Pinhead

Sorry to hear :( hopefully it's only a temporary increase. Hope it gets better soon.

So so sorry. Does your tinnitus change by touching your head? Or moving your neck? Foods?

Fk! Who would have ever imagined. I tried so hard. Exercising. Walking in nature. Best shape of my life. Something is eating away at my auditory nerve. Clenching teeth becoming worse and worse. This is not a life

I feel like anyone without this condition is blessed. I think stable T is not a problem. H - N reactive T is a monster.

You don't wanna be out of your car on the side of the highway. Trust me. Been there. Done that. Paid the price.

My tinnitus isn't generally reactive to noise as much as it is my own body movement but being in a car is a horrendous experience.

@Pinhead - we are so much in the same place.

I heard mine over the shower from the very beginning. Completely different low pitch. My collection of multiple overlapping sound videos are no longer working tho.

@gameover - do you have hearing aids protection on in the shower?

@gameover - sorry - do you wear earplugs in the shower?

Change up your masking maybe. Some tones cover at much lower dbs. Try..

https://youtu.be/5-UWXylsgag?si=UueBPyVvFUkQYt9L

Or.. when I'm desperate.
https://youtu.be/Ulcnbp8MWHw?si=VJugWpFlizCBqWDN

I’ve heard it could be good for T though.

Maybe. I can barely walk down the street, though. Don’t want to risk it. I wouldn’t have any fun.

This will probably increase my tinnitus dramatically. This is hell.

I feel you on that one

Yes.

I had a crazy one the other night in my left ear and had a sensation go to my right ear, my left ear sounded like it went deaf for a couple seconds , definitely hope it never happens again

Thankfully, I have only had this a couple of times, and exercise lessens my T.

It is honestly a total mystery. It's almost like I 'black out'. I don't usually remember coming close to sleep.

I think my brain is just happy to finally turn off. I usually have water noises playing and a very loud air conditioner as well, but neither of those cover the noise in my skull.

It makes me viscerally angry every time he laughs. It's so loud that my other friends cover their ears.
It's obnoxious, and deep down I envy his ability to enjoy life. I can no longer feel anything close to that.

I relate. It's blaring, constant and intrusive. Used to think it was music i missed the most. Now it's silence I miss.

Me too. My dysacusis got really really bad lately, I often cannot differentiate between my tinnitus and distorted external sounds

I have never been able to push any noise or distraction to the background. This is the crux of the issue with my T.

I mean, for most of my life, I sat in quiet and read. Years of philosophical research to work towards my PhD. So many worlds I made in my mind through fantasy and sci-fi literature, and I can't imagine a single image now. It's an empty space between my two ears.

I feel very much the same way a good deal of the time if not most. The focus toward the the ringing and obsessive monitoring of this condition seems to paralysis free thought. Weirdly enough I think I do it to myself though. Because even while I find it difficult to concentrate. I can ironically sit here and read threads from tinnitus talk all day.

I found the only way I was able to read for awhile was in a hot Epsom salt bath with my violet noise mix playing. Sometimes a candle. Now I still read in the bath best but I'm able to do it in quiet. I read mostly fantasy, so it's my escapism and it's one of the only times I don't "hear" my T.

At this point, it's like asking me to get over the fact that I have legs and stop walking everywhere. It's absurd and pretty annoying.

I feel ya. Sorry you don't have more sympathetic people around.

So sorry. So true. 3 years. I can’t believe it’s been around 15 months for me. Can’t wait at 18 months I should be fully habituated. :)

I assume Time Enough at Last. The last few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLoNGRVeC7Y

@gameover one guy told me. How loud is going to get. It’s not going to make my head explode. He says after 3 years he just lives. Eats and endures the major spikes. They say that it’s insuring the spikes that leads to habitation.

@gameover I find it hard to accept that my friends are that much different when I know that they are .. they are not impacted by food or clenching or touching the side of your head. I feel like I’m wrong but I at the same time that I need to learn to eat and go out and let it do what it is going to do…

@gameover / I just don’t have a life that will make me think or live different. This is a problem for me. I cut everything out of my life. I cannot reinvent my life. This is FN crazy. The stupidity that got me here drives me insane. Sorry for all the typos and grammar errors. I waiting to see an ENT. Another waist of time!!

I know this feeling well. One day in December I woke up and it was so quiet I thought it had gone. I had to listen for several minutes to find it. Those days are well and truly gone, it's 10/10 24/7 now.

:| sorry

This is so true. I feel like an Alien on this planet. I was so happy. I try so hard not to give a shit about this noise. It consumes me beyond words. It’s just to loud and worsens. I have not been able to enjoy anything. The last few days 24/7 stress. Trying so hard.