Search results for query: *

@Forever hopeful, I wouldn’t think that 70dBA is too loud for a short period of time. I’m glad you had a good time. Mark

Simon, I want to tell you how much I appreciate the way you are quick to greet new people posting their introductions and how you try to calm their fears with a positive prognosis.

My loud, transient sound only lasted 30 seconds. Knowing me, I would have been pretty upset if it lasted 25-30 minutes as yours did. You sound to be tough, or at least acclimated to the transients. Good luck with the wedding today. I attended a wedding about a month ago, and I couldn’t believe...

@Forever hopeful, @Nemoriri I had something like this happened to me in the early hours this morning. Up until now, I thought I had loud tinnitus. But a tone came into my left ear that was very loud, making my current tinnitus seem mild. It sounded like the dial tone of the old landline phones...

Ollie, how are you doing? Mark

Sointu, I’m glad you have found a doctor who is looking into things more thoroughly. Having a good understanding of the problem might lead to a more successful recovery. I think a lot about this also. I know it’s not healthy, and I know I need to get beyond it, but it’s difficult - very...

It sounds promising that by pressing your tragus you can stop your tinnitus. Thanks for responding to my post. I’m frustrated that the tinnitus is still moderately loud in my left ear. Hasn’t seem to have decreased at all since onset three months ago. I’m not a expecting full recovery, but it...

Hello @Matchbox . I’ve read your initial posts and I’m curious about any theories you may have why you’re very intense tinnitus became inaudible over the course of a year. My tinnitus still seems loud and I’m almost 12 weeks in. Thanks, Mark

It seems that you have been into your hearing trauma experience for about 10 months now. My tinnitus, like yours, was caused by hearing loss due to loud sounds. I’m 11 weeks in. I was wondering if you have seen a decrease in the level of your tinnitus since onset. Thanks, Mark

Hello @Meowmeowmeow. I was wondering how your tinnitus was doing? Could you please provide an update? Thanks, Mark

@Simon85, thank you for your supportive reply. I have to admit, it’s getting frustrating and making me somewhat despondent. I’m so hopeful that the volume of the tinnitus will decrease to a tolerable level. All I can think to do is to give it time, be patient, and to protect my hearing. Thanks...

Sointu, I'm so sorry you're in this position. It looks like you're caught between living your life by either risking the pain of hearing loud sounds and doing additional damage, or secluding yourself in silence and listening to your tinnitus. After reading many the posts on this forum, I don't...

@buttercake, compressed sensing, interesting. I looked it up on Wikipedia. I’m a retired mechanical engineer and during my career I did not work in areas that required much knowledge of signal processing or signal reconstruction. Most of my career was spent designing structures and analyzing...

@buttercake, I’m sorry to hear that such a seemingly small sound incident is causing you so much discomfort and for such a period of time. I hope the future brings you some improvement and relief. I’m glad, however, that you’re able to proceed with your thesis work. If I may ask, what general...

@Óscar PP, thank you for your prompt response. It seems that I just need to hang in there and give habituation a chance to occur. It’s just so frustrating waiting, and time seems to pass so, so slowly. I’m prepared that the volume of my tinnitus might not diminish, but I do hope for an...

@Óscar PP, thank you for your response. I too have a loud, high-pitched tinnitus; mine is in my left ear. It hardly ever varies in frequency and is constant in volume. It is exactly eight weeks ago today that my tinnitus began, and I believe that the volume now is as high as it was on the day...

@Otitislongia, I’m so sorry you are going through this. You certainly don’t deserve this, particularly as young as you are. And as I understand it from reading your posts, you were careful around sound. What happened to you was medical in nature and beyond your control. It’s just plain unfair...

Hello Oscar, What makes you say that suicidality should abate between 6 and 12 months? I have had severe tinnitus in my left ear for almost 2 months now. I’m starting to run out of the hope and enthusiasm that is necessary to keep going. Mark

@Sointu, I’m so sorry you are going through this. All of this trauma and emotional devastation for an innocent mistake in judgment seems like such a disproportionate response from Life. I think all we can hope for is that time will heal us to a quality of life that we can find acceptable...

@David S, @BrOKeN_1, @object16: Thank you guys for your input. I think what I’m understanding is give it time, don’t over protect your hearing and use anti-depressants and sleeping aids as necessary. I think after I go through all this for perhaps a year or so, I pretty much will have what I...

@David S: Thank you for your kind words. This whole experience has been quite emotional for me. I never understood that such a hellish affliction could be loose in the world. Prior to seven weeks ago, I was ignorant and naive. I see you've had an account since 2013. Would you characterize your...

Hello - It’s been almost seven weeks since I measurably damaged the hearing in my left ear and acquired tinnitus and hyperacusis. The hyperacusis has decreased significantly, maybe by as much as 75%. I can easily walk around outdoors without fear of sounds. This wasn’t the case in the...

@Meowmeowmeow, I was wondering, how is your tinnitus progressing? Thanks, Mark

Hoping for eventual habituation.

@Stacken77, thank you Stacken for your words of encouragement. After reading a large number of the posts on this forum, I must say I have a tremendous amount of respect for the suffering that is described here. I’ve only been at this for six weeks. Folks such as yourself have been at it for...

@David S, thank you for your response. Clearly, I would say my tinnitus level is ‘severe’. It’s at the constant frequency of ‘crickets’ and I can only mask it with a shower. It’s unaffected by external sounds and there are no distortions. Have you found the level of your severe tinnitus to...

@Stacken77, thank you for your reply. I perceive that the tinnitus in my left ear is very loud. Louder than it has ever been, including from the time of the initial noise trauma. I went to a wedding two days ago and someone inadvertently shouted into my bad ear, despite my best attempts to keep...

It’s been about six weeks since the introduction of my noise-induced tinnitus into my left ear. I believe its loudness has remained unchanged from the time of the noise incident, which to me, is becoming concerning. I’m wondering, is there a way to quantify the loudness of one’s tinnitus...

Hello @Sointu. How’s it going for you? Today, six weeks ago is when the noise event occurred for me that has giving me tinnitus and hyperacusis. I’m thinking your noise event occurred at about the same time, that’s why I keep you in mind. I’d say my sensitivity to sound has decreased by about...

@Damocles, I thought I knew, but I just checked with my brother and apparently there’s some discrepancy regarding where we came from in Ireland.

Hello @AnnieMac. I agree with @linearb and @Damocles above. You're still very early in the experience - which is the very worst part. Better times for you will most certainly come. I'm about 5 and 1/2 weeks following a noise induced tinnitus and hyperacusis event. For the first few weeks I had...

I really appreciate your success story. I'm 5+ weeks in with my tinnitus. Where you were at in the beginning of your experience sounds EXACTLY like where I'm at now. The loud and intrusive high pitch ringing, not being able to sleep, the anxiety and depression, followed by the continual...

@Michael Leigh All- It’s been a while since I’ve updated my condition. My hyperacusis has subsided significantly. Whereas before I was always inserting my noise canceling earbuds whenever I was walking along a busy road that had lots of traffic or at the sight of a running lawnmower, I no...

Hello Sointu - I read your two well written posts yesterday. I thought about you’re suffering off and on last night while I was trying to sleep with my newly acquired noise induced tinnitus (five weeks ago). I just want you to know that there’s someone in this world in a similar situation that...

Thank you Michael. Mark

Michael, I want to thank you for your kind words and your links to the two articles, particularly your ‘Personal View’. It means a lot to be reading words from someone whose footsteps I may well be following. Your positivity and assurance is calming for me. Your words are important to me...

Hello all. I am so thankful for the many sincere and well considered posts that I’ve read on Tinnitus Talk. I’m new to tinnitus, only less than two weeks. And I was feeling pretty alone, isolated and despondent. Honestly, I was heading to a pretty dark place. I’m surprised and scared at how...