silentnight

Howdy, how's your T been?

@Joe Cuber pretty silent the last couple days, although more existent today. not sure what the correlation is. perhaps relieving inner tensions is helping?

@silentnight - Have you noticed whether your T regularly cycles between quiet and loud?

oh, dear lantern.. what a coincidence!! i just so happened to check this site for the first time in quite a while.. i'm happy to see you, as always, and thank you for stopping by :D

things have been going really well, tinnitus wise!! it's a lot easier to habituate and take the stress off of the ear when there is *so* much going on—so much work to be done and things to learn!! i've also improved my posture and increased my diet dramatically, dunno if that's related though.

and yet it also feels like there's this potential state of my body in which it feels nearly nonexistent. i need to tune into my somatic experiences more

hello dear lantern!! =^^= i've been doing really good!! i've been really busy with life stuff so i haven't noticed my tinnitus much lately, although i think it's still there (habituated perhaps???) i'm happy to see you though!! take care, dear <3

I’m glad you’re on your way to habituation!! Praying for 100% habituation on your end and mine haha
Take care as well hun!! <3

"past me what do you MEAN CUDDLING WITH A BOY WORKED!?!?! HOW!?!? WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HIM???? WAS ACUPUNCTURE INVOLVED!?!?!?!?!?!?"

It gets too us all lol

I did it for about a week once and i "think" it made a difference but ive not done it often enough to make a complete difference since, I really need to keep that up as I have TMJ. I watch some YouTube videos about massaging around the jaw and they are quite informative.

I mean, if it helps it helps. Placebo or not.

This is how I feel about. NAC. So I just keep swallowing.

Be like Journey. Don't stop believin'.

That's totally like me. Right side of my head more sensitive to pressure and movement. I think it's muscular. So many muscles around your head, face and neck, like hundreds of them. My current theory: posture and muscle tightness (neck, abs, jaw, face, skull)

@Joe Cuber it's possible, but it still seems weird to think that one side of our posture or muscles could be worse than the other.. maybe some kind of pinched nerve or pressure or something?? bleh.. we'll get through this someday.. :<

@silentnight - My osteopath told me it's quite common to be misaligned towards one side. She pointed out that, in fact, my jaw is misaligned toward one side and that one of my shoulders is higher than the other. I said, "I'm out of line?! YOU'RE out of line!!"

If T is unaffected, that's a win then! Ive got the theory that when our body is going through another problem/illness (fever, bad stomach, joint pain) the auditory system is not our brain's priority and we perceive our T less. Of course this is just my opinion. Hope your T stays like that!!

My tinnitus got quieter when I had covid

I’m in college and I do not have the time for T, but it’s been getting me down again and pissing me off. One more midterm and I have reading week. Cannot wait.

You should do nothing, because there is nothing that can be done. The next step is internalize that is the way is going to be for the foreseeable future. Embrace the noise.

Unfortunately. @InfiniteLoop is correct. You may have to face the fact that complete silence may very well never be achieved. It's frustrating for sure but the more you fight the longer it will take to habituate. Try to make peace with the noise and learn to coexist.

Live with it. Be grateful it’s mild and carry on with life, just don’t be careless with your ears

@silentnight im doing alright thanks for asking! Currently about to go to school and complete an English comparative essay sac. Hopefully my cheatsheet will save me womp womp .. Highschool sucks, hopefully I’ll be free after this

@lanterns&coffee sounds interesting!! :> what's a sac, exactly? like an exam or a timed writing assignment or something? good luck!! o/ <3

Sac stands for student assessed coursework!!! It’s like a .. really important test, a subcategory of exam? But yea! We have a couple of them every term for each subject :>

So yours varies too @Nadia231? Gotta appreciate the quieter days, but it's still bizarre that it does that

@Joe Cuber that's what I meant. I cant say that mine changes that much. It's always very loud but some days it takes me longer to actually focus on it. Other days I hear it screeming all day long.

I see @Nadia231, I hope you continue to have better days

Seems like you're formulating a hypothesis....

@Joe Cuber if T is going to prevent me from being gay then i really will become a T researcher

XD

What I learned from my T is that it has it's own rhythm. Sometimes it's louder, sometimes quieter, sometimes higher pitched, sometimes lower. It takes a while to know when it's louder due to something or it's just gotten louder on its own

maybe. But a lot of people having it bad for their whole life. I am so glad, that you have somatic T. Appreciate the silence, when you are be there. No Headphones, no loud enviroements, and NO stress. Stress was my trigger.

@Aschenherz as in stress caused T in the first place, or that stress brought about its episodes? And... I think stress shall be inevitable in my life, but perhaps the road to victory shall be in reinterpreting those stressors as something positive (or whatever doesn't cause the ear to buzz XD)

It'd be a whole lot easier if our ears could tell us what their deal is.

@Joe Cuber for real!! it's about time they contribute to the conversation instead of listening to all of it. they really ought to pull their weight, hmph..

Lol :P

Distraction is the best medicine for tinnitus.

might be the oxytocin, there's a thread on that

@CW Dragon the 'LOVE HORMONE'!? my god i expected tinnitus to change my lifestyle but not like this o_O

I get it every time I turn over in bed in the am.