Marshall

Thank you for asking :) I still creep every now and then.

Great to hear you are doing better these days and living a normal life as you should :) definitely not being fearful of noise helps immensely with this challenge. Static is a healing sign as @Bill Bauer has said :-D

@Marshall the static you’ve been having, is it reactive to driving, running water, TV, fan, etc or has your tinnitus also become less reactive ?

My t will get louder during the work out and it used to worry me, but it’s short lived in my case and calms down for the rest of the day. My t has only gotten better. Working out has not made it permanently worse what so ever

Thanks for the input @Marshall .. thankfully I have also learned that I do not permanently spike from many things that I was once scared to consider, and I count this as a blessing, so I will definitely be leaning into workouts more.

This website is a hypochondriacs nightmare. Seriously think I'd get worse from so many things when I never even did in the past lol

Don’t be anxious about every noise making it worse.

Take a break from loud sounds.

Get custom earplugs with filters for when you’re in a situation that can be loudish.

It will calm down with proper care.

It’ll most likely get worse before it gets better as my did over a period of months.

You got this. It’s not the end. You’ll adjust. Accept you have tinnitus. Don’t dwell on it not going away. And it just might

Sorry for the late reply, but it's going! Good Days with some bad days, still want my old life back, but that's life and anything can happen at anytime.

How're you doing? :)

Good to hear you are having those good days and more and more of them I hope?!! Things can only get better as I keep telling myself lol :)
I've got a nice bit of morse code reactivaty that's flared up again so sleeps shit but other than that my T seems lower in volume (knock on wood lol).

That's so amazing :) Yeah I have days where my distortions and reactivity are full blast, and I have day's of complete silence. I'll take what I while I can and try to make the best of it.

Yeah, I wear filtered earplugs to places where I can't control the noise like work, super market, etc.. and don't use protection around the house unless I'm doing something loud. My T & H have been getting better over time.

I went from having T that I could hear everywhere no matter what, to mostly good days, and some days of damn near absolute quiet. And went from H to where I couldn't talk it hurt my hear and ears so much, to forgetting about H most the time.

Happy to hear about your progress man. Gives me hope that I can improve to a similar level.

The brain sure does love to obsess doesn't it. I have one super high pitch the jumps from ear to ear 24/7 with fleeting low tones.

Its seems once the brain starts making noise, it fights any attempts to stop it. Any methods that work are only temporary until the brain adapts.

A hiss is usually a good direction for T IMO just based off countless experiences and my own @Strawberryblonde mine was Tonal then to loud hiss, to back and forth, to a softer hiss, and now I mostly have a soft hiss and some times no T. But I do get a bad day at least once a week, but they are getting farther and farther in between.

I think most people that heal reactive T and H with sound therapy do bc of time and not pushing to hard coupled with natural healing. Not the actual therapy itself. Why would I blast frequencies of the broken nerve or hair cell with that frequency if it’s irritated. That’s just my 2 cents. @Wrfortiscue

@Marshall i agree. I’m starting to feel TRT is just a thing to sell hearing aids haha

f.ck sound therapy. Rest your ears and stop hurting your self. Big hug to you, Same for you @Wrfortiscue

@CRGC like 8 months. Things don’t bother me much anymore.

I hope the both of us do @in_LA

@Marshall That gives me hope! I'm 3 months in now...slowly coming to terms with T but H is hard to deal with. Did you have pain from sounds or just loudness discomfort?

What kind of filtered ear plugs?

I use Starkey. No One really uses them on this forum but I really like mineb

How did it go?

Thankfully it was just a manual cleaning, but of course the found a cavity. Havnt had one since school but of course i have one after getting t

Its always the way @Marshall.

Last week mine seemed more high pitched in my right ear with less power behind it and quieter in my left ear than usual and today its gone back to its old annoying self. I like to think it's figuring itself out and getting better one slow arse day at a time. :-/

Yup mine changes quite drastically day to day in volume, type of sound, and even severity of reactivity. Fun stuff. Pretty hard to habituate to.

Yes. Changes throughout the day, everyday. Never stable.

Hahaahah you got the two in one combo type nightmare lmao

recently had a few of these too

@ZFire damn! Hahahaha!

You mean one of the plagues that was put on the Egyptians.

Bro I'd do anything to go back and not take the steroids and antibiotic ear drops i was prescribed. What sucks is when you're new to tinnitus it's the first thing you see when looking up how to get rid of it. And your at a point of doing anything to help.

@ZFire

Agreed. Looking back now, I took my pre steroid tinnitus for granted. While it was intrusive, it was nowhere near as bad as after steroids. I wish I left it as it was. Oh well, won’t dwell on it anymore. It is what it is.

Yeah my reflexes are insane now catching every thing that drops lol. Sometimes things do fall and I’m like fuuuu always got to be a loud ass Pan or piece of metal

Since there is no "hug" button here, I'll just send a hug this way. Try to stay strong, @Marshall, you're not alone!

Did you wear earplugs? It'll probably take u 2 weeks to feel normal hopefully

I'm hoping so. Just need to accept and move on i guess