. I recently habituated to my somatic tinnitus, but overreacted to a spike I was having by searching for white noise to mask it. Now, I'm terrified that I've caused permanent damage to my ears and caused legitimate tinnitus to spring up...
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    A Perpetual Sounds of Crickets After Listening to MyNoise.net White Noise

    Hello! I've always had somatic tinnitus prominently in one ear, but after recently rupturing my ear drums, I started to have symptoms in both. In addition to all the new stress surrounding this, I started spiking pretty badly. I tried a few methods to relieve this like stretching to relieve...