Recent content by Sameer advani

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    Collective Mass Suicide

    There is an Indian movie on tinnitus called sound track ...it didn't do well and bombed in the box office .....people just didn't understand what was going on
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    The Story of Gaby Olthuis

    This should be posted on public sites and social networks so people can understand the pain of tinnitus sufferers ....it is not appropriate to be posted in a support forum where only tinnitus sufferers. Will be reading it and get more depressed ....I want to upload it on my face book page but...
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    The Story of Gaby Olthuis

    Only success stories should be posted on the forum ...these success stories will help us be more positive ...sucide is a negative idea ,it makes the mind refocus on the t as a life threatning condition ...any ideas that helped reduce the t volume should be put up ...yesterday I recorded the...
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    Hearing Protection and Tinnitus: Keep The Tiny Hair Cells Safe — Discuss!

    I put in the foam ear plugs and then seal the ear with silicon ear plugs
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    I Decided to Start Going Out Again

    My first two years of tinnitus I really didn't bother ..I have had almost a 100 exposures leading a normal life , but since a few months ago I perceived higher tinnitus base volume , and a spike lasting several days with every exposure ....
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    I Decided to Start Going Out Again

    Thanks Michael .....tomm in india we celebrate holi.....it's a festival of colour , intoxication and lot of noise ....noise through dj music coupled with loud dhol sounds they r the Indian drum beats ...the whole country is going to be participating in the revelry ... Let's c how I manage will...
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    I Decided to Start Going Out Again

    Thanks Steve ....the spike is slightly better but hasn't gone down fully ... Had an alprax. Before going to bed , it did make a slight diffrance ... Just one more thing I need to ask since u have had tinnitus for the last nine years. .. Do u go for parties where there is loud music playing ...
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    I Decided to Start Going Out Again

    Y Yeah got frequencies checked even after 8 k ...they r all down .......my graph has a steep slope after 8 k ...........12 k onwards is fully gone .....
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    I Decided to Start Going Out Again

    U r right these normal sounds have again done the damage ...went for a walk to the sports complex ....they usually put on a siren at cut off time ,this time the siren rang when I was just 20 feet away and it was like super loud and this morning I woke up with a brand new spike in my t ....this...
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    I Decided to Start Going Out Again

    Hi it hasn't protected. Have a fullness in both the ears and. A kind of vertigo....needs to go and get an audimetric test done to check for hearing loss
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    I Decided to Start Going Out Again

    Went to a concert yesterday it lasted 6 hours .....wore 33 nrr heoros foam plugs in both ears and then further on top of that I sealed both my ears with 22 db nrr silicon ear plugs ... So a total of 55 nrr in both ears .. Could only hear a bit of speech and hardly any music I was about 2o m away...
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    My Triggers

    For me loud noise. Although I still go for parties with protection. ..................stress at work,........exercise......acidity and gas ......high blood pressure .....salt especially msg ...... Pomegranate juice ......smoking .....small quanties of alcohol ....emotional changes anger...
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    Tinnitus Spike

    I Sean ,, thanks for ur reply .....just wanted to ask u is ur social life also in the dumps .... I am really struggling to cope with this aspect of my tinnitus as here in india there is a lot of socialising , usually there is an invite every night of which now I am refusing at least 80 percent...
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    Tinnitus Spike

    My tinnitus is badly spiked .. Walked for 2 hrs on a treadmill while watching a movie ,and it started the moment I got off ....it's never been so loud before in the last 2 years ... It's already Been48 hrs since it started ....will it ever go back to its original loudness or has it caused...
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    How Long Does a Tinnitus Spike Usually Last? Months? Weeks? Days? Hours?

    Hi. Got a very major t spike in both my ears. ....I was exercising to release my stress on the tread mill ... I walked on the treadmill for about 2 hrs as I was watched a movie ....could not hear the sound of the treadmill,a high frequency motor sound , as it was camouflaged by the sound of the...