CrystalB

antihistamines make mine worse

They also make mine worse.

You would think antihistamine would make it better, so odd.

Lets not forget, even on our harder days.

It can get into your eustachian tubes.

@Wrfortiscue try raising the head end of your bed a few inches. Should help.

I think I'm in the same boat. GERD can cause sinus/ET inflammation. You'll probably also carbonated drinks, alcohol and getting a cold make it worse?

@Wrfortiscue are you on any kind of medicine? Mines about 24/7 go to stomach doctor Monday.

@CrystalB nah I’m med free

I have heard of stomach acid getting in the eustachian tube. Which can cause t or make it worse

Me, unfortunately it became incredibly high pitch after I had the Pfizer vaccine. Hope yours quietens down.

@Robster i hope yours eventually will get quieter also!

@CrystalB cute dog! Yeah just keep your mind busy and build from there.

Good for you CrystalB! She is adorable. I got my puppy, Teddy, one year ago, and he has brightened up my life tremendously and done wonders for my relationship with my husband, which has been under some strain with covid & health issues. Good luck getting through the first year! It is challenging but so rewarding. :)

@LilSass thank you! Is that Teddy in your picture? So Cute! I’m so glad things are going better for you now!

He said I would lose hearing temporary until it healed,I think he said it would help with pressure in the ear.They offered it too me, but I declined it for now, trying to deal with it without medication for now, it’s hard. Are you on any? And does it help deal with it better? I read somewhere where someone had said that how they got use to there tinnitus was just not caring about it anymore.

I'm not on any medication aside from trying the Prednisone pack. I'm going to an ENT to get checked out soon. Right now i'm in the same boat, trying to just get by without any additional medication, but we'll see. Are you able to sleep ok? The high pitch is making it hard for me.

Some nights it is about unbearable but I keep telling myself it won’t stay like this it will go down some.I hope you have better nights.

My prayers to you @CrystalB Hope you'll be alright. Stay strong. For better days!

Fingers Crossed...

Hang in there! Some days are too tough, but hopefully you'll get better ones.

Thank you!

I have read others wondering if there's a correlation between reflux and Tinnitus, but, I've had reflux for 10 years easy, and T for almost 2.5.

Various over the counter medical dations can cause temporary spikes. Hopefully it settles for you.

Once one thing settles down seems like one fires back up. I’ve heard reflux can mess with the ears,but I’ve had reflux longer than tinnitus too

How high? Can crickets mask it?

I could try. It’s extremely high pitch.

Wish I knew the answer. My T has been the highest pitch it has ever been today. This is a brutal condition.

Has anyone experience that?

It's good that you have found a way to reduce your T, but unfortunate that it involves provoking your allergies. Hope things improve for you.

Yes got it too sometimes.
Just like my pillow can make it feels “easier”...

ENT can't find anything wrong. MRI fine. I got it a couple of days after tinnitus, and someone suggested to me that it was probably caused by the stress/anxiety of that. I would love to know for sure - such an odd symptom.

That’s the way mine is,got it after I got tinnitus,so weird.is your tinnitus high pitch?

All kinds of sounds, but not currently high pitched. Don't think the tinnitus pitch has any significance re cause etc, but there are others who disagree so I stand to be corrected.

@CrystalB What a wonderful experience it must have been to experience silence, if only for a day. I don't know for certain, but if there was any anesthesia involved, it could have maybe silenced the tinnitus temporarily?

It did seem good.Tinnitus might had still been there but I might had been so out of it I couldn’t hear it. If the anesthesia did have effect on my tinnitus would that mean my tinnitus is coming from my Brain?

Tinnitus emenates from the brain over amplifying the signals it sends after the ear's hair cells are damaged or compromised.

Do any of you work? I need to work, but how?

@CrystalB yes, I work. :) It was hard at first, but it really is mind over matter. I told myself that I can do it, and T isn’t/wasn’t gunna stop me. You really have to be strong. I know you can do it! X

I'm still working from home due to the pandemic, but work want people to start doing a minimum of 2 days a week in the office from October. Dreading it.

yeah, it could be some hyperacusis which is quite common with tinnitus

I’m in the dark about the difference between “musicial tinnitus” and “audiotory hallucination”. I have a tone that’s music, but it’s also sometimes something from real-life conversation and even internal dialogue. Luckily most of gets drowned out by the piercing tone. If it was any louder I would go insane

Once I started humming to myself, and thought ‘what is that tune?’ Then I realised I was humming my tinnitus tune. -_- so yeah, my ears have a little musical thing going on.

I have this garbage in my right ear. It seems particularly sensitive to high frequencies. I work near a window downstairs and there are wind chimes outside and if I stay down long enough they become absorbed in my tinnitus. Usually evaporates after an hour or so.

Can you hear yours over just about anything?

When it spikes, yes

Hi Crystal! I've now had tinnitus almost 2 years, some days are harder than others. Mine changes volume from day to day, it can be super quiet to being able to hear almost over everything. Not sure it will ever seem 'normal'. Hope you're doing ok! :)

I’ve had this for over 4 years, some days are okay but here lately I feel like I’m back at the first day it came. Do any of you have hearing loss?

Well, spikes always make me feel that way @CrystalB. Take me right back to square one until they alleviate, or on the occasions where they're permanent, I get used to them.

About the hearing loss: none that can be detected on a standard audiogram, no. But I find it highly unlikely that anyone with noise induced tinnitus wouldn't have (hidden) hearing loss to some degree.

@Damocles If we think about it everyone has hearing loss, if our ear has a threshold of 0hz - 20khz everyone has high frequency hearing loss.
I think for us with tinnitus, if it's not something in the brain it's something messed up in our inner ear, nobody knows what.

After years and years we will probably have a treatment or cure if all else fails. That's what keeps me going.

Have you experienced Any fading over the past two years?

@Bill Bauer nope, mine fluctuates so bad,one day it’s so quite,then there’s like tonight where it’s so loud I can’t hardly stand it.I just done understand :(

I've just wondered that myself, I made a post about it just a few days ago. But we have super sunny weather today so I don't think it does after all. If it did, my T would be ok today.

True.I have thought it could be weather but my tinnitus has got worse and it’s been sunny.

Same girl! :)

I did have my surgery done,and it didn’t effect my ears at all,so glad for that.Sounds like we have Similar Tinnitus problems.I saw a ear Exercise on YouTube a while back I do every once and awhile,it seems to help with my fullness in my ears.

I had them put in and it didn't help. My loud noise in left ear is either barotrauma caused or TMD. Is your noise in one ear or both?

My tinnitus is in both ears but my rights seems worse. I have ETD and I wondered if tubes helped with the tinnitus or the feeling full.

Sorry to hear this. How long have you had this going on for?

I’ve had it for almost 4 years! Long time lol