Ngo13

Same. Keep on keeping on.

Just wanted to thank you for the advice you gave me in the job thread. Polished up the resume a bit to include keywords companies look for. I’ve also started to get some contacts through LinkedIn as well. I feel like it’s opened up another explorable path for me which is great. Thx

Hi @ZFire, yes it has mostly settled now...took almost 3 weeks. Might still be a tad worse but I'm trying not to analyze it. Good otherwise, been keeping busy with my baby and my job!
Hope all is well with you. Glad your job search is getting better. I saw you had a good interview the other day- I hope it works out!

@Ngo13 I didn’t think we have much choice. I hope it settles for you.

@Forever hopeful I did it, because having noises while I sleep etc was even worse, because my tinnitus was so loud and having a white noise machine so loud causes headches and I was not able to sleep. So I said, you know what, I need to make friend with this sounds or I will go crazy trying to have noises around me 24/7 try it to hide it.

I still now have stomach and MEM/TTTS and other health issues, so I live in agony every day.

@CW Dragon this condition really puts things in perspective doesn't it. If a cure were to be found I'd feel like I had a second lease on life

I would never complain again.

@CRGC yep, i feel so disconnected from my old self, still feel like I'm in a nightmare trying to wake up. I go to sleep early/stay in bed till like 8am and hope I wake up to the end of it, but it doesn't end.

Thanks @ZFire, I certainly hope so. Spike is still going strong...
Btw, hope your job search is going well!

@ZFire Hoping mine is a long spike too. Almost 4 weeks.
@Ngo13 Hang in there.

I've had similar episodes. Spikes are not permanent but last for 2-4 months.

I was concerned to be around my AC unit when it was turned on. After continuous exposure to it, i now know that it doesn’t worsen my T and now I’m okay to be around it. You’ll start to figure it out as you go along too. But remember if there’s anything makes you feel uncomfortable or that you know is too loud, then take pre caution.

@ZFire I hope it gets easier. I'm trying to use those experiences where my T doesn't get worse as my proof that it's ok. Just hard since my T fluctuates a lot during the day and I can't seem to pinpoint why yet.

Have you had another hearing test? Sometimes the loss is not immediately measurable.

Hang in there. I had T resolve twice after at least a year for both.

It gets better, but takes time.

Yup same thing for me too.

Mine gets aggitated in the evening

Many people say it can. My T likes to play up when I’m feeling down, but stress seems to be OK.

Hope your seeing improvement.

@makeyourownluck I'm still not 100% convinced it was from stress but the spike seems to have passed. I am, however, a bit less stressed now so who knows!

I feel like I keep going backwards to zero. At first when I was using sound therapy and found some noise I would play it and go to sleep with it now my sensitivity is worse than the volume of my T and I startle at small noises. Torture.

Me too. I startle easy with usual sounds now..mostly its my mental state. It very loud when I chew hard food. Its all a nightmare I want out of fast. How long for this to heal...

@martinberryhorse acceptance has been what has helped me the most. No cures and I’m not getting better. Time to move on or not. Sometimes my brain blocks it out

@Steph1710 its stories like yours that have made me try and stop. The pressure can get so intense though. Piping the became a habit.

@Ngo13, I also think mine is correlated to the weather. Things expand in heat so maybe that why? Idk. I really would advocate for a steamer, it’s the only thing that has even slightly helped. That and reducing my earplug usage but this is risky. Mine has a wee bit for essential oils.

@Steph1710 How did you pop them? Valsalva?

Mines has negative pressure on every hearing test I take. I don't know how much longer I can take this. My sound sensitivity is so bad that my body sounds are so loud that T is screeching. It's used to screech but be in the back of my head. Now in front. I don't know everything I did made it worse

Hi @Ngo13, I know how you feel. How long have you experienced your tinnitus? For the first couple of months, I couldn't stop thinking the same thought.

@Joe Cuber I've had it for about 5 months now. Just tired of it...

Thank you everyone. Just trying to take it day by day

@Guywithapug I used to, my last guy went over the Rainbow Bridge a couple of years ago

@Ngo13 Ah I see, I used to have several in my youth, they are so sweet.

@Mal25 same here, 2 years of ups and downs mentally, but T and H just worsening every day.

@Nadia231 my T is already loud it's 6:13am here. I cannot take it anymore no one knows how to fix it. I should've stayed in silence and not drive or came outside. I don't think I can come back

@Mal25 I understand how you feel. Just hang in there, give your ears a rest and hopefully we'll make some progress at least on how we feel about it.