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I can't tell yet to be honest, but I'm definitely doing a little better in the past week or so. I'm not obsessing over it as much, and can do some simple things like have a phone or Zoom call and not be consumed by listening for distortions. When I'm not obsessing over it, I believe I perceive...

@GBB hope you have more good days coming up as well!

@GBB how are you doing? I'm having maybe some not-as-bad days, I think.

This is really interesting to me, because the symptoms that have me the most bent out of shape (sound distortions and overall sound quality) are the ones I'm most obsessively monitoring, are also those that subjectively feel like they are getting worse. The symptoms that I don't care about as...

@Gordon Steinberg did you ever find any resolution to this, whether via normal adjustment process or technology? My inability to handle the audio on work calls is threatening to doom my career if I can't figure something out. I've been trying to "get used to it," per my ENT and others, but that...

QUOTE="musicblue, post: 553004, member: 42181"] I think all these sounds are 'normal' it is just my auditory system seems to be much higher now and is picking them up and amplifying them on overdrive. When resting, my hearing now sounds more like a speaker amplifier that has its power on but...

Hopefully, some veterans post something helpful here, because I'm the same timeline as you, but I was a late Prednisone (probably a month after hearing loss), and Prednisone made me a total basket case, so I recommend waiting until the course is over before trying to figure out if it helped or...

I'm somewhere around week 8 out from a sudden hearing loss in my low frequencies in my left ear. I've noticed my tinnitus is a lot lower in the last week or so, down to a kind of low static hiss, and much better than the angry-teakettle-from-hell screech early in the process. I have brief...

@GBB ok, just tried Tinnitus Mix and you weren't joking - it not only overwhelmed my tinnitus, but also sent my cat fleeing in terror haha.

This is 100% me right now. I literally just drop off calls if it's internal and people are rambling or even remotely off topic. My coworkers know what's going on with and I'm probably still coming across as a psycho haha. @GoatSheep I think my fogginess is more like imbalance, actually. I...

@GBB @Zigs @weab00 @GoatSheep do any of you have a vaguely foggy head sensation most of the time? I'm getting an MRI next week but for some reason I feel like it's just my brain being overtaxed with all the weird signals. I'm also just now tapered off prednisone, and my ENT thinks that could...

@Gerard M how are things going with another month behind you?

Following this thread like my life depends on it ; ) I truly believe if it I could get past the reaction/distortion effect, either because it fades or because I don't notice it, I'd be on my way back to a normal life.

Does anybody have any great advice on how to get through the early days of coping with recent SSHL? I am experiencing all sorts of weird things on top of the tinnitus - slight unsteadiness, buzzing sensations on the side of my head with the hearing loss, some reactive tinnitus or maybe TTTS. It...

@Alexandras How are you doing now? My situation is pretty similar to yours, but I'm about a couple months behind you. I'm still very much struggling with SSHL, and it's been hard to get any advice on how to cope in the early months.