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I'd like to share my experience with tinnitus, especially since one of my biggest struggles when I first developed it was the fear of never being able to have (more) children. My tinnitus is moderate, and I also experience TTTS with pain and mild loudness hyperacusis. Here's how my experience...

ENT made me feel like absolute shit because I refused tympanometry since it caused be almost a year of pain last year. Didn't believe me.

Double outer ear infection likely from earplug use ..prescribed ofloxacin ear drops which are ototoxic. What do I do?!

My firstborn is the one who gave me tinnitus, hyperacusis and TTTS as a newborn. The acoustic shock from him crying near my ear just happened to affect me in this permanent way, which I've deduced is just really shit luck at this point. I've witnessed many occasions with others who were...

Baby is here and we are enjoying soaking up the snuggles. Happy to say that my T wasn't impacted by my delivery or hospital stay.

I'm having more trouble hearing thru my earplugs. I used to be able to hear a whisper easily. Is H getting better or T getting worse? Sigh.

I've come across this trial for tDCS, and the results look promising. I'll admit I don't have a ton of knowledge about tDCS, but this trial found statistically significant results in lowered THI score, as well as distress and loudness VAS. It also included a placebo group and the results of the...

But I enjoyed playing with my son for awhile, even though having my earplugs in makes me sad. I don't want these moments to pass me by!

I wish I got a second chance or that mild type to start. Frustrating that I never got warning before I was stuck with all these ear issues.

My son's bedtime story last night was about seeing fireworks. You know I added in that they put in earplugs first! Gotta start 'em young

Have you looked into Clomipramine? It's an old TCA mainly used for OCD, but there have been some anecdotal reports popping up recently that it has helped cure/greatly reduce hyperacusis and noxacusis in some people. From what I've read, you have to get up to a dose of 125-150 mg, but then it...

Yes, everything I've seen says symptoms return upon stopping the medicine.

How do you get past the fear of worsening without living as a hermit in complete isolation? It seems everyone gets worse over time.

I just want to chime in as a parent to a young toddler and soon-to-be mother of 2, that your children will still know you as the fun and loving person you were before - because you still are, you can be. Life isn't the same after tinnitus, don't get me wrong, but the vast majority of people are...

That it can affect anyone, at any time, for relatively benign or even unknown reasons. You can list them: a concert, a cold, an ear infection, covid, MS, SSRI use, Advil use, a car accident, headphone use, etc. You can use real people's stories of their onset. I would go with the most ordinary...

Trying to stay off but my update is I'm 5 mo pregnant &very excited. I don't want to put my life on pause in case I worsen& regret in future

Hi all, I've hesitated posting as I have been trying to avoid catastrophizing but I'm a bit at a loss. For background, I had an acoustic shock in Jan 2022 that resulted in tinnitus in my left ear, now bilateral with my right ear joining in a few months later. Both my ears have felt full and...

Pain is gone now, back to business as usual. Convinced that my issues do actually stem from a physical problem with my ears (TTTS) now

Going to treat it as eardrum injury rather than acoustic injury. Neurologist said I have TN & gave me meds. Might help TTTS. No change in T

I think the tympanometry tests bruised my eardrums in combination with my TTTS.Pain is more from jaw/neck movement and TTTS thump then sound

It's my birthday and I'm pretty sure I got noaxacusis. No trigger for it except maybe a tympanometry test a few days prior. I can't do this

Another audiology appointment, another time of being told my hearing and ears are perfect. Why can't my brain get that message!

It really boils down to personal preference. It's a risk-benefit analysis. Yes, there is potential risk involved if it gets "into the wrong hands", but I personally don't think it's very likely, especially if using the biggest companies like Ancestry or 23andMe. If you aren't willing to risk it...

I'm in a bottomless pit of despair. No one to talk to. Therapist thinks I need antidepressant but too afraid to risk tinnitus worsening.