Yes. Having a loud noise in your head takes a bit of a toll on cognition. That piece does improve with time though
Canada next week...long and probably loud car ride, loud restaurants, loud places...I guess I'll see how it goes...=/
It’s not worth it, try to wear earplugs at least especially if you have custom made ones by any chance
I don't generally push any sort of product but I've been using those Flare Calmers in public settings and they do seem to help with the higher frequencies. Keep some foam plugs on hand just in case. You know what your threshold is. Have fun and be safe. :)
Ugh this f-ing fax machine line tone!! The two former tenants that had direct caused to this, I hope you both f-ing burn in hell.
@Juliane they partied every night until early morning and caused a lot of problems. Very traumatizing and I was going through other things, but they caused me to loose a month of sleep and anxiety. I think it was them triggered all of this T to come on suddenly. No more rentals. I'll just work more and save more. Do anything to go back in time.
That is horrible :-( I know how traumatizing that can be. I experienced one night of neighbors partying, then figthing and screaming for the entire night and I was non-functional for days after.... Those things should have severe penalties
Feel like while I can still semi function to get a 2nd job&save money in case I become a vegetable due to T. Sad to think I have to do this
@cyberspace I took about 4 weeks off before returning back to work. I work only a couple of hours onsite and mostly remote. I been forcing myself to work. Was hoping work would kill me faster.
Going into 20 months now. Absolutely no f-ing improvements. Started 1 ear and turned in 2 ears after a few weeks. Just pure f-ing hell.
everyday I dream about how I can die without making it seem intentional. universe, when will you let me go.
Sorry to hear... sometimes i feel the same way. I felt so many times.. just let it all end please... pfff... Hope & faith that this condition can get better over time is what helps me the most. Trying to go easy on yourself
I wonder if Jeff Buckley's death was intentional... So many lyrics of his are about drowning, the water, etc.
10 years ago, got T for a couple of days from a concert. never again. 10 years later, woke up in the middle of the night with T. wtf?!
All I want for my birthday from now on is for this shit tinnitus to go away permanently and forever banished from my life.
FML thought I would avoid the crowd by taking the stairs, instead triggered an alarm. Then, I was assaulted by ambulance.WTF IS THIS?!
@crescentsky - Honest to God my T worsens at every turn. How can one go 30 or 40 years with no noise Traumas. I’ll miss 10 parties then have a large glass bowl drop out of my hands.
I can’t find anywhere here that does the OAE test, except in Raleigh NC and that is so far from us: The audiologist in new Bern does the test where they stick something down in your ear to make sure ear drum is working right.
Yeah that’s a lot of money. Was yours in the high frequency like mine or just a standard test up to 8,000 or is that how they do a OAE or some other way? I’m not sure. Alls I know is they did my high frequency test and said, I had sensory tinnitus.
@SharonBell I did two test. A hearing test which is up to 8k. Normal. A hair cell test which returned abnormal. Not sure what sound they tested up to. I didn't hear anything.
The hair cell test shows my brain did not hear almost half the sounds. They didn't really explain it well. Sounds like they don't even know. They couldn't even answer any of my questions. Complete joke.
I thought this shit was supposed to stabilized after a year. 18 months and why am I getting a new sound on top of existing?! WTF!
Been wishing I can transfer the remainder of my years to someone that needs it or take all my organs in exchange for peaceful death.
18 months later & still mourning. I no longer give an f about everyone&their-non-tinnitus problem.they can go f themselves for all i care.
I see people on subway talking about relationship problems as if it is the end of the world. My entire view on the world has changed ever since I got hit with this BS.
@BB23 I would take relationship problems over tinnitus any day. give me even a toxic one, I'll take that over this shit tinnitus.
None of my other chronic health issues cause so much grief. Feels like a prisoner in my own body with absolute zero control over my life.
So true. Unfortunately I can relate to everything you say. If it was not progressing I’d be much, much, much better.
There are moments where I wish I can smash my brain, smash my cochlear, it's so exhausting to constantly have to worry about this ear shit.
Don't know what possessed me today to agree & stayed 2 hours for an oktoberfest themed event w/o ear plugs. Hope it'll be ok. Exhausted.
sigh I wish, not in CA. CA already won twice in a row. Tho if the choice was lottery vs tinnitus-free...I would choose to be tinnistus-free. nothing is worth this torture and sound.
Never really thought aging. Now I'm terrified at the thought that I would be forced to live till 100. That's f-ing 60+years. wtf
if there is a choice to be completely deaf/no sounds&ringing vs tinnitus & nondeaf, I choose to be completely f-ing deaf! Hear nothing!
Sadly there so much hope in the first 2 years. For me as it sinks in that this will probably be for ever, it hurts.
why is it that every time I step out, all the ambulances come out? is this a sign? should I just continue to hide under by bed?
The world is loud as fuck but when you will NEED to go out, you will. At least that is my experience.
So true!!! If I knew there was a limit to how loud this can get I would be so much happier. Problem is it’s so different for everyone.
Can't decide if this work trip is worth it - 5 hrs flight x 2 (to/from), 4 days, covid risk, see all these people, loud restaurants, sigh.
My take on it: don't go. I went on such a trip in the beginning of my worsening and it may have ruined me.
yeah, that's what I am going to do. I took a couple of days off to collect myself together. I'll tell my manager next week I will not join the team offsite in-person. If it impacts my overall evaluations for performance, well I guess, I'll just have to take it. This is not the first one I missed when this f-ing nightmare started last year.
Yeah, probably better not to go. I dared to fly for vacation in July, enjoyed it all things considered, but I continue to slowly worsen so I wonder if that contributed. Well, I justified going by doing something nice with my wife maybe for the last time. Work assignment does not sound like it is worth the risk, unless your livelihood depends on it. And even then who knows.
people(incl therapists) so eager to recom/prescribe antidepressants. I'M NOT DEPRESSED. YOU BITCHES TRY HAVING TINNITUS 24/7&365+counting.
yeah I am not taking it, not worth the risk as it comes with other problems and can potentially make the nightmare worse.
Yeah just had that happening to me. My doctor asked: "So it's just the tinnitus keeping you awake?" Then suggested Mirtazapine. Why even bother with these incompetent people
yeah I give up going to these doctors. a friend told me to try another doctor and im like LOL. You think it's that easy?! Even a well known tinnitus psychologist told me, there are worse things that could happen to you at your age! and basically implied at least I am alive and not dead. well, I rather be dead than barely alive at this moment in time.
how long do i have to live if i stop exercising, eat all processed food, do not eat anything healthy? will i be lucky & die by end of year?
Better option seems to live healthy lifestyle... maybe that can help improve t over time... self destructive lifestyle is not right way out... but i can feel ya... im also so done with this condition, but i just hope that with healthy lifestyle & time things may slowly recover hopefully... pffft... people dont understand what a crzy condition tinnitus is.. i just joined this forum.. and feel same way...
i feel like i have exhausted everything already. prior to this, my life consisted of exercising everyday, eating healthy, green smoothies/juice. i was almost 70% plant based.
man... i can relate... pffft... dunno what to say, but can definitely relate & hoping that time may heal all things
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