When Does This Moderation Supposedly Happen?

[MikeL1972]

You can rest assured that the treatment of tinnitus and other auditory/neurological/physiological conditions remains an area of great interest for researchers and pharma companies.

In the not too distant future, the entire human brain - including neurons - will be mapped. It goes without saying that the findings will be earth-shattering for maladies such as Alzheimers, Parkinsons, epilepsy, and a myriad of other ailments - including of course tinnitus.

 

[SilverSpiral]

One of the problems we face, Spiral, is that a common piece of advice from Practitioners is that normal sound can't hurt us. The problems with this are: 1. They don't actually know that, they surmise it based on (presumably) best evidence. 2: "reassurance" is popular in Medical and Nursing training, but it's not well understood, and meaning well is no substitute for having actual facts. 3: One man's "ordinary sound" is another man's cacophony. 4: Most of us know what caused our condition, but hardly any of us know what's actually happening in there and which direction it will go, what our thresholds are, or have become, depending on what we do or don't do. 5. Research into this whole thing is patchy at best. We are listening blind to a large degree. Much of what we do know tends to come from the information we provide to each other here, and that is as copious, and varied, as all of our presentations are. Its an otological buffet of fear and misery for the newcomer I'm sure, and like a buffet, you can keep going back and finding something tantalizing you missed, even if you aren't hungry.

I will say this though, don't internalize the problems of others as necessarily having application to your own situation. Read, observe, and know yourself.

I really appreciate this, this is really insightful and you are a really talented writer. You really understood the basis of my questions and concerns. However, my T and the way I got it make it very difficult for me to judge "know thyself" in terms of this condition. I had NEVER ever had T in my life, and never experienced a temporary threshold shift. I got T from the first and only live music event that I went to without earplugs, and it was a tiny venue, there was never as many people in the music area as there was playing the music! however the sound became louder than any show I had ever been to part way through. I was nearly deaf in one ear for 2 days, and now i have 3 tones of T in the one ear and one in the other. As well as music sounds bad now! besides the T and H. This is a nightmare! Also I'm on autism spectrum, so how does that play into this? I always wore earplugs to live shows because I did have "sensitive hearing" but does that mean I was more prone to damage than others? I had attended less shows than I can count on my fingers and now i went to the wrong one the only time i forgot plugs, and it was cuz i wanted to go bad. Now its all messed up. I literally can not enjoy music now, and even if my hearing gets better, could I ever risk it again? and if it doesnt get better this is messed up!

 

[PaulBe]

Its probably more about finding how well you knew yourself before in order that you can find the strength you have within you for the new reality that lies ahead. I'm three years in, not happy, but still here. I was a successful working musician until this, and my symptoms are a lot like yours, so yes, I fully get losing the relationship with music. Small venues are dangerous for band-members and audience alike.

There is a known relationship between some degrees of ASD and hyperacusis, but I don't think its relevant to your situation.

 

[Capricornus]

When it started I had no idea where it came from,I just woke up with a full left ear that was cracking and popping then it spread to my right ear,the followed shortly after.I had been to a concert two months prior so I don't know if that was the cause but according to the hospital it was an infection but I can say for certain.Anyway below is a little scale to give you an idea of how loud it was and how low it eventually got.Not habituated but genuinely got quieter.

Bill, did you experience any fluctuations during this period or was your T a constant sound that just faded?