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Having fun explaining the anatomy of the ear and pipeline drugs to my therapist every week.

My 5 month mark will be on Christmas. Have had various ups and downs but overall still debilitating. No consistent progress, just random.

I've officially asked my friend to hook me up with some fungi to try microdosing.

Why does my tinnitus spike every day around 2pm then stay loud til bed? What could be happening in the body...

Who else subconsciously feels like the more they trawl this site the sooner a treatment will come?

Haven't gone outside my house since around Halloween :(

Has anyone who used to spike to basic sounds gotten better? I can't drive nor listen to music much, nor use the tv loudly, at 4.5 months.

All Xanax days, positive trend?: 10.10.20 / 10.12.20 / 10.17.20 / 10.24.20 / 10.31.20 / 11.03.20 / 11.07.20 / 11.14.20 / 11.24.20 / 12.12.20

This past week was one of the best I've had since onset, though today is predictably quite loud. Hoping to have more good weeks ahead.

Took a shower with earplugs today and no immediate spike : D

My T is in a pattern now. Wake up and it is medium hiss, not terrible, then throughout the day back to ringing and VERY loud at night.

My tinnitus gets progressively louder throughout the day, and is loudest right before I sleep. Anyone found a way to halt intraday progress?

Does anyone else have tinnitus that reacts to pink noise or masking by changing tone briefly, for example atonal to tonal or the reverse?

Feels like I've been being tortured for 4 months.

Having some success with kava root. It takes the volume down and removes the tactile sensations. Time will tell if sustainable.

Grogu

Propranolol helps block the anxiety the T produces.

Multiple back to back days of severe T. I don’t like where this seems to be going.

Anyone else make much less earwax after accoustic trauma? I went from a ton to basically dry ears.

T is back to severe today. Unmaskable. I feel numb.

Tinnitus today is just this wall of rushing shhhhhhhhhhhhh type noises coming in waves. It is very loud.

Just used my desktop PC again for the first time in months - the fans gave me my loudest spike in weeks. Feeling like no progress made.

Ears are fizzing, hissing, sputtering, aching - like a festering wound.

So tired...

T is actually *slightly* quieter for the first time today, a week short of 4 months.

I can see how habituation is possible. My T changes once per hour, but today it stayed the same for 6. I was in sync with it. *Dee doo doo*

It's no longer the volume that gets me, it's the high speed rhythm and busy-ness. It's multiple bits of noise per second.

Listening to music changes my busy T to a steady dooooooooo. Not sure if counts as a spike, more like a shift?

Tinnitus back to atonal crashing today in both ears. Sounds like a muffled version of people vigorously shaking metal shopping carts.

Anyone else with noise-induced T where noise like music actually quiets it for a bit, and silence makes it 10x louder?