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In May 2021, I developed new tones in my ears two days after receiving the vaccine. These sounded like cicadas and a mass of hissing. Before that, I only had a low rumbling hum. While the new sounds were unpleasant, they remained stable. The hissing was reactive, but I found that the sound of a...

I am so incredibly depressed. My previously stable tinnitus worsened six weeks ago after a flu or COVID, and I cannot cope with it. It is now so erratic and loud that I cannot mask it with anything, and it has become ultra reactive. It feels angry and aggressive, and I hear it over everything...

Congrats! I’m currently struggling massively to cope after a new spike, either from COVID-19 or the flu. I’m a month in now and terrified. This is life changing. My previous tinnitus was bad enough, but this is pushing me close to the edge—it’s a total nasty rollercoaster ride. I hope it...

@legends, any update on this? My tinnitus spike is terrifying me—80% of the time, I wake up with my tinnitus screaming at me. I've been experiencing this spike since I got sick in December. For the last three weeks, I can go to bed with it being just about bearable, only to wake up from a nap...

It’s a bit of a complicated situation. Yes, my tinnitus did return to baseline, but in the years after that, I developed other tinnitus that wasn’t related to Gabapentin. In this case, though, it did go back to baseline. However, it took many months. I only took a week’s worth of the tablets.

Interesting. I remember back in 2021, after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, I had an awful headache and took Naproxen. My tinnitus started the next day, but I’ve always attributed it to the vaccine rather than the Naproxen. I only took one tablet. I assumed Naproxen would only cause tinnitus if...

I hope you don’t mind me sharing a similar issue. I’m starting to really panic. I came down with a bad flu on December 18th (I didn’t take a COVID-19 test, but this hit me far harder than COVID-19 did last year). It felt more like the flu because it hit my chest hard, and I couldn’t even get out...

I just realized that my distortions are very likely due to "loudness hyperacusis." I can tolerate normal noises, but as soon as the volume rises above an average level, everything distorts and sounds ten times louder than it should. Yesterday, while talking to a checkout person at the...

I am worried that my condition is getting worse. I suffered an acoustic shock four months ago and have been experiencing a constant, strange sensation in my ear—sometimes a wet, cold feeling, along with intermittent aching in my jaw and ear. I also have loudness hyperacusis and distorted voices...

Just an early August update. I am getting so frustrated as my hearing is becoming more and more distorted. Today, I had a few family members around, and I couldn't cope. Their voices were distorted, and my own voice was distorted too. It's like a harshness to the voices that is very...

Yes, I would do hard time for seven years.

I have a dental visit coming up as my lower right wisdom tooth filling has come off, and the tooth is cutting my cheek, so I can't leave it. I am terrified, I have not been to the dentist since getting tinnitus, hyperacusis, and possible TTTS, and sadly the tooth is right on my worst side. Is...

How are you doing this month? I totally sympathise. I have a lot of same symptoms.

Damn this, I now have a fluttering in my right ear, and nothing is improving. I have no idea if I am mentally giving myself Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome or if I actually have it. I didn't know that ear fluttering was a symptom of Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome until I read about it two weeks...

How is everyone today? I have sound distortions when I speak.

I never even knew or thought of sound booths—what a wonderful idea! My tinnitus is reactive, so that could work well. I also live 20 meters from four years' worth of construction work, and the reverse alarm beeping is destroying me.

How are you doing now?

Thanks, everyone. Unfortunately, things have gotten a lot worse, although the feeling of fullness has improved. I now can't sleep. As soon as I start to doze off, I am woken up by my jaw clenching and a headache. My jaw is sore around the right ear area, especially when I'm lying down. For the...

Any update? I am suffering the same. It has been 17 days for me too.

Thanks for the post. It’s great to hear you are improving. Unfortunately, I have never taken Prednisone. Can I ask what type of earplugs you wear in the shower? I have been having bowl and flannel washes because I am terrified of using the shower since it is so noisy. I now regret removing the...

I am so sorry to see nobody replied to you. My reply may be irrelevant to you now, but yes, it sounds very much like TTTS and can be made a lot worse due to anxiety. How are you feeling now?

Hope you are doing okay. I found you because a baby screamed in my ear last Friday and my symptoms are the same as yours. I am so worried. Can I ask how close was your baby to your ear when he screamed ? For me it was a mother stood behind me in a queue at a store, her toddler just suddenly...

Hey Jay. Did your fullness go away in the end ? I am suffering the same after a child screamed in my ear.

I had a really terrible night last night because of ear pain. It's so annoying. I usually sleep on my left side, so I don't understand why my right ear, which is the one that hurts, would be affected. I did sleep in a different bed than the one I've been using for the past 4 days when the ear...

Thanks for your post, I appreciate it. You have reduced some of my concerns. I often think my anxiety causes a lot of this. After I wrote my original post, I panicked a bit more when I saw this about Acoustic Shock Disorder. The child's scream was unexpected and loud, so I am worried now that...

Two days ago, I was standing in line at the pharmacy, and right behind me was a mother holding her toddler. The toddler screamed three times, and the high pitch of the screams was so intense that I had to put my fingers in my ears. Although the screams were short, only lasting a second each, I...

Just like everyone else on this thread, I am so tired, so fatigued, tinnitus has worn me out and I am sick of it. I have just passed my 2 year mark for my bad tinnitus. I managed to live for 15 years with mild single tone non-reactive tinnitus that only bothered me when I had a cold, then in May...

Interesting. About 15 or so years ago I got the low rumbling truck engine ticking over on idle sound when I used a foam earplug to block out a neighbour's dog barking at 6 am every day. That noise then used to only come out for a month or so when I was sick with a cold. I would do everything to...

Everything I kept quoted above is very similar to me, 19 months in now to the reactive and hissing part, along with a rumbling hum I have had for 20 years. Joy of life ruined, music ruined, audiobooks ruined, doing hobbies I used to enjoy ruined.

Oh no this is awful. I only just found out. Back in late 2021 we had long private chats on here as we both got Pfizer vaccinations and our existing tinnitus was made 100x worse 36 hours after the shot, so we were very similar, both saying how we couldn't live like this. I tried to stay away...

Before my reactive tinnitus stuffed everything up I used to be able to mask the rumbling hum with a basic £15 fan, although when it was really bad I sometimes needed my air conditioner. I woke up with it one day in 2001 after I had started to use earplugs due to a neighbour's dog barking at the...

Yeah I posted about this too, chattering my teeth and shaking head briefly stops my rumbling hum. Sadly it does nothing for my other tones. Before May 2021 for a whole 20 years I had the hum and it would only happen for me during colds or certain medication, so I could cope okay as it would...

Still being driven mad here too. Had a rumbling hum for many years that only reared its ugly head during colds and would go away like clockwork after about 4 weeks. Then I had the vax in May 2021 and 2 days later all hell broke lose, rumbling hum came back, and on top of that hissing tinnitus...

Hiyah. Did your tinnitus go back down after the vaccine ? Mine is still loud after 1 year.

@Silentreign, I got reactive tinnitus the same week as the COVID-19 jab, it has destroyed my life for a whole year now. I had a different type of tinnitus for 20 years but I only had that each time I got a cold and only for 3 weeks before it went away again. This new tinnitus has absolutely...

Hey, good to see you. Yeah, I tried to lay low as I didn't want to remind myself of this, but it has really got to me again, I am just so sick of it. I was hopeful when Dr. Poland said it should only last a year that it might go away, but I have gone past a year and it is worse than ever. How...

One of my many tones sounds like someone letting a car tyre down in my left ear and a bike tyre down up again my right ear, not nice, and it is reactive which means anything I hear the hissing gets louder. On top of that I have the truck rumbling one. So annoying.

It has been just over a year since I had the vaccine (May 12th) which made my existing tinnitus 10x worse and also gave me reactive tinnitus and hyperacusis. Both ears affected. It never got better. This was the Pfizer, first dose. I thought I was being smart not getting the AstraZeneca vaccine...

Perhaps mentally, but over the last few months the hyperacusis and distorted hearing has got worse, which destroys my joy of life as everything I hear sounds so harsh as though it needs to be fine tuned, even when I talk myself things sound croaky and broken. Every time someone says something...

Well, you won, but for your interest I also have visual snow (had it since I was 19 in 1998, in fact my old forum post is still on the net somewhere on a health forum from back then before I knew the term, I called it static vision). I also have reactive tinnitus BTW and hyperacusis. The...

I can no longer enjoy music, just sounds a loud ringing hiss, like a dentist drill mixed with shaken maracas. Music and radio was my life, also digitising and cleaning up vinyl records, I can no longer do that. My hearing always sounds like it needs to be sandpapered to clear it. I want to rip...

Yeah, I don't believe the inflammation explanation anymore. The vaccine has either damaged the hair cells or damaged the nerve IMO. I have had zero improvement over the last 5 months, even worse in fact, if there was inflammation surely that would very slowly improve symptoms not make them...

Yes, I totally understand, I had 1 tone of tinnitus before this began in the days after the Pfizer vaccine, but that tone would only come out when I had a cold, now it is 24/7 and a lot worse, and 2 new tones, but reactive tinnitus and distortion. I can't cope beyond a year of this as the last...

Hi. It was my first dose of Pfizer. I checked my antibodies and only got "32" from it, so that was a waste and now I am left with possible life long tinnitus.

I hate this so much. All I did was decide to take the COVID-19 vaccine and I now have zero quality of life left. 3 tones of tinnitus, distorted hearing, reactive tinnitus, shrill cicadas, rumbling hum penetrating my ear, an intense eeeee sound, 24/7. I used to only have the rumble sound for 4...

I think he meant skipping the MRI as I think he got his tinnitus from Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

Ah bummer. I bet that is what has happened to me then. Can synapses regenerate? So frustrating. I was lying in bed last night and my hissing got louder to the point of extreme and the low rumbling hum was so penetrating. I couldn't mask it with noise as my ear hears things wrong, a fan...

Thanks everyone for your replies. Yes, this is a horrible crazy situation. I had gone from being fine in April (given my original single tone tinnitus only appeared when I had a cold) to near suicide some days because of this endless relentless noise that goes from bad to worse. Not getting...

I got 2 new tinnitus tones on May 12th (my original tone was dormant but came back to life with 2 new ones the day after the vaccine). Still really annoying 4 months later. The last month things have started to get odd where what I hear is quite harsh, almost like a broken speaker. I am...

Mine sounds like a combination of a dentist drill and the ultra high pitch car brakes you hear in car parks sometimes.

I really hope not, for both our sakes, as I am 3 months in with the same problem, only difference is mine was Pfizer. I am sick of it. I also have distorted sound in my left ear on top of loud hissing on top of a vibrational hum. I want to know what this vaccine has done to me, I don't want to...

I still have my tinnitus worsening since 1st Pfizer vaccine on 12th May. Worse than ever. I am losing hope and can't cope. 3 whole months with no improvement. Can't mask it. Why did I choose to destroy my ears with a potent vaccine. I am shocked I am hearing medical people say "well, COVID-19...

@Tau, did your hearing issues ever improve, even slightly, since it began? I have such a similar situation to you with my ears.

So my hum is STILL here after being re-activated since the jab in mid May. Normally when I have a cold it comes to life but then goes away again within 4 weeks, I am now on 3 months since it began again. It is SO frustrating because some days it is penetrating my ear so much I want to die, and...

Will that test tell you? Any info appreciated.

I had no idea higher frequency tests could damage hearing. Maybe that happened to me? I have used lots of hearing test apps that go up to 20 kHz to test my hearing. I had no idea it could damage hearing. Mine started also around when I had my audiogram, maybe the pro equipment caused this. Do...

Hey Sinewave. how are you now ? I got tinnitus post-vaccine too.

Thanks @Tau but sorry to hear you are in a similar situation. This now makes me wonder if my next door neighbours shredder caused this hidden hearing loss. Because what confuses me is my tinnitus (new tones) began 13th May, a day after the vaccine, but the reactive/diplacusis side of it didn't...

For the last month that I have been suffering from what I assumed was reactive tinnitus but I have just learnt of diplacusis which could be even more apt to my condition. For instance, I have hissing tinnitus in both my ears (new since 13th May post COVID-19 vaccine) and this progressed to left...