First a bit about me and my tinnitus/hyperacusis.
I sleep in silence. Every morning since my onset from acoustic trauma 40 days ago, when I get up from bed my tinnitus is at its quietest point in the day. Each week it is getting quieter, the trend is towards recovery, though day to day there are setbacks. It has gone from a piercing tone which I could not endure without gritting my teeth, and sometime genuinely having dark thoughts, to today, where it is a quiet sort of hissing - I can best describe it as sand being poured, though with occasional, harsher "chimes" intermingled. The "chimes" sound like the dying cries of the original tone - whereas before it was continual and unbroken, now it only rears its head for an instant at time. I imagine the noise is slowly being buried in the hissing sand. I would like to believe that the hiss, in time, will also fade into silence, though personally I could live with only the hiss without too much annoyance if it were to stay as is. After what I endured the first 4 weeks, an ultrasonic piercing signal that may have genuinely traumatized me, I thank god for this comparative heaven. I'm not sure how to live life after this, though I'm sure muffs and plugs will be a staple, though that is another topic.
All of that being said, as I expose myself to more noise each day, part of which induces hyperacusis related pain, the tinnitus ramps up, being "reactive". After particularly noisy days, the tinnitus seems worse the next day, and after silent days, I tend to wake up feeling even less tinnitus than the day before, and more healed. The trend overall is toward less tinnitus/hyperacusis, fortunately, though I am trying to protect myself from sound.
My point/question is, it feels good to remain in silence and off of conference calls. Progress is also swifter when abstaining from noise. Personally, my decision will be to limit noise, that is already settled, but as I understand it there is a dichotomy between "protecting" and "exposing". Personally as of now, I fall on the protect side, given my experience. This broken leg must heal before it bears weight, in my opinion.
Because I have had such clear experience, I simply wanted to add my anecdotal account to the heap. I hope this is helpful as another data/reference point to the community.
I sleep in silence. Every morning since my onset from acoustic trauma 40 days ago, when I get up from bed my tinnitus is at its quietest point in the day. Each week it is getting quieter, the trend is towards recovery, though day to day there are setbacks. It has gone from a piercing tone which I could not endure without gritting my teeth, and sometime genuinely having dark thoughts, to today, where it is a quiet sort of hissing - I can best describe it as sand being poured, though with occasional, harsher "chimes" intermingled. The "chimes" sound like the dying cries of the original tone - whereas before it was continual and unbroken, now it only rears its head for an instant at time. I imagine the noise is slowly being buried in the hissing sand. I would like to believe that the hiss, in time, will also fade into silence, though personally I could live with only the hiss without too much annoyance if it were to stay as is. After what I endured the first 4 weeks, an ultrasonic piercing signal that may have genuinely traumatized me, I thank god for this comparative heaven. I'm not sure how to live life after this, though I'm sure muffs and plugs will be a staple, though that is another topic.
All of that being said, as I expose myself to more noise each day, part of which induces hyperacusis related pain, the tinnitus ramps up, being "reactive". After particularly noisy days, the tinnitus seems worse the next day, and after silent days, I tend to wake up feeling even less tinnitus than the day before, and more healed. The trend overall is toward less tinnitus/hyperacusis, fortunately, though I am trying to protect myself from sound.
My point/question is, it feels good to remain in silence and off of conference calls. Progress is also swifter when abstaining from noise. Personally, my decision will be to limit noise, that is already settled, but as I understand it there is a dichotomy between "protecting" and "exposing". Personally as of now, I fall on the protect side, given my experience. This broken leg must heal before it bears weight, in my opinion.
Because I have had such clear experience, I simply wanted to add my anecdotal account to the heap. I hope this is helpful as another data/reference point to the community.
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