Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

Wrfortiscue
Hopefully you recover. I don't know what to do… I'm getting jaw/neck checked. Then will do sleep study and other exams. My body just isn't ideal to "heal" lol
Jupiterman
Have you considered wearing earplugs when it rains, particularly to help you sleep?
ErikaS
What kills me @Wrfortiscue is that this is all due to an ear infection that invaded my inner ear. It's all because an ENT told me "it didn't look bad enough for an antibiotic".. even at that, an infection that only damaged very high frequencies in my one ear gives me bilateral 3-5 sounds with reactivity that hasn't improved yet? So stupid rare, avoidable, and mind blowing. I hope we both recover.
ErikaS
@Wrfortiscue Wish we could be promised rewiring of reactivity alone with some psilocybin, I keep reading amazing things with this stuff!
ErikaS
@Jupiterman T is louder with earplugs in and I will still spike/react through them.
ErikaS
I am having moments today though of that fleeting T feeling in my right ear, but instead of getting a tone, my high electric crap goes really low/quiet and reactivity goes away. But then in all comes back as soon as that passes.
Jupiterman
This sounds good, brain recalibrating?
ErikaS
One can only hope, @Jupiterman ! Another thing that knocks out my high crap is neuromodulation on tinnitusplay app. I set the frequency somewhere between 13-14k hz and just let it play. I think it has to do with giving my brain those really high frequency signals it keeps searching for that were lost in R ear. Makes me wish a hearing aid existed for 12-14k hz!
Jupiterman
Yes, I believe this is correct. Your brain hears the tinnitus version AND the real external version of the SAME frequency at the same time. This forces the brain to pick one of them and ignore the other. The brain choosing the real external sound over the phantom sound is ideal. Hope your brain can learn from there.
ErikaS
@Jupiterman it makes me want to reconsider in ear noise generators that I can play anything from my phone, only reason I held off was my reactivity. But my reactivity doesn't respond really to the neuromodulation beeps. So wonder if that could just be my distraction/masking sound? Thinking about it.