Recent content by Maruashen

Your tinnitus story sounds a lot like mine, and like many others. We somehow learn to habituate over the years, even though there are bumps along the way. It’s only been two weeks since your incident. That’s far too early to know if it’s permanent or what the future might look like, especially...

Hi Pete, To help calm you down, it seems that most of these encounters usually last only a few days to a week or so. We’re all in the same boat. It often feels like the reaction to the sound is even worse than any actual damage it might have caused, right? Sometimes I feel like my reaction to...

A brief explanation of my backstory: Back in late 2017, about eight years ago, I was slapped on my left ear. It immediately started to ring, and I felt a constant muffled sensation, like water was trapped in the ear and would not drain. This happened in October 2017. The first two months were...

I think you already know deep down what you should do, @Annina. Let’s sort some things out. I want to help. You’ve mentioned several medications and the potential side effects. How quickly does your tinnitus get worse after taking them? I mean, there must be some kind of delay before a...

How did it work out for you? I am, or was, in a similar situation. I was wearing earmuffs far too often, and it only made me more and more sensitive. Do you use both earmuffs and earplugs, or just earmuffs? How sensitive are you? For me, I had to start by removing them and simply walking...

I have another question related to this topic. How much do you use ear protection, like earmuffs, these days? You mentioned that you used to wear earmuffs around the house and avoided showering. How are you doing now in that regard? When do you use earmuffs or earplugs, and how does it work...

Sorry to hear that. Do you feel like you’ve been suffering from it every day for the past 50 years, or was there a time when you got used to it enough that you could ignore it for most of the day?

Don’t give up. My tinnitus fluctuates a lot too. I can have five very good days, then suddenly seven really bad ones. The last two nights have been horrible tinnitus-wise, and I don’t know why. But it’s been like this before, and then out of nowhere, I start having better nights again. With...

Just a quick question. Have you been protecting your ears a lot with earplugs or earmuffs since last summer? Speaking from personal experience, I feel that doing so can actually make the condition worse, although it might be different for you.

@Annina, your symptoms and story feel a lot like mine. It is almost as if I am reading my own timeline. I want to address something first. My ears also started to crack after I got my damage six months ago, and I used to worry that it might actually cause further harm. But guess what? I am...

Corticosteroids are tricky. It seems like sometimes they lower the tinnitus, and other times they make it worse. So you took 50-50-50, then 40-40-40, 30-30-30, 20-20-20… When you wrote that, were you on day 9? I am not sure, but after taking corticosteroids for nine days, your sleep can get...