twa

Rude.

He sees me walking around the neighborhood, at church, at lunch with bright orange earplugs. His wife is my son's godmother, how could he not know?!! I don't think it was intentional, just clueless.

This is SO frustrating!!

Because you were doing pretty well, I hope?

@Keith Handy, I've worked very hard to push beyond my comfort zone to do more "normal" life activities with protection. It's been 6 1/2 months and I'm doing much better than I was in October.

@twa if you could swim, that would be amazing. Full body workout, without any unnecessary strain on the body if you don’t want to push yourself. :)

Thank you all for the suggestions! I had PF 2 years ago, I did most of those things including walking in the pool and swimming. After a year of swimming and water walking, it was 98% gone. I walked up to 3x's a day during the quarantine and lost 30 pounds. When tinnitus/hyperacusis started, I walked a few times a day but not as much. It is now in a flare, sometimes it feels like it may be joint related.

I have had that on and off. Shoe inserts helped me as well as rest and freezing a bottle of water and rolling it under my foot to decrease the inflammation. Hope you get better soon.

My youngest son tested positive for Covid a week ago. We’ve all been in quarantine. Had to cancel our Easter plans. The rest of us have been tested repeatedly and are negative. Hoping my son’s confirmation this Sunday is not impacted.

@Forever hopeful so sorry, hope your son feels better soon. Praying that you do not get it also. Hoping that you will be able to have his confirmation. We had my son's baptism last week and had a get together with family. We had it outside and most have been vaccinated.

Thank you.

Maybe.

I also say it's a coincidence. Tinnitus however can lead to depression. But everyone likes to say it's the other way around. Because they don't know what tinnitus is like.

I was in a super happy place up until the day I developed T.

This change is caused by your body healing. The next change is for the high frequency static to change to lower frequency hiss.

High frequency static is what I had during and after my middle ear infection. It seems to be the norm with infection and ETD caused tinnitus (based on a dozen cases I read by this point). Sorry for your double infection :(

@Gareth Davies, no one has ever mentioned ETD to me, but I've mentioned several times that I swam for the last year prior to and during quarantine. I've often wondered if swimming affected my ears.

Several months after the infection is gone, you should be back to where you were before the infection, and it will hopefully keep improving.

@Bill Bauer, thank you. I hope so too. I had the vaccine and then the ear infection right after with strep. I don't know how I got sick, other than I spent two weeks with my kiddo going to doctor's appointments during spring break. I haven't been sick in 16 months.

My tinnitus turned on in the evening of the day when I had a hearing test done...

Hope you feel better soon! Ear infections are awful! I was similarly sick last year. I know that pain.

@Bill Bauer, did your tinnitus go back down? @Shelbylynn, this ear infection is bothering me because I'm already recovering from an acoustic trauma. I have no idea how I got a double ear infection!

Thanks so much. I think its so weird I have a double ear infection after getting the vaccine and then going for my hearing tests on Thursday. Strange...

I there! I'm feeling better, I'm going a little stir crazy being at home for 3 days though. Thank you for checking on me. Hope you are doing well.

Thank you! Hope you are doing well! You sound good. :-)

Glad you are feeling better.

Thanks so much!

Oh no! I hope you feel better soon!

I hope the infection is causing the dizziness/nausea, not COVID or the vaccine. Hope you recover soon!

Based on my limited understanding, Pfizer is the way to go with the vaccine.

Apparently not.

I know many, many people who had this particular vaccine w/o issue, including my elderly parents. Everybody responds differently and some are very sensitive to medications vaccines etc.

Ordering these tonight to arrive in the morning. Thank you for the suggestions. I'm trying to remain calm. The dr on call was less than empathetic, very short, not very helpful. I asked him about NAC and he had no idea what it was.

The best thing you can do is get a course of steroids, and maybe Hyperbaric oxygen

Dr said since my hearing threshold has not changed that nothing is required. I can continue to wear hearing protection, eat a CATS diet and avoid extremely loud noises.

The PA said my hearing is really good for my age. They both said to control my tinnitus. Really? I asked how, they said to control stress and anxiety. Like these are the only two factors that are at play. The PA did say to keep ear plugs with me at all times. She said they really only care if tinnitus turns to a whoosh sound.

The spike, if any, shouldn't be permanent.

My Neuro/Otologist told me the same thing about the anxiety. Basically sent me away with a referral to a mind-body specialist. He said that was the best thing I could do to minimize my tinnitus. Great.

Have you tried plugs while driving?

Are you wearing any protection in the car? You could be wearing noise cancelling headphones over 3M foam earplugs...

I wear the orange foam plugs every time I drive.

@Ilias T, just 5 short months ago my world was completely different as I'm sure it was for many of us here.

@twa Mine was different 3 years, 9 months ago. I can't believe I used to love waking up lol.

I actually forgot to change my watch and alarm clock! Thank you for the reminder!

Don't think about it much. Just ignore it. I've made that mistake of overthinking and paying too much attention to all my sounds (and there were lots of them, more than 10 for sure during the first 6 months). So do not pay too much attention. It only increases anxiety.

Your body is healing. It is able to fade to static, and now it is fluctuating between faded sound (static) and unfaded (tone). Eventually it will be only static, and then the pitch of the static will begin to get lower, and it will fluctuate between lower and higher pitch static, etc.

So glad to see you're doing better twa! Blessings to you and your family!

@kuromi, thanks so much! Hope you are doing well, sounds like you've had some mild days~