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About 10 minutes ago I experienced fleeting tinnitus (in addition to my regular tinnitus) in my right ear. But it went away, cool. A few minutes ago it came back and hasn't left :(. I'm worried vacuuming out my car (even with foam ear plugs) may have done something. So now I have TWO tones in...

I don’t want to get your hopes up too high, but research from places like Frequency Therapeutics and the Hough Ear Institute are promising, and they’ll be here soon (5-10 years, not soon enough but within our lifetimes!). 20 years... I can’t imagine living with this for that long. Of course...

@Damien0000, I’m glad yours tends to be every other day, but tinnitus is rough, isn’t it? Most folks here have normal audio grams because they only test up to 8 kHz. At home at a very low volume using online tone generators I can hear up to 14-15 kHz (which is normal), although my left is can...

This is very true. Whether or not my tinnitus is actually quieter, I'm not sure. It's all so subjective, and like most folks it fluctuates daily so it's hard to say. However, I notice it less, I've (almost) stopped crying over it. It used to be on my mind 24/7 and now I can basically ignore it...

I agree with not committing suicide. 1-800-273-8255 Suicide Hotline just in case. This sucks, I know, and mine keeps getting worse (new sounds, more hearing loss). Allow yourself to feel sad about this; we're essentially grieving the loss of silence and healthy ears. But we're alive! We can...

I was taking the batteries of out a smoke detector and foolishly forgot to wear ear protection. It beeped at me for maybe 2-3 seconds and I didn't notice a spike or hearing loss right after, but last night—about two days later—I've noticed I have some mild hearing loss in the left ear. I also...

I too experience occasional, brief (1-2 seconds long) pain in either ear. Usually a few times a day but never at the same time, so far. I've had noise-induced tinnitus for a couple months now. A week or two after noticing tinnitus I was prescribed prednisone for a week, and then I noticed the...

I sympathize strongly. My GP recommended jazz music as it often can mask tinnitus at the right frequency. I’m listening to it now as I work, and it mostly distracts me (hard with high-pitched, intrusive ringing though). Hang in there, acceptance is hard but eventually you just... do it. Because...

Just when you think you've learned everything about tinnitus... this one really snuck up on me. And to think most people don't even know about tinnitus! That was me before October... Is your hissing hard to mask? Static-y tones seem much more intrusive than actual ringing...

That's a good perspective to have. Thank you for sharing this. I'm (hopefully) in a similar place of acceptance. At least I'm not crying myself to sleep anymore (but still having trouble with sleep). But there's nothing else we can do other than accept it. I'm sure we'll have plenty of bad days...

Hello, reviving this thread as to not start a new one... I believe I got tinnitus in my right ear from loud noise exposure around Oct. 21st, 2020. 5 weeks later I started noticing an intermittent, high-pitched static/hissing in my left ear. Almost two week after its onset, it seems to be...

I'll also point out that diphenhydramine in Advil PM (found in most OTC sleep aids, Benadryl, etc.) as well as Advil itself (ibuprofen) are ototoxic drugs. I have no idea if 3 times/week is enough to be "toxic" (also depends on how long you've been taking it) but may have had a synergistic...

I'm really sorry to hear about this. The irony and struggle of this situation is really heartbreaking, but I'm glad you're making your way through it. Quite disappointing they would spend so little time on tinnitus at your school... I was just watching a video about how it affects veterans, and...

I think... I think I now have static in my left ear? This is new as of a few days, maybe a week. I've been careful with my ears, but I think I hear static now. It's not so much static as it is that high-pitch sound that an old TV might make. I also can't tell if it's just one ear or if I feel...

Question, are specific frequencies supposed to "cancel out" tinnitus? Are there threads on this forum that talk about using this as treatment, and even aid in habituation? I used this website: https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ to find a tone that I think matches mine--might have to play...