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I am pretty sure I have recovered as much as I am going to at this point, but I appreciate the sentiment. We all went through what you are experiencing now, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that you get complete remission, or at least close to it. Hopefully, you will be in the success...

Hey, another member of the wet ear club. We are seemingly a rare breed. The whistle could be coming from your Eustachian tube, depending on whether we are talking about an airy whistle or squeak, or a tinnitus squeal. In the first case, you could try some saline nasal spray, or a steroid spray...

In my personal opinion, the only real treatment that truly does anything is time, along with avoiding anything that feels too loud. Everything else is simply a distraction, and as it turns out, that is exactly what you need while you wait for time to do its work. Do whatever keeps you calm and...

It does use radiation. It is basically a series of X-rays, similar to what you would get at the dentist, but taken as many images in a row. There is a very small increase in cancer risk, but I decided I would much rather face that than risk my ears getting worse. Besides, these scans are used...

Agree to meet them halfway by suggesting a CT scan with contrast. It is much quieter, while still providing a usable, although not as detailed, image. If they push back, explain firmly that you will find an MRI unbearably loud and that you are concerned about prolonging your symptoms or causing...

I hope I’m misreading your post, but please don’t do anything rash. Applying for MAID and going through the process is one thing, but making any snap decisions is an entirely different matter, with far bigger potential repercussions for both you and your family. I know the irrationality this...

And after a horrible few days I come to my once a month easily manageable morning buzz day (natural hormone fluctuations I guess) where I sleep like the before times and my pain and pressure settles for a few hours... I could easily live a normal happy life and feel very much like my old self...

Just cannot be fucked with the spikes, aches, pains and sensations from something as simple as a normal volume conversation when I already spend all day indoors, it's been over a year, can't live a normal life I consider enjoyable or worthwhile, not interested at this point... where this idea we...

I’m afraid I’ll have to play Devil’s Advocate and support your decision. If you’ve truly reached the end of your rope and all enjoyment has been drained from your life to the point where you can go through with assisted dying, not an easy thing to do, and you fully understand that it means...

I’d be surprised. We were pretty far away from everyone else, it was quite quiet, and the hearing in my left ear is still pretty good. It also definitely felt like something was happening in my ear. I think I’ve decided it was a dropout episode, just not a full-blown one. I had something...

Over the weekend, I went out for a drink with a friend. We were tucked away in the back of a quiet pub garden. I had an earplug in my worse ear, the right one. The day went mostly fine, but at one point, while he was mid-sentence, I suddenly couldn’t understand a word he was saying unless I...

Oh Goody, my left ear has suddenly joined the party unprompted with the standard high pitched eee to join the cacophony on the right, now I can have hear it above everything tinnitus in stereo and pick which sound I want to be driven mad by.

“Annoying” is one word for it… It is actually quite funny — I just got back from a hospital appointment and had the exact same experience. They told me it was my Eustachian tubes, and I tried to explain that it definitely was not. They tested my tubes right then and there and said there was no...

Habituation is real, life is good again! Wait... no, my mistake, this is still dreadful, life ruining and daily torture. Although I have rediscovered drinking & smoking and that they have no effect on my tinnitus whatsoever so bring on a quicker end!

People who are already undergoing an operation on their ear make placebo control easier. Those with little usable hearing left also present less risk. It allows for better measurement of the treatment’s impact through the implant, rather than relying purely on patient reports. This is not meant...

Same reason all the other stuff is repeated... it probably worked for a subset of people, possibly due to the Meniere’s cohort, and since there is nothing else available, it keeps getting parroted. That is the same reason tinnitus is still broadly tied to anxiety and stress, even though that...

Yeah, they are a bit on the creaky side. I actually had better luck with some cheap ones from Amazon in that regard, but wearing glasses is still a problem. And not to mention, it is nearly impossible to avoid bumping into door frames and cupboards while wearing them. No, they are far from...

Do you think you may have overstrained your left ear by forcing it to overcompensate after blocking the right ear? Do you have any over-ear defenders you could wear for a while? I found that inserting things into the ear—even when there was no general soreness—often made things worse. I really...

Yes, I remember that from the beginning of my journey. I have healed somewhat for now, but I would never want to go through that again. I do not envy you. It took about eight months for me to reach a more normal state. Seriously, try using cotton wool and a very quiet TV with subtitles...

I'm six months in now. I've been doing weekly therapy, trying to engage in hobbies I used to love, going out and 'living life', albeit in earplugs, and trying to fake it until I make it, searching for the glimmers of good in my situation. And I just want it over, I don't enjoy anything, every...

Right, again, that is all well and good. I wish my audiologist had used your method and that in the future it will be standard, but they did not and it is not. All standard tinnitus rules apply to me unless we determine there is some actual difference in the origin of the hearing damage. I am...

Well, that was unexpected! Hooray for William R., whomever that may be.

As I said, I’m in nearly the exact same boat. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, I’m pretty much in the hermit category. But it does not sound like you need to go that route—just find some quieter extracurricular activities. I’m looking into joining an art group myself. There are also walking...

Yeah, I mostly meant what on earth caused it. I’m well aware of the limitations of standard audiograms, although I do appreciate your thorough rundown. But alas, it’s what I have. As for the tinnitus itself, one positive is that apart from a higher-frequency static hiss, it is not very...

Well, that may be true, but there seem to be some established “rules” we have as a community. NIHL — no headphones. SSHL — go ahead. Pain hyperacusis — must be noise-induced. I am just trying to make sense of where these ideas have come from. Or are they simply based on how we each react to...

I’m still trying to work through my hearing loss, but I keep hitting a brick wall when searching for answers. Why do we differentiate between noise-induced hearing loss and other types of hearing loss? What difference does it make to the ears if the hair cells were damaged by earphones and...

Ahh... two minutes strolling round the peaceful garden to get a bit of vitamin D and decompress... Oh, hello mister helicopter wonder where you're flyin-OH MY GOD MY EARS HURT!

Did you have your hearing tested recently? I’m suspicious if the pop you heard in the gym could have been a perilymph fistula or sudden hearing loss. My hearing went from completely normal one week, with no audible tinnitus or any discomfort with sound, to feeling a bit unwell with a mild...

Hi Suz, how are you doing now? I saw you had a lot of trouble with nasal steroid spray... they didn't do me any favours either.

It really sounds like a bit of heightened hyperacusis, which does affect your sound tolerance. Also, the tensor muscle combined with stress could be causing some pain and discomfort. Short, sudden noise is always harder to handle with hyperacusis, so that explains why the drums felt...

Anyone care to take a guess at what happened? Around 35 years old or so.

Once I have an income again, I’ll be sure to set it up. I need to make my savings last for now, but I’ve donated what I can. I’ve been trying to get a couple of well-known musicians interested. I used to do some work for a small company that collaborated closely with a few of the bigger acts...

I’ve been sharing this around and have asked a few people with some social reach to help, but I’ve noticed it is actually quite difficult to find on the main Tinnitus Quest webpage. It would be really great if we could raise that last $5,000 with a strong final push.

Apart from not living in an overly noisy area (although the garden is still a risk, with the neighbors seemingly always having some kind of work done), and the fact that I do not currently have to work, I am in exactly the same mental and reclusive boat. I do not enjoy anything anymore, and I...

So, what is the takeaway from this for us as patients? Does it open up any potential new avenues?

I don't think @Danny Boy is going to be too concerned with dating these days... https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/danny-boy-memorial-fund-in-loving-memory-of-danny-boy.30298/ As for my opinion on the matter, yes, but depression is likely the biggest obstacle; home-bound people with chronic...

Can the tinnitus either shut up or can I please have a brain aneurysm and end this cleanly... Is that too much to ask.

I understand the idea, but my point is that I think it is more for emergency treatment. I do not think a doctor would provide it just for an everyday setback, especially as it requires an intratympanic injection. I think it will be reserved for major events, such as explosions or sudden...

I agree, modern life has gotten loud. I am currently in a place that was once out of the way, yet ten years later, noise seems to be encroaching on it. I am now just waiting for the added traffic those golden arches will bring. But that was not my point. I was just saying AC102 is not for...

AC102 is for acute hearing loss, not chronic. It does not generate hair cells, but instead works to protect against and reverse the effects of immediate damage. From further reading, I do not think any of the treatments that attempt to use support cells to transdifferentiate into hair...

Today, my right ear has decided to add to my fragile mental state by beginning to lose hearing beyond what my audiogram showed just a fortnight ago. So long, hyperacusis, I guess. It feels much like the moderate hearing loss I experienced before my tinnitus began, which I had assumed was just a...

Hopefully I will see you there! Can anyone truly be sure whether their hearing damage is due to hair cells or nerves? It is almost always likely to be a combination of both. The clinical trial requirements might focus only on age-related or degenerative disease hearing loss in an attempt to...

Why do you torment me loud dial tone frequency, the times you are gone I cope so much better and then you bring physical sensations to make yourself known.

I’m so sorry to hear about your son, Linda. This is a truly cruel condition that takes so much. Is he currently taking any medication to cope with it? Some medications are known to make it worse, which can be a difficult balance to manage given how distressing tinnitus can be. There are a...

Interesting… I suppose I ask because I’ve been trying to figure out my tinnitus. I went to several concerts when I was younger and never experienced even a hint of it. Years ago, I was exposed to a small explosion, probably similar to a gunshot. I recovered quickly, with only about 30 seconds...

That sensation is referred from your trigeminal nerve. It is fluttering your tympani, or the tensor tympani muscle, sometimes known as TTTS (Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome). I experienced warmth, tension, and some pain in my face, but the ear would flutter on its own, especially when lying down...

I can't go on with this indefinitely, I'm just not cut out for it, what life is it to just carry on existing for fear of death. How can something so cruel have not just no safe treatment, to take the edge off, but the potential to worsen without a moments notice. I've always been depressed, but...

Don’t worry, there is enough love to go around for both you and @Nick47. 😉 I can manage a short course.

Warm and down my leg, but I think that might be something else… No, I can’t say I have experienced it anywhere else. At the start of my tinnitus, it felt exactly like I had fluid dripping in my ear, even though there was none according to a GP, at least when I was checked about ten days later...

It was in my right ear with the hearing loss. It did not seem to drift over to the good ear like the tinnitus and hyperacusis did. It certainly could be that. Or it could be allergies, stress, or wearing defenders for too long, which can cause discomfort. As with all of this ear stuff, it...

I know tinnitus is completely subjective, so this is a rather tricky one to answer, but is there a general sense of an established difference in tinnitus depending on the cause? For example, some people experience sudden sensorineural hearing loss and permanently lose, say, 60 dB along with all...