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    My Experience: Aspartame and Caffeine Are Huge Contributors to Tinnitus

    As someone who drinks a lot of caffeine and diet drinks, I need to try this. I know regardless of my ears, it isn't good for you. I do know from giving up Aspartame in the past it had a huge impact on my dieting, I feel it really affected my metabolism, it's nasty stuff.
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    Suicidal

    I think it speaks volumes of how poorly tinnitus patients are understood or cared for when often a GP/Doctor's first line of investigation, once they establish you haven't got ears full or wax or Lego, is to send you for an MRI. Basically like sticking your head in the world's biggest basstube...
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    Long-Term Sufferer: Tinnitus from Concert, Made Worse by Loud MRI and DIY Work (Small Impact Driver)

    I've read quite a few people on here suffering from short exposure to fire arms, really feel for you, that must be bloody awful. One thing that my brief time reading this forum is I may have got away quite lightly but has certainly made me aware of how debilitating mentally increases / changes...
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    Share Your Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine Experience: Any Impact on Your Tinnitus or Hyperacusis?

    I had the 1st Pfizer vaccine a few days ago. It gave me a cracking headache the day after (seems to be a very common side effect). I have had recent changes to my tinnitus, but I cannot say the jab amplified it beyond what I would expect a normal headache to do. I'm a few days along and I...
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    Long-Term Sufferer: Tinnitus from Concert, Made Worse by Loud MRI and DIY Work (Small Impact Driver)

    As with many on here tinnitus is not new to me. Also like many I can pinpoint the time when I lost the ability to hear silence. The now long gone Fibbers Cafe in York, I'd guess late 90's when I was about 16. The band? Napalm Death :cool::p Bonus points if anyone knows the location / band...