Stanlex

Oh sweetheart. I was damn near suicidal into my second month. Still desperately fighting against my new reality. I fully understand what your going through. I needed to get on a antidepressant myself to help with that. Other then that it just took time and unfortunately some degree of acceptance. I'm now 16months in and its still with me but 1000% more manageable. Keep your head up.

Thank u. Happy to hear it will hopefully get easier. I’m medicating as well at this point for the first time in my life. Someone shared a Euthanasia video with me when I was asking for positive stories. Needless to say I’m shaken up pretty good today. @BrOKeN_1

@IntotheBlue03 sorry to hear someone would be that inconsiderate as to share that with you. Suicidal ideation is a common enough side effect with tinnitus sufferers. Especially during the initial onset. I try really hard to just be myself. Take all comments and suggestions you receive from this forum with cautious skepticism. Be kind to yourself.

I feel like I need to do this. My pulsating T gets worse laying down and after I wake up. Tons of neck problems prior too

Your brain is being distracted by human speech especially if you are engaging in conversation. The same will happen if you are talking on the telephone with someone. Focus is taken away from the tinnitus. You are not helping yourself by cranking up the white noise to masked the tinnitus.

My T began in the evening on the day when I had a tympanometry test done.

@Bill Bauer Absolutely not surprised. The tympanography is like an acoustic trauma simulator

When it was done to me, it didn't sound loud, and it didn't make me feel uncomfortable...

Yeah, it happens.

Yeah. Me too.
Call it despair

I would say mine is moderate. It is loud, but not deadly loud but still significant. I can hear it almost everywhere but I can also sleep relatively normally even with no masking

@Stanlex you are a programmer? :) me too!

@PortugalTheMan not yet, I am a CS student

Hilarious.

Guarantee they’ll still be saying “a treatment is only 5-10 yrs away!”

There has been a lot of advancements in tinnitus treatment in the last couple of years but it’s like gray area treatment they don’t really like to talk about it and it’s in clinical trials and what not but basically what I’m trying to say is there’s been a lot of advancements since my tinnitus started so my question is do you think maybe in 2030 there might be some advanced treatment ???

it is a symptom

@Tezcatlipoca it is not. It is a full debilitating disease like all others.

Oh believe me, I know it's debilitating. But it's not a disease in itself, it's a symptom of many possible things.

@Stanlex Haha, I actually got that joke as I've played both Tekkit and ThaumCraft.

@Stacken77 I remember I used to play some mixed modpack with magic and tech mods. I only used the tech mods, because the Thaumcraft was so weird, things like magic altars and so on - just like inside a chiro's office.

@Damocles funny thing was when I was at physio and she was arguing that it couldn't be possible I cannot hear my tinnitus everywhere because when it plays in my ear I must hear it absolutely everywhere. Unfortunately mostly right when it is severe but tinnitus doesn't work that way. Masking is a thing

@Damocles she also said that I have tinnitus because I don't sport enough and that I can get rid of it if I will walk bare foot on the grass everyday. No comment. A voodoo healer from local village would help me better.

You can tell them that if They were to hear ringing, you wouldn't care either.

;)

Once you've reached the bottom the only way is up.

So let's hope there's a f*cking bottom, eh?

Youre very early on, it gets better.

@Damocles as a CS student I imagine a function where x is time and y is tinnitus loudness. I hope that f'(today) is 0 and that it will be only negative in the future.