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How are you doing today, @momo?

Dental appointment done, and X-rays were taken. My tinnitus seems stable right now. I went in for a cleaning, but I steered the visit toward tooth discomfort instead. It turns out I have an infected tooth on the upper left molar, and I’ve been referred to a periodontist. The dentist prescribed...

I'm in my late 40s. 2 mg of Klonopin is roughly the equivalent of 40 mg of Valium (https://www.benzo.org.uk/bzequiv.htm). No one would consider that anything other than a really high dose (https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/diazepam/how-and-when-to-take-diazepam/). I'm not trying to be unhelpful...

I love how you went from "177 countries are stealing our lunch money" to a full crime-stat TED Talk in one reply. That's Olympic-level pivot. :whistle: If crime is dropping, that's great news. Truly. Feels like something is simmering, though, that would kill that statistic. Hope I'm wrong...

I’m 25M and an engineer, at least that’s what my job title says. I never thought I was a very smart person. I’ve been depressed my whole life, which affects my memory and retention. I feel like Tinnitus takes up about 80 percent of my brain capacity. It feels like I’m incapable of learning...

Welcome to the forum. Your experience with tinnitus is the opposite of mine. The first time, 10 years ago, when my ultra-high-pitched tinnitus and severe hyperacusis first hit me, I was in full panic mode. The brain treated it as a mortal threat. So it created havoc in my mental health, and it...

Welcome to the forum. Others above have given you good suggestions. I agree the lower frequency humming tinnitus is maskable. Try using brown noise with many free apps to mask tinnitus. I find airplane cabin sounds pretty good with this. It can be bothersome at first, but you can habituate to...

I’m going skiing in January, and I have mild hyperacusis. The main things I struggle with are the sound of wind and the scraping noise of skis on very hard or icy snow. I’ve tried earplugs, but occlusion makes things worse for me, and I end up feeling vibrations in my head much more strongly. A...

I’m doing much better. As of about 1 week ago, I’ve reached phase 2 habituation. I’m unaware of my tinnitus more often than I’m aware of it, though periodically it will assert itself and I’ll notice it again. This sometimes happens when I hear trigger sounds like music, fans, or other low...

Thank you, I'll be careful. I do sometimes get an uncomfortable feeling, but I am wearing them in the day, whereas at night, I guess you might have been tossing and turning when you were asleep, so that produced friction? I also am wearing (see photo) ones that don't plug up one's ears, so they...

okay, i know now that i have reactive tinnitus.. i need to get my head around it and don't want to make it anything worse. artifical noise is not good for me, so i need to listen to my t all the time, but since it is quieter it is okayish. Time to dig forums..

I think @Sonia554 is very right in his or her answer, but sometimes when you’re down the rabbit hole, it’s hard to tell yourself “it’s fine,” especially when you’ve recently had damage from something you maybe thought was safe. When I briefly googled how loud a chainsaw can be, it seems it can...

It’s hard to know, right? I feel the same way. I don’t know whether my hyperacusis comes from the actual damage itself or from overprotection. When something happens, like a loud sound, I try not to take a step back in my habituation progress. I try to stay at the same level, relax for a set...

How are you doing now? I’m sorry that you’re going through this again. The fact that you reached such a deep level of habituation before, to the point where it was gone for months at a time, says a lot about your nervous system’s ability to settle, even if it doesn’t feel that way right now...

My T is bad

Well, tonight seems a bit loud. Hopefully it calms down. I did my normal stack of Magnesium, L-Theanine, and D3 plus K2, but no Benadryl. I slept for about 1 hour, then woke up, and now it is a bit noisy. I have the sound machine going and the TV on, but the ringing seems louder.

Trump is not "embarrassing himself", and who cares if he is? Why are you so concerned about issues in America? No country is perfect. I have already explained, in previous posts, that it's leftist organizations like the ACLU that prevent guns from being restricted from people with problems...

Thanks for doing that. They didn’t return a response to my email.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am linking the Nudge general interest form page here as it took me a few minutes to find it.

I have a dental appointment tomorrow at 8:30 am. I said my prayers, and I am pretty sure a crown will need to be replaced. The dentist wants to do a cleaning, and I plan on asking for a manual cleaning. I have been trying to get out some, and I am wearing earplugs. I went to get a tire fixed...

Pardon my lack of understanding; I still don't know what they are trying to do or how this will help tinnitus research. Are they just collecting "brain data"? How would any of us participate in it, and what's the impact?

I wanted to share my experience because I still can't fully wrap my head around it, and I'm curious if anyone else has noticed something similar. Years ago, when I was an audio engineering student, I made a mistake that a lot of us probably have at some point. I had my audio interface volume...

May I ask how many milligrams of Clonazepam you take on very bad days? Also, is your tinnitus noise-induced? Thank you.

I emailed their team, and someone named Elise responded, saying they are currently finishing some of their other studies. She said they hope to reopen the tinnitus study, fill out their general interest form, and keep me updated. If you haven't already, go fill out their form. It takes 1 minute...

I can summarize what I have learned quite briefly. It is always good to know, in case someone reads this in the future. Most decibel meters use either FAST or SLOW measurements, like I mentioned earlier. These are great for measuring things like a concert, standing next to a highway, or other...

Hey mate. how are things nowadays? Any major improvements?

How are you doing now?

My beautiful dog, who I picked out at the shelter when I was 13, died on Dec 9th. It was sudden and I had to make the worst decision of my life. She had a tumor rupture in her abdomen and was bleeding out internally. They said this cancer is undetectable until it’s too late. I couldn’t save her...

I get this at times when my low-frequency tinnitus gets loud. Does the starship noise help to mask it?

I've had hyperacusis for about a year now. I think it may have developed from overprotection, although I'm not completely sure. Over the past year, it has fluctuated; at times, it's been worse, and at other times, it's improved. I understand that constantly measuring sound levels isn't ideal...

I believe a chainsaw at 12m would be around 70dB. Probably not a problem if you don't have hyperacusis.

Well, how have things been? Any changes in your condition or life in general? I'm rough. This setback is hitting me hard. ttts, waking up after 3 hours with it blasting and not being able to get back to sleep. Unstable - hissing/static - metallic shrill stuff that breaks me down. Loudness...

This is good to know. I've never used the Peak or Impulse measurements, only the Fast option. This could explain why I've had spikes when I felt I shouldn't have, based on the decibel reading. I also struggle to make sense of any dBC measurements, as I'm not sure what the thresholds for those...

Good news on the US financial front @Luman. Trump says that his tariffs have brought in 17 trillion dollars! He is so smart; he makes our spending on world assistance quite trivial in comparison. Good times ahead for taxpayers - tariff checks are due to go out in two weeks. Yep, no worries at all.

Looks like a Squarespace site.

It's official. It's atypical Ménière’s disease. Now it's time to wait for SPI-1005 to be approved in Europe.

Hi I was wondering if you are still experiencing low humming/vibrating tinnitus? I’ve been experiencing this for the past week. I’ve had tinnitus for 9 months, but this new rumbling, vibrating head sensation is new. Wondering how you’ve been doing?

Been a few months since I've seen you post, just wondering how you're coping?

@Meinz89, I'm getting this too. It's waking me up.

Ah yes, the sacred denominator shuffle. When you say 4% of discretionary spending instead of 1% of the budget or 0.2% of the economy, the money suddenly feels heavier in your wallet, doesn’t it? Same dollars, more drama. Labeling Ukraine funding as “foreign aid” is doing some serious cardio...

Reviving an old thread here, but across the entire internet, you are the only person I’ve found who has shared the same reaction to Amitriptyline. I took it, and by the next morning through the afternoon, my tinnitus became easily maskable with a 29 dB white noise machine. Toward the 24-hour...

Adding that mic isn’t that important. I’ve been running 2 different setups, and I’ve tested them simultaneously. One setup is an iPhone 12 Pro Max. I just installed the NIOSH SLM app, with no configurations made. The second setup is an iPhone XR with the mic you’re referring to, the Daytona...

Thank you very much for your reply. I truly appreciate it. This is the first time in my life that I have ever experienced tinnitus. I had not taken antibiotics for nearly 20 years, so I had no idea this could happen. I can listen to loud music, shouting, or noise in general, and I have never...

I take Clonazepam occasionally on very bad days; it's the only thing that works. Or Co-Codamol if the pain becomes unbearable. The only thing that (temporarily) increased my tinnitus significantly was Diamox after retinal surgery to lower eye pressure.

I'm sure that will be interesting to find out, but it's unlikely to help or improve your tinnitus. I'm open to you explaining how knowing specifics about a person's hearing loss would improve the person's tinnitus symptoms? You are right to be concerned. Some people on this forum have reported...

Just Cut The Nerve (Dr. Pulec).

The website is live at https://www.auricleinc.com/. There is a video ad on the page that is some of the worst AI slop I've seen. The website seems targeted at investors. They are looking to raise another $3M. I hate to say it, but it's a little worrying they can't raise that capital from their...

This is a great find @Nick47, thank you for sharing. I think there's real potential in this area to help tinnitus research as a whole. On their main page, they showed what they hope will be a future helmet device that can be worn anywhere. It basically looked like a headset, and that would be...

Most available decibel meters stop at 8 kHz. Not that great. iPhone is a pretty good device with the right software. Developers can turn the limiter off: https://studiosixdigital.com/audio-hardware/generic-audio-hardware/iphone_3gs_microphone/ Adding a reference mic is even better...

It is not 0.2% of our economy. In 2024, the United States spent about $78 billion on International Affairs for discretionary programs. It's a small fraction (about 1%) of the total federal budget but around 4% of discretionary spending. Total foreign assistance obligations reached approximately...

Hey mate did you recover from the recent SSHL? Looking to hear back from you

I have a dental appointment on Thursday morning for a cleaning and a crown check. I picked up some over-the-ear earmuffs for the dentist visit. I did talk with them on the phone about the ringing issue. They use a laser, so if I need to get a crown replaced, I am praying it goes well. I am...

Hi friend, I’m a relatively new sufferer of tinnitus for about 9 months now. I got it when I was 7 weeks pregnant and had hoped it would resolve postpartum, but alas, it persists. I, too, had the same tone/quality of tinnitus for the last 8 months. Just last week, a whole new tone appeared...

Decibel X seems quite poor compared to NIOSH SLM for iPhones, based on what I have seen from my own research. It is much easier to properly calibrate a measurement app on phones where the hardware is known and consistent. That is why NIOSH SLM only exists on iPhones and not on Android devices...

The only good thing I can say about low-frequency tinnitus is that it is maskable. Use deep brown noise or red noise. Some people find the starship noise helpful. Mine is also constant, and I find it horribly intrusive, so you have my sympathies.

@Ben Winders, @DebInAustralia, @CrystalB, @Lukee: I’m one month postpartum and suddenly have a low humming, car engine-like rumbling in my head, and it also gives me a vibration sensation. It’s far different than the tinnitus I’ve been experiencing for the last 9 months. I went to the ER...

Any updates?

Wow! The man who doesn't think for himself strikes again! Just the kind of guy the Bronzer-upper loves. Let me clue you in with some real facts: 177 countries "get US money", huh? Sounds like America is PayPal'ing the planet. Fun fact: that "money" is about 0.2% of the budget, mostly spent on...