@MadeleineHope, hi there. You'll get there! Sometimes it's really best to just "zen" out and do LESS. Meditation has helped me immensely, as has finding joy in my life again.
I got reactive tinnitus and hyperacusis back in January 2022. I still don't really know why. I was using headphones a lot at the gym then, and I did have a two-year-old with loud screams. Who knows? It doesn't really matter, as you've seen people get it from lots of different things: medications, sicknesses, noise exposure. Doesn't matter. I did some TRT for about four or five months. I think it helped but probably because I really believed it would. It made me feel like I had agency. Like @Marin experienced, you can find healing in other, less expensive and less annoying ways, mostly getting your head and heart calm and collected. Your limbic system DESERVES this retraining that you'll do. You'll find your life gets better in many other ways once you've learned the tools. I suggest listening to Nicole Sachs' podcast, as well as Alan Gordon's. Both have been so helpful to me.
I am going to depart from Tinnitus Talk again, but hopefully will reconnect now and again to give people hope. Live more, worry less, you'll be okay.
OH! Neil Bauman was very helpful to me (I'm sure if you've done the google thing, like most of us have, his work has come up). He has written books on ear issues. We video chatted several times. He told me, "You can't worry and trust at the same time," and that has been an enormously helpful mantra for me along the way.
I got reactive tinnitus and hyperacusis back in January 2022. I still don't really know why. I was using headphones a lot at the gym then, and I did have a two-year-old with loud screams. Who knows? It doesn't really matter, as you've seen people get it from lots of different things: medications, sicknesses, noise exposure. Doesn't matter. I did some TRT for about four or five months. I think it helped but probably because I really believed it would. It made me feel like I had agency. Like @Marin experienced, you can find healing in other, less expensive and less annoying ways, mostly getting your head and heart calm and collected. Your limbic system DESERVES this retraining that you'll do. You'll find your life gets better in many other ways once you've learned the tools. I suggest listening to Nicole Sachs' podcast, as well as Alan Gordon's. Both have been so helpful to me.
I am going to depart from Tinnitus Talk again, but hopefully will reconnect now and again to give people hope. Live more, worry less, you'll be okay.
OH! Neil Bauman was very helpful to me (I'm sure if you've done the google thing, like most of us have, his work has come up). He has written books on ear issues. We video chatted several times. He told me, "You can't worry and trust at the same time," and that has been an enormously helpful mantra for me along the way.