BlueMoon86

This is my levels during spike's it's TOUGH, hope it comes back down for you. usually 30-40db covers it, 20db more makes a difference

Mine is only covered by 68db now. It used to be 63. I can measure it increasing, and with each increase, it's like watching my life slip away at the hands of some sadistic monster.

I have also tried this after drinking alcohol

Probably just because your tinnitus is a higher freqency then the jet. Can you clearly hear it over a fast running tap or high pressure shower?

My T is low frequency. I hear it over everything.

@BlueMoon86 aww I m so sorry about LuLu I had a hunting dog that my daughter and I picked up one day she was starved by and had her for years and her name was also LULU we lost her about a year ago. I like to drink also it helps me deal with it and yeah sometimes I drink too much. Do you know what your T is caused from?

My Lulu was 17 and had dementia. I wasn't always so patient with her towards the end and she was shying away from me. I had to have her put down because she stopped eating for 2 days. When they took her away to place a catheter they brought her back in and when she saw me her whole face lit up and she wagged her tail thinking she was going to go home now but I couldn't take her home this time.

The guilt just ate me alive and I drank a lot to cope. Unfortunately the drink also takes the tinnitus down so I have double the reason. My tinnitus is caused by a sudden hearing loss I had last year.

If alcohol helped my T, I know I would drink too.

When I say I can hear my T over things, I mean the sound doesn't mask the T, and I can still hear the T. My cricket/katydids sounds I listen to at night don't mask mine, but they help keep me from focusing on T when trying to sleep.

Its a way to objectively compare the severity in the suffering contest. Like if you can't hear yours in the shower that means you have mild T and have to bow your head and show respect to people that can hear it in shower.

@verda - I can hear mine in the shower with no protection. 5 water heads going. I don’t even have to look for it. I do have to bend my neck just an inch. If I don’t bend my neck it’s still loud but moments of masking depending. This is my worst unimaginable nightmare.

I think it means, does an external sound drown out the internal sound. Some lucky souls can’t hear their T over the shower or when they are in a noisy environment.

@BlueMoon86 - what I find interesting. My T is very loud. However I can still hear the smallest of sounds. My hearing test was almost perfect. I could hear those small sounds despite my T blasting.

How long have you been taking clonazepam?

For almost 2 months. No more. It is making me scared and giving me auditory hallucinations even at .5mg. It also doesn't work anymore. I never took it every day but I will still try and taper off it.

Yep. Like therapy, or a massage, or a doctors appointment. Just useless moments of total immersion in this auditory hell. Let me stay home and blast my water noises instead.

I was talked into trying cupping during those early months. Also did fuk all besides leaving big stupid hickeys on my ass. Lmao!

We are alike. What a nightmare.

Sorry to hear that. I went through a sudden multi-fold increase in tinnitus 27 months ago. Any suspected cause for your recent worsenings?

Mine seemed to increasingly get louder and more volumes in the first 6-8 months of worsening. I’ve had quite a few stretches of quiet tinnitus since, ‘quiet’ being subjective

My problem is some kind of inner ear fluid issue, not just hearing loss. I didn't just lose hearing and that's it, dead ear. I often have this full, clogged feeling where everything is muffled. Sometimes it even hurts.