MemberHi All -
As many of you know I have had tinnitus for more than twenty years now. To spare you the details, I'll simply attach my story to the bottom of this post.
Anyway, I did TRT in 1994-1995 and since completing TRT I have been doing really well. My tinnitus has remained as loud as ever - like a cross between a thunderous jet turbine and a screaming teakettkle - but I no longer react to it. And thus - while it can occasionally and unpredictably distract me - it causes me little, if any, distress.
I have often referred to the fact that the only thing that makes my tinnitus significantly louder is the spices in Thai food. But since I love Thai food, I eat it every once in a while and for the next day or so "pay the price" in terms of an increase in loudness. Again, since I do not react to it, the fact that it is louder for the next day does not really affect me.
Well, that's all changed. For the past ten days my tinnitus has made a quantum leap in loudness. It is louder - markedly louder - than it has ever been in my life. I cannot identify any reason for the change, but for me this is a whole new world of noise. I have kept thinking that it will settle back down to its normal turbine/teakettle level, but that has not happened.
We TRT clinicians tell our patients that if they get an exacerbation of their tinnitus at some point after finishing TRT - as can happen in maybe 10% of cases - that they should take their devices out of their dresser (or wherever they have stored them) and start using them again exactly as originally instructed. We say that TRT is like "relearning how to ride a bike" - far easier and quicker the second time around - and within a couple of weeks they should be fine again.
Well, I am about to find out if that's true or not first hand. An hour or so ago I inserted a pair of GHI Tranquil Simplicity I OTE devices (my old Viennatones are sort of relics from the stone age). I haven't used sound therapy since finishing TRT in 1995, but I'm sure using it now. We'll see how it goes.
I'll let you know.
stephen nagler
As many of you know I have had tinnitus for more than twenty years now. To spare you the details, I'll simply attach my story to the bottom of this post.
Anyway, I did TRT in 1994-1995 and since completing TRT I have been doing really well. My tinnitus has remained as loud as ever - like a cross between a thunderous jet turbine and a screaming teakettkle - but I no longer react to it. And thus - while it can occasionally and unpredictably distract me - it causes me little, if any, distress.
I have often referred to the fact that the only thing that makes my tinnitus significantly louder is the spices in Thai food. But since I love Thai food, I eat it every once in a while and for the next day or so "pay the price" in terms of an increase in loudness. Again, since I do not react to it, the fact that it is louder for the next day does not really affect me.
Well, that's all changed. For the past ten days my tinnitus has made a quantum leap in loudness. It is louder - markedly louder - than it has ever been in my life. I cannot identify any reason for the change, but for me this is a whole new world of noise. I have kept thinking that it will settle back down to its normal turbine/teakettle level, but that has not happened.
We TRT clinicians tell our patients that if they get an exacerbation of their tinnitus at some point after finishing TRT - as can happen in maybe 10% of cases - that they should take their devices out of their dresser (or wherever they have stored them) and start using them again exactly as originally instructed. We say that TRT is like "relearning how to ride a bike" - far easier and quicker the second time around - and within a couple of weeks they should be fine again.
Well, I am about to find out if that's true or not first hand. An hour or so ago I inserted a pair of GHI Tranquil Simplicity I OTE devices (my old Viennatones are sort of relics from the stone age). I haven't used sound therapy since finishing TRT in 1995, but I'm sure using it now. We'll see how it goes.
I'll let you know.
stephen nagler
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