Hi Luman,
I did not read all of your previous posts before this one. I have one question, didn't your ENT do a tympanogram to check your middle ear pressure. I am asking because you said you were not 100% sure but you believe your tinnitus is caused by clogged ETs. If that is an assumption, I strongly advice to do a tympanogram. That said, IMO, what you have been doing at the moment will definitely help improving your tinnitus. Please keep going as your are having tinnitus only for 3 months, and this amount of time mostly isn't enough to see a considerable improvement.
As for the static sound you mentioned, nope, I never had this experience. I was affected by tinnitus only the first 2 months (high pitched noise). Starting 3rd month, it became an unnoticeable hiss and remained the same for 3 and a half months before disappearing in the end.
BTW, did you check my thread in the success story section? If not, please check the below link. I have written down everything I did in that thread.
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/my-battle-with-tinnitus-was-over.21013/
Thanks very much Rick. When I went to the ENT doctor in August, they conducted hearing and other tests, and I believe the one you mentioned (tympanogram), and found nothing wrong other than loss of high frequency hearing which is probably not unusual for my age (64). I still have a strong feeling that I have clogged, not actually blocked, Eustachian tubes, because I have often have fullness, and I sometimes get crackling that is not tinnitus, when I use my Eustashi Eustachian Exerciser device which is similar to doing the Valsalva. This crackling reacts to sounds like water running and silverware clinking and usually subsides after a few minutes. I also had the fullness, but no noticeable T, when I was in my 20's, a long time ago, I sought help from a doctor but all he did was give me Valium. I eventually got used to it. I suspect that I have narrow Eustachian tubes with gunk inside of them. I've heard, and felt, strange things going on in my ears for years, but never paid it much mind until now.
I worked very hard last week steaming my eustachian tubes (via nostrils) with a face steamer, then using Saline Nasal Spray, followed by using the Eustachi, and doing other exercises, and had relative quiet for a number of hours during the late afternoons and evenings of last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, except for the morning which is somewhat noisy every day but faded after a few hours. Yesterday, Monday, I had no silence at all, which was disappointing but it's been extremely humid which may have affected my tubes - if in fact that's the cause (and I hope it is). I was "listening" to the silence, last week, which was not a good idea and may have led to the backslide today of hearing T all day, perhaps a little joke my brain played on me. In any case, if it turns out that the tubes are not causing the T, even a little, then at least I'll have ruled that out once they're cleared relatively better than they are now.
One thing I forgot to mention, because of noisy neighbors, before the tinnitus first hit me in July, I slept with earplugs every night for over 5 years straight. I often wonder if this didn't have something to do with my morning tinnitus which I wake up to, in various degrees, every day. If I get up to go to the bathroom, it's there. If I fall asleep watching TV it comes. Until it goes away, subsides , or even gets worse, I'm just going to have to learn to treat it like an annoyance and start to to learn habituation just in case I am unlucky in finding a solution. Of course, I can seek professsional help, as I am in NYC, which I may do in five or so months if there's no improvement, and perhaps sooner if there's a bad turn for the worse.
Edit: Just noticed that my T got a little quieter, not by a great deal, but I guess writing this helped a bit!
Thanks very much, you've been very helpful.
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