Recent content by Mags

How are you doing now, @mky10159? I’m in a similar situation. Tinnitus followed by hyperacusis started in October 2020. The hyperacusis disappeared in March 2021, and I was left with mild tinnitus, which I eventually habituated to. Now, more than four years later, it’s been two months of...

I am almost two months into this proper relapse. My tinnitus is better, but hyperacusis has turned into a beast. The world is loud now, and I cannot seem to quiet it down. I have developed some sound distortions and reactivity to artificial sounds. I have started CBT therapy, so hopefully I...

I am looking for some advice from a place of despair. I developed tinnitus over the course of four and a half years. After the initial nightmare, which included reactivity and hyperacusis, I recovered and was left with mild to moderate tinnitus, which I got used to until last week. While I was...

Sleeping with sleep headband playing rain sounds when my tinnitus started. In my case, I kept developing new tones and felt it was because my ears were receiving constant flow of sound at night. I stopped this after 3 months and slowly the tones reduced to two or three. This was advised to me to...

Hi @FlatDarkEarth. I'm sorry to hear your tinnitus got louder. In my case the loud reactive tinnitus settled after a couple of months. I still live with it but it's just a low buzz and no reactivity/hyperacusis anymore, thank goodness. In my case the appearance of tinnitus made me very...

@Hotspur2931, it sounds like we went through a similar experience! @IntotheBlue03, when I reached my lowest point, I went to a psychiatrist who put me on Sertraline, Pregabalin and Klonopin (all small doses). I know that there are a lot of horror stories about taking benzos but in my case it...

@IntotheBlue03, it is not anymore. It became reactive along with hyperacusis 3 months after first onset. I believe it happened as I was experiencing high anxiety and sleep deprivation in those first 3 months. I ended up going on meds when things were bad and I was forcing myself to listen to...

Thanks so much Lizzy! I have 2 kids so going to bed was my best part of the day, all snuggled reading... etc. Tinnitus made it rather unpleasant. I also try to find positives during a day after a sleepless night and carry on as normal. I take a small dose of anti-anxiety meds before sleeping but...

Thanks so much for this Lizzy. I'm 1 year 4 months in and life is so much better. During the day even if I hear it (I don't most of the time) I don't care but I still have a few nights per month when I can't sleep, because after a day of not hearing it, suddenly it is there and I can go for a...

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm back to my old level of mild/moderate loudness, habituating gradually ;)

@SashaC, I experienced something similar. I had mild tinnitus for three months (audible in quiet room and no reactiveness) until a loud drilling went on for a couple of weeks next door. It was non stop. As I was working from home it was impossible to go somewhere else. My tinnitus went crazy...

@sophielynch, not sure how you re doing these days but just to say that I've gone through a phase of reactivity to the point that I was scared to get out of the house. Everything sounded so loud and different. I was avoiding my own fridge! I still have a tiny bit of it but it doesn't bother me...

Not much, trying to limit it to only at night. At the beginning I was also taking it during the day. It's helped a lot. I don't hear it often during the day. Before it was unbearable. I think its working because mine is driven by anxiety and the meds calm the nerves down. I had MRI yesterday...

Yes every case is different but it is good to try different options. For example I can completely shut my tinnitus down by putting ear plugs in. Something that doctors told me not to do because my tinnitus would sound louder this way and I bet that's the case for majority of tinnitus sufferers...

I'm having a similar experience with Clonazepam. Within 3 weeks of taking it my tinnitus went down a lot. Mine started due to stress/anxiety and it was just getting worse until I was recommended a psychiatrist who put me on Clonazepam. I try to keep the dose to minimum. She told me to continue...