kingsfan

I know that isn't the best encouragement, but you'll be okay. ❤️

I don't really get anxiety from my T unless I try to do something that requires a lot of focus, then I get frustrated. But I'm constantly thinking about it. The first I think every morning when I wake up is "how does my T sound today?" it's automatic.

I just want to not care about it anymore, like how it was back when it was mild. I'd hear it every night and when I had earplugs in but it didn't bother me at all.

@Steph1710 dogs are loud...maybe a cat? And then he can do what i did last year when i adopted a cat: hyper-fixate on training techniques.

...and watch endless youtube tutorials about cats...i recommend cat behaviorist, YouTuber and the host of the television show "My Cat from Hell " Jackson Galaxy.

I had two cats. Left them when I moved out. My roommate says they are allergic, so no cats =\. I've been having the delusion I'll get my two boys back.

H. Brezis - Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations

@kingsfan wow! We are so similar! I do the exact same thing. I love outdoors equipment, so it’s easy to get fixated on it haha. I’ve been researching at work recently. Being paid to get fixated on something is extra fun.

@Steph1710 What kind of gear have you been researching? I want to see!

@Damocles Is that the anime based on the card game in which they play the card game based on the anime?

It is indeed @kingsfan.

Trust in the heart of the cards.

I take lithium carbonate small dose, been on it for 3 years. It's hit or miss with meds.

What kind of sound?

And just when you think you've managed to regain one of your little comforts of life... I hope your ear will calm down again because I know how frustrating it is to cut out more and more of the things that you like from your life.

@aura straight square wave tone.. one at 4000hz, the other at 6000hz. So loud it feels like they are going to blow out of the side of my head.

It’s middle-aged Fred Durst

I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope it calms down quickly.

Haha just had to come back to this after seeing lalapalooza 2021 with LB. I’m like I know that face

That's actually a really good idea. I have some philips hue outlets I could use.

Such a good idea. thanks for that one!

Good thinking @LilCC.

I do the same thing (just in a more primitive fashion) by running an extension cable to my blender under the kitchen door. Then just leave the blender powered on until I've left the room, put my ear defenders on and can flip the switch.

You drinking the maxwell house? coffee is like my last remaining pleasure so I'd like to keep drinking my gourmet beans.

Can’t drink coffee. Increases my anxiety

@Brian P I'm fine as long as I drink the right amount to feed my addiction. Any more than that and I do get anxiety from it as well.

@xyz yea mine is a powerful commercial one with a bag and hepa filter to get rid of all that nasty shit that flairs up my asthma

Electrolux ultra silence is a good and cheap vacuum!
On hardwood it sucks decent even on 30% power. I only muff because the mouth piece might slam the walls.

@Exit I will look it up

I got a haircut a couple days ago. Earplugs and told them to trim without hitting the ears if they could

I just take a pair of scissors and grab hold of hair, front , sides and back. 4 cuts!
No protection:)

@Exit I've been cutting my own hair since covid started, but it's time for a professional to undo all the wrong I've done.

@Steph1710 You still look young in the recent photos you have posted.. not talking about the ones from the past you posted.

@Shoon Yea that's what's happening to me basically. I look older than my older brother who is in his 40s

@danielthor I actually sleep surprisingly well with two fans, cricket sounds, and melatonin.

What did the pain feel like? Inner ear aching sharp pain?

@Wrfortiscue have you ever worn foam plugs for too long and got an achy feeling in your ear canal by your jaw? Felt like that. It was a quick sensation then went away. Wondering if it was the sound or I tensed up somehow causing pain to radiate there.

did you ever try cymbalta? i have been speaking to someone on another platform who says it practically eliminates his t

No, I tried the zoloft with no success. I've tried cymbalta before tinnitus and the side effects were so severe I couldn't make it past the first day. I'm kind of wary to try it again.

@Wrfortiscue ultra high pitched EEEeeeEEEeee sort of thing. Just started out of the blue Sunday evening.

Right now it sounds like a bad serpentine belt on a car only higher pitched.

Sorry man let’s hope it calms a bit and maybe you can shrug it off eventually. I don’t know, there’s no advice worth giving :( you’ll get through buddy

For real. We don’t like change because we have to scan and assess all over lol

@Wrfortiscue Yea I'm having a spike, but it's barely louder than my baseline but it's just messing me up in every way. like wtf?

@kingsfan we don’t like change, especially to
Habituate. Now if my god awful buzzsaw can go away…

@Stacken77 Having a setback? Were you doing better before or has it just been bad for you for a while now? I haven't really been on here for a couple months.

@kingsfan Nah mate, it's just been crap for 9 months with some severe reactivity. Getting spikes from moving the bed sheets. But it hasn't gotten even worse, so I guess that's good. ;)

@Stacken77 I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm glad you are not getting worse though. I think you are much stronger than I.

My new health insurance doesn't start until next month, but it will be about the same cost as the inhaler anyway.

@kingsfan What inhaler do you take? If it’s the same as mine, I’ll bloody post you one!

@Steph1710 trelegy ellipta

https://www.interacoustics.com/guides/test/tympanometry-tests/reflex-measurements If this is correct, only the starting point is at 70dBHL, but may go up to 105 dBHL to obtain acoustic reflex threshold. Funny how it says that tinnitus and hyperacusis are contraindications. I found the test loud. And on my results paper, my lowest threshold is at 90dB, they went (needed to) up.

I got tested when I only had my on/off low hum, got other possible causes, but a week later my bilateral T started. It may have started earlier, but I could have been preoccupied with the low hum. I had never had high ringing before. Also, nothing of diagnostic value was shared with me about the ART. I wish I had never done it.

@Kriszti We are in the same boat then. My tinnitus was bad, but not too bad before the test. Wish I had never went. The test was all for nothing as well. I didn't know the results will show the decibel level. I may try and call for a copy of the results, though I'm not sure I could control my anger with them.

@aura my ears have been taking turns clogging up too. Maybe it is the weather or allergies or something. I also need to try replacing all of my down bedding with synthetic.

I don't know, man...i've been doing just fine all my life and suddenly i'm allergic to bed sheets...maybe it's the age. After you turn 40 you become allergic to life.

@aura starting the counter at 953 days then >_<

Don’t they cause it? Maybe brain inflammation causing your T

Probably when he’s not in pain his tinnitus feels less intrusive..?

I dont know, but it's been nice despite other things not being so nice.

Silent party?

@Wrfortiscue Chilled cow is my new silence. Chilled cow and fan. Chilled cow, fan, and crickets is my new silence.