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A great success! Felt almost like my old self yesterday. This has been very difficult month and a half, so I did celebrate a little! I deserved it! Still, not yet completely as I used to be.

any cure yet?

Oddly enough, I read the success stories, and I’m thinking, okay, it can happen. If it did happen, how did it happen? The common advice is “don’t worry, it will go away,” but clearly something else must have occurred—because it’s not going away for us. Why? I’m an actual pathologist...

I was considering this (TMS), but it seems a bit expensive for what it promises. To answer your question about headphones—yes, it’s common for tinnitus to get louder after using them. This is probably more noticeable in people whose tinnitus is due to hearing damage, like in my case. I’m a...

Well, I wanted to give an update while reading here, trying to cope with a horrific new sound. It turns out I am very sensitive to Zopiclone, and it may have played a role in triggering my tinnitus. I used to take it for sleep but would occasionally experience auditory hallucinations directly...

Were you talking while wearing hearing protection? That could trigger a spike. Even the sound of metal clanking—despite being at a reasonable volume—could agitate those hypersensitive fusiform cells. As long as you’re keeping the environment below 80 dBA and wearing hearing protection, I really...

I have similar issues. My tinnitus has gotten louder, and I now have trouble hearing people when wearing earplugs—even the radio in my car is difficult to hear while driving with the same earplugs in. I used to be able to comfortably listen to music in the car while driving, and it was a great...

It’s an ache that feels like it’s coming from my middle ear. I notice it after certain sounds. It isn’t sharp—it feels more like the sensation of a fatigued muscle. That’s why I think it might have something to do with my tensor tympani muscle clenching or spasming. I never feel it while wearing...

I was thinking about this earlier as well. It’s highly unlikely that he will be able to deport more than a fraction of the 15 to 20 million undocumented immigrants during his term. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that, as of June 11, 2025, over 207,000 migrants have been...

I feel like if one could “will” it away by “balancing the autonomic nervous system,” you would already be better. I think it’s completely out of our control. Those who improve often believe they played a constructive role in their recovery, but in reality, it’s more likely due to chance and...

Grimes has tinnitus.

Everything makes me worse too. All I want is to stop getting worse. I just want to live my life—or whatever is left of it. Tinnitus keeps taking everything from me and punishes me every time I try to make any progress in rebuilding my life.

Well, I’ve been back from my trip to Los Angeles since Sunday. My tinnitus is really bad. The whole trip was loud. The graduation ceremony lasted two hours, with speeches peaking at 96 dBA, and there was a two-hour wait sitting in the sun while pre-recorded speeches played over the PA system. I...

Maybe I’m mistaken, but I was under the impression that there are no hearing aids on the market that can physically produce sounds above 8 kHz. We can certainly create notched audio files above 8 kHz, but I thought hearing aids were not capable of generating sound in that range.

Injectable polyplex-loaded, glycol-based chitosan thermogels represent an innovative strategy for gene delivery to the inner ear, with potential applications in presbycusis and tinnitus. Although specific studies in this context are currently limited, related research on hydrogels and gene...

hows your tinnitus after clonazepam why did you stop after 7 months it stopped working?

How old are you, Frank?

Today, I did something I thought I'd never be able to do, something I feared. Today, I mowed the lawn! It was an eletric lawn mower and I wore earplugs. I was definitely sore afterwards (pain in my face) and muscle stiffness around my body, but I did it! And I had fun! :D

The next administration will more than likely stay Republican. I think either DeSantis or Marco Rubio will follow Trump. According to Bill O'Reilly, the "Kings" protesters were largely paid to do so.

In my eyes, this is a game changer. Just imagine what we can do now. The phrase “the inner ear is a black box” no longer applies. This is incredible new information. I’m not well-informed about gene therapy, but with this development, it should be possible to regenerate the inner ear—or at the...

I’m not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. Your Eustachian tube is probably blocked by mucus from your cold, which has trapped air at a certain pressure in your middle ear. When the airplane descended, the air pressure around you increased, but the pressure in your middle ear did not...

Frank, you’ve had tinnitus since 2010. Have you ever experienced a spike before?