Need Support from Loud Tinnitus Sufferers

[Elliott.S]

You are doing the right thing @Elliott.S by making an appointment to see your Audiologist. Hopefully he will find a solution in making the tinnitus reduce and enable you to cope with it better. That is the best that you can do for now. I am of the belief that tinnitus gets more problematic or (louder) for a reason. Something usually causes it. I know your tinnitus may not be related to noise exposure. Therefore, medication and possibly a change in hearing aid may prove helpful.

I hope that a solution can be found and wish you the best of luck for next month.
Michael

Hi there, @Elliott.S: I have 12 kHz tinnitus and this clip helps me out a lot.



I hope you find it useful mate.

Clint

Thank you Clint

 

[Daniel Lion]

No I haven't been using earmuffs at home. I suspect being regularly exposed to screams is the answer to my T increase + hyperacusis. I didn't know baby screams could reach 110db. I guess it's not that harmful for a normal ear that has never been traumatized because I don't see why nature would give babies the ability to destroy their own hearing capital.
But for us who have suffered multiple ear traumas, maybe it's too much.

I have an appointment with a hearing specialist in June because I was hoping I could get my hearing aids adjusted to my new tinnitus, but unfortunately, my new tones being in the high range (13 000hz), I fear there's not much less to be done.

I did get help from hearing aids in the frequencies that my other T are (2600, etc.), that correspond more or less to my hearing loss, because amplifying those frequencies helped mask part of the ringing, but you don't find natural 13 000 hz frequencies in everyday life, that's why I'm pretty doubtful about getting any help from a new hearing aid setting.

Hey man... Daniel here.

Sadly I wear my earmuffs at home, more than outside. My kids, especially the 3 year old is noisy. We are disabled my friend. Ain't no shame in wearing earmuffs when tickling your baby or the baby is screaming.

When you have hypercusis and compromised ears, what's the alternative?

We make do, we push on for our kids... with ear muffs on...

Such is life.

 

[James Brown]

@Elliott.S, @Ken219, @Daniel Lion,
Dear chaps
- as Daniel has said, my tinnitus is severe; voice matched to 60 dBs, permanent and constant.
I won't go through the whole story just now, you can find that on other started threads, but I'll just tell you that I've been a professional jazz trombonist for over 50 years (now aged 76).
I was first call trombonist for five bands when I decided I had to pull out of the jazz scene, or risk further damage.

My spike came in 2014 and never went down.
I was absolutely positive that I would have to die.
I would never get used to it.
I couldn't get off of my couch - laying there sobbing, totally distraught.
It took quite a long time, but things are better for me now.
I look back at that time as 'active sufferance' whereas now I have 'passive sufferance.'

Largely by using my daily routine of meditation I have managed to acclimatise to the noise.
It is still there of course, but I no longer 'dwell' on it.
It took my career, my passion in life, my musicality, my skill, my artistry, and my silence.
That is enough.
It will not take my determination, my sense of humour, my love for my family, not forgetting three adorable pussycats, and my life.

If you guys can just hang on, maybe learn to practice some meditation, give yourself some time to acclimatise a little, I honestly think you will come to feel better.
(Active suffering may become more passive.)

My meditation is dead simple.
I will share it if you wish.

Love to all
Dave x
Jazzer

PS - see Jazzers Videos on this site,
and watch 'Dave's Tinnitus Story' on YouTube.

I was listening to your story yesterday (well done by the way), and I laughed when I saw the only thing that could mask your tinnitus is the razor machine near your ear, because I have a nose trimmer and I use it to mask my tinnitus when my spikes are really high and there´s nothing that can mask it, except the motor of the nose trimmer close to my ear. It´s just trading a shit sound for another, but it´s some seconds of relief.

 

[PeteJ]

I am not doing well. I consider mine worsened because it went from fluctuating to a static high pitched loud ringing. People tell me these generic "GET HELP!" requests. Oh, sure.

I have this plus ear pain, abnormal feeling in my ears but talking to a therapist student for 30 min every other week will make it all better.

Audiologists are few in my area. I just don't see how I will cope long term. I didn't want drugs but when I see my Dr next week, I will talk about that.

I don't want to live like this.

 

[Candy]

Why is my tinnitus so loud.

I know it must be stress but the volumes and tones are getting progressively worse and I can't function. I'm seeing a therapist but it doesn't help with the loudness of it all. It's screaming out of control.

Like a derailed train. Only had this levels at night time occasionally before bed.

I don't know how to live with this level of noise, how to parent, how to work. No one can help me and I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

The irony is I have no hearing loss. I'm petrified and it's a vicious circle.

What is going on? What's worrying me is that it's all caused by anxiety and no injection or ear regeneration is going to help that.

Anyone in a similar boat?

 

[PeteJ]

Why is my tinnitus so loud.

I know it must be stress but the volumes and tones are getting progressively worse and I can't function. I'm seeing a therapist but it doesn't help with the loudness of it all. It's screaming out of control.

Like a derailed train. Only had this levels at night time occasionally before bed.

I don't know how to live with this level of noise, how to parent, how to work. No one can help me and I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

The irony is I have no hearing loss. I'm petrified and it's a vicious circle.

What is going on? What's worrying me is that it's all caused by anxiety and no injection or ear regeneration is going to help that.

Anyone in a similar boat?

I disagree with stress causing it and even more over, making it worse.

I say that because so many people deal with stress every day and they don't have nor get tinnitus.

You say you don't have hearing loss but who knows if you have had acoustic trauma. Sometimes genetics and hearing threshold is compromised by an auditory/acoustic trauma or sound that is too much for the ears.

It's a mystery why it changes or gets worse. I suspect it means there was further damage or inflammation to the ear or cochlea but who knows.

Even experts, ENTs and researchers can't explain it clearly or at all.

 

[GregCA]

What's worrying me is that it's all caused by anxiety and no injection or ear regeneration is going to help that.

I wouldn't worry that much. I doubt it's all caused by anxiety.
Anxiety is probably not helping, since it gets you to focus on something that'd be easier to handle if it were in the background, but all the science I read about T points at a physiological cause, not psychological.

Finding your root cause is your challenge.

 

[Mister Muso]

Mine is between 8 and 10. I don't have a s/o or kids.

Before I saw this chart I would have said I'm between a 4 and a 6.

But now I guess I'm an 8-9