Jebbis

Praying for the best for you! If you ever need to talk, I'm here. XO

Hi @Jebbis hope you’re doing okay my lovely? Thank you for the shout out! I’ve decided I am coming to the States in 2023, so if you and your partner are about, I would love to meet up! We could go on an awesome hike somewhere together & listen to some FNM & some Tool. :)

Steph x x

Where's your thread?

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/unilateral-tinnitus-joined-me-one-night-%E2%80%94-from-stress-smoking-tmj-neck-issues.45621/

Hope you're OK, Jebbis. Stay strong. Good luck with your doctor appointment.

Catch ya soon @Jebbis - we all need a break once in a while. X

Thanks my lovely. <3 :) I could be better. Had a lovely evening with friends, but I’ve managed to gain an ear infection from swimming, so on top of everything, I’m now in pain -_-

Hiiiii Steph:) I hope you are doing well and I hope that ear infection cleared up :/

If hearing related, private healthcare is not much better. They are probably nicer, but just as clueless.

Come to England - you can meet a whole bunch of useless doctors here.. though you’ll be told to be grateful because it’s free healthcare LOL!

@Kriszti well I'm choosing to be hopeful because its all I have right now. Please let me be hopeful. I think I'm seeing a really good doctor who likes to get to the bottom of things. If he can figure me out it's a success. I don't need him to cure me for it to be a success. I just need someone to care. My GP didn't even look in my ears at my last visit. So yeah. The bar is pretty low.

@Jebbis I'm also 8 months. I saw you're taking a break. Wishing you health and healing. T~

does that make you my T-twin?
Lol, anything for a laugh.
Thanks so much for the support, it means so much.

We can be t-twins :-D. I can be your older, cool sister ;-D I'm confident that you will improve. Take good care of yourself. I wish I had done that when I was younger. I worked a lot and stayed up late way too much.

@Martinf i completely agree. I've literally accidentally looked at the sun before and my eyes are fine, not that I recommend it, but compared to our ears, eyes seem to be hearty!

I am young and definitely warn all my friends now! I never knew it was really a thing. Idk why we don't think of our hearing when we're healthy and fine

@Shelbylynn I'm young too, only 20, and i cannot believe the things people do to their ears. I see 6 year olds existing with air pods in their ears. Its madness. I also try to warn people

It wasn't intense running or anything, just some Frisbee with my boyfriend in the park. Head didn't hurt weirdly, just clicked.

@Jebbis I've made a very similar observation.

Saw somewhere somebody said their quality of life was less than it was before due to problems and the response was: "that's the thing about life, it's got qualities..."

"The last part of a human to die is hope."

Interesting...the closest way I can best describe mine is ringing and an airplane engine when boarding. I prefer the airplane engine to ringing.

@twa interesting...are the different sounds in different ears, or the same?

@Jebbis Just make sure to not plug your ears literally 24/7, please. I've gone down that route and I think it has destroyed my life as I've become extremely sensitive to sound. Earplugs is fine as long as you get some hours of sound per day.

Thanks for the concern @Stacken77 I haven't been plugging for protection, I've just been over monitoring my sound

Mine also decreases the more i plug my ears harder. It also changes tone. I was thinking it is middle ear ptoblem. Maybe something is wrong with the pressure but doctors said that my ears are fine

@Martinf see, that is just bizarre to me.
I think doctors are severely undertrained in many aspects.
I agree that it could be issues with pressure. So strange.
Whats the quality of your T? Frequency?
Are you ever able to completely take the tinnitus out of your perception from doing this plug maneuver?

My T is high pitch (6khz/8khz) sometimes it is higher. When I plug my ears the high pitch gets lower and i starts to hear a tone at 1340hz exactly in my left ear. I dont hear this tone when my ears are unplugged but i have reactivity to any sound arround 1khz in that ear. Sometimes if i push my thumbs really hard in my ears the T goes to 0.

Karma will find that person.

Thank you @Diesel luckily since I plugged my ears it wasn't too loud, but it really hurt my feelings that people like to be mean