I'm am listenng, anyways not interested in fighting. I just told you I tried exactly what you suggested and didn't help. I am asking for people's inputs to the above question, who are experiencing what am, there hearing loss and tinnitus and programming with it.
I look forward to others inputs though.
Hey there. So, we've talked about this in PMs already, and I hope you know you and your well-being are cared about here. For that reason, I feel like a tough love truth bomb needs to be laid out.
If you're asking me, or anyone, if programming or coding with tinnitus or hearing loss or both (or deafness or cancer or lupus or what-have-you) is possible, then the answer is YES. It is 100% possible. How do I know? Because there are people out there doing it. I do it. There are people out there doing things big and small against ridiculous odds. I watched a documentary recently about a man who severely injured his knee and then climbed up Everest. Almost everyone told him he
could not and
should not do this. Doctors, friends, family, guides all said it was madness and impossible. He did it anyway because he decided he could and he would. He put in the work and made it happen despite everyone else's opinions. There are a million stories like that. People who walked again who weren't supposed to walk, amputees who enjoyed running marathons again on prosthetic legs, survivors of severs strokes who recovered against all odds. Musicians with tinnitus are all over the place and they still make a living playing music and love it. Heck, Beethoven went deaf -
could not hear a single thing - and still wrote incredibly beautiful music.
So,
can you program again with T and hearing loss? Yes. There is no question.
Can you enjoy it again with time? Yes, no question.
Now, if you ask me
will you enjoy it again? I really don't know and neither does anyone here. You need to decide if that's going to happen for you. It might not happen tomorrow, but you have to decide to take whatever actions are necessary to get back to a good enough mental state to enjoy your life and your loves again. No one can do it for you. People can support you and offer words of encouragement, therapists can help you talk through your difficulties, we here can all talk and cheer you on as you make changes, but you have to do it and you have to decide. I do no think you've done that yet. You ask for advice from people who have walked this path, but you could take it further. I went to probably 15 doctors before I found one that I liked, trusted and helped, I went across state lines and called people who lived in Colorado (I'm in NY). I meditated, did yoga, tried CBT, read countless medical studies, books on neuroscience, books on finding happiness in turbulent times, I journaled obsessively to get my thoughts and fears out there. I played video games and brain games to get my mind off my T (not a gamer), I watched inspirational documentaries, I went to church (not religious, but met really kind people who supported me). So much of this barely cost me anything and all of it helped just a little until things started to change. It's just the decision and commitment you have to make to be better, try things that may feel a bit uncomfortable and move forward even if you can't see how or when healing is going to happen yet. You start taking steps, don't give up and things will change. It's not easy and it's not fair, but it is possible.
I want so badly for you to get back to programming and feeling better, that's why I'm saying all this. I
know you can get better, I hope you get to a point where you know that, too.
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