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I think it’s relative - tinnitus can be caused by your auditory system over compensating for hearing loss so perhaps you still have good hearing but if it’s less good than before... I don’t think they have to be mutually exclusive. We are talking about nerve cells after all - if our nervous...

@Lukee, sorry to hear about the intensity increase for you - at least the pressure and pain aren’t bothering you anymore (I hope!) I had the extended audiogram yesterday - it was fully legit; anechoic chamber, closed back headphones etc. Up to 16kHz. I don’t have the consultation with the...

There are elements to tinnitus which are psychoacoustic/auditory perception related i.e. your brain ‘overcompensating’ for natural hearing loss, not unconsciously filtering out the sound of your nervous system etc and then there are elements that are just down to damage. The question is which...

@MrC6688, @Lukee, @Renfrey and everyone - has anyone experienced weird changes in their tones over the course of all this? My newest (1 kHz sine wave left ear) is switching sides seemingly on a daily basis. The quality of the tone is changing too like from a perfect sine wave into a more...

It is legal, but not in any concentrations that would do anything except placebo.

I’m in the UK so I can’t get hold of it. What’s left in the vaporiser after using it is supposed to be mainly CBD, might try that! I haven’t tried any of the supplements yet, going to start trying them one by one, see what works.

It took me weeks to accept that my cannabis use was exacerbating the tinnitus! Although that is the full profile of cannabinoids that I take, not just the CBD. I don’t think it makes it worse overall, just when I’m high. It does heighten all the other senses though so makes sense that it would...

That’s spot on in my experience - sounds around 1 kHz with a sharp attach (percussive sounds) make my ear flinch whatever the volume. My ETD flare ups have all happened the day AFTER I’ve been exposed to sounds like this at work (or long periods of talking) - it’s almost like a hangover. The...

I agree with this completely - although I imagine it could be causing inflammation which is then causing the ETD symptoms. This would explain: Why the ETD like symptoms took a week or so to set in after the initial tinnitus. Why I’ve been getting fluttering in my ‘good’ (non-ETD) ear - it would...

I got a new tone start on Sunday - this one’s much lower in pitch (800 Hz sine wave), left ear (which isn’t the one I’ve been getting ETD in) louder and more noticeable than the high frequency ‘muted TV/cicada’ sound. It seems more dependent on head position/pressure than the muted TV one...

Hi @Lukee, @MrC6688, @Renfrey and others - sorry I’ve been AWOL, I had a lot on my plate. I’ve got an extended audiogram booked for 25/3 so will let you know how that goes. I had a free one last week (only up to 8 kHz) but I still have the hearing of a teenager up to that range (except a little...

Yeah sorry @Lukee, I meant to mention if I turn my head/crane my neck it makes it seem worse. @MrC6688, yeah those are all triggers for me as well actually!

Sorry to hear your pressure hasn’t gone away yet @Lukee. I was reading what you wrote earlier about you not being sure what triggers it - for myself I think it’s sound, particularly percussive ones. Like what you said earlier about your ears reacting to noise, I get that totally. That’s what I...

@Lukee, sorry to hear you had a bad day yesterday. Reading your post about the ‘ear flutter’ was like a eureka moment for me: it’s something I’ve experienced for many years. It got really out of hand when I was on a course of opioids for a back injury 7 years ago and it’s been giving me trouble...

It’s just called ‘Portal’ - it’s not specifically for tinnitus but I just noticed the barley field soundscape really helped me!

@Renfrey, I've actually had some great success with the ‘portal’ app on the App Store. It’s free - I’ve been listening to ‘barley field in springtime’ and it’s worked wonders for masking/diverting auditory attention away from the tinnitus. Then when I stop it, it seems quieter. I’m sure it’s...

@MrC6688, hey Mr C, I’m really sorry to hear that you are having a bad time with it, I remember the first time I was dealing with this type of thing; very scary. But as you say, if it changes then it can be treated - you’ve already improved along way with getting rid of the ear pressure and...

@Lukee, yeah I did! This time too actually; it feels like there are 3 tiers of discomfort for me: 1) (most severe) ear pressure, hyperacusis and an undulating whine 2) (moderate) burrowing/stabbing type pain in the ear, very deep in there/hyperacusis with intermittent whine 3) (least severe)...

@MrC6688 - I really think you’re onto something with the ‘central nervous system shock’ theory. One of the things I noticed was a dramatic ENHANCEMENT of my hearing directly after doing the WH breathing (particularly the highest ‘air’ type frequencies - I work with sound and tested myself on my...

@Lukee - I’m sorry that was inaccurate! I was given drops the first time, and then I was given drops the second time also (the PCP this time prescribed a spray but I insisted on drops - that’s probably why I absentmindedly wrote sprat in my post sorry!)

@Lukee Fantastic news about your spell without the ringing - also I completely recognise 100% of what you describe about the noises being more startling, almost as if they appear closer than they are. I anticipate your spells without the ringing becoming longer and more frequent and eventually...

Hi Lukee, here’s the NHS page for the corticosteroid nose spray I’m using: https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/betamethasone-eyes-ears-and-nose/ Took it early in the ETD bout (after about a week of noticing just the tinnitus but before the ear pressure had started) but if anything it seemed to make it...

Hey everyone, I’m new here! Really appreciating how you all are supportive of each other. I’ve also been suffering from the symptoms of ETD (I think triggered by the Wim Hoff method) but in my case I have been through a period of this before (three years ago) for about a month or so. It was...