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I wish you all the best in your recovery, try to keep things as calm and quiet as possible and don't let anybody guilt you into doing something that challenges / hurts your ears. There will probably some headshaking and complaining about you needing to be more social but the people who do have no idea how painful dealing with hyperacusis can be.

Hopefully it will get better, it did with me after about 3/4 of a year, and if or when it does your body will let you know, so don't let anybody shame or push you into something that will be harmful to you. Gute Besserung und versuch, dich nicht zu sehr runterziehen zu lassen!

Best to take breaks from here occasionally it's good for you. I find myself becoming more paranoid with certain things I read on here and it increases my awareness and anxiety related too it than it ever did before.

i already use anxiety-meds. They don't give me much. CBT-Training/Therapy has a waiting list for 2 years here. It is a good thing and a bad thing living not in the noisiest of towns.

There are many jobs that allow you to get away with tinnitus and hyperacusis, but working with little people isn't really one of them. Kids are far too unpredictable in the carefree way they go about the things they do.
My hyperacusis is far from what it was before but children's voices and voices coming through speakers still set it off.
I'm really sorry your condition forced you out of a job that you loved!

I really hope, that my H also improves over time. Only time will tell.

This post made me emotional.

It totally depends on the level IMO. When I first got my tinnitus I habituated in 15 months. After my spike in 2020, 2 years ago, I still haven't habituated to this baseline. It's too loud to ignore + hyperacusis which is even worse

You can, you will find the strength for it.

Hang in there man. If you've done it before, you can do it again.

you are all so lovely.. really caring. I am literally in tears. We don't deserve this at all.

It was a continuum for me. Probably started improving at 6-9 months with painful situational forcing further improvements at 1.5-2 years out. Still improving at 3 years

My anxiety is insane. I never thought, I would be in this again. And here I am. In a much worse situation than 2017. With no help at all around me. This was better 2017.

I tried meditation, affirmation and PEP, daily walking etc. I have an anxiety personality disorder and therefore know many methods which helped me in the past, but T and H are much harsher monster, as we all know.

This world is hard and cruel.. but also amazing and beautiful. I'll never understand why we are given this awful condition to contend with. Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is knowing there are others that truly know how debilitating this condition can be. One day can good while the next can smash your heart and soul. I hope and pray you/we can get some relief.

Thank you so much.

Not all of us are strong. We are just trying our best with this monster that is T.

Can you please elaborate a bit more on the medicine? Is there any information anywhere it helps H? What kind of medicine is it? Since I googled TrafalgarD but nothing specific came.

I can link you the thread after work.

It is an anti-depressent and therefore russian roulette.

When did you develope H. And do you have any idea why? Hope it clears out.

2 months ago. Include reactive t, dysacusis.. my tinnitus is nuts till then. A lot of new tones etc. H started after valsalva maneuver, I guess.. my t got loud and I panicked..

The distortions are the biggest problem.. it gave me a nasty head t, which is brizzling. It feels like 2017 again. Maybe I felt out of habituation. I cant say, when my h went away the first time, but it was not as long as now...