My Hyperacusis Is Cured & I Barely Have Tinnitus Anymore

[Uklawyer]

I think that there has been some physiological damage, but anxiety and stress brought it to the surface and has kept it there.

Essentially, not only can stress perpetuate physical symptoms, it can also create them.

On the other hand, as you state, stress can also manifest itself via physical symptoms at sites where there was organic, structural damage. So you could have a broken ankle, which heals in a few weeks as it should, but then be left with pain that is induced by stress. Strange as it sounds, doctors of mind-body medicine believe the brain is so advanced that it can select areas of the body for physical manifestation of stress that are either symbolic or that make it harder to recognise that the symptom is, in fact, psychosomatic (psychophysiologic). I was having problems with noise when working in the house leading up to the pandemic and my tinnitus appeared around the start of lockdown. I suppose that areas of the body that have recently/already suffered trauma would be obvious places for the stress to come out.

We can also experience these symptoms when we feel trapped in some way. It's as if we cannot fight or flee from from the stress, so it turns itself inwards but expresses itself through the body.

You certainly appear to have suffered a good deal of stress over the last few years. I wonder if you did any work on yourself following your father's death.

And speaking of sleep, anxiety and insomnia, how is your jaw? Ever have any pain? Do you clench or grind your teeth at night?

 

[GG_Ear]

@weab00, if you are ever back on Tinnitus Talk again, it would be great to know how you are now in 2023. I had a look at your profile and my symptoms are similar to how yours were at worst (sound distortions and pain hyperacusis).

 

[Utdmad89]

Y'all probably know my story around here. Suffered alone in a room not being able to go outside because of crippling hyperacusis.

I'm all good now and I think psychedelics positively rewired my brain and formed new neural connections.

I'm a professional musician now, with extra caution against loud noise exposures. I know to tread carefully and now I can use iJoy 4D sound headphones without a problems (60% volume, breaks every so often).

Good luck to all the sufferers out there. I barely have tinnitus anymore either.

How are you now?

 

[Nick47]

and I now take Zyprexa (mood stabilizer; olanzapine) and Vistriol (anti-anxiety).

The most important part in the mis-attribution.

 

[orenge01]

Y'all probably know my story around here. Suffered alone in a room not being able to go outside because of crippling hyperacusis.

I'm all good now and I think psychedelics positively rewired my brain and formed new neural connections.

I'm a professional musician now, with extra caution against loud noise exposures. I know to tread carefully and now I can use iJoy 4D sound headphones without a problems (60% volume, breaks every so often).

Good luck to all the sufferers out there. I barely have tinnitus anymore either.

I hope I can reach that point too. As a musician, navigating this condition has been nothing short of awful.

 

[weab00]

@weab00, if you are ever back on Tinnitus Talk again, it would be great to know how you are now in 2023. I had a look at your profile and my symptoms are similar to how yours were at worst (sound distortions and pain hyperacusis).

Almost 2025, and my hyperacusis is virtually gone. Back in 2021, during my worst period, I could barely go outside for eight months. Now, my tinnitus has improved so much that it's minimal—just one tone—and I don't even notice it when I'm in bed.

I promise, there's hope.

 

[AverageJoe12]

Almost 2025, and my hyperacusis is virtually gone. Back in 2021, during my worst period, I could barely go outside for eight months. Now, my tinnitus has improved so much that it's minimal—just one tone—and I don't even notice it when I'm in bed.

I promise, there's hope.

How did you get from A to B, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[weab00]

How did you get from A to B, if you don't mind me asking?

Most of the things I thought helped me probably didn't make a real difference, except for limiting excessive sound exposure for just under a year. In the end, it was mostly just time that made the difference.

 

[HighleyTall]

How old are you @weab00, if you don't mind me asking?