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Right! =|

@kingsfan Dang. That is a lot. That's good that you can count your blessings!!

I'm sorry for all the hard stuff. =(

Sorry to hear you are going through so much @kingsfan. Life can be so rough and for some reason a lot of hardships happen at the same time. I hope better days will come your way soon!

That's the nature of tinnitus.

I am saying that if medication could make T worse, I wouldn't take it. The ONLY reason I take Amitriptyline is for sleep, and now I am starting to think this is why my T has gotten worse, but if I don't take anything, I won't sleep! What a conundrum. I hate this.

@SarahMLFlemmer You should really check with your doctor on a taper schedule. Its usually half for two weeks, then half of the half for two weeks, then half of the half every other day for two weeks... etc...

@SarahMLFlemmer the nortrip came in 10mg tablets. I’m not sure if your amitrip is the same. I would feel comfortable going down 10mg every 6 weeks. But of course talk to your doctor of course.

It sounds like you have somatic tinnitus, and that might be a good thing since the Michigan Device that is coming soon is specifically for somatic T.

Honestly I think it was many things, took 3 different sleep meds plus 3 ad’s and Benzo’s for a few months), insomnia induced - 5 months no sleep, injury which began everything, my daughter yelled directly in my ear Christmas Eve for 45 min it began 1 week after that .. listened to music with head set while biking for 5 years!! 1 hour a day. Played very low but still. Then my daughter 18 years.

Ear plugs - MY T is unbearable with them on. I don’t know how anyone with bad T can wear them

I was always really good at running away from my problems.

Oh yea, many years of memories of that.

It is absurd to think of now. Wasn't even enjoyable!

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Haven't even looked at said chart...

That’s great!!

I haven’t seen the chart either but can confirm I’m at stage 1

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@Tryn2BHopeful spike.jsx... I'm doing React 18 now =)

My neighbor does that, but he's in his 70's. I started using well-inserted foam earplugs to mow over a year ago. Never used to use anything the previous 20+ years.

@RunningMan I only wore earplugs in the practice studio, but would regularly forget them. No way I'm coming near a mower now. I can't even vacuum, even with double protection.

Is this still the same spike from your Tyre incident?

@Hardwell No that hasn't subsided. It does fluctuate a bit, but has not yet gone back down to my previous baseline.

This was, I guess, a spike on top of that, possibly from taking mirtazapine.

Tinnitus is listed as a common withdrawal symptom of mirtazapine, so it could go back to your previous baseline once your brain reaches homeostatis

I only took a single ~3.75mg dose. I cut a 15mg tablet into 1/4ths. I don't think I could have tapered any lower. But it really had a huge sedating effect on me. My ringing intensified as the sedation wore off.

I believe it should only be acting on H1 histamine receptors below 15mg. Zycam also shoots my tinnitus up, but it doesn't cross the blood brain barrier so I don't know what's up.

@kingsfan Me too! Can't wait to go to bed and wake up with it screaming in my ear. Haha. How relaxing. How are you doing today?

Mine does the exact same.

@Joe Cuber yea it steadily increases as the day goes. usually by afternoon it's at full force.

@Mo8409 Usually if I stay up late enough (like 2am) it resets back down to a more bearable level, but that hasn't been the case recently.

I wonder if mine hasn't improved as much as I was hoping due to the mirtazapine. After vacation gonna try to taper off and see I'd I can sleep without it again.

All these drugs are such a crapshoot for us all.

@Tryn2BHopeful Just do it very slowly. I hope I didn't mess myself up with this stuff. It was already elevated before I took it, so I'm not sure if it's too blame or not. It's so hard to tell. It's stressing me out.

my whole head is just full of oscillating electricity

Me too

Not cool man, not cool. =|

I don't think your supposed to take it that way as it takes time to build up I believe.

@Tryn2BHopeful well I was going to start taking it regularly, but I couldn't function on even a tiny dose.

Mirtazapine is more sedative at lower doses. It has a greater antihistamine effect but doesn't increase serotonin or noandrenaline

7.5 doesn't seem to cause me an issue

I am taking 45 mg and sleep alwyays 10 hours

I certainly feel like it’s been the case for me

I found as I eased off heavy earplug use, my hyperacusis got better and my overall anxiety decreased

@kingsfan Yes, I notice even with minimal wear it will make my ears hurt. It's best to expose to gentle noise.

Reminds me of Planes, Trains & Automobiles. :)

Same here. I live in an area with a lot of construction work going on and it's driving me nuts...

Whats up old friend. Glad you are seeking help! I'm that bad off too but Zoloft killed my ears in the past. Cant risk another med. Hope it keeps you going and calms your head!

@MaxRabbit Well hello. You in Georgia now? I don't want to take antidepressants, but I can't get an adhd assessment until they first rule out my symptoms aren't from depression.

You think adhd meds will help you @kingsfan

For medicine? I have thought about going see one myself along with CBT from a psychologist.

Good luck!!

@MeadowLane22 Dang man I am sorry to hear that, how long ago did you have to stop driving. I always thought being a truck driver would be a cool career. The noise exposure is pretty loud inside a truck?

@MeadowLane22 Pretty much the same here man, I only leave my house for food. But nobody in my family can understand this, I try to explain to them how just driving effects my T and they just think I'm lying. It's pretty heartbreaking when you are trying everything you can to survive and no one understands.

My heart is breaking for you guys. Honestly. Praying for everyone on this forum.

How so?

Quickly after moving in I found that I could not stand both my upstairs and downstairs neighbors, and decided I would be moving out after the 10 months lease was up. So I decided it would be too much hassle to unpack all my home theater gear, and just used my AirPods every night watching hours of tv and movies since it was all during the pandemic and there was nothing else to do.

I've always had misophonia, and my upstairs neighbor was very heavy footed and wouldn't shut the cupboards lightly. I wore earphones a lot to drown out the sounds as well, bc it would give me panic attacks.

They seem to be ever present in my neighborhood, especially around the 2-4am time frame.

4th of July is a two month holiday of increased noise. Sucks.

@Jammer The areas in the OC I lived in the first couple years of my tinnitus had literally 0 fireworks. It was nice. LA always sounded like a battlefield. Last year I was in middle of nowhere Utah so I also lucked out, though someone did set off a firework near my hotel parking lot in Vegas the night before while I was getting out of my car.

I hope it doesn't do that to ya ☹️ 1 ear is bad enough.

I've been stuck in a cycle of going between a high pitched hiss and a high pitched single tone ringing that can go a couple days or so, or less, no set pattern or trigger from what I've been able to discern. In in recent weeks, the single tone has a more intense squealing that comes in and out as well, even more unmaskable and bothersome than it had been. Left ear worse.

@RunningMan It always seems to be the left ear with everyone, myself included.

Must be nice having all that moisture!

@Jerad Basically a mower going every day. I though I hated the LA leaf blowers, but they at least only came around once a week.

@BrOKeN_1 The humidity is terrible. Dew point is supposed to be really high the next week, 70+ degrees.

Our air quality is 232! What's yours?

@Mo8409 186, but there are no sensors where I am living now so it's just satellite interpretation. It's smokey outside, like a fog.