Hi!
You can call me Max. That is my online moniker of sorts.
I am not sure when it first started. Probably around ten years ago. It used to be intermittent, always on my right side. I would get it for a few days at a time, then it would go away for months before coming back again.
Then about a month ago, it started on my left side, which is unusual for me, and it has not stopped. Not once. It is driving me nuts. More nuts? lol
I have tried sound therapy, distraction, reading, gaming, and music on low. I have turned all my volumes down, even though loud sounds have never been a trigger for me before. I have been to rock gigs without getting tinnitus, but I have also spent a quiet day in nature and had something set it off. At this point, I have no idea what is going on.
I am slowly going insane. It is making everything else I deal with so much worse. Yay. I have chronic pain, which has lasted more than eighteen years, PTSD, and insomnia, which is only getting worse thanks to the tinnitus.
Aside from all the depressing stuff, I am a 31 year old Scottish woman, gamer, artist, crafter, and reader of high fantasy. I have a ton of hobbies and interests, though none of them seem to be helping much these days.
I also have a very sarcastic and dry sense of humor, and a solid talent for self deprecation.
Nice to meet you!
You can call me Max. That is my online moniker of sorts.
I am not sure when it first started. Probably around ten years ago. It used to be intermittent, always on my right side. I would get it for a few days at a time, then it would go away for months before coming back again.
Then about a month ago, it started on my left side, which is unusual for me, and it has not stopped. Not once. It is driving me nuts. More nuts? lol
I have tried sound therapy, distraction, reading, gaming, and music on low. I have turned all my volumes down, even though loud sounds have never been a trigger for me before. I have been to rock gigs without getting tinnitus, but I have also spent a quiet day in nature and had something set it off. At this point, I have no idea what is going on.
I am slowly going insane. It is making everything else I deal with so much worse. Yay. I have chronic pain, which has lasted more than eighteen years, PTSD, and insomnia, which is only getting worse thanks to the tinnitus.
Aside from all the depressing stuff, I am a 31 year old Scottish woman, gamer, artist, crafter, and reader of high fantasy. I have a ton of hobbies and interests, though none of them seem to be helping much these days.
I also have a very sarcastic and dry sense of humor, and a solid talent for self deprecation.

Nice to meet you!
