cjbhab

I concur... although my patience is wearing thin.

I had something like this but only at the first month. Sirens far away outside, the landline phone (is this an english word?) and 3-4 random songs.

That could be palinacousis.

Yes all my life. Now alot worse since T.

Why do some people have tinnitus and don’t need to protect at all. It gives me false hope. Bad ideas. I will repeat this story all the time. Title guy. Bad T for years. Cuts tiles everyday with a hand grinder. Zero protection. Everyday. Lives like like there is no tomorrow.

@4Grace i know people who have mild T and no matter what they do it never gets worse. if i go to a 75 db restaurant with no plugs i spike badly for at least 7-10 days.

@cjbhab - That’s me. That’s me. That just hits different. My God am I compared to mild stable cases by my family. They sarcastically say… ya sure… yours is worse than everyone else’s. I beg them to believe me. I am not like anyone who has T and goes to a hockey game with ear protection. I can’t imagine how loud my ears would get. When I get out of the shower … ufffff…. Worse and worse with every shower.

I wasn't doing really loud stuff. Never went to concerts, festivals or nightclubs. The few parties I attended weren't loud. I listened to music all the time, yes, but not really loud. So either no tinnitus or a little bit.

I actually learned about tinnitus 2 weeks before everything collapsed. Well it still happened: Loud music in car, I wasn't driving, I knew it was too loud, drunk, I did not say anything: R.I.P.

@cjhab I am obsessed with people with T that can put on protection. I’m in trouble. I need protection but it hurts and spikes me.

@4Grace yes there is definitely discomfort. On the plane, i would use the headphones and earplugs to block out plane noise, but i still play light music in the headphones which helps.

i agree with what you are saying about protection spiking you. I need a certain amount of input still to my ears.

@cjhab - nice to know it works for you. Good idea. Tinnitus with no auditory input is so loud for me it’s incredible.

it made my h worse so I gave up ear plugs

earplugs are robbing our auditory system of desperately needed input causing T to ramp up for days.

Can’t wear them at all wish I could

@crescentsky i get that type of intermittent T, but it’s in addition to the 24/7 loud reactive T i already have.

@cjbhab yeah we're stuck with this shit luck T.

What you say is very logical. We are told this by doctors (it is not that bad, live with it) so in that sense you are right.

bigdaddy69. lol

They'd be able to figure out it was you if they wanted to put effort into it. Reddit knows who you are through various methods of fingerprinting. You'd have to create and only use the account through Tor on a desktop computer and an anonymous disposable email address (if they haven't already blocked the domains).

@kingsfan i just don’t know how they’d find me out if i posted on TT from a new account that i created while on vacation in Saudi Arabia.

Its like we won the lottery. Except we are still poor and sometime want to die.

@BrOKeN_1 so true lol.
severe T could be 1 in 1000 and i’d win that but i could have my name in a hat with 3 other people to win $1,000,000 bucks and i’d never ever win that ever lol. I cannot say i am poor though so i am grateful for that.

I want to say I lean towards they do BUT have incredibly short-lived-T. 10-11ish years ago, I got T following a concert+flight. It went back to complete silence fairly quickly. I suspect this is majority. My current T is a long story and I don't know why I'm still stuck with it nearly 2 years later. Probably shit luck + a combination of everything that is bad.

I haven't been to a movie theater in 4 years.

i used to have hockey season tickets and often went to the movies. God.. i just wanna see mean girls right now hahaha

I had access to hockey tickets. I miss going for dinner and a game with my wife. So many blessings lost. BS!

Well over 20 years ago, I knew a guy who drove around with a loud stereo you could from far away. Loudest in town. Ran into him almost 10 years ago, and he was mostly deaf in one ear. I never thought to ask about tinnitus back then. He paid a price, either way.

When I was in junior high, my older brother had a huge system in his car. When I would sit in the back on the way home from school I would struggle to breathe from the pressure of the bass against my chest. I also spent many many hours of my life standing in front of my 8x10 bass cab at rehearsals and shows.

@4Grace Hello, I have been doing decent the last 5 weeks. I had a very bad spike from Dec 14-20 but it went away and since then i've managed pretty well.. T is still loud but mostly good days, some bad fleeting T here and there and T is very reactive to certain sounds. I have been focusing on health and working out. I ran 150K in January. How are you doing?

I should also mention that I experienced musical T again a few times this month.. very weird, always in the middle of the night. One night, it was like there was a stereo beside me. Usually it just sounds like there is music in the distance and i'm hearing the bass.

Sometimes when things like that happen I feel I am in some hidden camera tv-show. Testing when I am going to lose it and make a scene in public

I would have headed back to my car and got my earplugs rather than walking past that. I sometimes have to make evasive maneuvers when walking through neighborhoods due noisy lawn equipment, usually mowers.

@RunningMan it was when i was coming out of the store so i got blindsided by it as soon as the doors opened. i quickly shuffled back inside.

@gameover who do you think started putting those on and determined it needed to be 112 dB? lol.

Haha :-)

But seriously, people without tinnitus don't really care. They care about their own ailments

Praying to god right now saying I’ll go back to dealing with just tinnitus if this long covid vertigo will go away

I wish I can burn T to ashes. I would be living my best life without T. Was living fine & happy with non-T health issues.

Yeah, for wide availability, it's probably going to be a lot longer than a year.

I'm thinking we'll have it available in a few states in the US by the end of the year in 2024.

Good to hear!

Is it generally quiet on the green? It would be a nice way to get outside.

@kingsfan it is pretty quiet. i played 57 rounds this year. stay away from gas powered golf carts.