ASilverLight

That's good. You're still very early into your tinnitus journey. Tinnitus can take 18-24 months to stabilize. As @Bill Bauer says, its about the global lows. What matters is not the day to day, hour to hour fluctuation, but the fact that you think that the baseline is getting lower.

I'd take any silence

silence lasted only a few minutes, right after waking up. by 'staying in silence' i meant i'd thought and try to be in a really quiet environment all day and see the effects. it got as bad as it would with noise around me all day.

still i find it odd that my tinnitus fluctuates so wildly every single day.

+ experience was meant to be experiment. whoops

Is it the case that you haven't experienced any fading compared to how it was back in February? Have you tried protecting your ears from the moderate noises (e.g., vacuum cleaner)?

@Bill Bauer I have been. Only louder noise I'm exposed to is the shower few times a week. I haven't really noticed any fading, but it fluctuates too much to get a good idea of it. My lowest moments however are at times so low it's practically gone. I hope it settles to that eventually. Still no clue what caused my T either.

Fingers crossed! Let us know how it goes. X

totally meant explain, not experience lol. Anyway, results wednesday... really hope they find something because something's gotta be off, too many health issues for there not to be

my fluctuations are pretty much hourly almost. It's never a louder day / quiet day, it's a louder moment vs a quieter moment etc, a 7 tones vs 3 tones moment. Really frustrating. I wouldn't be bothered if I had one mild tone but this is just exhausting. Hope your day is a quiet one today

I see. That's another beast entirely. Mine only changes from day to day

yeah. wish i knew how or why. i don't have hyperacusis as far as i know and i don't think noise is even my main culprit. but i went from no tinnitus, not even any fleeting ever, to loud multi-tonal fluctuating tinnitus that's not improving at all. it's hell honestly

Me too. So tired all the time. This is a living nightmare.

Snap! :( I've always been so careful with my ear - it was stupid antibiotics that got me

For me I'm not entirely sure but it's likely just real bad luck. I'm not saying that's not the case for everyone, I just didn't know you could get T from anything BUT noise so I did my best to avoid that. Guess this is my body's way of thanking me huh

I’m a musician and I was completely miserable and suicidal for a long time, but I found my way back. I believe you will too, and you’ll enjoy music just as much as you did before, if not more.

It's mostly the fact one of my tones is so internal that, even though it's not necessarily loud, it's still audible pretty much all of the time, which really makes enjoying music hard for me. But I hope you're right. I was never much of a musician but still a great lover.

Have you tried staying away from the moderate noises like that of a vacuum cleaner?

I have actually, I'm pretty sure mine isn't noise induced though - not for the most part.

same. so much.

Yup. Same here. :( I was climbing mountains this time Last year and somehow my health deteriorated between last may and now.

Last year I was preparing for a trip to London... no whiplash, stiff neck or tinnitus at all

Give it time.

Same. Mine is a low end warble sound. Usually mainly apparent inside somewhere, not when I'm outdoors

I do still have my regular tones. But one comes and goes at random, it's loud and I can only explain it as the feeling of a sharp pain as a noise.

Do you know why? :o

Fluid buildup! It's been there for weeks now, but I also still have a cold and a lot of congestion

Same for me, literally all of them.