Comments on Profile Post by ErikaS

  1. MindOverMatter
    MindOverMatter
    @ErikaS Just want to add that it is, to my experience, very common to experience a temporary setback after longer travels. Make sure you tell yourself that it is "only" what it is, a temporary setback. A "bump" in the road. It will settle again, but monitoring it will reinforce your perception of it.
    Apr 20, 2023
  2. SarahMLFlemmer
    SarahMLFlemmer
    @ErikaS since onset, my T has morphed from a ring to this electric hiss. I only hear flashbang tone in my head only if I try really hard to listen or go to a quiet room.
    Apr 20, 2023
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  3. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    Thank you @MindOverMatter .. Did you find it was still okay to go around low level ambient sounds outside while in a temporary setback? I feel like it would be best to go about my life in the small ways I can rather than shelter at home in the quiet and fixate on the setback and let it control me. But I want it to improve, not keep worsening.
    Apr 20, 2023
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  4. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @SarahMLFlemmer I would much rather have a mid frequency level ring/sound than this ultra high frequency hiss/electric tones. I also just have this sensation when I am in a quiet room like my ears always turned on and turned up. Like they have a resonance to them underneath the sounds. I don't know if that is from nerve inflammation, part of the electric tone, hyperaware auditory system, or what.
    Apr 20, 2023
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  5. SarahMLFlemmer
    SarahMLFlemmer
    @ErikaS and now my ears are screaming. =/ they do what they want.
    Apr 20, 2023
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  6. Sammy0225
    Sammy0225
    @ErikaS unfortunately mine never went away I still have the electric Hissing (ssss-st) every 0.2 seconds and repeats itself. I will say that it did eventually fade to a much more tolerable pitch and no longer tortures Me like it once did. But yes as I’m writing you I can hear it. It’s just another tone I eventually habituated to
    Apr 21, 2023
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  7. Sammy0225
    Sammy0225
    Your ears might be a little over tired from your trip. Rest and no loud places for a few weeks everything should settle back to what it was before the trip, including the electric hiss @ErikaS
    Apr 21, 2023
  8. MindOverMatter
    MindOverMatter
    Yes @ErikaS, for me, low ambient sounds outside (over time) always did me good. Walks in nature in particular. Setback or not. It forces the mind to at least try to focus on other sounds, and it brings clarity to your mind and some auditory input. It might not feel like that now, but in the end I personally believe it will make the setback ease up faster.
    Apr 21, 2023
  9. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @Sammy0225 @MindOverMatter thank you both for your input! The one thing I will say with my very high frequency electric stuff, it seems to be getting higher and higher in frequency. It started around 12.5k hz, but is now somewhere between 14.5-15k hz. A part of me is hoping it will just keep getting higher to where I can’t hear it anymore. @Jason C said that’s what happened to his T, so one can only hope!
    Apr 21, 2023
  10. Sammy0225
    Sammy0225
    @ErikaS hi my friend! I wanted to revisit this topic if that’s okay with you, how’s the tsss tsss sound been? Did it ever subside
    May 7, 2023
  11. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @Sammy0225 hey! So I feel like that was the very beginning stage of my spike/set back. That did calm down, but then other things worsened/changed. I still have my ultra high tone/sound that easily spikes, but the electric shock characteristic of it seems to have subsided for now.
    May 7, 2023