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Hi, I'm new and wondering how it's going with the T. Have you gone back for a repeat of the acupuncture? My T might be due to head trauma, I'm not sure. First stop for me will be ENT but first available appointment is May 1 :-( . After ENT, next stop will be acupuncture. Curious, if you still...

Piracetam would always temporarily lower my tinnitus for about a day. But it has recently caused GI issues so I had to stop taking it. I never tried Betahistine. Vinpocetine never helped much. What kind of dosages are you taking of these?

Thank you. I bought the Dandelion tea the same day and it seems to be doing something. I was able to get a telemedicine appointment with my neurologist late this evening and she prescribe me Topamax or Topiramate for the headache. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I’m looking forward to...

Hi oceanofsound26, Thank you for taking the time and reading my post. Sad indeed and scary. I am hoping my post will reach others to help them understand what it is like if they're just experiencing this or have already. I have researched Labyrinthectomy as this is what I will be having in a...

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Hey @Brooklyn NY Thank you for your thoughts. My ear does feel a bit better although my tinnitus is through the roof and freaking me out. I had a noise trauma recently (loud bell) which has messed up my tinnitus and hypercausis and my head is just so full of screeching. I’m trying my best...

tinnitus and especially hyperacusis with pain seem to develop almost exclusively in hearing loss, tinnitus has some exceptions but not hyperacusis with pain outside of head trauma.

I am not sure who "they" is. The biggest factors in determining inner ear tinnitus outcome is related to etiology (acoustic trauma, presbyacusis, ototoxicity, head injury, infection, etc.) and symptomatology (continous ie. 24/7, on/off, decreasing-increasing over time). Sudden onset of tinnitus...

Ah, it's actually £110 to purchase the Textbook of Tinnitus (published in 2024), a collection of articles by various authors, including Rauschecker. His chapter spans pages 221–230 and costs only £19, which I might buy out of curiosity. I've downloaded your Tinnitus Gating Model and plan to...

Hi, I'm Drew. I'm a 25 year old musician and writer. I don't know what else to do - I just need to tell my story to someone who will listen and maybe understand. On July 10, 2020 I was visiting my grandparents in Colorado. They live in the mountains, and we decided to go into town for some food...

...but I am also now being tested for SCDS. Also post concussive syndrome can cause tinnitus and hyperacusis...not saying you have a concussion but head trauma can mess with your ears. Hopefully it's just a short lived spike. Be well @Lisa88 glad to see you've made progress (despite a little...

Yep, same with me. Seems pretty common. My T is from head / neck trauma, and not my ears. I suspect something touching up against my auditory system. Maybe increased blood flow to an inflamed muscle. Overall, I feel exercise is good for me. Do you know the cause of your T? If I put an ice...

...spike from the motorcycle ride. Lots of folks are wearing earplugs when riding as the motorcycles are loud, and helmets protect you from head trauma, but little in the way of hearing protection. Be sure to consistently protect from further noise exposure, deal with the TMJ issues, and these...

I am sorry you are having a difficult time. Even I got T from a head trauma last year in March. No there are no answers for head trauma related T like any other type of T. Neuros and ents are a waste of time. Nobody understands tinnitus and they don't give a shit about it. Period. I have left no...

Yes I think my tinnitus is somatic. It gets louder when I massage my neck for example. She told me to massage the top of the muscle which goes all the way down my neck behind my ear. I think it's called the SCM muscle and she told me that my pterygoid muscle was tight especially on the left side...

Yes, it's pretty common to ask for a head MRI when you have unilateral tinnitus/hearing loss that you can't attribute to anything (acoustic trauma, etc). This is done to rule out an Acoustic Neuroma, which is a benign tumor (that's what I think you refer to as "cancer"). The odds of having an AN...

I'm going to try to make this my last thread here, after this I'll be out of questions and just have to play the waiting game. That being said, I'm grateful for this community always being here when I feel hopeless and alone. :thankyousign: So, I have two main questions: From multiple success...

Same but I haven't experienced any more hearing loss since my last accoustic trauma. Actually what you just said kind of matches up with the type II afferent theory going on in the FX-322 thread right now regarding hyperacusis.

Barotrauma, ruptured ear drums and then ototoxic drugs inc antibiotic ear drops. I was olso hit in the head and had concussion shortly after as shown on a brain scan, I'm still dealing with post concussion symptoms as well, I think? It's been so long and not a lot has improved so not sure. I...

Yeah true. It's just weird because I worked out for literally four years and my tinnitus never changed. It started getting worse when I started lifting over 450 pounds. I hope I didn't damage anything.

A bolshie know it all attitude towards a doctor will get a person absolutely nowhere. I have never had a problem with a GP. I have a very good rapport with my ENT consultant. She helped me a lot when I was going through a very difficult 4 years, caused by a second noise trauma.

It's been one month today. Not much has changed. The high-frequency tones in my head/ear are still as annoying as they were on the first day. It spikes when I hear a similar tone, causing the volume of my tinnitus to shoot up for about an hour or so after hearing it. The positives are that my...

I agree with @Autumnly Although the ear and auditory system are delicate they are also quite resilient and have the ability to recover from quite severe noise trauma. When I first got severe tinnitus with hyperacusis 23 years ago, due to listening to music through headphones at too high a...

Thanks for the advice, only a certain select of friends are loud and yes I have had an audio gram of my hearing and it was viewed by an ENT who said it seems all fine. I will choose to keep quiet about my condition as many people know about it but not all, will avoid those certain people though...

Thank you Greg. I’ve been working out for the past few months, doing bench pulls, pull-ups etc, my neck was stiff, my traps would get sore and I would resort to stretches. I had an instance of tinnitus for 5-10 seconds few weeks prior, where I made a sudden neck movement to the right while lying...

I'm one-sided as well. I think I stood in front of a speaker for too long at nightclub, and that's how I got here. Zero warning signs through years and years of gigs and abuse. I cringe now when I think of the sound the snare drum makes or a crash cymbal. So you've been dealing with this for...

It was just a thought. I’m on a couple BP medications. I know how despondent people get with loud noise in their head. Better to let the Dr. know if you are dropping a BP med. You never want to risk having a stroke.

Your tinnitus sounds a lot like mine, so I’m eager to see how the treatment works for you. We’re all rooting for you and hoping for positive results. Does your tinnitus cause you sensations of physical pain? Mine feels like electrical currents and electrical discharges, in the form of zaps...

@GhostyTMRS -- This sounds like potentially really good news. If you could get access to an HBOT chamber, I think that could be really good. There's not much else than can help heal brain and nerve trauma better than that. Except perhaps DMSO, which is used in conventional medicine to quickly...

Hello :D Steve here, 58 male. My tinnitus started with the casual and gently "weeee" sonic noise at about in 1985. Hardly noticeable till you rest your head on the pillow for a good night's sleep. Years later, at about 1998, I started getting an much louder oscillating crescendo of "weee"...

She had a gym injury, excessive straining while lifting, and she started having head pressure/headache immediately and tinnitus a few days later, so it is not clear if it started because of the diuretic she was put on or because of the actual injury. But: After a month she felt better and she...

I basically had this, or something just like it after my acoustic trauma. It sounded like my voice curved off to the left ear and was all fuzzy and distorted in my right. Despite both ears testing equal and in normal thresholds. I was able to clear it up with massage techniques. Turned out, I...

@Mathew Gould There can be good or bad results with device that you point out in post above to place a curve back from a straightened C spine from forward neck injury. Constant pressure on neck muscles may end up straightening C spine more. If one's atlas is tilted to one side, device can do...

I concur with @MindOverMatter. Do not read the worst-case scenarios. The vast majority of people improve. Not everyone finds complete resolution, but most discover that their tinnitus becomes non-bothersome over time. You experienced a minor exposure. Your nervous system is probably on high...

@tniuf, my initial sound in 2008 was a pure sound very high pitch of 8 kHz. Then when I got those "crisis spikes," I got new sounds; white noise mixed with a high pitch sound, like the sound of a jet taking off. I could hear the sound all over my head and not just on the left side. But the good...

Exactly another doctor thought if was an infection, and one jus said give it time it will go away. Also I was never exposed to any acoustic trauma or accidents to my head and neck, it started out of the blue after a party where I had too much to drink and there was no music there.

I am in late 40s, I had a happy life, I have wonderful wife and children. Great career, job, good future professional prospects. Good money and savings. Fun hobbies, toys. Yet, I am in the similar spot like you. I don't believe I will be able to crawl out of that deep depression. 4.5 months...

Interesting. In my case the acoustic trauma was on my left side, and my left side was affected more. I had ringing in both ears but mostly the left, then over the course of a few months the tinnitus moved to my head where it has stayed.

It wasn't the cause of my tinnitus, but I have forward head posture. It turns out it's not such an easy thing to correct when you have more than 15 years of poor posture. I have other theories about what caused mine (I think it's more than just bad practice for me).

Wow. This is apparently super rare. From a brief literature search, the only treatment I was able to find discussed was treating ETD which is apparently an underlying cause. Or if it was post trauma (e.g. tonsillectomy), possible repeat surgery. Is there a specialist for this condition you...

I had head trauma back in January and two weeks later my tinnitus arrived. I went to my neuromuscular dentist who advised I have bruxism and a slight misaligned jaw. He stopped short of saying this is what's causing my tinnitus, but advised it's possible. I'll be using a dental orthotic at...

Most likely it will fade in time, but it may take many months.

Thank you for your reply @Red - sorry, I probably wasn’t being very clear. My head is all over the place, quite literally. It was more of a hearing distortion - like I’ve never had before... I guess I’m just thinking that the noise trauma has caused more damage which in turn has caused the...

Well my good ear which started up 3 months after my trauma, is indeed the highest volume, but it has the most stable noises so I often don’t recognise it at all... Mine is like yours, when the noise gets to a certain sound/noise level it feels to be coming from the brain or better put from the...

Not all doctors know how to diagnose or treat these conditions. It is easy to say "everything is OK" especially if patients cannot prove their symptoms (some holes are not visible on CT, nystagmus is present only with vertigo, not with subjective dizziness, not with derealisation or a loss of...

Hello @Gman! My Tinnitus started immediately after I was rear-ended from behind. I was completely stopped and there was an SUV in front of me...a 16 year old driving a commercial box truck hit me at 45 mph and sandwiched me into the SUV in front of me, which was also stopped. My SUV was...

Thank you for sharing your amazing success story. You’ve gone through so much and survived it. My tinnitus has become very severe over the last few months. I have several tones, and it’s incredibly intense. I’m three months in, and I also have hyperacusis. It brings me to tears of joy to know...

I'm glad I brought this out, and hope it explains the trauma the brain absorbed from the falls. We don't understand what happens but soon we feel the side effects from it. Stay strong.

The zygomatic process is a protrusion from the rest of the skull, like the bumper of a car. If you are wearing double protection - ear plugs and part of the time headphones in an environment of 80 - 85 decibels, that should bring the sound level down to a safe level. So it's not dangerous...

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