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    Feeling of Ear Fullness After a Bad Tinnitus Spike?

    Likely middle ear muscle tension. Nothing much to do about. A couple of glasses of whiskey would help for a while.
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    Going to a Concert with Tinnitus — Best Advice?

    2 hours 103db... You'd be very lucky not to get any damage. It will be very dependent ob the size of the venue and location of seats. If it's big and you're on the balcony, you'd probably be able to avoid worsening. On the other hand if you're close, your protection is irrelevant and it can get...
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    Unable to Sleep — I'm Waking Up Every Hour or Two — Tried Melatonin, Natural Remedies, Teas

    When i couldn't sleep for 3 days straight and nothing mundane was working for me, i got clonazepam prescription. Took 1mg before bed for a month. I got 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep from the first time i took it. Melatonin and herbals were doing nothing for me as well - 1 or 2 hours of sleep...
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    Trying to Explain Tinnitus to Disability Employment

    I don't think trying to explain what you have is a good approach to this. I just informed my boss during the first meeting that i have ear damage and i can't take loud noises and that i can't participate in whatever events or situations involving loud noises due to my condition, which is a...
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    Talking Tinnitus — a U.K. Expo in Birmingham on Saturday, 15th September, 2018

    It's a pity there will be no videos of the talks available. May be someone of the attendees will find a possibility to record if not video but audio? Would be very much appreciated.
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    Fullness in Right Ear

    You can mask fullness if you'd wear large monitor type headphones. You can use plugs as well but even very quiet tinnitus becomes hard to bear then. Can't talk anything about cause of your fullness. Mine is from noise. If it was there prior to using of eyedrops then how could they possibly...
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    For Those with Middle Ear Myoclonus...

    I wanted to try it, but it didn't pass certification in my country so I'd need to import it. Good thing I'm working in pharma buisness now so I can get any drug there is which did pass it without bothering with prescriptions. I started to use another muscle relaxant called tolperisone recently...
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    For Those with Middle Ear Myoclonus...

    I have very strong and constant feeling of pressure behind the eardum and sometimes clicking, but not often. I have tried intramuscular injections of magnesium and it helps somewhat as long as it lasts. For me the fullness doesn't go away completely, but I have a severe case with multiple...
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    Tinnitus and Other Symptoms After Antibiotic (Zithromax). Please Help!

    Hi. I've got my T from loud noises, but I don't have detectable hearing loss either. Audiograms only test to about 4khz usually, I believe? They test only the range of frequencies where everyday sounds mediate. High frequency audiograms go a bit higher than that, but still don't span over the...
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    Any New Hopeful Treatments?

    I recall there is a final testing going on of an esketamine nasal spray which reportedly works wonders on depression, including cases where conservative treatments failed. It doesn't share that bucket of side effects of other antidepressants and has little of its own...
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    Did Anyone Else Have Ear Fullness Last for Months After Acoustic Trauma?

    I had more than a dozen fillings and a crown done over last two years. Nothing adverse so far. For me food doesn't affect it. Stress and fatigue - they do.
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    Dropped a Metal Shower Head

    If you're panicking and exhausted you can get an increase in loudness simply from that. You take clonazepam and still can't sleep? How much do you take? Why you're taking Prednisone and Betahistine? Were you prescribed that or smth? Do you actually have hearing loss? The events you described...
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    Dropped a Metal Shower Head

    Really doubt it. Your T may change a tone or new tone may appear, but most likely this will mean that your T is of reactive type and not that there was any damage sustained.
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    Thinking About It 90% of Time

    With time you forget how it was to live without tinnitus. Years on and it becomes part of the environment, you just get used to it. Hard to believe, but that's how it is for most.
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    Did Anyone Else Have Ear Fullness Last for Months After Acoustic Trauma?

    I had exposure to noise recently and my fullness spiked again along with tinnitus. Fullness is very bad now. Given that it's 24/7 for me and previously had never resolved, I'm considering futher options now like carbamazepine, anesthetic injections into wisdom teeth locations from dental office...
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    6 Months In: Some Progress but Losing Patience + Hope of Complete Healing

    That's good, then it may pass. Do you have unilateral hearing loss after that accident with synth? This is very well known effect of anesthetics getting in blood stream. Some people in desperate cases even have lidocaine drip at home to have a relief. If that was after noise, then it's noise...
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    A Collection of Links Proving Some People Are Insane

    Indeed. The audiatory system is suprisingly resilient for most. I wonder what the evolutionary pressures have been in place to temper it like that, as such loud artificial stumili appeared only recently.
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    Safe Noise Limit for 2 Hours Exposure?

    What's safe for normal person very well might not be safe for a person who developed tinnitus after noise exposure. Guidelines are good as a starting point, but you'll need to judge the situation based on your own experience. If you're getting not comfortable, you should leave asap no matter what.
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    Did Anyone Else Have Ear Fullness Last for Months After Acoustic Trauma?

    For me fullness never went away. It's been for 13 years now.
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    Anyone Endured a Second Worsening and Come Out the Other End?

    I had quadruple increase at the very least. I've been working for 2 years now and feeling somewhat ok but i'm taking mood stabilizing drug daily and that's the only way i can relax and take a break. Personality changes as well have been severe and don't think I will be ever the same. This sh*t...
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    Does Anyone Feel Like Tinnitus Make You Almost Bipolar?

    I take Depakine extended release. I take 1000mg in the morning, it's usually enough for a day. I can take another 500mg during evening if I feel too agitated.
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    Does Anyone Feel Like Tinnitus Make You Almost Bipolar?

    I've got prescribed with a med for bipolar in a ward where my T problems led me to. It helps a lot. I managed to get back to work, and I was able to think straight for first time since I got T. If I don't take my daily dose, my thinking goes back to mess within days.
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    Tinnitus Spike from MRI — Permanent?

    Give your ears a rest for a couple of weeks. It may subside. These hair cells in the ear get all messed up when exposed to a loud noise, they need time to get back into normal positions.
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    Klonopin? Is It Just a Placebo Effect Now?

    I think it's doing nothing, you can stop taking. I believe it's about the same final tapering dosage I stopped taking it at as well. Nothing happened. Was taking half a tablet of klonopin 1 or 2 mg, don't remember, for 3 months prior.
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    Melatonin Producing Glasses

    Just turn the blue intensity down in monitor/tv RGB settings. No need for glasses.
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    Ears Changing Pressure with Fleeting Tinnitus

    I have this. I believe it is muscle spasm within middle ear. When this occurs, the conduction of sound from eardrum to cochlea is disrupted, hence the hearing becomes muted. The T spike is then the consequence of the spasm itself or of the temporary loss of hearing.
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    So Upset. Went to Dentist and I Have a Rotting Wisdom Tooth

    Only wisdom teeth at the bottom of the jaw are located close enough to the facial nerve, so the possibity exists it could be damaged during extraction. You can confirm this with your dentist. Also, i had top wisdom tooth removed - nothing happened, and two bottom ones removed as well with same...
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    Hopes Dashed :(

    I'm prepared to leave any job at anytime whenever there is a threat of getting T worse. I put the plugs or block my ears with fingers if there is no time to put plugs, then in case staring I explain that I have medical condtion related to ears and I can't tolerate loud noises. I don't ever tell...
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    Do You Take Something to Reduce Your Tinnitus? Do You Take Something That Relaxes You to It?

    I take depakine ER, it helps with anxiety and racing thougths throu the day. When i relax on bed before sleeping, my intermittent tones switch to stable gradually, then blend with the background hiss, which goes down in volume as well.
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    Mood Stabilizers & Tinnitus

    I'm taking valproic acid 1500 mg/day for a half a year now. It helps a lot in fixing the mood and getting good sleep. Most of all it gets you the control of your thoughts back. It didn't affect my tinnitus in any way.
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    Tinnitus with External Trigger (?)

    It's totally common occurrence, which isn't a symptom of any pathology. I'm not sure whether the exact mechanism by which the loudness increases has been resolved. I remember I red that there was a paper published, which got down to a point that part of brain which controls these face muscles...
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    I'm Slowly Losing It...

    You may want to give baclofen a go against muscle spasms, it's cheap and without serious side effects afaik. It's also works great on mental side of things: thinking gets very ordered and the wheels are turning, it gives you amazing willpower and confidence to face difficulties and at the very...
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    Left Ear Twitching?

    I have eardrum vibrating rarely and I experienced my ears clicking a few times, these are the only direct symptoms. But I also have a very strong feeling of pressure in ears which I suspect is some kind of pathology in muscles as well, probably myoclonus itself. The feeling of pressure I have...
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    Left Ear Twitching?

    When I searched for middle ear myoclonus on net, I found another option to probe for possible muscles involved without cutting them - botox injections to the suspected muscles through eardrum or by throat depending on their location. Botox would totally disable the muscle for a duration of a...
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    Stapedial Myoclonus Triggered by Voice

    Guys with myoclonus, do you have a feeling of pressure in ears as well or it's just feeling of trembling when muscle vibrates?
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    Retigabine (Trobalt, Potiga) — General Discussion

    ENTs don't what it is. I'm talking about that feeling of fullness which many T & H sufferers have, especially often with acoustic traumas. For many it passes, but for some like me, it doesn't. And as it's so closely related to these two misfortunes, probably these drugs can influence it. May...
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    Retigabine (Trobalt, Potiga) — General Discussion

    Has anyone had any improvement with feeling of pressure in ears while taking this type of medications? Didn't find much with search.