Mood Fluctuations = Tinnitus Fluctuations

[El BUZZ]

After almost 5 years in, I can firmly say I am not habituated at all. My tinnitus is severe. Dental drill sound. Just the shower can mask it and it barely does it. On a good day I can forget about it for hours but it always bothers me A LOT at some point. I don't see myself alive next Christmas and it has been like this for the last four years. I always made it to Christmas at the end...

What I try to say is I don't project myself doing things in the future as tinnitus makes me not to want to be alive.

Good days are really good and even if the tinnitus is super loud I feel and believe I can cope with it until a treatment/cure shows up. Bad days put me in really dark places despite the fact I'm under antidepressants.

Thing is, I don't know if a good mood makes me perceive my tinnitus as a quieter one or a quieter tinnitus makes me feel more upbeat. I think mood and tinnitus are tightly linked and there's a deep interaction between them both.

Living with this is a hardcore experience no one should go through.

 

[all to gain]

After almost 5 years in, I can firmly say I am not habituated at all. My tinnitus is severe. Dental drill sound. Just the shower can mask it and it barely does it. On a good day I can forget about it for hours but it always bothers me A LOT at some point. I don't see myself alive next Christmas and it has been like this for the last four years. I always made it to Christmas at the end...

What I try to say is I don't project myself doing things in the future as tinnitus makes me not to want to be alive.

Good days are really good and even if the tinnitus is super loud I feel and believe I can cope with it until a treatment/cure shows up. Bad days put me in really dark places despite the fact I'm under antidepressants.

Thing is, I don't know if a good mood makes me perceive my tinnitus as a quieter one or a quieter tinnitus makes me feel more upbeat. I think mood and tinnitus are tightly linked and there's a deep interaction between them both.

Living with this is a hardcore experience no one should go through.

Hang in there man. Things are advancing in the scientific field all the time.

I find cardio exercise helps me big time, so yeah I reckon mood can alter how you perceive tinnitus.

Have the ADs worsened the level of tinnitus at all? How about diet, have you got it dialled in?

 

[El BUZZ]

Hang in there man. Things are advancing in the scientific field all the time.

I find cardio exercise helps me big time, so yeah I reckon mood can alter how you perceive tinnitus.

Have the ADs worsened the level of tinnitus at all? How about diet, have you got it dialled in?

I practice boxing and put a lot of time/effort in it. Skipping rope, reflex ball, agility ladder, exercises with light weights but tons of repetitions, running in the forest where I am currently living, shadowboxing, pads, heavy bag, speed ball, accuracy in technique... A complete regime every day, resting on Saturdays. Using earplugs when punches sound loud. My cardio is on point.

ADs have helped me to some extent. Before them I was actively considering suicide, now those thoughts have faded. I would say it is a bit easier to cope with tinnitus since they are in the mix. I have been taking 15mg Escitalopram daily for almost 4 months now so they should be having full effects now or pretty soon. No side effects beside ejaculating being more difficult when having sex which is somehow funnier for me and her. I have been going through a rough patch for a month or so now, though.

 

[bobvann]

I'm 3 plus years in. I get it...

 

[Robin Wilson]

You really have to take it 1 day at a time, that there may still be hope.

I have been on Alprazolam for 12 years. Finally got it down to 3/4 mg a day. It's tough. My tinnitus is loud but I continue to take it one day at a time and hope, maybe I'll be off the Alprazolam by the end of the year.