Comments on Profile Post by Marshall

Count yourself lucky, mine was over at 20.

I’m sorry to hear that man this truly is awful..

@Marshall 28 is still young to develop T. Big *hugs*. I got mine when I was 30. Glad you’re having fewer breakdowns though. Things do become easier for a lot of people. The best thing to do, is carry on living life as normally as you can.

Yeah, didn't want to come off as dismissive @Marshall mate. This sh*t is a real life nightmare for anyone, at any age. And like @Steph1710 said, 28 is still very young.

Don't stress too much though, we're getting very close to serious workable treatments this decade; so if you were going to develop tinnitus, now was the best time there ever was to do so.

I’ve been around the forums for about a month and a half now and it’s just changing so much and now I have hyperacusis and I’m lost at what to do. How did you get yours?

Mostly cumulative; several years of attending concerts plus frequent headphone use.

Final noise trauma (from a concert) along with an ear infection were what ramped it up to severe when I turned 20.

But you're in the very early stages of your tinnitus (plus you're young and I'm assuming otherwise healthy) so you're in with a good chance of having it reduce drastically or even disappear altogether, right now.

Do you know what caused it in your case?

Sounds exactly like me man. Music festivals, blasting music in my loud car system, heavy header use for video games. It just appeared one day as a 1000hz tone, now it’s a high pitched drill. I have heavy distortions, and I’m getting sensitivities to sounds. Odd thing is I wasn’t around anything loud for over a month when it started. Had not drove my car in 2 months either.

I feel like I’m on a roller coaster and I’m scared of the progression

@Marshall, take a look at what I wrote on this introductory post by @8958464854:

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/gradual-tinnitus-onset-%E2%80%94-ringing-after-a-month-from-what-first-appeared-as-fleeting-tinnitus.47907/#post-634939

You're in a similar position to them with recent development of acute stage tinnitus; so pretty much all the same advice applies here.

Like I said before (and to them also), you're in very early days, so be sensible and you have a good chance of making a full recovery.

If not, things are going to get better/become easier anyway (but you can cross that bridge if/when you come to it).

Yeah I fucked up in the beginning bc my dad just said do everything normal you just have to live with it, since he had it.

So I went to this workout place with my girlfriend 3 different times(they play their music 90-95dbs)didn’t know at the time bc I wasn’t thinking about it too much. I went Twice with 33nrr foam plugs and once with 21nrr silicone plugs And that’s when the noise sensitivity really began. My ears were screaming afterwords but had gone away in the morning. I knew something was off when my shower gave me a short spike.

It’s been pretty much down hill since then

What is done is done. Give yourself a break, be kind to yourself. Nobody fucked up, including you. Most of us have no idea what safe loudness levels are at any age. Nobody teaches us this stuff. All we ever have is to learn and move forward making things better from our reality today.

Learn what works for you and use this knowledge to get better. Your reactions, attitude and emotions towards this have a major impact on the outcome. You can get better.

Thank you George, I’ve read through all your stuff and you’re tough as nails man. I only wish I had half the mental strength as you. I wish you well

Marshall: This can be learned to some extent, you have a natural disposition sure with a specific upbringing but you can move in a specific direction if that's what you really want. I actually was too hard at points in my life and my wife softened me up some to make me a more balanced person.

Do you have something healthy in your life that is extremely important to you that you will move mountains to preserve or accomplish (please dont say death metal concerts, that may be a hard stop.lol)? This can motivate you to find a way to cope.

If you watch sports look at old best of reels of Barry Sanders or Walter Payton. They never gave up, they hit walls and just kept moving forward no matter how sideways the original plan went. Walter Payton set his rushing record with the flu and a 10X fever.

All my life I have read stories of people pushing back all odds to accomplish the impossible. You can heal significantly from this but we have to get you first to believe that this is possible.

@GeorgeLG i really do right now. My family and especially my girlfriend. This whole experience has humbled me to appreciate the little things. And if it weren’t for my girl I’d probably be dead..

I am glad that you have someone in your life cares for you. Lean on her when you need to and focus on other things when you can. She will need a break sometimes too.