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@Della Beautiful passage. Thanks for sharing. I thought I was habituated to tinnitus, but sometimes it is like a snake striking. However, until I just thought of it as I typed this, I didn't even consider that it was there. This is a lot to digest: "until we become strong enough to accept...

Thank you for tht Mr. Music! I've heard you and I know how I try to implement what you have said about "not measuring your response," but telling myself how I feel about it helps me to understand "measure you response" better.

That is exactly what it is. We need to accept it. Unless there is a permanent cure, we're going to live with it (most likely the rest of our lives) and we can't avoid that truth. You are neither helpless nor hopeless. Just give yourself the time and self love you would give others. I feel...

Let me point out to you that when you go to reviews of a doctor, business, etc., you will find that the most negative are often the ones who take the time to post their complaints. At least that has been my experience. So you may be reading some of that. But I think Stina is right too. We have...

Another thought or two. My late husband had a saying: God gives his heaviest loads to his Strongest Children I didn't always want to hear this, but it was usually comforting and instructive. Obscessing, as others have said, over thinking, giving too much attention to negative thoughts...

I have only known my tinnitus to be a real problem for a few years, and I too felt dismal and hopeless when it first started. My father had it from middle age to when he died and he soften complained about it. But I think there was less support in the medical field, no internet to find like...

I know my T gets worse with stress, as both have increased over the last month. But from what I have read here on the forum, there are many factors that can increase T either temporarily or seemingly permanently. I have had increases with anxiety and body tension and the T got better when these...

Congratulations. I am happy you are strong enough to do all this despite the physical problems you have to endure. Add "I am brave" to your list and give yourself a big hug. Remember too, that some drugs need to be given time before you can really judge the side effects. I used to use...

Rhea, I am so sorry for you. I also watched as one of my cats was hit by a car. She followed me and my dog to the busy street. I used to think it was cute that they would walk with us, but I no longer allow that. My T always spike when I am sttressed or have long exposure to a lot of noise...

So today my T is not apparent as it has been during the day, and when I plug my ears is only slightly there. I expect this is an anomoly, lol. My T is not as severe as many report so it is probably more likely I will experience more periods when it is mild. But it is far better than the last...

I like both separately, but not together - wrinkling nose. Do I win? :rolleyes:

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Thanks for the encouragement Kathi. The GI stuff is a bit better. I am going to talk to my doctor about Xanax. I am probably just being stubborn because I used to rely on Valium (not for long thank god) and benzos scare me. I agree about the meditation. I will have to find a peaseful area (my...

Thanks music man. That is good advice and I am taking it to heart. I love magic.

Thanks Kathi. I need to get back into yoga. A number of my physical issues are limiting that, but I shouldn't let that stop me. Roller blading is another thing I used to like to do. I think if I pcik up again with some of this physical exercise, it will ease the anxiety, increase the dopamine...

I just read this thread: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-spike-and-upset-tummy.5483/ I too have been having GI upset (was never a problem for me before, not for a week at a time, one week off, one on, etc.) for a couple months. I never associated it with the tinnitus increasing...

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir Here's some for you!

Months ago when I first joined the forum, I wrote how well habituation was working for me. Well, the last couple months, especially the last couple weeks, this has changed. I am aware of it all day and especially of course in the silence of my bedroom at night. Even masking it with the fan which...

OMG, don't wear earplugs! My dogs can jerk and catch so I am way off balance if I don't hear a skateboarder before he does. You need to be on your toes. I step on the leashes if I suspect a jarring, inconsiderate, jerk is coming. Can't always know for sure. But I have found that I can control...

When sudden noises, loud or not, occur expecially as I am going to sleep, it is like lightning through my brain. I have learned that I can get rid of this immediately through mind set and relaxation. Acceptance is so important for me. Still, it is jarring and unnerving at the moemnt...

OMG, all of these are right on, whether funny or haunting. I think T does haunt us, but "I ain' afraid o' no ghosts!" I can relate to many of these, but this tiger and tigger just reached out to my habituation experience, with an added punch on the after. And the ringtone cartoon? OMG, techno-T!

I totally agree about the chelated. It is why you should look carefully before buying either magnesium or espcially calcium (an even more impenetrable element) at the local drugstore. The expense is worth it. Like buying one durable, quality, $50 shirt that can be used 5 ways, rahter than...

An existentialist! I like that tokyo tony. Maybe we are the ears of SETI (http://www.seti.org/) they've really needed in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Thanks John. This is a great forum. It's always good to know there is "a somewhere" to visit where others will know what we're experiencing. Whether this is in different degrees or not, we all know what it is like to be set apart from others by a bodily experience that is not so "out of body!"...

LOL shameless (AKA Jeff)

You are welcome from me and I would presume to say, from Jeff.

Thank you as well Jeff. Your post is the perfect add-on to mine. It sounds like your T is more intense than mine - I just barely hear it during the day, though it's there, due to other noise levels. So what you, the motivational speaker, do is to add emphasis and encourage those whose T is...

Tx Grace and Billie for your thoughts on this. Hormones, schmormones; any day with or without that emotional swing can be up or down, but I hear you Grace, and you're probably dead on for many women. Billie, I'll think about moving this to the other forum. Maybe expand or edit or both so it...

TY S0undWave. I hope it is a boost to some in this journey to great health and happiness. Slowly I move forward. IK I will still have bad days and all my brave talk will go out the window, but these will be few and far between . . . I hope, lol. I can't believe all my perseverance and bits of...

Tx. IK we are not alone. Not in any of our struggles since we have each other. Just like a 12 step group, we're here for support, discussion, and recovery. All of which mean different things to each of us. Take good care of yourself and your body will take care of you too.

I have tinnitus. And unless you are researching for a friend or family member, so do you. I hope you are not suffering. I hope that T has taught you a valuable lesson, as it has me. Who could possibly benefit from T? In a strange and unique way, I have. It has given me the gift of peace and...

But no longer . . . Hmmm. Well, everyone is different. Just had a mild one in the mid afternoon in response to a sudden crashing noise. Then when my fiance knocked over his wastebasket and knocked other things around, nothin, no zaps. I'm just fascinated by this. Maybe I should start a brain...

Hahaha. Bells is belles hey. I guess they aren't as intrusive as gongs let's say. Perhaps I phrased that wrong. Might have said: I'll take the bells and whistles of T! PS: I've never heard Westmisnster Abbey's so I am unable to make the distinction. I would guess, being from different...

Weird! Thank GOD that doesn't happen to me. I have to wonder if the T would diminish if I took a sabatical from the velvet bean. Sigh. Don't think I have the willpower. I'll keep the hissing and tibetan bells!

@ Amelia:White chocolate, OMG!!!!!!!! Maybe dark chocolate too? Godz, that is my addiction. @ Micky: Yes, I looked into that syndrome, but it seems rather an extreme variation of what I am talking about. OTOH, it may be an encompassing "diagnosis." Thanks both of you. I will stop eating...

Tx Eric. IDK. Could be any of those things; I've been on meds since 2005. Also, it occurs to me that the tightness in my neck, shoulders and base of head, maybe higher, yahooee, could be a factor or even the cause. Typical tightness in fibro, so perhaps the relationship is there. I'm just...

yep, really good word for it. Thanks for some new terminology, lol. Does he have either tinnitus or fibro? My fiance used to get what he called gunshots, but they quit after a couple years.

I have moderate tinnitus. I also have fibromyalgia. I get these lightning flashes of sound, like electrical discharges throughout my head, cutting the top of my head off or extending from around the ear or base of the head and through the neck. They usually occur before sleep but not...

Kim, you are right about the GI problems from aspirin, but don't be overly alarmed. Yes, people should always consult their primary to see if it's OK and if they have any gastric upset beyond their norm, discontinue it. But its positive effects for people with cardiac conditions has been...

Thanks Eric. Great Reading! OK, well no, I haven't finished it yet. In between loads of laundry, washing dogs, etc. But I will. I took a rating test at dangerous decibels, a pdf download. I believe that I was directed from here, but can't find the thread . . . in any event, I am just wondering...

Thank you Beth for this thread and your very useful research and great compilation of it. I am sure that finding such a statement so well put together will help more than one person. This morning I came across this webpage which I found very helpful in putting words to the sounds of tinnitus...

Now there's a thought. I love turmeric but could easily use it more often. I'm just so sloppy and turmeric stains. I have to wear an apron or I'll be wearing the food I'm preparing! It's also anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory, as you said. So is inflammation part of the exacerbation of tinnitus?

Tx kenji,. I'm on both lamictal and lithium! Get regular labs done. Yes it is a very effective mood stabilizer. I've even been to a hot springs with 4 waters, one of which was lithium. It's flavor was . . . interesting, lol. If lithium is the source of tinnitus, a person should definitely get...

I have had T for around 3 years. I believe it is due to meds I have to take. At first, when I discontinued the offending medication, it went away at least to my level of awareness. Now I have found there are othere meds that have this SE which sucks, but some have no substitutions. Someone...

Thanks Lynette. Lexapro is another medication I can't take because it aggravates my manic symptoms. In fact, when I went into a hypomanic, I took it just to push the state higher. Duh. But I'm glad it works for you. I understand the tradeoffs. My T is better after ten days or so off the Buspar...

My T is constant but things do make it spike. I go to a concert occasionally anyway. The things that bother me are the things I have to do like vaccumming. I use our jacuzzi sometimes and that really makes it worse, but I still do it because I need it. I haven't yet started to do the things...

I guess this is also an intro, though I may head there next. This thread will only speak out to a subset, maybe small, of members. The frustration of this thing and the idea that I may have to accept permanent ringing, etc., is noxious, but . . . I have been on one psych med or another mainly...