Dij111

That's the ear that has a moving sound instead of just a monotone ring/hiss like my left ear... guess it's correlated somehow, getting a CT scan to check.

It will come at the cost of sleep and added sounds/volume in my head, but what else can I do? Can't keep living like this.

@dpdx It has gotten better in left ear, worse in right as far as I can tell. I mean, it's more so that the sound is like a tune that's going up and down so it's harder to ignore.

I know the feeling. My baseline is actually pretty low but I get scared of spikes and loud noise in general. I want to defer my dissertation to improve my hyperacusis. My main reason to stay living is for FT and other developments. It does relive me that I won't have to live with this forever, even if I will have to for a long time.

why?

Holding on hope with every part of my body :( today was a fairly good T day, managed to watch a movie without thinking about T, I've been noticing volume reductions every month since onset.

I also can't say for sure yet but it seems as if I lost some of the extra tones I had, I've only heard my 1 tonal T today with no other sounds.

Thats great news! It is so slow to fade, it's tough to form a point of reference. You will get through this, but it may take up to 2 years. I'm 18 months in now (acoustic trauma) and am aprox 90% faded. I *hope* to be fully healed by the 2 year mark. You will get better.

Just need to keep going, push forward somehow - fake it til' you make it, as much as I hate to say it.

Just be so honest and open about yourself that it causes neurotypicals to question their societal sculpted mindset. A autistic person on social capita that makes memes in photoshop, dicks around with internet friends and watches cartoons all day can live a happier life then a hard working, church going, married man with kids and a wife and high income job.

@Contrast Uhmmm.... yes.

You get used to it, people say, everything will be fine.
The beginning was better because at least I was fed with false hope.

I just know I am going to suffer from insomnia this week, this is how we get to the addictive anti-depressant pill stage, I get it now, I feel sorry for everyone here.

Don't give up hope, you will most likely greatly improve over the next 12 months. Lots of people with noise caused T completely recover.

I just walked 40 mins to the beach with double ear protection, maybe I can catch some sleep here, with skin cancer as a bonus.

Need to keep going so my mother doesn't grieve for me.

The only person in my life that truly matters and cares.

I would've been miserable if she was not around during these 2 months.

Where did it all go wrong, in the span of a few months...

watch OZ show, so you can see if they have it easy ;) you might even reconsider your situation

Sorry about the guy above me. You get those types around here :)

Almost ready to give up with how I'm feeling this morning... this is going to be a great day.

Always physically feeling my brain or ears, I am exhausted of this feeling.

Will need to suffer for a few more months to see if there's improvement.

I wonder if life in this neighborhood was always like that... guess I've been coming off work and diving straight into headphones so I did not notice the sounds.

Hehe doggo

The waves aren't masking my T... this is the saddest disease in the world...

Should do this more often, natural ocean wave sounds feel so good on the ears.

@Contrast but then who will fill this forum full of memes :(

@Dij111 I already wrote a script that can post 3 pictures of Obama dancing every several hours. Once i'm dead I can just have scripts do all my posting with a large plathora of memes and random content. However I don't know if I can find a computer to keep running if I do it. In the mean time just appreciate me while I'm a live.

literally shitposting from the grave would be hilarious on my part

You will be fine. Avoid the screaming kids and keep your distance with the lifeguards, they might use their whistle. Have fun ;)

T in my good ear sure is fine, really no reason to be paranoid from normal everyday noises for us.

It seems to be subsiding as the ear fullness is going away, if it won't I will go crazy.

I really hope this spike is just because of the exercise and not the kids... I got out of there 5 mins after they got into the pool and started screaming.

Maybe I should really go the @Bill Bauer way and become a hermit to protect against sounds throughout these first months.

No idea, the proximity of his voice was coming closer though, the barking stopped now, and the upstairs neighbors are playing music, yay me :)

I don't worry about my T for stuff like that, I worry about my general sanity... Bad neighbors are the worst.

Love my pitbull... She only barks at mean cats, lol.

I thought my T disappeared when swimming today, turns out the earplug just popped out a bit :) happy memories

Positivity is KEY :)

But most of what we get are side-stories - a friend of a friend of a friend whose T went away.

I believe most figures in all these studies about T disappearing completely for 70% of people simply had temporary threshold shift and not real tinnitus.

Sorry but I just feel like venting out my frustration today.

And the T ear sound turned high pitched, it is still the same very faint volume, just changed pitch, wonder what this means.

All of that happened in the quiet, I was not exposed to any noises throughout the day.

Strangely, this is the lowest in volume it has ever been.