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Thank you so much. Me too , I've experienced many door slqms etc , especially in the beginning as I had to learn to be alert. Now I developed a wild animal alertness to noises ,heh, so I must say lately I didn't get that much of those, but this little bastard yesterday burtsing in my small ...

Hi everyone.. Not only I'm stressed due to the flight I'm about to take, but while packing at home I stepped on one of those bubble cushion they use to protect merchandise (it's like a small bag made of very thin plastic filled with air) . Of course, it burst under my feet with a loud noise. I...

I didn't read all the answers , only your first post, so forgive me if I write sth that has already been written. I hope you took your supplements on your way back, which could still help your hearing cells and then kept taking them for a few days. I also believe big part of it is your stress...

There is NO reliable protection from the noise at the concert of that kind. Remember that earplugs that say 30 db reduction in reality diminish the sound by a few db only ( there are some threads on the forum about it . ) Secondly, know that you cannot protect from the bass sound ( bone...

T is often related to hormones.. it seems that sugar level has sth to do with that to. Let alone anxiety, depression..You had many basis to develop it, but you can't stay at this point. See some docs, do the exams most of us here did in the beginning. Even if it doesn't dissapear, it can...

Hi, almost an year later, I 'm going through external otitis as well. First few days I dodn't notice any impact on T on that side, but even if I do today, I believe it may be caused by the fact, that the canal is swallen, so the sounds getting by the brain get distorted - well, sth is...

Be careful with melatonin, it's not neutralto the body, especially in the young age when you probably don't lack any in your organism. Not only can you seriously mess with your natural hormonal cycle , but new studies talk about seriously negative imact of this hormon if taken too much. Mind...

My t tends to get louder when I stay in total silence. It's not only that I hear it more because it's silent around - it does get louder and louder whereas some noise can put it down for a while, so I simply never sleep in silent cause it would be impossible. My t is far too intrusive. I play a...

Tinnitus cannot and does not cause hearing loss...that's not at all how it works.

Two days later your spike may have nothing to do with the event you describe. Personally it's overprotecting that gives me long spikes and not very short exposures to sudden loud noise ( which always lasts short cause the rule of thumb is to have hands free to be able to cover the ears. ) What's...

Sorry to answer only now ( I don't visit this forum everyday anymore ).. so how did it go ? Any better a few days later ? Tell me about it..I have a damn spike only from taking a tramway yesterday..First time in two years I took public transport for so long as an hour and T spiked . I asume it's...

Hard to say what level of sound you were exposed to since you haven't measured it and we weren't there..My guess is live music in a restaurant can't be as loud as a concert, but we also have different tolerance ( possible also physical tolerance ) to noise, so hard to say..it can just be a...

Pushing the body's limits by being overburdened with work, not getting enough sleep for long periods is what triggers T in many people so it's up to you. T or not T , never underestimate the impact of your lifestyle on your health in general and ask yourself if it's surely worth it . I don't see...

I don't force myself to pretend things are fine if they're not, only I believe by socialisation we instinctively behave as if it was ok while being among people. Be that despite T or any other source of suffering. If I'm well enough to be around people, that means I will talk to them pretty...

Ears first, hubbies after ;) Doesn't he know our problem enough ? He shouldn't even be surprised you moved. Mine knows well and after two years has a noise - radar in mind, almost as big as mine. Or when he goes somewhere alone ( cause I simply stopped going with him to loud places ) the first...

You look very young. I believe you suffer from depression which is a disease and must be treated professionally and tinnitus can be a result of that as well, not your ears at all. You say yourself you want to live only not like this which proves you're only looking for help not for disappearing...

How about testing yourself for other ilnesses ? That can be about everything..liver, kidneys, thyroid, high sugar level, hypertension..Are you sure you're in perfect health ?

I guess that even if you sued him the same day and with plenty of witnesses you wouldn't get anything, cause he didn't hurt you on purpose and since T is invisible harm..well, don't you see that yourself ? More importantly, have you done all the tests possible to eliminate causes of your recent...

I dread public toilets. Oftentimes I would just cover my ears when the water flushes. And when people outside are using those damn dryers that sound like planes taking off. I'm serious. Who cares how many decibels it is exactly. I just know they are too loud.

My car is loud on a highway and since it's only very low humming and general low frequencies, earplugs don't really block them and they'll get to the inner ear by bone conduction . Globally, I avoid long drives as much as I can. Nothing longer than an hour a few times per ear. Driving in town is...

One can't say there is no god as well as one can't say there is. If one stands by either if these statements, he lacks some rationality and capacity of critical thinking ( then again one may not give a damn about being rational and he may be fine with no intelectual digging whatsover - right.)...

Well, I'm afraid you're giving an answer to yourself in your posts..You work your butt off ..you work sick amount of hours..and maybe you're proud of it, but your body surely isn't. Start by changing the way of life. You're very probably abusing your body and its strenghts. You have to slow down...

@Emmi, and I agree with you that loudness of T matters. Like hell. Mine is a little quiter today and I already feel much better, but then again, I know that tomorrow it may flare up again. Funny this advice we always get first - ''have a lot of sleep'', while sleep is what T disrupts the most...

@Emmi , I can't say I'm happy..but I can enjoy life. Especially before my recent spike, which I still hope to see settle, I really lived quite normally and since T, I had two most awsome travels in life , to Sicily and Crete. I'm not happy for many other reasons though, so ..but t definitely...

I hear you I felt the same way so many times..All I can advise you is..not to think, really..Avoid loud noises, loud places or anything that scares you for now, but don't think about the future. Most probably in time there will be fewer and fewer things you will have to avoid, except for the...

To those who take big doses of melatonin .. From what I've read, you really shouldn't. If you take more than your body needs, you risk disrubting your hormonal system and ven on this forum some people confirm that bigger doses work worse than smaller ones. I stopped taking melatonin cause I felt...

Ear infection, benzos, headphones and anxiety..all this can worsen tinitus. Even the fan , for that matter. I guess it depends on the person but we are many to claim that white noise or fan sound actually makes t flare up. I imagine your previous addiction might have sth to do with that too...

Betaserc and ginko did absilutely nothing to my t, I even was under the impression that it worsened it.

How are you a week later? Maybe it was only temporary worsening ?

Hey Victor, you should come for support , especially if nobody arounds you is going through the same. I understand as well what insomnia is. You really, really should adress that. Not only because we generally feel better when we sleep , but in cases like your and mine - when T came out of...

You were luckier than 99% of people here, good on you..Even though it was very loud at the beginning - I wonder if it's not steroids that saved you. Someting that many people simply don't receive from their ignorant doctors in the beginning - like myself. Mine just asked me to WAIT. Who knows...

If it was last Saturday, you can still help your heraing cells recover, if they were brutalised. Take magnesium, NAC, a lot of vitaminc C and stay in quiet places. I know staying calm is easier to say than do..I'd rather avoid any loud place till the end of my days rather than going through this...

Magnesium can make t worse temporarily, I think I have that effect too. That may be because it makes the neurons work even more intensely (?) - I tell myself that. It's a vicious circle cause if you don't sleep well for a long period, then your T gets worse too , even if your sleeping problems...

Everybody does, only some remeber it , others don't. I surely dream every night, but my dreams are not more vivid than before T. Since T is related to brain acitivity as well as dreams , no wonder there may be a link ..T is very rarely present in my dreams, happened once or twice maybe..

Maybe she's a wonderful mother if you say so, but she surely isn't a wonderful person. She thinks you're lying to her about your condition to make HER miserable ? Oh yeah, she's the poor one here. You're too soft on her. What did you even marry for ? Didn't she swear to be with you for the good...

That's so interesting - it's totally the opposite for me ! Any shower, bath and ( as I discovered lately ) swimming pool escalates my T like hell, even if it's a quiet day and even if I don't swim and just lay on a matress , moving my arms from time to time to push off from the poolsides - after...

Correct me if I'm wrong , but removing teeth doesn't make any loud noise, does it ? Even drilling doesn't cause changes to T, most of the times, let alone removing a tooth. In my view, you have nothing to worry about as far as T is concerned .

Most of all, don't abuse on earplugs. Plug only when the hearing damage is possible or simply avoid the loud places. Earplugs are nothing natural for the ears and shouldn't be put in too often. Secondly, once you 've put them in, don't yell, don't talk loud. Feeling pain in the sinuses while...

We have to keep on living for those good moments that still happen..To some of us more , to others fewer, but I believe we can still squeeze the beuty of life from it. As long as there's at least one thing that makes us forget about T or mask it, we can go on till they find the cure..

Just remember not to speak loudly or yell when you wear eraplugs cause then you're hurting your ears even more than if you didn't wear them ( which makes the pretty useless in social situations.) Still, 83- 89 is too loud for broken ears. Don't take osha guidelines for granted, it's just a...

In that case I can only advice you patience..of course, no use using Sudafed if not needed. Valsava manoeuvre is to be done very gently . I hope for you it calms down. Don't forget to keep us posted if it does.

Sounds like your Eustachian tube might be swallen. Have you tried using some decongestant ? Sometimes they gt swallen even if we think they are perfectly fine ( I can tell from my experience.) Either way I'd look for a physical cause rather than your brain just tuning up the volume . Maybe you...

Hi.. have you tried some not too invasive meds that could calm the brain activity down a bit ? Maybe yoga , acupuncture , some herbs ? I know I'd take anything in that situation, I can't imagine what horror that must be . I hope it's not too loud at least :( wish you the best.

Sizzling...a perfect word to describe my t most of the time; same for me - a loss in the highest frequencies : 35 - 40 db ..which is not that mild, enough to have a moderate t for sure..

Hi Abby, how are you today?

Hi, how did it go on ?

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I mean the cars and motorbikes can't be louder than certain level of db and general noise must be kept and certain level for it's regulated by EU law. Of course - that's an ideal and anyway, you need to be caught first to pay the fine if your car is too noisy and that rarely happens, but at...

Hi Manda. I'm no doctor but it smeels like the reason for such worsening for no good reason ( no acoustic trauma ? no barotrauma etc. ) suggets sth phisiological. More fluid built up ? Eustachian tubes problems ? I'd see an ENT as soon as possible...if they state all fine , it may just be a...

Mine (city) is not that loud actually and wearing earplugs all the time would be unberable , first cause it makes my tinnitus louder during the time I plug and second, it gives me long spikes. Going outside is my life saver cause I normally don't hear t there. Except that today I did hear it...

Has it settled down ? I got a bus horn at 5 m max ( 1 sec ) on the street today even though normally I'm super careful but well, shit happens and to me pretty often. Globally as soon as I don't pay attention for a second some jerk will use the opportunity to blare a honk for no reason. I wish...

Always at home except for the kitchen if I'm cooking and except for the shower - in 98% of cases. It really doesn't depend that much on the loudness as of the kind of sound. Sometimes I get a cycadas in the right ear which are really not loud at all, but completely unmaskable and I hear them...

How are you today ? Any better ? In the UK you can still get NAC and magnesium plus vitamins and staying away from any noise for a few days ( hope it's not too late for this kind of advice, I would have stayed home except for going to see a doc ). No matter how many db those earplugs cut - it...

Hi all. Fewer than 72 hours ago I had my 6th flight since the onset. I know the protocol for flying. Half of my flights with T went very smoothly but the rest seemed to influence my ears in a way. before the onset I flied without caring about my ears. I even remember having flown sick and...

* to make it talked about widely.. ( sorry; comp problems..)

How do you want to convince anybody to take part in the experiment, to begin with ? only very close relatives could do that and those are usually sympathizing with us. It's in human nature to pretend that the problem doesn't exist rather than embrace it . Our condtion scares people so it's...

If that will confort you, it can still go away, absolutely. There are people who have it gone after 1, 5,10 years..However, there are those with whom it stayed forever so just in case you have to start adapting to this version yet there's still hope it will reslve or that an efficient drug will...

No. It took away around 3/4 of joy of life and made me feel even more miserable than I already had been because of other health issues . I don't believe this crappy sentence '' whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger''. Or T just killed me in a way.

Is your T very loud ?

It's a long time people figured out here that OSHA guidelines are not compatible for us. Not even for anyonem to be honest but even less for us. First months it's usually being afraid of any louder noise. Then again, my bf has T, works in opera , goes to concerts, doesn't seem to get any...