15-Year-Old with Tinnitus Wants to Ask If Your Tinnitus Got Worse or Remained the Same After Onset

[Steve]

How is your T now?

It's loud. I hear mostly all of the time.

I don't get emotionally bothered by it, not by any special technique other than the passing of time. I react if I get a spike and it gets to me but I suppose I have learned what makes it better or worse and I try not to do things that will aggravate it. You can't let it rule your life.

I think I would be a lot better off right now if I hadn't been so obsessive about it in the early days. I have physical links to mine but I believe the behaviour pattern I cemented in the early days of plugging my ears, listening for it, worrying if it was going to progress, being in a heightened state etc let it become a part of my life.

 

[Erin1997]

Hello everyone

I'm a 15 year old boy from Belgium, I got tinnitus 2.5 months ago in August and I'm almost sure that it won't go away. I'm pretty sure that a medicine that I used some months ago caused it. The past 2.5 months weren't that bad to be honest and I'm pretty sure if my tinnitus doesn't go louder I could live with it for the rest of my life (if a cure doesn't get developed).

So now to the question, the last months I have been reading a lot about tinnitus on the internet and I sometimes see posts that say that for some people their tinnitus got louder, these posts make me a bit scared because I don't want my tinnitus to go louder.

Now I wanted to ask to you people did your tinnitus get worse after onset or is it still the same?

My advice to you is to not jump into all the terrible tinnitus stories. Please don't fill your head with horror if you do not need to. Read successes. Success stories are key. I gripped onto the worst stories I could find and it made my life hell. And honestly? I did not need to read any of those stories.
My tinnitus changed. The sound is different, and acts differently. Maybe a bit louder, with fluctuations in perceived volume? Nothing ridiculous though. I have OCD and anxiety and therefore I focus on it when I do not need to and thus it appears louder to me. But it is strange. I think acne medication caused mine initially... as for the change in the sound, I think stress had a role in that. Totally manageable though. I do not even notice it half the time. I am 19, and young. I have read people on here saying that being young is really good for this because you have more a chance for hope. You are 15; your body may heal or improve over time. Tinnitus can be unpredictable, yes... but being 15 makes the situation much more hopeful.
Don't feed into your fears and such if you do not need to, because it will only harm you and make you upset when you are not in that boat. We are at a beautiful time of scientific and medical advancement, we are all blessed to have technology help us with this... I think of these things whenever I need a boost of positivity But honestly good for you, because you sound like you are in a good place overall with it already

 

[Young Lad]

@Erin1997 thanks your post really helped me