Recent content by Marin

It’s been a long time since I’ve visited Tinnitus Talk, and I’m happy to say that I’m still doing great. I hardly notice or think about my ears anymore, and I’m living a very normal life, with the exception of still limiting my use of cell phone and tablet speakers. During my early recovery...

Yes, those were some of the facial symptoms I had. Honestly, if I focus on my face now, I can still feel a tiny bit of tingling on the right side of my face which is my hearing loss side. It is much, much, much less than it used to be, and I can go weeks and months without noticing it now...

Hi @ECP, I didn't focus on any specific tones or pitches in music so I'm sorry that I don't have advice for that. I made sure that I was using high quality speakers and the highest quality music that I had available to me. I could be wrong, but I suspect that YouTube music might not be of the...

Hi @MadeleineHope, the first album I really tried to desensitize to was Chris Cornell's live acoustic album. I picked it because it is just vocals and a guitar, and I love that album. I can't remember what music I picked next. For me, the most important thing was to pick music that triggered...

My apologies for not seeing this sooner. I hope you are in a better place now. It has been quite awhile since I desensitized to music, and I don’t remember exactly how long the whole process took. I’ll try to answer your questions as best as I can remember. When I started desensitizing I...

It's been so long now I can't remember exactly, but I do think Klonopin did help temporarily with the tinnitus, but it would ramp back up again when the dose wore off. The tinnitus really started to improve for me when I got out of silence and hearing more and more sounds. I hope your...

@pez, yes, all of those noises have calmed down a lot. I can hear the hissing in my hearing loss ear pretty much over anything if I "look" for it, but I don't expect that to go away because the hearing loss is so severe and I've habituated to it. I can only hear the tinnitus in my "good" ear in...

@Sydney13, it sounds like you have found some good activities, and I did a lot of the same stuff. At first all I could do was color, cross words and puzzles so I did A LOT of that. When I started walking outside I did lots of nature walks and hikes, and I thought of them as physical therapy...

Thank you so much for your kind words! I am very sorry to hear about your reactive tinnitus and hearing loss. To answer your question, I have profound hearing loss in my right ear above 4 kHz, and I can't hear anything above 4 kHz in that ear. I think that's why the tinnitus in that ear is...

Despite everything I can do now, I still avoid those tiny speakers as much as possible, too, because they still cause me the most discomfort.

Aw, thank you @Brian Newman, that means so much. I sincerely wish the same for you. Sending you a big virtual hug...

Since I’m logged in I’ll give a quick update. It has been about a year and four months since I started getting better, and I continue to slowly get better and better. I can vacuum and use the blender. I have driven across the country, flown, ridden a train, and been on a boat. I listen to music...

Talking caused me a whole lot of ear and face pain. I can’t say that it ever caused neck pain. It’s been a while now, but I think it was worse without the earplugs. Even though the earplugs made my voice louder in my head, it dampened the higher frequencies that were excruciating. It still hurt...

I’m 40, so I wouldn’t consider myself one of the younger folk.

Yes, the higher the number, the higher the potency. I don’t know a whole lot about dosing, but I don’t think you should be taking a 200c daily. If you take too much too often it could cause temporary “aggravations” which are new or worse symptoms.