Martinf

Ugh that is so terrible, so sorry to hear that! I was recently walking with my bf and a loud car approached, as I plugged my ears it revved extra loud. People can be really mean:(

Im a loud noise magnet aswell. I ran out of NAC and it is not available where i live so i took a high dose of magnesium. Hopefully i will be ok

Martin, it's the same where I live. Every other vehicle of every description is well over 100 decibels. I hate them.. And with the 4th of July around the corner, here come the nightly firecrackers. How are your ears doing? David's t mix definitely helps me btw...

I tried that in the first months of my T onset so i developped H and it was very bad. Now I bought musician earplugs only with 16db attenuation and they are good but i cant wear them all the time. when im inside home theres always kids playing with loud firecrackers they always through it and run and I get 97db and 100db on my sound meter. If im in the garden or in my balcony I get 105 and 110db.

Those firecrackers are illegal and can reach 128db at one meter but it is everywhere here as it is 3rd world. It is the fav game of kids in summer here. Many of kids here get NIHL at young age but parents arent aware of it

@Martinf , where are you from?

Hey, also 28 with loud in both ears. Hang in there.

There might be treatment in the next few years. T can increase but hopefully there will be something to mitigate it when it comes to that point

Lets be frank. There wont be any cure in the near future.

@Martinf a cure - no. Treatment - I think there may be soon. I can live a normal life with mild tinnitus

Happened to me too on onset. Temporary.

They do but they sure as hell aren't on this forum! 8 months in here. You'll have more good days!

Yes, I’ve had permanent improvement of my tinnitus volume. It took over a year before I saw any improvement and it was not linear. I have a bunch of other issues though and when one gets better another seems to crop up so it’s a balancing act it seems. H and Noxacusis, ETD, TTTS...

dont waste time blaming yourself. I went to 3 concerts in my life, and didnt listen to things loud and it still happened to me. its a chance, not a choice.

Its genetics. Some people are prone to ear damage more than others. I discovered that my wholefather family have this condition but they all got it after 50. I am the only one who got it at 20s because i speeded up my hearing loss due to noise exposure so yea i blame myself.

yeah it happens to me still every week, thats what i meant to say... its just part of tinnitus..

Normal for us ;)

Our stupid bodies way of saying hey take it easy or else...

Tbh. She never pushed me to do anything that migh make my condition worse. She understands. But shes complaining about how I am reading too much about Tinnitus and hearing online and constantly experimenting things myself trying to cure myself. She is right. I became a diff person. Tinnitus affected me a lot

Tinnitus does change you. my partner admits that he does not understand the suffering, but will try his best to support me. All I said to him was "try to listen to a beep sound on youtube for 24 hours straight, and tell me how it feels afterwards, except I don't get rest of it ever again" it really does make people think. He didn't do so , and I wouldn't want him to, but its just the thought of it...

Same here, have t, h and now very ocd about my ears and protecting...

I've had 3 audiograms over the last 3 years. One when I got tinnitus. One when I went to get evaluated for Lenire. And one in February this year. They were all the same, more or less.

Wouldn’t ear plugs work? Or that’s not guaranteed?

Depends on how loud the machine is. I read that some MRI reach 115db. Thats def damaging.

who knows! That's how I've been for the past 5 years. You will get better tho, like you will get to a point it will no longer bother you. I have learned to "embrace" my tinnitus. This has made mine not heal but just take a backseat to my life.

I just come back here to see how others are doing and to share my story.

Help? If i was you id be dancing like chandler from friends XD, just dont do anything stupid and rnjoy silence mate!

the composition of Birodogyl is :
Spiramycin : 1 500 000 U.I.
Metronidazole : 250mg

I have a throbbing tooth pain that refuse to go away even after 3 root canals. I have to take this antibiotics and NSAID with it :(

If it helps, since developing T, I've been on four lots of amoxicillin (I'm a sickly person) and it's never affected my T. I wouldn't touch other antibiotics. My T was actually caused by the antibiotic doxycycline.

MOST people (and that includes the T sufferers) who take the medications that are on those ototoxic lists never have any problems. It's risky, but the chance that it works out is high.

If you can - avoid the risk, but of course if you feel like you can't avoid it, it's a different story.

You need to find one that specializes in ETD. Just any ENT wouldn't do.

So sorry, you are going through this, Martin. Sometimes it takes some time for it to go away. I hope you feel better soon.

I feel you there. I am 4 months in... More annoying than my hearing loss.

This is what I wonder too. Bartenders, bottle service girls, security, professional DJ’s. Genetics I’m guessing. Sucks to be us

Because we're really, really unlucky.

Makes me wonder too. Yeah we are unlucky ones/statistical tail. :(

Probably. Bear in mind a lot of things can cause the sensation of “fluid drainage.”

A lot of the time it is the other way around - after 6-9 months of the ringing in one ear, T spreads to the formerly good ear.

Good for you!

I hope the ringing stops in your other ear as well.

@weab00 I hope you get rid of it too man!

In my experience, all the supplements fall into the "doesn't harm, doesn't help" category.

The only supplement which helps me is NAC. I still take others but they make no difference if I run out, but the NAC definitely does. I thought it was supposed to protect ears rather than lower volume, but for me, it definitely lowers it.