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Hey. I didn't read your wall of text as I'm sure many people didn't read my wall of text when I was in the depths of despair from tinnitus, but I'll say you will get through this and be fine. For myself, it was a month by month little (psychological) improvements but I am basically fine and...

Logging in to say *yay* - it doesn't really bother me anymore. Either it's not as "reactive" as it was before or my brain just learned not to listen for it. Crazy now to think not so long ago it seemed that every footstep I took triggered a phantom sound which would send me into a spiral of...

That's reassuring as I'd consider myself basically cured if the reactivity went away. Mine did get reactive around the time I was ill with COVID-19 so maybe it's related, though the "reactivity" is much worse in the ear that seemed to get the worse acoustic trauma. Anyway, cheers. Fingers...

It's okay. I also found that the tinnitus calmed down when I went off the antidepressants so it's not just you.

Well I think it's worth putting a bit of an update here but it's actually unbelievable how much better I'm doing than I was when I wrote this post. I think I was going through a so called "spike" at the time so I was incredibly anxious but the tinnitus seems to have settled back to a baseline...

Okay so in my post I said I don't have hyperacusis... For the last week or two I've been feeling a bit of pain in my ear occasionally and today in my right ear there was a couple of times when it was more like a burning pain in response to sounds. When people have bad hyperacusis, do you get a...

Thanks Michael. My GP seemed to think as much so I'll stay on the NHS. Yeah I don't listen to headphones any more. I'm not even an audiophile really, I just thought I'd try to get into the hobby but I tend to binge things when I get a new obsession, and here I am unfortunately.

Hi all. Basically the TL;DR is that in July I bought some audiophile headphones and an amp + DAC and after 3 weeks of using them my ears felt funny and hurt until the end of August. By mid September I had bothersome static tinnitus when in a quiet room, and by October I had reactive unmaskable...

Honestly I'd just exclusively use speakers to listen to music as you get lots of natural reality checks when it comes to the volume from walking in and out of the room for example. I'd say it's worth the trade off to ensure you can enjoy music well into your twilight years without having to...