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    Post-MRI Anxiety & Tinnitus Spike — Any Positive Stories?

    Hello friends, I’m hoping to hear any positive post-MRI experiences that might help calm my nerves. Last week, at 30 weeks pregnant, I had a 20-minute MRI without contrast on the advice of my ENT and OBGYN. I’ve had unilateral tinnitus for 5.5 months, and they wanted to rule out anything...
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    Pregnant & Scared with Reactive Tinnitus — Your Help Requested

    Thank you so much for taking the time to read and reply to my post, and for sharing your experience. I really appreciate it. I’m hopeful that my tinnitus might calm down once my pregnancy is over next month. It has felt worse since August, but I’m also 30 weeks now, so I know hormones may be...
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    Reactive Morse Code Tinnitus and Sound Sensitivity: My Experience and Questions

    Thanks for your reply @Nick47. Mine has been reactive since the sudden onset 5 months ago. I am in my third trimester of pregnancy and I am hoping that maybe my hormones have something to do with the increased intensity and reactivity. While tinnitus has made this a very challenging pregnancy...
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    Pregnant & Scared with Reactive Tinnitus — Your Help Requested

    @MindOverMatter, thank you, friend. I’ve read many of your posts and truly value not only your sound advice but also the kind, considerate, and honest way you approach others. I’m still in a spike today, but I believe it will eventually calm down. I don’t have ear pain and only moderate sound...
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    Pregnant & Scared with Reactive Tinnitus — Your Help Requested

    I wanted to reach out to you because I feel I can trust your judgment and advice. There are many longtime tinnitus sufferers here with incredible insight, and I’m so grateful for all the comments I’ve received on my posts. Yours, in particular, really stayed with me and meant a lot during a...
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    Reactive Morse Code Tinnitus and Sound Sensitivity: My Experience and Questions

    Hi @Nick47, have you also experienced this type of intermittent beeping tinnitus? I have had it since the beginning, going on five months now, although mine is only unilateral. If so, did yours stabilize after a while? I have accepted that I likely have tinnitus that is not going anywhere, but...
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    Recurring Morse Code–Like Beeping Tinnitus After Waking Up

    Hi, I have this too in my left ear and have had it for the last five months. I am also seeking advice and understanding. Commenting in hopes that this gives the post a boost.
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    From Breakdown to Recovery: Healing Tinnitus, Hyperacusis, and Trauma Through Nervous System Work

    @Zigs, @Daphne91: Hi, I’m a newer tinnitus sufferer (five months in) and also expecting my first baby this November. To be honest, I’m scared to death. I try to stay off forums because there’s often so much doom and gloom, but I’ve written a few posts here during tough spikes and always found...
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    Pregnant & Scared with Reactive Tinnitus — Your Help Requested

    It truly means a lot to me that you took the time to read and respond to my long post during such a difficult moment for me. I agree there is probably no exact playbook for managing reactive tinnitus, and I know I do not want to spend my life in earplugs. My morning and evening walks have...
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    Lyme Disease & Reactive Tinnitus — Anyone Else?

    Thank you for your reply, and for your kindness in reading and responding to my other thread that I posted today. As it turns out, I received a false positive Lyme test. I was retested last week and got the results yesterday. Since I am pregnant, I have learned that false positives for Lyme are...
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    Any Positive Experiences with Sertraline (Zoloft) and Tinnitus?

    Hi, would you still say that Zoloft helped lower your perception of your tinnitus? I was just prescribed it today. I have been suffering from tinnitus for four months. I am pregnant, and it has sent me into a major depression, so I feel I have no choice but to take the pills in the hope that I...
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    Pregnant & Scared with Reactive Tinnitus — Your Help Requested

    Hello, It would mean so much if someone could take a moment to read my story. I’m 24 weeks pregnant with my first baby at 36 years old, and what should be the happiest time of my life has been consumed by sudden unilateral tinnitus that began on April 13. Almost four months later, I still do...
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    Liam Boehm — A Scammer or What?

    Did the “Liam Stops Tinnitus” program work for you? I’m curious if it’s a scam, because it feels pretty scammy to me.
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    Can You Relate: 5 Quiet Days Followed by a Huge Tinnitus Spike

    Hi everyone, (Sorry in advance for the long post.) I have what I believe is reactive and somatic unilateral tinnitus. It began very suddenly three months ago, on April 13. Some days, it is just a low hum with barely any beeping or buzzing. Last week, I even had five days in a row that were...
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    Sudden Unilateral Tinnitus Onset During Early Pregnancy

    Hi @Samy, thank you for taking the time to read my long post. Since posting, I found out on June 10 that I tested positive for early or acute Lyme infection. At some point, I was bitten by a tick, but I do not know when. While sudden unilateral tinnitus can be a symptom of Lyme disease, it is...