Recent content by CarolinaGuy

Officially, it is idiopathic. But I am highly certain that my tinnitus was caused - or at least made vastly worse - by taking pharmaceutical doses of Ibuprofen after a root canal surgery and a back injury. The doctors really don't buy that argument, but I feel confident about it because the...

So, I am just about at the nine-month mark. I wanted to come back and check in. I decided not to visit this site (no offense, please), or other T-related sites for several months as I have made attempts to habituate myself. The good news is I have more days now where I don’t notice my T very...

I am no historian of medicine, but it seems that the greatest advances in medical science over the last 100 years have come in preventing and fighting communicable diseases. We have been able to fight back against the invaders that once killed so many, so young. Even though some of those...

Ibuprofen

I'm pushing five months since onset. My record so far is about four hours without noticing it.

I'm so sorry that all of you are going through this. All I can say is keep pushing ahead because things can get better. My T onset came after taking large doses of ibuprofen - that good 'ol OTC Advil - following dental surgery and a back injury. I never took ibuprofen much - in fact, I only...

Mine is usually in the right ear only. But when I have spikes, it is in both ears. I usually wake up in the morning with it in both ears, too. But on a non-spike day, the left ear settles down within a few minutes of waking, and I hear it just in the right. The only immediate cause of my T that...

I have had T for four months now. Missed three days of work due specifically to the T. One of those days was when I had to travel to see an audiologist specializing in T. The other two were days when I was so depressed and anxious that I just called in sick. I work in an office. Pretty quiet...

Today is four months for me. I was alternating between panic/anxiety attacks and depression for about two months. I have always been an anxious person, and prone to short bouts of mild depression (though never anything close to being suicidal, thankfully.) Now, I know what it is like to have a...

Thongjy, When mine started in October I heard all kinds of noise. I would shift back and forth between hissing, and single-tone ringing in my right ear, and single tone ringing in the center of my head (usually at night), then "crickets" chirping in both ears, and then pulsating, wave-like...

I've worked as a journalist for close to 20 years - not a science journalist, but a government and business journalist. I've worked with journalists who are science reporters. Typically, they are not scientists and not trained in science, except for the very basics that you would get in a...

Lots of people report that their T is masked or temporarily inhibited by the sound of the shower. It's a "white noise" kind of sound. As for the loudness after a shower, that might just be because it jumps back into your mind suddenly if you are listening for it. I don't think the shower is...

As hard as it is to believe, I have heard from people who have had tinnitus for many years who say they eventually "made friends" with their T and even enjoyed listening to it from time to time. On another social media forum that I frequent, not T-related but sports-related, I posted a message...

That's a good combination of masking sounds.

Drinking my beloved craft beers makes mine better. Or maybe it just makes me not care about it. Of course, I can't become an alcoholic because of T. LOL. So drinking every day isn't an option. I think mine started because of good 'ol Advil - Ibuprofen - which I was taking after dental surgery...