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The answer may be both! Less salt. Less food! On the Alternative Treatments section, there's a thread about following the 5:2 diet (5 days of regular calorie intake, 2 days of partial fasting). Some people have reported good results with this...

New User Information Gender: Female Age: 52 How Long Have You Suffered From Tinnitus? (Date of Onset): Dec 15, 2014 How Did You Get Tinnitus?: Other (define below) Explain How You Got Tinnitus: Depression, anxiety, medications Is Your Tinnitus in Which of the Following?: Head What...

I use Resound tinnitus masking 'hearing aids' that both generate their own sound and allow me to transmit music or sounds from my MP3 player to them. I also use headphones at times. Stevearrison has a good set of masking sounds at...

I should qualify my response above (post #2). I stand by everything I said there. However, I was referring to a sort of long-term average, over which my tinnitus does not change much. On a more granular level, as in day-to-day, my tinnitus changes immensely: it is either on or off. Half the days...

With low pitched tinnitus and intermittent fullness, cochlear hydrops comes to mind - but that's really much more of a guess and much less of a diagnosis at this point in time. My suggestion would be for you to see a neurotologist for a thorough evaluation, which will clearly serve you far...

Not sure if they can be habituated to honestly. I just deal with them, very annoying. I distract and keep busy. I would like to see if someone habituated to something similar. Visual snow? That’s just awful and I’m sorry.

Hi all, This looks a great site to share views. I have had high pitched T since early twenty's (now 54) now have low frequency hum morse code intermittent T since 2011 following a bout of Eustacian Tube Dysfunction following the flu. It comes a go's but mostly comes! Been looking at various...

I've had tinnitus a long time--those long-ago concerts, don't you know? I also had an ear infection in December 2017 that caused major hearing loss in my left ear that my ENT doc now says is Meniere's disease, based on two audiograms a year apart. I'm not convinced--I don't have the vertigo and...

Hello, I'm 23 years old. About four months ago, I was unexpectedly exposed to some very loud noise for 10-15 minutes at a concert that I assumed would be much quieter than it was. The following morning, my left ear felt very "full" and I heard an intermittent ringing in both ears -- not like...

That's my distortions! Thanx for the video. I have exactly the same type of symptoms apart from my regular polyphonic tinnitus. It got worse the last two weeks whilst it seemed to subside. I also get this with music, although the morse segment of mine sounds more like intermittent whistles...

Yes, sometimes my tinnitus is pulse and high pitch, it can alse be constant. It is not a pulsatile tinnitus, It is a tinnitus caused by hearing loss and which has a somatosensory aspect.

I think we have to give up naps.

Hey @DebInAustralia. Curious where you read about Quercetin being ototoxic? I’ve been taking it + Bromelain for about a year prior to my chronic onset of tinnitus (that’s been intermittent for 5 years). However, and I’ll update this in my original thread, 2-3 days of high dose Prednisone took...

I started Nortriptyline in early August 2021 and I’ve gained 10 pounds since then. My diet has been shit the last month or so and I haven’t exercised well enough, but I believe I’ve mitigated the weight gain through 18/6 intermittent fasting. 12:30 pm-6:30 pm is my eating window. On May 15th...

I had RFA on left side C3-C4 C4-C5 C5-C6 a couple days ago. Seemed to spike my noise on left side, but am better now. I will have the same done on right side in about a week. Inconclusive so far on lessening of noise. I will check out Regenexx on C1-C3 later this month. At least I'm trying. :)...

Is there any merit in trying Prednisone after 6-7 months onset of tinnitus and hyperacusis from loud noise exposure? Hyperacusis I believe developed later probably from overprotecting ears and has been improving noticeably with using appropriate protection for the situation and regular exposure...

Thanks for sharing your story. It has been nearly three months for me now, and it has only gotten worse. However, I refuse to lose hope. I am hoping that at the six-month mark, I can finally feel normal again, able to take back my life, which sometimes feels like it has been taken away, stolen...

I have the same situation, but I have had this just for 4 months. What do you do for sleep?

Hi @WCJohn, happy to elaborate. One thing you should know about my tinnitus is that it's daily intermittent, so some days it's loud (shower loud), some days it's mild, and some days it's quiet (like whisper quiet to silent). I've learned that the switching trigger is deep sleep when I dream. Not...

My right ear is worse in terms of damage. My tinnitus is bilateral (in my head) except when it is quiet, when I can tell that it is coming from my right ear. Mine is like static and is sometimes so quiet I don't notice it (1/3 of the time). The other 1/3 it is louder and annoying, and the...

I recently developed an intermittent low-pitched hum. This is in addition to the bilateral high-pitched tinnitus I’ve had for 13 years, which I have habituated to. The low-pitched hum fluctuates in volume and is worst at night, both when trying to sleep and in the morning when waking up. It’s...

It’s hard to say. It sounds like intermittent tinnitus (the main tinnitus sound as opposed to the hum of which many get on top of the hiss) and as your hearing is damaged it stands to reason everything sounds distorted in these situations. Look into your jaw as pressure and fullness with...

Does anyone else have low-frequency tinnitus that is not extremely low-pitched like a vibrating motor, but is in the 150 Hz to 350 Hz range, like the sound of a vacuum cleaner for example? In my left ear, where I have mild ETD (random popping and crackling since 8 months), I hear a low-pitched...

Good to hear. Yes sorry, I missed your other reply. That is interesting because I have vibrations and nerve sensations all around my body too. However, I've had that throughout my life and only recently had this, so there may be no correlation. But let's keep that in mind if we notice more...

Oh right... I think most people consider a spike to be a temporary increase in volume, I do. There's also a thread around here somewhere with a poll on if people have varying levels of tinnitus or a rather constant volume.

...actually your biggest problem, and is just serving as a convenient proxy? There's lots of people in the world who experience intermittent tinnitus or other unusual sensory experiences as a result of allergies, congestion or illness, who do not obsess or fixate on them. Conversely, there are...

Tinnitus can be very draining - I get it. I have had mine for over three years and am still having trouble accepting this as my new normal. I very much miss the silence and relish those few minutes once in awhile when the tinnitus is so faint that I have to focus to hear it. Night is the worst...

@RB2014 I have had hyperacusis for nearly 2 years and it hasn't gotten better. Even on days when my tinnitus distress is reduced to near zero the hyperacusis does not calm down. I think this is the level it will stay at. My tinnitus is not reactive and does not seem to be affected by the...

@Greg Sacramento Thanks, that's along the lines I was thinking too. I truly think that it was a sum of minor causes eventually leading to tinnitus, but few are actually related to loud noise. I'm currently in physical therapy to treat my neck and eventually my core stability, I'm practicing...

Hi, I have experienced exactly what you have previously described. The intermittent "static/electrical" noise that comes and goes all day.. Seems to be really bad when I first wake up and progressively get a little better throughout the day. Then I go to bed it it restarts again the next...

Hello, Has anyone ever been told by an ENT that their tinnitus would go away? I'm going to repost my introductory post below, so you can understand my experience with tinnitus. I'm posting again because, after seeing an ENT, she told me that my hearing is actually above average, and that...

Today I noticed when I tap my neck below my ear it sounds exactly like a microphone booming. What does that mean is going on? Should I see a NUCCA chiro?

All my tinnitus tones are intermittent or morse code-type sounds. They used to be quite reactive as well (to white noises such as a running tap or a blowing fan), but this has improved significantly, my perception tells me. While the morse code-tones themselves have not gone away, mine do tend...

@JodieStephens Tinnitus comes in many forms and intensities and no two people experience it the same. It can be: mild, moderate or severe. In one ear or both, known as bilateral tinnitus. The noise can be experienced as if it's coming from the middle of the head. It can be intermittent or...

Hey @Jupiterman - I have to agree, it seems like we have similar experiences, and @DeanD also seems to experience daily fluctuation. Mine did start at the end of March 2022, and it was immediately daily intermittent. It was far more chaotic in the beginning, probably because my sleep was a...

Good idea. I thought about doing that too, two in one would be a greater benefit. I’m going to stick to regular for another month and see what happens. I heard stories of people treating their tinnitus with fasting too.

Hello there, I've had high frequency tinnitus for many years, it's one of those things that I got used to quite quickly and now I hardly notice it at all. However last year I started having intermittent low frequency tinnitus in my left ear, like many others at first I attributed it to...

I don't think so. I also have this crakling sound when i swallow. I've had it for years and I don't have ETD.

Hey all, I want to make an important note about the hum. A lot of people with the hum have the same unique experiences with it and it reacts differently to normal tinnitus. For example it stops when moving your head to tapping your head. I have intermittent hum too and it has all those same...

My tinnitus, I believe, is of the intermittent, or fluctuating, type, although I wake up with it every day to some degree. By checking for it compulsively, which I did myself, you are instructing your brain to find something, which it will. That is a very hard behavior to break, but unless we...

Hi everyone. I'm afraid I'm still confused about something . . . From what I've read on here . . . am I correct in understanding that Tinnitus and Pulsatile Tinnitus are two completely unrelated conditions . . . with Pulsatile Tinnitus usually having vascular origins and (regular) Tinnitus...

I do and some of us here do to, there are threads for low frequency tinnitus or low hum tinnitus or drone noise tinnitus. Mine is intermittent in a sense that I have it for a period of time during what I also have half days/days off then it goes into remission. The "active" periods are...

I hear you for sure about the benzos, but I struggle with serious intermittent sleeping issues. I've been dependent on smoking pot for sleeping for 10+ years and the Klonopin is helping me ween off of that dependency and at such a low dose I feel like I am not trading one dependency for another...

Not sure, I think it was a combination of a couple of factors. I DJ'ed and noticed my ears were unusually sensitive. I was on a high amount of Amoxocillin, and I think it's side effect is noise sensitivity. A couple weeks before this I was experiencing more intermittent moments of tinnitus. My...

I've tried them and didn't find it useful for my tinnitus, but if I had more than mild/intermittent hyperacusis I would try them and probably not listen to any music during that time. To me they feel similar to in-ear headphones but since they aren't sealed, I guess they should be less harmful...

...feel my ear drum feel wet and moving constantly with a weeoooo sound, like an ambulance. Since then it has died down, with intermittent tinnitus. But I still feel some dull pain there from time to time, I read it can take months to dry out. Just wondering if there's anything I can do to...

@Dana thanks for your reply! My ears really only do this for like 30 seconds-2 minutes usually then the pressure returns to normal and my hearing returns to normal. It's accompanied by a muted feeling in that ear also. It's very strange. I am going to see the tinnitus specialist again in a few...

I'm bumping up this thread because my ear fullness is driving me crazy. I have intermittent ear fullness in the same ear as the tinnitus. The audiologist did a tympanogram and said my eustachian tube was fine, but the ear fullness still comes and goes. It's worse in hot weather and it flares...

You're doing the right thing. 1. Hypertension can be a factor, but that solely usually isn't the issue. 2. The intermittent nature is normal for pulsatile tinnitus. This is how it almost always presents. 3. Don't panic. You're dong the right thing by having it investigated. The times it...

The wind in the ear is a type of pulsatile tinnitus, although it isn't always pulsing with your heartbeat. I have that in my left ear and can stop it by pressing on my neck. I only really notice it when I stand up after lying down or after running etc. For some reason, "the wind" never bothered...

Are you talking about my initial pain symptoms 2 years ago or what I have now? How long before you noticed improvements?

Hi Bacus: I believe our condition is quite common. My advice is to work with your doctors (possibly see a neurologist) and come up with a course of action that works for you. Drugs like Klonopin do help; but they can be addictive, so beware. I take Mirtazapine (15mg) nightly to regulate my...

It will be interesting to hear what your doctor finds as a result of the MRI. Maybe if your pulsating tinnitus is intermittent, there's less likelihood that there is any physical abnormality, such as an aneurysm or fistula. PT is usually vascular in nature, so it could very well have been...