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I have no idea, as I have had it ever since I can remember. If I had to guess, it was caused by my first concert (Rush, 1981). I remember being on the train headed home and barely being able to hear. Sounds were muffled and I felt like I had cotton in my ears. That's just a guess, though...

Hey butterfly! firstly, thank you for always sharing your opinions on my thread. i really appreicate it. one thing i must say, the whole DB thing seems to be weird to me. there was a time last week where i was simply measuring the sound levels of EVERYTHING for hours. suprisngly enough, A LOT...

The reason I personally tend to believe the "15% of people have tinnitus, 1-3% of them severely" is that it aligns pretty well with conversations I've had with friends, family, coworkers. Especially if you start talking to musicians, motorcyclists and machine-shop workers, it seems like everyone...

Hi Michael I have had Tinnitus 2 times in my life. Once about 12 years ago (from loud lawn equipment) and another bout started about 8 months ago after I went to an outdoor band with dancing. The first time it was screeching loud T with pain and fullness. It took 18 months to fully fade back to...

As you've seen in this thread, this is a pretty hot topic and you'll encounter folks arguing passionately both ways ;) Personally, I don't think headphones are inherently more dangerous than any other source of audio. To your eardrum, a sound wave is a sound wave, it doesn't matter if the sound...

Hello all, I have become very passionate about this condition. Partly because most health professionals do not know how to treat hyperacusis, especially noxacusis. There is no model for it. No specific medication to it. If the numbers are correct, only 6,000 people in the United States have...

Hi! I’m a 21 year old man. I have always been that guy that didn’t care at all for loud music and sounds. But one day, for around two and a half year ago I woke up, and there was this high pitched tone in one of my ears. I have had it before, but that was after I had been to the nightclub...

Hi guys. My name is Champ and I'm from Thailand. I'm only 21 years old. I'm a dental student. I have tinnitus since October last year. At that time, I'm depressed and I don't know what my cause tinnitus, maybe sleep less, stress but I didn't listen loud music before then. Then I went to see...

Jane, does yours dart in and out with a shrill sound? Mine sort of makes a circle going from high pitch to some lower pitches and then back again. But it does always close the circle, sometimes it sears in high and then goes low and stops. There's static around it all too. I wish the movement...

I can relate to "putting life on hold", I feel the same. The fact that you had 3 days of near silence seems like great progress, hope it goes back to that or better.

Hello, 8 days ago (the 17th of November) my wife was pumping air into my bicycle tire while I was holding the hose when suddenly the tire exploded. This was in a small bicycle garage so the extremely high sound got even worse than it would outside. My ears were just about 15-20 cm (5-8 inches)...

If you’re organising it then it means you are in control of all aspects of the sound. Get a large room for starters with acoustic properties that aren’t overly reflective, preferably with walls that will dampen sound. Next, you could look into using a sound limiter that will cut out the...

I’m at the point now where the sound of my steps is causing my ear muscles to ache, and the tinnitus reacts along with it. I wouldn’t mind if I knew with absolute certainty that isn’t making my state worse. But I don’t. I’ve ditched my earplugs for now. That’s a start. I can’t ditch the...

Hey bud, it's ok..you are human. We all made mistakes, i have made many and my tinnitus will never ever shut up :) Don't blame yourself bro, what is done is done. What has happened has happened. Move forward and in the future be more protective of your ears. Hopefully your spike goes down, try...

Neenie... If you have read any of my profile you will know that I have had tinnitus for 58 years and mostly led a brilliantly cool life. It only really became a hassle in 1980 when I was 30 (= the second increase in volume due to loud construction/demolition I was helping with). Before that I...

@Ludvik the post below might be of some help. All the best Michael New to tinnitus what to do? The onset of loud intrusive tinnitus can be very traumatic for most people. I use the words loud and intrusive, because tinnitus comes in many forms and intensities. When it is mild, moderate or...

@Domswan HI Domswan, Please read the post below which gives information on what to do when new to tinnitus. Then click on the link below and read the article: Tinnitus, A Personal View. Please take your time and read it. Try to avoid quiet rooms especially at night, by using sound enrichment...

This is really uplifting to hear your success story. It helps a lot to new folks with this like myself. I seem to be pretty good during the day, but sleeping at night is my challenge. On meds right now, hoping that will change in time. Have a great day.

i guess questions are here for people to answer and it´s Xmas.... @Ilija I have some questions which some of you may be able to answer. 1.) Is your T reactive for me when I hear stuff like the bad breaks of a car or a copy machine,or my CPU cooler,or the static sound my TV produces it seems to...

Hi all, I would love to pick your collective brains on a few things. Thanks in advance! I suffered an acoustic trauma about 2 months ago (Nov. 10) when exposed very briefly to super-high volume on small headphones (the old kind, not earbuds). My ears hurt afterward, but were better by the...

Have they ever both been present at the same time, or would you say that the high pitch tone has replaced the idling engine sound? Check out Some more info that you might find to be useful: Playing crickets sounds works well with a high pitch tone tinnitus. The idea is not to play so loud that...

Hello everyone, I come here looking for knowledge and advice. I have never had ringing in my ears until 7 days ago when I was stupid and ignorant enough to be using q-tips in the morning to clean earwax from my right ear. Ringing in the right ear, and not my left ear, began noticeably later that...

Hello, I said I would post a success story when I was recovered. My tinnitus came out of nowhere 2 months ago at the end of August. Just to add a backstory - I was working for a large finance firm. I had finished my contract so I went travelling around America for 5 weeks. I didn't take much of...

Thank you for your kind comments @Bill Bauer I feel confident that you will benefit from using a sound oasis sound machine at night and recommend the S-650. If you want the best then buy the S-5000. Many people do not realize the benefit of using sound enrichment at night and are quick to say...

Hi, I just created this profile tonight to hopefully have a place to talk about this without getting eye rolls from my wife. I would like to give a bit of backstory and then ask a couple questions to you guys here. I was never worried about hearing loss and tinnitus as a younger adult, so i...

Hi there, my name is Daniel Zuccarelli and I live in NJ just outside of Philadelphia. Interesting post for me to write. I've had Tinnitus for about 20 years now. First showed signs at about 18 after a particularly loud concert. At the time I had to jam my fingers in my ears and find a quiet...

Thanks for sharing your story and I’m truly sorry to hear your tinnitus has worsened recently. I can imagine how upsetting it must be for you after getting used to it and then having this happen. Thank you for the reminder to protect from loud noises - I’ve recently in the past couple of years...

So, I recently changed to a new field with software engineering. Specifically web dev. It is a better field than before, but the issue is that since I don't have a lot of experience, I want to make a good impression with my company. I've been in my job a little under a year now. However, I have...

Thank you for the comprehensive post. It sounds like you have a lot of fluctuation with your symptoms. I really do not have any pain from my issues but the loudness hyperacusis has greatly impacted my quality of life. I have also treated with Ben Thompson. He indicated that the counseling is...

This is my update too by the way: Yeah I just read it, I have read probably over 100 stories like that. Gives a lot of people hope. It really depends on how long the person has hyperacusis and what the damage is from, and where in their ear. Hyperacusis can be caused by so many different...

I was in the studio with my band in the December 2014. I play guitar. Music is my life, I would say. The most important thing in my life, that has safed me from many miseries. We were recording our second album and it took altogether five days. Our setup was to record in sort of “live” set up...

Hey @Brian Newman, it's not in this post, but in another post you mentioned you keep developing new tinnitus tones and called yourself the habituation monster. Are these new tones linked to noise incidents? If so, are they at volume levels that are “safe” or only at levels that are normally...

Yeah 2 months is the average for a spike. Till then it's likely it will subside or even disappear. No more loud noises or headphones in the meantime.

Hey everyone. I was asked by a few members on this forum to write a detailed, structured success story (if you can call it that) to show how it is absolutely possible to get out of the worst hell imaginable and have a life again. I'm going to break it down into different months, as accurately as...

Hi Everyone, I've been reading this forum a bit over the last few weeks and thought it was finally time to introduce myself. I'm a 35 year old audio engineer, and while i've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, it has become much more bothersome over the last 10 days or so. I played...

Hello everyone! Way back in 2019 when my tinnitus first emerged, I introduced myself in a thread here. I was still deeply shaken at the time and in a state of denial, if I'm honest. The support and welcome I got in response to that post was a lifeline to me, and I'll forever be grateful for it...

Okay, so here's the story. I'm a 20 year old girl (woman?). I developed tinnitus August of last summer for no apparent reason. I was sitting in my room during one of my sister's loud sleepovers, and decided to plug my ears to try to get some sleep. I put the earplugs in, and I heard it--a faint...

Hello fellow low drone folk. I have just joined the forum. I found this thread pretty quickly as it resonated (sorry about the pun) most closely with the head-noise I have been experiencing since 25th August this year. I can date it so precisely as I recorded this in my diary on that date...

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. Two months is not a long time in the tinnitus world. Try not to lose hope. It can still improve. It is not considered chronic until 6 months and even then people have had it resolve after 12 months, 2 years. Just protect your ears and balance that with...

My story is this... I got hearing loss and tinnitus from a loud power tool (air hammer) without hearing protection. I have no idea what made me so stupid that day. I was even looking for earmuffs, but did not have them with me at the garage (40 minutes away from home). Instead of running to...

Yes, many people experience fading. Not too many of those people get to hear silence again, but most are able to get to the "can hear it only in quiet rooms" stage. Ears take forever to heal, so the healing process can take months or even years. You will want to be easy on your ears during that...

I feel for you. It's hard when you get punished so severely for misjudging a situation. But such is life. I have had an interest in buddhism for years and since having this higher level of tinnitus I've had many insights about life dawning on me. Tinnitus has been a good teacher to me, even if...

All I can say is that you must have had extremely good filtering in the part of your brain that processes sound because no sensory organ is perfect including the cochlear and "noise" is always generated as part of the signal that goes to your brain. That can in most people with normal hearing be...

I'm definitely thinking about seeing an ENT doctor sooner than the doctor recommended, it would be good to get an expert's opinion and they would be able to do more extensive inspection of the ear. I'll look into that tomorrow. Do you happen to know if any ear spray products such as Audispray...

Hello everyone! I have collected and translated some noise induced success stories that I have found online on Swedish forums. Hopefully it will bring some hope to someone out there! :) “I got noise induced tinnitus when I was 16 and it was really loud. I could easily hear it over a normal...

I emailed everybody. They completely dumped me, sadly. I had a talk with Ashley. I’ll have to go back and read it again. I’m pretty sure Oblato and Otologic Pharmaceuticals are connected. Either way, whomever was supporting the drug for compassionate use, cancelled it and backed out. That wasn’t...

I went through the exact same feelings 7 months ago and did the same stupid things (Googling it). I am now out of that constant panic but still in the depressive stage, my life is slowly getting back to normal. Just don't stay in quiet rooms focusing on it, when you start feeling stressed get...

Folks, My March 30, 2018 launch to the planet Hearing Loss has been a one-way ticket with some carry-on baggage labeled Tinnitus, Hyperacusis and Diplicusis. The trip has taken me to some places many of you recognize: - HearUSA, a place where an Audiologist administers an Audiogram as a...

Thank you for this, I'm waiting for my day to come when I give someone else some encouraging words on how I got over this.

Thank's for your reply, it is not certain sounds hurting my ears which is the primary issue, what I am discussing is that I hear additional tones in sound, which are louder than the source sound, and are not part of that sound. Masking is not ideal, as first of all some of my constant T tones...

Hey everyone. Ive been perusing around these forums for awhile now and figured its time to join and introduce myself. I guess ive always had some minor tinnitus ever since i can remember. I started playing music in my teens and played throughout middle school, high school and beyond. I...

Ear plugs have been known to provide a false sense of security. Check out the posts I quoted in the first post of the thread below. https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/learn-from-others-mistakes.29437/ Also, check out Make sure you don't overdo it with the earplugs. Specifically, you don't...

I don't know if this would work but what about a note from a doctor that you need to avoid loud noise and you are sensitive to loud noise thus you need to be excluded from non-work related events if you suspect that they will be loud? That way you can avoid the lunch meetings or at least the...

Hi George, The onset of tinnitus can be quite daunting so I know how you feel. Your auditory system has suffered an acoustic trauma and it will take time to recover. Providing you're not experiencing deafness or problems with balance, I don't think your ears have suffered any long term damage...

Hi there. First of all, I'm not a native English speaker so pardon me if I make some mistakes or use plenty of simple constructions. I hope you understand everything, I will try to do my best! My tinnitus started at the beginning of May 2021, during the night while I was sleeping. I'm a...

Hi everyone, I want to spread more positivity about this condition on Tinnitus Talk and on my specific case of hyperacusis and tinnitus, which continues to IMPROVE. I am 7 months into this journey and have been treating with sound therapy for almost five. My tolerance is wayyyy better. I did...

Could a steroid taper help? Might be worth trying along with taking nac and magnesium. can you access hbot and/or stems? i havent personally tried hbot so read the threads. i did receive adipose derived stems in may and have noticed my hyperacusis has significantly improved along with my...