- Dec 23, 2017
- 8
- Tinnitus Since
- 2017
- Cause of Tinnitus
- loud noise exposure over the years
Hi!
I've been on the tinnitus journey for about 6-7 years with multiple periods of spikes and reaching habituation.
This year has been ROUGH. It started off with my MEM episodes lowering some, but new tones in both of my ears appearing in January. Kind of hard to explain both of them, but the left ear has kind of a more high frequency beepy tone and the right ear a spiraling low tone. Whenever I focus on all of the tones in my head, it gets crazy with all that I can hear. So for like 5-6 months I couldn't help but mask these new tones 90% of the time because of the anxiety I would get from hearing them creep up in the background. With time I slowly was able to habituate to these tones (they're still disturbing if I let myself listen to them for too long).
Recently, I've developed this clicking whenever I speak at the end of some sentences and it's been driving me nuts a little bit. AND to add on to it, it feels like my ears are more reactive to specific sounds (especially mechanical sounds). It has this sort of echoing high frequency tone as a response to these noises; I'm scared. Not sure what to do, I just lose a lot of hope in these situations and hope that situations don't worsen.
Any thoughts? Words of Encouragement?
I've been on the tinnitus journey for about 6-7 years with multiple periods of spikes and reaching habituation.
This year has been ROUGH. It started off with my MEM episodes lowering some, but new tones in both of my ears appearing in January. Kind of hard to explain both of them, but the left ear has kind of a more high frequency beepy tone and the right ear a spiraling low tone. Whenever I focus on all of the tones in my head, it gets crazy with all that I can hear. So for like 5-6 months I couldn't help but mask these new tones 90% of the time because of the anxiety I would get from hearing them creep up in the background. With time I slowly was able to habituate to these tones (they're still disturbing if I let myself listen to them for too long).
Recently, I've developed this clicking whenever I speak at the end of some sentences and it's been driving me nuts a little bit. AND to add on to it, it feels like my ears are more reactive to specific sounds (especially mechanical sounds). It has this sort of echoing high frequency tone as a response to these noises; I'm scared. Not sure what to do, I just lose a lot of hope in these situations and hope that situations don't worsen.
Any thoughts? Words of Encouragement?