Recent content by Roger Cloutier

Thanks for that insight. I have been looing into pursuing the CBT approach as well. It seems that ''letting the body heal itself'' is the way to go in so many of our medical problems. Your statement, ''listening for the silence beyond the noise'', is something that I have kind of been doing...

Hi, you've given me some things to think about,re; enriching my environment with ''notched''music and/or white sound. In ''Tinnitus, Turning the Volume Down'' by Jennifer Battaglino and Kevin Hogan, they recommend that the most ideal goal is to habituate to your ''T''. After 2 years of...

Hi Warren, I've been on the site for approximately 2 years now. My understanding of PT was obtained through a process of reduction. I noticed that my symptoms where less similar to the regular tinnitus and were more aligned with PT. I had a humming sound with a higher tone in my right ear...

I last posted my ''PT'' life experience about 1 year ago. Since then I've had a number of tests. The most recent one was a C.T angiogram. In a nutshell the diagnosis report states...all major intra-cranial arteries are widely patent. There is a tiny localized dehiscence of the right jugular...

I am not coping so well these past few weeks. I was doing a lot better in January and February, because I was enagaged in some activities which distracted me away from focusing on tinnitus all the time. That activity was music. I was afraid that playing music would exacerbate my symptoms but...

Hi Ashli, I've been living with PT for nearly 2 years as well. It's a hard question to answer re: how do we survive, well firstly we do it by belonging to this forum and finding other supports close by or where we live. Do you have a Tinnitus support group in your city? As for my anxiety, and...

Like you folks, I have PT as well, at least that's what I believe I have. Been to a few professionals, including a vascular surgeon lately, just had a CT/angio-scan, and the bad news is that I'm okay, meaning of course, they couldn't find anything lurking in my arteries or veins. My PT is...

I can relate to what you said about your hissing or whooshing sound when you lay down. It also occurs for me when I sit down as well. It's been a 50/50 proposition at bed time, should I lay on my left or my right ? Lately the right seems to be better. One thing about my tinnitus, is that it...

Thanks for this link. I especially could relate to the narrator's claim of, ''living in a therapeutic waste-land'', this production really demonstrates how medicine, healing etc.,is such a big fragmented monolith. We can receive certain cures in specific countries, who may be more ahead of...

Hi Karen from Atlanta. Just a little distraction first, here in Canada where we are obssessed by weather, it is freezing and we have lots of snow presently. When they ''plow'' the streets and sidewalks to remove it, we are left with piles that can reach 5 feet easily. Guess both our cities...

Hi Karen, I know all about the anxiety. You are able to work which is good. I am on disability from my job due to the anxiety. I feel that my job was too stressful, and in many ways, the source of my depression ergo my tinnitus. Maybe it`s a little more complicated than that but tinnitus is...

Hi Deb, thanks for all your insight, have you heard about the ''whoosher''s support group on line, dedicated to those like us who have PT ? I'm sure you have. There is a long list of possible disorders or problems that may be the source for PT. The link is simply whooshers.com. As for me...

I've been living with my condition for 1 year and three weeks. It started rather harmlessly, when I sought out a hearing aid last year. I tried the hearing aid for about a month but handed it back to the audiologist, because it blocked out the more intimate conversations I wanted to hear...