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I think we all knew their conclusion intuitively (that tinnitus arising from different causes can have different characteristics), but it's nice to see someone study it systematically. Thanks for posting.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. My tinnitus also started out of nowhere about a year ago. I don’t have any obvious hearing loss, although they only tested up to 8000 Hz, and my tinnitus is around 9200 Hz, so I might have some hearing damage in the higher frequencies where they don’t...

Wow. Where are you getting your information? Let me guess—Fox News? I can’t get over the craziness of this. It’s incredible that you would rather vote for a lying, cheating, cowardly conman like Trump than a hard-working, intelligent woman with a strong history of public service. But I’m...

I'm so sorry you've joined this club. Like you, my tinnitus came out of nowhere and was accompanied by muffled hearing. My hearing returned to mostly normal after a couple of weeks, but the tinnitus remained. Mine has been intermittent from the start—one loud day followed by two quiet or even...

Bad days continue to get less loud... now maybe 4-5. Hope this keeps up.

This has been my experience, too. Clonazepam supposedly lowers the loudness of tinnitus for most people -- I guess you and I are among the unlucky few it doesn't work for. Do you find Alprazolam lowers tinnitus loudness?

The paper is from June 2024, so hot off the presses. And yes, an impressive list of authors.

Wow -- please keep us posted. It looks like the visits are virtual, so it would be available to those not in the NY area. I'll be curious to find out the cost, since all the treatments are supervised. Maybe we could get together and sponsor someone to try it?

Thanks for posting -- it's great to hear someone's tinnitus has improved so much. I've tried many of the things on your list without effect (unfortunately), but there are still some more I could try. Best wishes to you -- I hope it stays quiet!

I completely believe this. My tinnitus started after a COVID-19 booster vaccination and then worsened after a COVID-19 infection. I think it's either from inflammation or an autoimmune reaction. I'm hopeful for any treatment.

Happy that my COVID spike has quieted down -- I'm now back to where I was in May-- a "loud" day every 3-5 days, but "loud" is now 5-6, not 8

Thank you for checking! I come to Tinnitus Talk hoping someone would tell me Auricle has been approved. I'll be looking for your post. :-)

Ah, me too. My tinnitus started after my COVID-19 booster last fall. It had improved somewhat until I got COVID-19 for the first time in May. It definitely worsened in the month after I had recovered from COVID-19; I think I must have had some auto-immune reaction to the COVID-19 virus proteins...

Do they think the bulging disc and stenosis in your neck are linked to your increased tinnitus? If so, the surgery might help. How is your hearing? Have you experienced any further hearing loss after your SSNHL in 2015? Some people with hearing loss find hearing aids effectively reduce their...

You have described my (COVID-19 infection and COVID-19-vaccine-induced) tinnitus exactly. Mine is there every morning, but two out of three mornings, it disappears after a shower. On the third day, it is loud and unrelenting. I might have some high-frequency hearing loss in my left ear, but...

This was me, too. My tinnitus had calmed down some, then spiked when I caught COVID-19. Has yours improved any since?

Hi there, I also play the piano, and after I suddenly developed tinnitus, I became much more careful about sound levels. I was surprised to find that even relatively quiet playing on my piano was around 80-85 decibels. You might want to try using musician's earplugs for a while or limit the...

T was improving --hadn't had a really bad day in over a month. Then I got COVID. Now: 8/10 every third day, waking me up at night. Whaaaaa.

Hi all, I've introduced myself before. My tinnitus started shortly after my last COVID-19 booster in the fall of 2023. It's intermittent: two relatively quiet days followed by one very loud (8/10) day. It started to improve this spring—the loud day was down to about a 4 or 5/10, and sometimes, I...

I'm glad to hear it's decreasing. I hope it continues that way for you. Many people do find it diminishes over time. If you're already seeing improvements after a few months, that's really good news.

First, congrats on the work you've done to get to this page—we all know it's no easy task. I'd love to see your guide. I hope I'll be able to post in the Success Stories one day myself.

Did you have COVID-19? Tinnitus is a common (unfortunate) side effect of infection.

I also struggled with sleep around the four-month mark. I didn't want to take anything since there's a report out there of nearly everything making tinnitus worse. But out of desperation, I started taking a very low dose (~3.5-5 mg) of Mirtazapine each night. It knocked me out, and getting more...

I just want to second @Supersix's recommendation to try Mirtazapine. It allowed me to sleep, and that made everything else more manageable. Wishing you all the best.

I find Melatonin helpful -- well, anything that helps me sleep seems to keep my tinnitus stable. I take Melatonin and 5 mg of Mirtazapine, and I sleep pretty well. I think most evidence suggests that Melatonin helps alleviate tinnitus, or is neutral. I haven't heard any other reports of it...

Well, I'm pretty quiet to begin with -- no loud music, etc... I haven't done anything out of the ordinary to protect my ears, but I haven't done anything unusually loud, either. Sigh. Just sad. I was hoping I'd be one of the people whose intermittent tinnitus stayed that way for years.

I appear to have jinxed myself by writing my initial post. After five months of every-third-day hissing, for the last week, it's become every other day. I suppose round-the-clock hissing is next. I'm so depressed. Those quiet days were the only things making this tolerable. Could it be because...

I wonder how many of us have this sort of intermittent tinnitus? The audiologist I spoke with seemed to think I was just imagining the fluctuations in volume, but there are certainly a good number of people with the same symptoms on Tinnitus Talk. It is frustrating, because it implies that my...

Yes -- it can be so loud it wakes me up. If that happens, it often starts 90 minutes after I fall asleep, or in other words, at the end of one sleep cycle. Even if I fall back asleep, it'll be loud the next day. I think @Joe Cuber had a trick of waking up super-early that seemed to prevent a bad...

Yes, sometimes it's so loud it wakes me up, often after only 90 minutes of sleep -- about the time it takes for one sleep cycle. And hence the Mirtazapine. :-) I hope Seroquel works for you.

Interesting. Mine definitely resets when I sleep; what I have when I wake up is what I have for the whole day. If it's the hiss, it will get louder in late afternoon/early evening and reach a roar around dinner time. It starts to back off around the time I go to sleep; when I wake up in the...

I don't know anything about ETD (Eustachian Tube Dysfunction?). When my tinnitus started, I had muffled hearing in one ear and horrible headaches. I thought it was a sinus infection, but no one could see any signs of inflammation or fluid in my ears. None of the ENTs I went to suggested ETD as a...

Thanks, and good to know (though I'm female) -- I'd be happy if it left my system a little sooner. The first time I took Mirtazapine, I took half a 7.5 mg pill (so 3.75 mg), slept like a log for 8 hours and awoke to total silence. It was amazing, though I was a bit groggy. Now (about a month...

Thanks -- somehow I missed that thread... I probably just searched for the word "intermittent" in the titles. How is your tinnitus now? Has it changed in the intervening months? Thanks for your reply -- my doctor blithely suggested Clonazepam (with 4 refills!), but I don't think she's thinking...

Hi all -- I've posted on here before a few times, but I've never really introduced myself. I developed tinnitus suddenly last fall, five days after my COVID-19 vax. I can't be sure that's what caused it, but it's my best guess. No obvious hearing loss, just tinnitus in both ears, left much worse...

Hey @Joe Cuber. I was nosing around the other day and found this paper about people who have intermittent sleep-activated tinnitus. It describes mine to a "T" (so to speak). Can't remember -- does your intermittent tinnitus change with sleep as well? Looks like folks with this have reduced...

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Just wanted to mention, since you asked about anti-inflammatory supplements, that if your tinnitus is due to the COVID-19 booster you might want to try Curcumin (inhibits TNF-alpha); it was suggested to me by an ENT who specializes in tinnitus. I'm trying it -- I'll keep you posted if I notice a...

I'm sorry you're going through this. My tinnitus also started in October, a few days after my (5th) COVID-19 shot, so I'm right there with you. My hearing is also in the normal range, but my left ear is about 10 decibels below my right at high frequencies, so I might have some high-frequency...

Hi -- I started having loud, intermittent tinnitus, mostly in my left ear, about three months ago after my COVID-19 booster. I'm trying "sound therapy" with Widex Zen behind-the-ear maskers to try to habituate. But I wonder if amplifying hearing aids would be more helpful. My hearing is...

Hi @Joe Cuber -- yeah, this cyclic thing is so weird. On "quiet" days, I wake up with some ringing, but it goes away with a shower. Which is also pretty strange. I do have some very high-pitched overtones, though, the rest of the day. It's such a high frequency, I don't think I could hear it...

Hi @Joe Cuber, thank you so much for your detailed posts. My tinnitus started a few months ago out of the blue (COVID-19 vaccine, virus, who knows?) and has a very similar pattern to yours. Mine is mostly loud-low-low-loud-low-low. I don't think I've ever had two loud days in a row, nor can I...

Thank you so much for sharing your hopeful story! Like you, my tinnitus comes on after a nap or sleep; mine isn't constant -- it's always there in the morning, but two out of three days it goes away after a shower and doesn't reappear until after I've gone to sleep again. Hoping my outcome is...

I was looking into AudioCardio, too, and wanted to know if anyone had tried it. They don't make many claims about it helping tinnitus. The original study link is here. It's a little worrisome that many people in the control group had worsening of their hearing during the study...