Member- Jul 2, 2015
- 111
- 49
- Tinnitus Since
- 6/26/2015
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Idiopathic + Sudden hearing loss
I got T one morning and over the next few days of researching and suffering thought it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me.
Things got worse when i learned I got sudden hearing loss. The T became the least of my concerns until, over the next few weeks, i had regained most of the hearing that was lost and my mri was normal. I was somewhat relieved to hear about habituation and the studies that show that the psychological burden of T usually subsides.
My T has not stopped for one second in over 6 months. But the emotional burden overall has subsided a great deal. The way I feel about T, whether I notice it much, whether it depresses me and how I feel about the future can vary wildly. For several hours or days at a time I feel like it's a minor nuisance but the emotional response can be much worse at times for several hours. I read personal accounts describing this phenomena of varying emotional responses described as "good or bad days" but I don't think I fully understood it.
How could your response to it vary so much if the stimulus does not? Now i know that's how habituation works, it's erratic and non linear but with a slow overall improvement. My quality of life went from a 9 before T to a 2 for several weeks afterwards.
Now it's about a 7 most days but I get emotionally troubled and feel like a 4 at times. But the " bad days " that I read about early on on this forum get less frequent and the 9 quality of life i had before T I am hopeful will return based on accounts of the good people here.
My progress is 90% through habituation. I have a suspicion that some supplements have helped slightly. I am very thankful for all of you in this forum. I still actively seek out T cures or reductions in volume. I don't think this retards habituation much unless it's obsessive. My T started suddenly after a very brief sound exposure.
On another hopeful note I too have heard from several construction and manufacturing employees whos T went away entirely, not habituate but go away completely as I made sure to ask specifically. One after 7 months another after an unknown number of months " months and months " as he described it.
I also was shaken by a war vet who after 20 or so years of his gun induced T still masks the sound to go to bed!! That really concerned me as I figured that he should have habituated much better.
Cheers!
Things got worse when i learned I got sudden hearing loss. The T became the least of my concerns until, over the next few weeks, i had regained most of the hearing that was lost and my mri was normal. I was somewhat relieved to hear about habituation and the studies that show that the psychological burden of T usually subsides.
My T has not stopped for one second in over 6 months. But the emotional burden overall has subsided a great deal. The way I feel about T, whether I notice it much, whether it depresses me and how I feel about the future can vary wildly. For several hours or days at a time I feel like it's a minor nuisance but the emotional response can be much worse at times for several hours. I read personal accounts describing this phenomena of varying emotional responses described as "good or bad days" but I don't think I fully understood it.
How could your response to it vary so much if the stimulus does not? Now i know that's how habituation works, it's erratic and non linear but with a slow overall improvement. My quality of life went from a 9 before T to a 2 for several weeks afterwards.
Now it's about a 7 most days but I get emotionally troubled and feel like a 4 at times. But the " bad days " that I read about early on on this forum get less frequent and the 9 quality of life i had before T I am hopeful will return based on accounts of the good people here.
My progress is 90% through habituation. I have a suspicion that some supplements have helped slightly. I am very thankful for all of you in this forum. I still actively seek out T cures or reductions in volume. I don't think this retards habituation much unless it's obsessive. My T started suddenly after a very brief sound exposure.
On another hopeful note I too have heard from several construction and manufacturing employees whos T went away entirely, not habituate but go away completely as I made sure to ask specifically. One after 7 months another after an unknown number of months " months and months " as he described it.
I also was shaken by a war vet who after 20 or so years of his gun induced T still masks the sound to go to bed!! That really concerned me as I figured that he should have habituated much better.
Cheers!
