Drone Draper

That's the one! I'm not sure why my score is variable. Probs hearing loss, ha.

My score is similar. As difficult as the test is I actually don't think it's a good representation of real-life speech in noise, as there are only 10 possible options for each answer ://

Ha! True. The "choose the words" ones are way too easy.

To be honest, I never struggle with speech in crowds, winds, etc.

Only if they expose themselves to very loud sounds. Yes, they develop cochlear synaptopathy, but it won't show itself until they suddenly damage their hearing so brain can't adjust to it.
I have 2 friends that blast headphones at 100% - no tinnitus.
I was just like that and I had zero issues. But of the reasons it's so loud was this cumulative damage over 10+ years.

Sure. Well, there are people who lose hearing with no tinnitus as well, I guess these people's hearing loss is more gradual, like mine was. Fuck.

lol soz

It’s ok. Just read a thread of a guy who had my H situation and recovered. I’m good.

I'll send my my big list of successful stories (with as little habituation as possible).

Every day is a struggle. I have been winning so far.

Defintely is a struggle. But we will keep fighting as it seems we are closer to our reward (hopefully soon).

Yeah its a struggle. I am crying right now how bad it is. :(

Since November 2017.

Hellish disease. I'm hoping Lord Neuromod can save us. Otherwise I feel I will just live a zombie like existence.

Any improvements?

Agreed. Neuromod, Susan Shore, and neural beamforming for T Uni of Minnesota will help us. All non-invasive.

Well, improvements.. ups and downs. I attribute my worsening to big time social isolation and a heavy use of ear protection. Also stress, anxiety associated with this drama and now that tooth are working against me. A legit treatment is needed.

When we needed the Avatar the most, he vanished.

...e’s a poet,
an’ ‘e don’t know it...!

I wanted to just see what it was like.

Which was... silliness.

Acupuncture is alright if you enjoy somebody putting a ‘prick’ In your ear.....!

(tee-hee)

It was a nice, silly frivolity. At least I got a decent back massage out of it.

Sounds like I would not last for long there.

One of the things I told someone was to go to A&E and say they were exposed to a loud firealarm, rather than rock concert. This was apparently a big no-no and "deceiving doctors". Someone also asked me a question about their prednisone dose, I said "that sounds fine".

Meanwhile, another poster said to a following poster that there was no point in living with loud tinnitus as it's going to drive you to many failed suicide attempts. No ban for him. Mmm.

To see! To bleed! Cannot be taught!

AND Cancer Bats? Awesome

It's much to my chagrin that I turned down a few chances to see Cancer Bats like prior to T, thinking "there'll be another chance". Now, there's NO chance. I'm never going to another gig again.

Had a scare just now, popped out for coffee and a jackhammer was going off outside. FML. Ran past with my index fingers in my ears. I swear I'm going to turn into one of those guys with muffs on every time I step outside.

good luck to you 2/10 just a dream for me

Thanks bud. I'm very much walking around like something bad is about to happen. I'm sure a spike will happen soon, but I'll take the blessings when I can.

I agree, I think people should have access to euthanasia like they do in places like the Netherlands and Switzerland. We need to end the taboo about it.

There are so many horrific cases of people trying to commit suicide when they are brought back to life against their wishes. We should all have the right to die with dignity.

I think why I would want Dignitas is that I know it would be painless and legal. I wouldn't want to engage in something that could send the other parties to prison.

I think that's exactly it: a taboo. The powers-that-be will kill us slowly with GMOs, BPAs, Monsanto, global warming, war, etc., but won't give us a voluntary, painless, dignified way to end our lives at the time of our choosing. Perhaps it's the autonomy that makes it taboo.

I think I can habituate to the mild T a lot of my rocker friends have where they will randomly hear a high pitch whine for a minute or two every now and then. That's what I'm shooting for ATM by the HBOT and supps. If I habituate to the moderate T I have now, I will keep it to myself.

It IS a kind of success, but it is not in any way a true success and not the type of story I really want to read about.

Thanks ^_^. In the past it's definitely thankless work.

And yeah I agree. But like polio sufferers before the vaccine we shouldn't have to do it.

It needs to be done. Don't post things like "I consider myself 100% cured, I no longer care about my tinnitus or hyperacusis". That is 100% NPC right there.

And most definitely. We shouldn't have to work with the tools at our disposal that may or may not help us when research into actually fixing what we have is so little!

Only way to be.

BTA = Buy These Aids

Knowing there are people out there who are working towards a cure of the damage to the inner ear is more comforting than all the nonsense pillow speakers and relaxation exercises put together.

I have 6 tinnitus relief apps on my phone, downloaded at the insistence of audiologists. Ooh! River brooks! Evening forest! Peaceful morning!

This is like going to a cardiologist complaining about heart murmurs and getting told "We can't do anything about your heart through surgery or medication, but what we can do is play you the sounds of a normal heartbeat on these nifty apps so you don't notice the irregularity of your own degenerated organs".

One million Chinese tourists can't be wrong!

But they can be Wong!

They can be Wong, but they can't be white!


No racial, my Asian friends.

I agree, silence & deafness sounds easier.

The absolute worst would be deafness + T. FML, that is some "first plane to Dignitas" shit.

Btw, I met my third audiologist.

He told me his mother suffers from Meneire's disease. She's in her 70s.

As a last resort to settle her T, the surgeons went in and REMOVED her cochlea.

She is now deaf with tinnitus.

I don't know how much bleach I would be able to get down me, but I would drink until the lights went out.

Agent Smith?