Hello fellow tinnitus friends from across the world,
It took me a while to find the courage to come to this forum and make a formal introduction to the Tinnitus community. At first, I was perplexed; the mere possibility of enduring a permanent condition for the rest of my life is rather daunting --to say the least. Well, I'm glad my perspective has finally changed.
My name is Ryan from Canada, and I've had since Halloween as a result of a firecracker misfire. To keep a long story short, the firecracker (which probably had a db of over 140 at that time) exploded right in front of my eyes and less than a metre away. Almost instantaneously, I felt a variety of different symptoms ranging from the usual pressure in both ears, deafness, static-sounding noises and worst of all, a constant ringing sound in the back of my head. Luckily for me, most of those symptoms went away within weeks, but I guess tinnitus just never had the intention to leave.
I did what probably what most new tinnitus suffers would have done. And that includes: spending nights researching about tinnitus, reading stories of others who endured similar incidents, and of course an informative visit to the ENT in the hopes of developing a possible treatment plan.
I refused to let it affect my life at a greater scale than it needed to be. I'm current university student and I will continue to focus on my studies, enjoy great food and incorporate a consistent workout plan. I know that my Tinnitus is still rather recent, and thus I still bank on the dream that it'll go away, or at least settle to a base level at one segment my life.
And that's my introduction to the community, and I wanted to address a question to the community during my process of habituation.
Do you still enjoy music with headphones? Go to movie theatres? Or even the occasional concerts?
Thanks for reading all of this.
It took me a while to find the courage to come to this forum and make a formal introduction to the Tinnitus community. At first, I was perplexed; the mere possibility of enduring a permanent condition for the rest of my life is rather daunting --to say the least. Well, I'm glad my perspective has finally changed.
My name is Ryan from Canada, and I've had since Halloween as a result of a firecracker misfire. To keep a long story short, the firecracker (which probably had a db of over 140 at that time) exploded right in front of my eyes and less than a metre away. Almost instantaneously, I felt a variety of different symptoms ranging from the usual pressure in both ears, deafness, static-sounding noises and worst of all, a constant ringing sound in the back of my head. Luckily for me, most of those symptoms went away within weeks, but I guess tinnitus just never had the intention to leave.
I did what probably what most new tinnitus suffers would have done. And that includes: spending nights researching about tinnitus, reading stories of others who endured similar incidents, and of course an informative visit to the ENT in the hopes of developing a possible treatment plan.
I refused to let it affect my life at a greater scale than it needed to be. I'm current university student and I will continue to focus on my studies, enjoy great food and incorporate a consistent workout plan. I know that my Tinnitus is still rather recent, and thus I still bank on the dream that it'll go away, or at least settle to a base level at one segment my life.
And that's my introduction to the community, and I wanted to address a question to the community during my process of habituation.
Do you still enjoy music with headphones? Go to movie theatres? Or even the occasional concerts?
Thanks for reading all of this.
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