cjbhab

You really don't get genetics do you?

@Utdmad89 i must have been adopted lol because nobody in the past 300 years of my family history has had any ear problems.

You can't possibly know that for sure. And they might not have had thiers activated. I have diabetes but my brother and sisters don't. And they are all fatter than me.

we stopped serving breakfast at 1030 …. AWWW HORESESHIT!!!

nobody in real life has T at a level where they can’t go to a 71 dB restaurant because it will result in a 5 week suicidal spike.

i’m ready for @Utdmad89 to come in here and calmly explain to me that i’m fucked haha

In the early months after onset I tried often to suppress all noise with plugs and isolation. But if I don't have at least the slightest ambient noise besides my T I start to go mad. I can hide from the world but not that awful ringing.

It is the price we pay for protection - quite a racket.

@Jammer it’s literally racket!!!

I miss the spontaneity and freedom of pre-T life even with other issues.

I thought about it a few times on adding a family member on all my accounts but T has made me too bitter and vindictive. If it gets to that pt, I'm just going to cash everything out and burn all the money in my back yard, even if it's illegal to burn money. I'm at a pt where I don't give F. No one is getting anything if I decides it is the end. Taking it all with me. lol.

@crescentsky haha this is kind of sad but understandable :(
i would want to make sure the wife has enough money to pay the bills and still have a nice place to live.

Instead of writing down account numbers, I would just change my will in accordance with my wishes. And yes I am thinking of doing that because of T.

@cjbhab alot more than you think. Stuff you haven't ever heard of. There are people in all sorts of pain that can't be explained. At least for T it's quite common, and there is research.

Doctors are med pushers

@Juliane i also feel like this is one of the only conditions where meds will do absolutely nothing if not make the situation worse. We have to be very careful what we take and nobody understands that except travis henry lol.

Every fn day. The days I don't people think I am crazy or overreacting.

this is what the non-T ppl & your fam&friends expect you do. However, when they have a problem like a papercut, they expect you to drop everything and act like it's the end of the world.

Same conclusion! I feel like I am acting every day. Every day could be my last and people would say "she seemed so normal and happy!"

If it's not sound induced, it could be trigeminal neuralgia pain

@BB23 i’ve got extreme pain and pressure on left side of head and ear and behind the eye. pain in the whole head really though.. and it gets worse in silence. like the whole head tenses up.

@RunningMan it does get a lot more milder with my maskers.

Not fixed, but maybe some treatments which can knock it down a notch for most people will be available by then. Auricle could work for some people within a few years.

At least there's somethings for T coming. H/N there is nout.

Be greatful you can atall!

miss listening to music at all. reactive t and distortions don't let me anymore, digital audio causes spikes

@Karolina I feel your pain. Distortions make music sound like shit.

I was told he is alive.

Most likely habituated, and left this place. Lucky him.

Wait, drivings over 70db?

Has your spike subsided? That reminds me that I must decline yet another invite for gathering next weekend.

@Juliane pain and pressure wasn’t as bad this weekend. hopefully it keeps trending upwards. but now i’m sick. so all bets are off. congestion doesn’t help.

@cjbhab Feel better soon!

Your brain's auditory cortex is active during anesthesia and if the surgeon likes to play loud music or a tray of surgical instruments hits the ground, then a spike can occur.

@Jammer possibly. however, i think the spike would be worse if you knew about it. Some of it is mental and we bring it on ourselves.

Your ears do not shut off when asleep or unconscious, it's the body's safety mechanism - meaning, in theory, you still 'hear' what you normally would - it's just whether your brain and body response to tinnitus acts in the same way.
That said if it rains through the night and heavy, I will often have a spike in morning, even if I didn't or rarely woke up to it in the night

That's a key symptom of hidden hearing loss apparently

Interesting, that one gets me as well. I can pass the silly pick the word from the crowd noise test... but in a crowd its like fan or white noise, my T just hisses louder.

Lucky them. After 21 years, mine is still with me and louder than ever.

@Jammer 21 years.. how do you do it?! Almost 10 months and I don't know how I made it this far.

@Tryn2BHopeful you are right about doctors not being helpful. I contacted mayo clinic and said spare no expense getting to the bottom of this and they turned me away.

because they already figured it out. Just ignore it. /sarcasm

It's not their job, that's scientific reaserchers

@Utdmad89 you are right. ENT job is to get as many people in and out the door as possible. Generate billings .

My brain is fantastic and paying attention and thinking,… unfortunately

Good question :) Would it work for pain with sound? If so, I’d give it a try! I can lose three months for that!

Not absurd, I probably have a THI 10 point reduction in the morning. T and pain always builds up with noise during the day. Maybe the nerves would have a chance to heal. ;-)

Lol.. new goal set!!

@Jenny_S almost nobody wears earplugs to concerts. If you go to one, look around. IMO Loud noise does not cause permanent tinnitus. It is a factor in causing temporary T in my opinion - but it is something else that causes it to stick around permanently. We do not know what this is. If loud events caused permanent T, almost everyone would have T.

@cjbhab - this is the irony that will be the death of me. This is what causes all the gaslighting that will one day push me over the edge. I get major spikes after a shower and this guy is going to a concert. Just like my friends. Same.

It's loud noise that causes tinnitus ir ototoxic meds. It's genetic. Like why doesn't every morbidly obese person have diabetes but me who was overweight not obese gets it. Because it's in my genes