Newbie from Canada

[Khadra]

Hi,

I have been living with tinnitus for several years, I don't know the cause and I don't know the exact year, however, I am guessing 2016. I went to see an audiologist who did all the hearing test and all was great. I am currently seeing a functional medicine practitioner, just did my blood work and waiting for the results. Somedays are worse than others, I can't tolerate noise especially high pitched one and I feel it more in the morning and when I going to bed. I try my best to avoid conventional medicine, I believe in getting to the root cause.

 

[Sven]

Hello Khadra and welcome here.

You have no clue at all what caused your tinnitus? Exposure to noise, for example?

 

[Khadra]

I am thinking probably the cell phone and probably stress. I have been going through a difficult situation for many years and still waiting.

 

[fishbone]

Hi,

I have been living with tinnitus for several years, I don't know the cause and I don't know the exact year, however, I am guessing 2016. I went to see an audiologist who did all the hearing test and all was great. I am currently seeing a functional medicine practitioner, just did my blood work and waiting for the results. Somedays are worse than others, I can't tolerate noise especially high pitched one and I feel it more in the morning and when I going to bed. I try my best to avoid conventional medicine, I believe in getting to the root cause.

Welcome to the forum,

getting to the root of what causes the tinnitus can be quite difficult at times. Tinnitus can come from a variety of elements and sometimes we just don't know why, it comes. Get your lab results back and hopefully something might show.

Tinnitus is mostly caused by:

Loud noises
Meds
Illness
Stress
Depression
Neck/Back/Tmj/physical
Possible deficiencies

Since you have had tinnitus for over 2 years, then it has become a chronic condition. The tinnitus is here and unfortunately it is not going away. We must have some sort of plan to deal with it on a daily basis. We need to create a good routine that makes us feel good and makes the tinnitus not as horrible.

If your tinnitus is bad or has been bad, why not start a journal and list all the things that you do on a daily basis that makes you feel good and keeps the tinnitus volume lower. Do the same for when sometimes you don't feel good and see if the tinnitus gets louder.

Tinnitus is like a game of chess (although I suck at chess, still trying to get better ). You have to have a LIFE strategy with it and stick to it. Build up a routine that is proven to work for YOU. I do this all the time and modify it when I have to, to achieve optimal results.

In the end, most of us here have chronic tinnitus , and we are all different. We need to figure out what works for us and do our best to live our lives. Tinnitus can be quite difficult to deal with, but we are STRONGER and we shall never give up!!!!

 

[billie48]

I can't tolerate noise especially high pitched one and I feel it more in the morning and when I going to bed

Welcome to the forum. Fishbone has given you excellent advise. I just add that if you are really having a hard time with the high pitched T, perhaps try masking it with high frequency nature sounds, such as those from crashing waves, heavy rain, cicadas, strong wind, waterfall, even shower or faucet sound. Here are some suggestions for masking:

1) Mask at bed time if having trouble sleeping, by using a sound pillow or sound machine with pillow speakers. There are good sound machine & pillow therapy systems like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Oasis-...d-Oasis-Therapy-System-Speakers/dp/B00MH5HKTA

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. Use wisdom in the use of headphones or earbuds as extended use or excessive volume may hurt your ears. Try set the volume slightly below that of your tinnitus.

3) With PC & speakers, you can try these excellent masking sounds to see which one masks best:

TT's excellent 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 click play to mix these sounds with this simple sound generator: http://asoftmurmur.com/

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