astaff14

Just had my first night in my night guard after the TMJD diagnosis

I've got one but I still wake up with a sore jaw and clenched shut. Waiting on a TMJ referral but with NHS it's gonna take forever.

Go see a TMJ specialist if you can or get a mouth guard off Amazon for when you sleep.

You should advise them to see an upper cervical chiropractor - it is known to help if not completely relieve symptoms. :)

(How) do they cope? Do you know?

Hey! Yes, I’d consider myself fully recovered. My tinnitus is still a little worse than it was overall, but hyperacusis doesn’t bother me anymore, and I live my life normally again. :)

Ugh. I fucking hate pallets. I hope you're okay.

@Steph1710 it was!!! It’s doing okay, my ears have been a little full for a few days but I have also been using earphones so it’s likely that. Gonna take it easy on em for now! :)

@aot same!!! I always try to avoid the back room bc of them and everyone always being careless but as we all unfortunately know you can’t always avoid loud noise!

Awesome!

I can't like this enough. :)

Mood since 2016

Hello! I’m not a chef, I work in a kitchen at a big grocery store so I do make food though

I’m sorry about the heart beating too fast effect! That sounds awful. I’d guess with that a hearing aid probably would help!!

How lucky, lol. Be careful not to go overboard. unfortunately, I haven't found any food or drink that lowers mine. But then again, I'm not much of a drinker.

@aot haha yeah I’m sure T with a hangover is absolutely awful I didn’t have too much, just enough to feel it and have it raise my mood. Have you tried any supplements? I’m not either honestly, I also hadn’t drank at all since my t spike, so I was a bit nervous.

We can all agree on that! Hope you are doing ok also

Oh no! I'm very sorry to hear that, Astaff. What was going on? Is everything ok now?

@aot thank you! not sure what was going on, but I was waiting at a bus stop when they all came right by. Even with ear plugs and hands over my ears the sound just cut right through me! I hate it. My ears are a little sensitive and T a little louder, but I’m dealing alright. Hope you’re ok too!

Yeah, it is loud. Until 2 years ago i was a regular gym goer and used relatively heavy weights doing deadlifts. The sound from dropping that would reverberate around the gym. Gladly I gave up the gym before getting tinnitus. But now I am fat. Can't win.

I use foam earplugs for the gym since I got tinnitus, no problems for me.

@all to gain it rlly does reverberate, i was shocked. i was over in the room with only cardio equipment mostly and the sound was ridiculous! im glad i wore ear plugs, even with them it was fairly harsh. lol ive gained weight recently that’s why i went, i don’t usually. once it’s warm i think ill stick to running in quiet areas

@Agrajag364 lmaooo hey whatever works right? when im closing @ work ill put my phone in my shirt pocket and listen to music like that! better than nothing

@Kriszti it really sucks! and to think earphones probably contributed to a lot of people’s tinnitus. I have always wondered how hearing aid with masker function are any different than earphones

@Shaz1 I feel that :/ I’d use them as such a comfort crutch, and now listening to music so much less just sucks. Don’t be too hard on yourself, most of us only learn about possible damages after we already have hearing problems!

So sorry to hear that - call in sick for work today? Say that you are not feeling well or something and get back home?

@RishRamsey thank you. noises like that are seriously panic inducing for me now! I told my managers that I wouldn’t be able to do my job if it wasn’t fixed and they were able to somehow, I think they disabled the audio to the kitchen so I was able to get on ok but it did come back on a couple times throughout the day. So awful.

that sucks. what a fucking nightmare

Cannibus actually makes T worse.

It really does. When I had milder t I would smoke every day and be fine, now it makes it go from about a 3 to a 9. Gives me 7-8 tones too. Those have gone away after sleeping, but it’s still louder unfortunately.

I like when someone decides to stand on their horn near you

@threefirefour , I hope you’re being sarcastic on that one lol because man that’d be ridiculous

Yeah I’m definitely spiked. Hopefully sleeping will help.

It will. Sleep resets it all :)