Hello

[.bill]

Had a case of flu. Then ears felt plugged up. Then the ringing started stopped for two or three days now it's back. It's mild but annoying. Dr. said ears look good. Oh you should hear them from inside like I am.

 

[glynis]

You can have mucous in your tubes lingering for days after....
Your ears are the last to get better and inflamation to settle down...
Keep sound on around you and set below your tinnitus at night.....
You could try a mucous linctus to help clear your tubes ....lots of love glynis

 

[billie48]

Welcome to the forum. When tinnitus is new or at a new irritating level, and the ringing is causing much anxiety or panic, it is advisable to get masking going so you won't be so anxious and fearful. Stress and anxiety are toxic to T. So try masking if you haven't done so. When my T was new, I used to mask all day just to prevent panic attacks from hearing my ultra high pitch loud dog whistle T. Try these if you haven't yet. Take care. God bless.

1) Mask at bed time so you can sleep better. Find whatever sounds/music that are soothing to you. You can use a sound machine or sound pillow for this, or a computer with speakers.

2) If you need masking on the go, try load an ipod with nature sounds or music using itune. If you have a smart phone, you can download free APPs for soothing or T-masking sounds.

3) If you have computer and speakers, you can try these excellent masking sounds too:

TT's audio player: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/audioplayer/

or this online sound library, particularly the self-mix nature sounds: https://mynoise.net

or download free sound generator 'aire freshener': http://www.peterhirschberg.com/mysoftware.html

or search youtube with words like 'tinnitus masking sounds', 'white noise', 'rain sound' etc.