Did not take .5mg on klonopin last night and my T is raging today and was last night where it woke me up. I am trying to fight this demon but I am losing the battle. Why cant this ringing just go back to baseline. And of course I google the hell out this and I start looking for answers and looking at diagrams of hair cells and wondering what mine look like. I have had my T for years and habituated to it to that point where I would notice it during a spike, bad weather, when I would read in silence and if someone said "Do you still have that rinign in your ear". This may sound strange but at some points the old T was almost comforting but now this is so out of control.
I had acupuncture appt scheduled for today but I do not want anyone going near my ears especially with needles and after googling everything alot of people say that this does not work. I met the CBT therapist last week who made it out to be that it was my fault for having this and that good thoughts and dieting cure all. My ENT said that acoustic trauma can take 1-2 months to let T subside but I feel like they dont really know anything.
Vacation is on the horizon which I am trying to stay positive for but it so hard. You feel alone when know one around you understands this. Luckily this forum is available but it seems for every one positive "it will go away" you get the 5 negative stories that makes you lose hope and faith that habituation and the T going back to baseline will never happen.
I keep blaming myself for my getting my ears cleaned out because I had ear pain, weird drainage in my throat and what felt like fluid being discharged.
If this could ever return to baseline ( I have accepted that fact that it is never going away) it would actually improve my quality of life by 100%