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Hi Danny, thank you for the encouragement from 12 years ago, I'm glad to report I'm still around, but I would have to say very tough going. A few weeks ago I ended up in a too noisy of a car and I've got another tinnitus spike.

It is just so frustrating that I was doing well and now I've got this ridiculous spike to contend with, it's just I'm kind of struggling and down a bit, is all, which I know no one wants to hear someone else is down, I'm not prone to depression, I'm actually normally a cheerful person, just from being able to experience everything I have, living in Canada, having access to education, all sorts of things most of the rest of the world can't even dream of, and here I am.

/ paul m. - sault ste. marie, ontario, and it's cold out.

getting T was so easily avoidable (for me). and then it worsening, and worsening, and worsening, was so easily avoidable. but nope, it all had to happen didn't it. with all kinds of physical pain now too. safe to say i did NOT handle T well.

5 year trophy... is that so. Thanks tinnitus talk. If only that calmed this atrocious spike. And so it goes. Hope some of my friends here are doing ok. I don't pop in much anymore.

i hate the fact that i am falling out of habituation again and again. It is so exhausting. It is so troublesome. I know i must conquer this, but i have no idea how. I don't know, if i can habituate again, when i know, i can get this again and again and again. Habituation is not a fix, it is like a placebo, so the millions will not get into good studies. It is so fucked up.

What makes it frustrating is that I can expose to sounds no problem, and then a few hours after or even in the morning I'll know if it was too much and if I'll spike or have a hyperacusis warning. Makes it SUPER hard to know how and when exposure is successful