Recent content by Victoria76

I’m keeping a close eye on this. If it progresses to the stage where it’s established as safe, and they just need a larger trial with people who have less severe hearing loss to show that it works well enough to bring to market, I would certainly consider volunteering. It’s encouraging to see a...

Reading more about otosclerosis, I'm alarmed that it seems to be something that tends to result in needing hearing aids eventually. My hearing loss and tinnitus hasn't really changed much for years as far as I can tell (I had one hearing test in 2019 and it was a bit of a disaster, with noises...

Not to denigrate the sub-editor here, but I've noticed my previous post has been slightly reworded. I thought I was quite a good writer, and it's a bit weird to read something I wrote in someone else's voice. I've never come across this before. I've been rewritten for an American audience! So...

Hi everyone, First, I want to apologize for being a bit sharp when I first joined the forum some time ago. I hope you can forgive me. Recently, I was diagnosed with osteoporosis, which has been a tough blow at just 48 years old. Since I still consider myself relatively young (and seem to be...

I'm willing to donate some money, but how do I know where to donate it if I don't know which set of research is most likely to produce results? All these different projects ought to be combined on a global scale.

Sorry I hi-jacked the thread on Saturday night, I suppose I needed to. I think that one of the things I find as hard to live with as the tinnitus itself is that the most likely causes of it, in my case, were themselves either directly or indirectly caused by my family and society's...

Thanks foam, mine is the same for both ears. I've got another appointment with a hopefully better audiologist on 19th September, but I'm not holding out much hope. I doubt there's much they can do with hearing aids for those of us with very high frequency hearing loss. Looks like it'll be the...

I wonder if there's any way of working out the frequency range of that sound at 8'30" in 'Fool's Gold'. It's a well known enough song. There must be an easier way than tracking down John Leckie and asking him.

Life is a really great idea! The amount of people and things to discover and good times to enjoy and places to visit, especially if there were more planets like Earth and life on those planets, and a lifespan of thousands of years to enjoy it. But the reality is just so far short of that. For...

Still crying, still probably about seven hours to get through before my partner gets home. I know I'll never succeed in killing myself, but I don't see what's so wrong in saying that for now and for always, I renounce this life. If it was a product I'd bought, I would have returned it decades...

Thank you GoatSheep, I had some fairly unpleasant dreams, but nothing worse than reality. My life needs to change. A lot. I need to devote my life to serving others, because it's too late for me to enjoy it. I don't know how to get started, but I'll keep asking.

Thanks everyone who's given me a hug or a like or a helpful, it means a lot. I've dried my eyes now, I'm going to be OK. It's all a bit embarrassing really. I've never been one for liking posts, like this whole internet thing, it seems quite unnatural for me. I'm going to end up in a zoo for...

I got a hug! I got a hug! *dances* It's nearly as good as a real one. I want to give everyone a hug. Just take it as read that I've given you a hug, if you want one. Just noticed there's a member here called Jack Straw with a Grateful Dead avatar. Would be funny if it was the former home...

It does seem strange that only two weeks ago I was feeling that the tinnitus was going, it was almost non-existent, I was enjoying the hell out of it not being there, and yet now it's raging away again. What's changed? That's what I don't get.

Just been reading some stuff in the Research News forum which has made me feel a bit better. People are working on this stuff, and maybe it'll be available before I'm too old to get any benefit. I'm one of those people who believes that my tinnitus is related to hearing loss, simply because I...