I was watching this video on YouTube yesterday about a guy who had trigeminal neuralgia (pain being described as random ice picks into the brain, eyes being ripped out of their sockets, and stuff like that) and he managed to get to a spot with meditation where he was detached from the random pain (was able to work normally). He had a lot of practice though.
I'm pretty sure he didn't detach himself, what probably happened is that the medication lowered it to a level where it was easier to cope with. I have similar symptoms, some days are horrific, where the sharp stabbing pain gets worse and worse throughout the day and I start feeling it on my eyes and half of my face. Some days are more moderate, where I have the stabbing pain but it's much less pronounced.
I am having a hard time living with my highly reactive tinnitus and loudness hyperacusis. I literally just wait all day to get to sleep. Which is hard without Clonazepam. I wanna get off it but I fear taper and withdrawals and not being able to sleep without it. I dunno how to get to better days, but I hope we all can somehow.
I know what you mean. I don't want to die, well not right now anyway but I don't want to live with tinnitus.
I'm with you man, most sounds don't make me anxious, they give me severe pain. Noxacusis is the worst.
Please describe your tinnitus and any other symptoms.
Take comfort in the fact that the OP of this "Suicidal" thread is still around today and doing better. He was convinced he needed to kill himself, but is probably now happy he didn't. Don't do it Leeroy, stick around for 2 years minimum.
Hi @TheDanishGirl - This sounds an awful lot like you're having a panic attack. Do you think it might be, and do you have any meds to temper high anxiety?
@Zugzug, may I please ask, from this (older) comment of yours, you said that antidepressants spiked your tinnitus, but it was always temporary. Can I ask how long it took you to get back to normal after those spikes (if you remember)?
I experienced similar things like she did after suffering years of panic disorder. My nerves are shot now, but not sure it's the same, I think hers are med induced.
You can't habituate to this type of severe hyperacusis because it needs treatment. Staying at home and avoiding normal everyday sounds and overusing hearing protection usually makes the condition worse.
I have it the same way. Tinnitus and severe noxacusis. And I´m tapering both Remeron and Valium because of tolerance
Dunno, I stayed at home and avoided normal everyday sounds for a year and that's the only thing that helped me. My noxacusis disappeared and have much less severe loudness hyperacusis.
Yes. Highly probably Mirtazapine induced... and not a thing I can do about it, because I am in no way able to handle a taper. So no hope for me.
Michael, I honestly have tried that approach, not over-protecting, and every time it fails me. Based on the research I have done, noxacusis just functions differently than regular hyperacusis. Exposing myself to sounds won't help my case or other sufferers with noxacusis, I can guarantee you that. I disagree with your approach, as helpful as you may want to be, that advice will only worsen me further. Like Anthony, the only thing that works is silence, only reason I always get the pain back is because I start getting too comfortable, take my earmuffs off and bam like a random car will pass by my yard and fuck me over all over again. I think it's best to follow my gut, and my gut tells me it's better to over-protect.
You can reverse your tolerance. When was the last time you took them? It's probably reset by now. I know I have to take at least a week off every second week or so to keep my tolerance.
I came off them in August 2018. I am not sure but I thought that risk of tolerance/dependence was MUCH higher if you had been addicted to them before. It seems like a huge gamble, and I am very scared of getting hooked on them again and the thought of having to deal with withdrawal on top of this hell. Also my doctor probably won't prescribe them to me again. But, I don't know. I just don't see it as a long term solution.
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