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Okay, weird. In the middle of the night yesterday, my morse code sound turned into a lower-pitched tone with the same rhythm it always had for about an hour before reverting back to the higher-pitched tone. For that hour it was a little less annoying and I was hopeful maybe it was resolving...

I'm near the end of a 12-day course of Prednisone. It hasn't helped but this late in the game I didn't expect it to. My doctor wanted me to find a psychiatrist to find and manage medications to help me through this, but I've had zero luck in that regard. I can't even get one around here to...

That video is similar to mine, but mine's a bit lower in tone. In the past 2 months I've picked up in my left ear: a morse code ringing, a high pitch electrical zing with pain, a dentist drill, a mid-tone eeeeee, a high-tone eeeee, a clicking sound, and 2 different hisses. If during this time...

Hi Jerad. Sorry about the late response - I've been having a tough go at things since my last post. I'm not lingering long since I have an extremely hard time sitting still lately, but I wanted to thank you for the kind words of encouragement. This has been brutal, but it helps a little to know...

Thank you for the thoughtful response. My hope was that severing the nerve would remove the reactive part of this, as the zings immediately respond to sound. No sound, fewer zings, right? Maybe not... For me, 99% of this is localized in my left ear with the occasional back-of-neck tingling or...

I try to keep a positive outlook, but this is steadily getting worse. Maybe it's just due to the lack of sleep as I'm still only getting about an hour a night. I've always been a super light sleeper so this specific type of painful reactive tinnitus is a perfect storm to wreck me. My health is...

At this point I don't know what could help. I have an appointment with a neurologist but the nearest available date wasn't until mid-June. For me, the toughest part is that I have so many different sounds in my ears now. Earplugs help to somewhat lessen the zaps but then everything else goes...

To update you @Jerad, I’ve stopped taking the Gabapentin after four nights. The last two nights, the baseline ringing and zings greatly increased in volume within two hours of taking my dose. Easily a 10/10 in volume and completely unbearable. It went down on night three after eight hours. It’s...

So far, no, but I've only been on it two days now. I guess some people react to it quickly but others take a few weeks. I don't have high hopes because so far nothing has taken the edge off, but this has more promise than anything else I've tried. If anything helps it'll probably be this. I'll...

My primary prescribed some Gabapentin yesterday after I told her I was hesitant to take the benzos I was given at the ER. The ER gave me 12 benzo pills and I've taken three, and they work nicely to give me a good 4 hours sleep and make the first half of the next day tolerable. But I don't want...

I hope you got help at the ER. My wife eventually convinced me to go last week for similar reasons (average of 90 minutes of sleep a night for five weeks combined with constant pain leading to a mental breakdown). I was basically told, but nicely, that the ER is more for medical emergencies like...

I’m new with reactive tinnitus so I’m still trying to figure it out. Mine is instantly reactive to most sounds which I believe is manifesting as a super high frequency electrical sound. The original sound I hear doesn’t cause pain, but the sound my ears produce in response DOES hurt. It’s always...

I’m so sorry you have to deal with the Morse code. Mine started only a week ago and it can be maddening so I can only guess what you’ve had to go through for so long. My wife jokes that my ears are communicating to me that I should do more household chores. I’m also someone who can move the...

Not really. Doing that as well as putting in an earplug at night slightly dulls the pain but it still prevents me from sleeping. It’s only marginally better than nothing but for now it’s all I got It’s been spiking extremely hard tonight for some reason and I’m getting desperate. It’s never...

I finally got in to see an audiologist. Cool dude, very knowledgeable and nice, but ultimately left me feeling that my only option is therapy to “live with it.” I requested another audiogram at a higher frequency and found my left ear has hearing loss above 8 kHz. It likely explains some...

I had a full audiogram done today with ranges up to 15,000 Hz which showed some significant hearing loss in the left ear above 8,000 Hz. My hippie audiologist just said it was cool and I’ll learn to live with the multiples of tinnitus sounds that have begun the past five weeks. Not any kind of...

The thing I’m confused at with the reactive tinnitus is “what is it trying to accomplish?” Is it like a little kid who wants to sing LA LA LA along with all the other sounds? Or is it more dire like my ear is repeatedly telling me to stop all sounds as kind of a warning siren? I’m always torn...

Wish I could tell ya. I’m just getting started with mine about five weeks ago and I’m nearly ready to throw in the towel. Mine is an intermittent 15 kHz electrical zing sound that comes with pain. It reacts to most sounds but ESPECIALLY white noise type sounds. Silence is hell. Sounds are hell...

I’m sorry you have to deal with this too :( Is it for you both ears or only one ear? For me, only the left ear does it consistently. Every once in a while the right one does it too, but it’s usually short-lived. It’s been getting worse pretty much daily since it began and the peaks are fairly...

Today when I got out of bed, I got up a little too quickly and started to black out. Tall person problems! For about two seconds all my tinnitus stopped, probably because my brain was preparing to pass out and started to shut off all nonessential functions. I didn’t fall or anything but I got to...

I've had suspicions that daily aerobic exercise has been a contributor with a new sound in my left ear. 5 weeks ago, a new high-pitched zing began in my left ear that comes and goes around 30 times a minute. It reacts to sounds, especially things like fans and white noise machines, and comes...

Another night of 0 hours sleep, I'm ready to give NAC a shot. Do you have a link to what you personally take?

Whoa, I've never heard of a RedLightMan light. I'll have to look into that. I'll also do some research on NAC to see if I think it's worth a shot. Right now other than a new Ambien prescription, I'm not taking anything at all as I'm a bit paranoid about making things worse. Thanks for the tips!

The glassy, knife-life sharpness you mentioned is a great way to describe them. Mine also sound like car brakes squealing but at an even higher pitch. It's similar to the sound an old CRT television makes but always cutting in and out and always comes with a bit of ear pain. Mine also vary in...

I'm glad you found something that's helping a bit! Since your tinnitus is so similar to mine, maybe these will help me out too. I did a search for the channel and saw they have 24 videos, but I'm a little apprehensive these days about playing sound masking videos since so many seem to only...

Mine got much, much worse overnight. I had taken 5 MG of THC edibles before I went to sleep, though I didn't have a panic attack. I was actually feeling super relaxed at the time and hadn't experienced actual anxiety in literally years. I don't know if something happened while I was asleep, or...

Phew, this is really starting to wear me out and I wish I knew the best way to proceed. Any kind of sound masking makes it go bonkers as if the zings are trying to compete with the noise and always be louder. I don't believe I'm overly sensitive to external sounds in the sense that they don't...

Well that certainly sounds familiar. We're even similar in longevity as it relates to our old tinnitus. I've noticed I'm more sensitive to sounds recently, both in terms of how it makes me uncomfortable and an increase in zings. So what you're saying makes sense. It's amazing how low level the...

I'm sorry you have to deal with this too. I'm sure everything we're experiencing has been experienced before by countless people, and countless people have probably habituated to it. We can too. Maybe it'll take longer for us than someone who is dealing with a less annoying and less...

Hmm... I think I just made a connection that I probably should have figured out weeks ago. For nearly two years, I've had a chronic cough, especially after I eat meals. I have to vigorously clear my throat anytime I eat or drink something because it feels like it gets stuck. It's kind of the...

I've had high frequency tinnitus in both ears for around 20 years that luckily COULD be masked. The first year was rough but then things got better. As of a month ago, my left ear developed a 15,000 Hz zing sound that cuts in and out at weird random intervals. Not only can I not mask it, but...

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. My biggest hurdle now is that I used to adore my life and a huge part of me wants to be able to live exactly the same way I used to. I can no longer do that and I need to learn how to adapt. I need to say goodbye to many things I can no longer participate in, but the...

I have something to add that hopefully somewhere here can shed some light on for me. Early on with this new ear sound, I noticed I could intensify the sound by flexing my neck muscles. The harder I flex, the louder the sound gets. Weirdly enough, it only makes the NEW sound louder but not the...

I'll just make a quick update to say it's amazing how much better it feels after a decent night's sleep. It wasn't even a great night as I got around 5 hours, but that's more than my previous month of 0-2 hours a night including a 3 day stint of absolutely no sleep. I wish I could say it was...

I'd love to hear how things worked out for you. So many of your symptoms are similar to mine that it's almost like looking into the future.

For around a year, I'd use marijuana a couple times a week to help me relax for sleep in the form of edibles. Loved it. Really took my mind off things and I could meditate to a nice full body euphoria as I drifted off to sleep. I never really noticed if it spiked my tinnitus because I was always...

I believe I'm having the revelation that my new ear sound is reactive to noises, but my old ear sounds aren't. What a conundrum! Any kind of masking therapy, including the box fans I sleep with at night, seem to make the left ear scream like a banshee. Even minor things like the hum of my...

I was able to get my ENT appointment pushed up to this evening and was hopeful to get some answers. I had an audiogram earlier in the week which showed that my hearing is still very good. Awesome! But I kind of already knew that. The actual appointment with the ENT was... unsatisfying? I haven't...

Thank you for the response. It's not inherently oscillating in nature, no. It's mostly located in the left ear, however every once in a while it seems to slowly jump to the right and then back. Sometimes I feel a weird electrical tingling in the back of my neck, and even if I'm somehow able to...

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to habituate to this new sound. It's too unpredictable and yet consistent. If it was anything like the old ringing, I'd probably have it on lockdown already. How is one supposed to get used to a sound that hits like an icepick in the ear? Does anyone else out...

Hello everyone! I've had tinnitus in both ears for around 20 years. Each ear had 2 different sounds, a hiss and a high-pitched tone, and none of the sounds were the same pitch. The first year was rough but luckily I habituated and things have been cool ever since. I only ever really was bothered...