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Get a second opinion, if you can.

Ok thanks, I haven't had it looked at it yet, just an X-ray

Ah. I know you've had T for 2+ years. Interesting it (still) fluctuates. Did you get it from gradual smaller acoustic traumas, or from one big one?

Hard to say. Played music, attended many many shows/parties never had any problems until one party. 10 days later my head exploded. It did not fluctuate at first but now it does a lot

If it didn't fluctuate at first and now it does, maybe that is a good sign.

5hr sleep and low tinnitus anytime.

Anyways, what gives you 5hr sleep and low t.?

No idea, slept 5.5 hrs last night and my T is super manageable again

What do you think this? I have something similar that I no longer think is connected to my tinnitus. I thought it was TMJ/TMD but I've been treating that for close to year. Still have the dull pain.

Muscles and nerves? All the jaw and middle ear ones.

I wish that was the case for me too, but naw.

Sometimes there’s a very low (sub 100hz) one that does. It’s trigeminal and tensor tympani related. What freq is urs,

Trigeminal nerve maybe.

I can't quit work I'm only 28. Just t

Do you mean you stop trying things to make it go away?

T is the worst boss. ;)

Mine too... just try to distract yourself.

Shower reset worked so good today! I'm just tired hah

Yeah nice one!

Ditto

Ditto. Mainly on the bad days, such as today. Almost had 3 days of resets but today it came undone after a few hours which as you know sucks even more when it creeps back in. Don’t know when it’s going to max out.

Thanks. I am praying this will kill the screeching, or at least tame it

Do you have any ears pain?

I have occasional or intermittent pain but I have constant fullness, tenderness, weird pressure. Yuck.

Did they say if any c joints were out? I was thinking maybe there’s stuff out of alignment which maybe causing nerve and muscle compression and thus some of the symptoms.

My atlas is twisted and my necks a bit straight. He told me the atlas joint and TMJ have the most nerves running through them and can cause a but load of symptom. I never told him I had T until 5th session

Well hopefully the visits might help. I heard they only do small adjustments so maybe it just takes time.

I hope so. I'm losing my patience. My shower only held me over for an hour today

I only got a partial reset today too. Maybe you didn’t get enough quality sleep or woke up during the wrong sleep stage. Just try to be unemotional as possible and think of the better days.

Thanks man. I try to be a stoic as I can about this. Yesterday music sound 100% awesome and today is covered in static ringing :S

Because like a headache, anything happening in your head affects your entire body systemically both physically and emotionally as with your heart. In contrast to something like a leg injury which generally has only a local affect. Remembering that I’m not alone in this helps❤️

Normalcy is something we take for granted when we no longer feel normal. Normalcy is a prized and cherished feeling. Normalcy, or having a clean bill of health, allows us the energy to do so much. Losing that...it makes other problems seem so small.

As in fake yawn fullness away?

My ears often feel like inflated balloons when I wake up, if that’s what you mean.

Ya I've had a few done

That's interesting. I thought it switched to static after a while but you're saying it still alternates between whistle and static?

That's right, some day's its sharp and high pitch and seems loud others it's static!

At 9 1/2 months I'm sharp most of the time but getting longer periods of softness. Usually mornings are softer than evening. Your story is very encouraging to me thank you for sharing!

Not yet...

That must totally suck with sleep impacted T. Does it get worse in the early AM hours? Just think of the good days to get you through.

It doesn't tend to get worse over the shift. If it's up it's up and that's all there is too it really. If it's low nothing will fuck it up usually. I actually like the night shifts because I am tired AF when i get home

If only you could use the anxiety to your advantage to stay up. It never seems to work out that way. I hope things went well for you.