Not a Success but Talking and Thinking About Tinnitus Is Starting to Bore Me...

[Jason37]

Not a success but talking and thinking about tinnitus is starting to bore me... I only really worry about it getting worse now.

 

[MBH]

Stop thinking about tinnitus getting worse, that's what the brain tinnitus feeds on. Think only 3 months at a time, and the events that need to get done, that way you won't think about tinnitus getting worse. It works for me. I only think in the now.

 

[Tinker Bell]

I remember hitting that point, too. I went from obsessively talking about it with family and friends, to not wanting to talk about it.

For it getting worse, that's always a fear but I realized that no matter what I do to prevent it, it could end up getting worse anyway due to a virus or eventually presbycusis.

I use hearing protection when appropriate, but decided to not worry anymore. Hypothetically, if it does get worse, I would be annoyed that I'd spent so much time and energy worrying about it and being miserable.

 

[MartinH]

I was just thinking the very same thing. I'm a newbie, just over 3 weeks in. Still hoping there's hope that it'll go away. I think I'm probably hanging too many hopes on hearing aids so I'm trying to learn different ways to cope without them.

 

[fishbone]

Not a success but talking and thinking about tinnitus is starting to bore me... I only really worry about it getting worse now.

Success can mean different things to many people. Don't let other people's definition of success DEFINE your success....

 

[New Guy]

I look forward to the day when I hit burnout on over focusing on T and just get on with life. I think I'm on the cusp now and hope to slowly start fading from the site.

 

[coffee_girl]

I am like this, this is a great topic. Indeed after a while T feels like that boring friend that has really over stayed her welcome, so you're just ignoring her until she gets the hint and leave. Either way, I was having my ear plugs in the other day and I thought...ya know...if my T ever gets as loud as this without plugs...i'll just live with it.

Whatever, I just look up at the sky and think, this God has an awful sense of humor...but if i really think about it...i do find it really funny (the fact that i have T...not that T is funny in itself). Either way, yeah T is boring, so i just play video games or go on my boat and watch the sunset on the deck =]