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  1. katriina

    Getting a tattoo and question about the sound?

    @Grace Wow your tattoo must be amazing!! Would you like to put photo of it here?? I would love to see that! :)
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    Getting a tattoo and question about the sound?

    I'm just worried about the volume of tattoo machine because neck is so close to my ears... It would be just small tattoo so it would be done quickly... Should I wear earplugs? Does anyone have experiences about getting a tattoo?
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    The Positivity Thread

    Yesterday I was spending time with my friends and guess what... they decided to sing karaoke. Yaiks!!! Well, I decided that I won't let T to tell me what to do so... I just put my earplugs in and took the risk. And guess what guys! It didn't have any effect to my T!! Even though my friends are...
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    The Positivity Thread

    Here is my tinnitus update and some advices for you guys! At first when I got T I almost seriously thought I would lose my mind with this.. I always thought that I was alone with this and I also went to silent places to see if my T is still there... Well, guess what, it always was there. That...
  5. katriina

    Sensory Hair Cells Regenerated in Mammal Ear

    This could be our new way to raise tinnitus awareness :D "We are just so desperate!" lol
  6. katriina

    Does Your Tinnitus React to Some Electronics?

    Like old CRT TV etc? Mine T goes crazy when those are around, it gets always louder!
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    The Positivity Thread

    Today was the first school day I didn't think about tinnitus during it! I didn't listen to it, I didn't plug my ears to see if it's still there and if tinnitus came in to my mind, it was a pretty neutral thought! I also ate ice cream that I haven't eaten in two years with my friend and I...
  8. katriina

    Can Stress Bring a New Noise?

    @citigirl13 Exactly! My parents are like "If I can't see it, it doesn't exist!" .... well if that is the case, then why I still hear it? :D
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    Can Stress Bring a New Noise?

    Oh and my family didn't believe me when I said that I don't have just one voice in my head, I could easily have like 5 different noises.... They looked at me like I was totally crazy!
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    Can Stress Bring a New Noise?

    I have a huge exam tomorrow and after that I don't have to stress about it anymore but my biggest reason for stress is tinnitus and I guess that when I'm stressed about tinnitus ----> Tinnitus gets louder and creates possible new sounds ----> Tinnitus increased loudness and new sounds stress me...
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    Can Stress Bring a New Noise?

    I'm having a lot of stress and I think that my head is ringing more than ever... Could it be because of stress? Is is possible that my tinnitus could calm down if I can reduce my stress? I'm thinking of getting antidepressants to ease my anxiety... And I'm still not sure if it is good sign that...
  12. katriina

    Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration — Maybe We Can Know More

    I just can't believe if they start human trials soon... it's like we have spoken about hair cell regeneration so long that it has started to sound some kind of fairytale like unicorns :D
  13. katriina

    Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration — Maybe We Can Know More

    I always think smartphones when we have to speak about timelines, it seems like it was just yesterday when they developed the first touchscreen phone and now we have iPhone 5!
  14. katriina

    Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration — Maybe We Can Know More

    They are saying that cure for tinnitus could be here in 10 years, it woud be silly if even before that there wouldn't be any treatment to reduce the sound! And after ten years I'm only 28 so I guess I have many years of silence left :) Imagine how weird it's going to be when we can sleep in...
  15. katriina

    I'm Back, but Just for Today

    So if I got this right, you study audiology? Did you decided this after you got tinnitus or have you always wanted to study it?? :)
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    Never saw this coming...

    Let's play with a wild idea: Think if the cure will be the most simple and ridiculous thing that we can imagine! Like we have to eat three carrots and then drink a glass of milk and sing ABC song and then we would be cured. Have anybody tested that?? Okay I'm too tired for this forum right now...
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    Never saw this coming...

    I just have to comment here that reading all research and possible upcoming treatment news is the best therapy I can think of :D Does that make me desperate, lol...
  18. katriina

    New Funding Opportunity for Tinnitus Research / Investing in Tinnitus Research

    I'm just waiting here that I hit lottery jackpot and then I could give couple millions for research :D How awesome it would be If someone with tinnitus would win the lottery and then put most of the money to tinnitus research...
  19. katriina

    My Left Ear Started Yesterday This Low Humming or Ringing?

    @tomytl Blah, it's still humming and driving me crazy.... It's that kind of the sound I can't mask with anything!!! Let me know how your acupuncture is working, I'm also considering that treatment... Is it very expensive and how long you have to go there?
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    New Funding Opportunity for Tinnitus Research / Investing in Tinnitus Research

    I have already told that I would be happy to donate money for this, but I don't have a clue to whom should I donate it!??? I would like it very much if in here TT we could make some donating thing and then end of every month we could see the number we have collected and then we donate it etc?
  21. katriina

    Can I Take Tizanidine or Does It Make My Tinnitus Worse? Quick Help!

    Thanks for the answer! I would take just one pill so I guess I can take it... Still nervous about this :D
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    Can I Take Tizanidine or Does It Make My Tinnitus Worse? Quick Help!

    Can I take Tizanidine (Zanaflex) or is it a big mistake? Does anybody know? Any opinion would be great!
  23. katriina

    Antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOs, TCAs, TeCAs)

    Can I take Zanaflex (=Tizanidine, sirdalud?) or does it make tinnitus worse? I would like to have quick answers, thanks!
  24. katriina

    My Left Ear Started Yesterday This Low Humming or Ringing?

    @tomytl I feel exactly same today, I'm nervous and I can't pay focus on anything and I just want some relief in this situation... I have now VERY stressful period in my life going on and feeling that I'm alone with this doesn't help at all..... Can't stand if I have to handle this noise the rest...
  25. katriina

    My Left Ear Started Yesterday This Low Humming or Ringing?

    @tomytl Tell me about it, what's going with our brains!?!? If I hold my nose and blow, I feel like this left ear is a little stuffy? Blah can I just cut my ears off and live without them, life would be much easier... :banghead:
  26. katriina

    My Left Ear Started Yesterday This Low Humming or Ringing?

    I read that low ringing (this is not normal high ringing or normal humming that I know some people have!)can be caused by tight muscles or something?? I noticed also that my left hand has been numb for a little while nowadays, it started like four days ago? I'm not sure if those have anything...
  27. katriina

    My Left Ear Started Yesterday This Low Humming or Ringing?

    It sounds like that noise what comes from fridge sometimes... I wouldn't say that it is LOUD but I can hear it ALL THE TIME ???? I can't mask it with anything!! I hope it is just a spike because I have stress and I smoked yesterday like 3 cigarettes... Could it be just a spike? I have never...
  28. katriina

    Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration — Maybe We Can Know More

    Same here... And with my luck I get some other thing which is not curable just before tinnitus can be cured... Knocking on wood! o_O Haha well trying to stay positive...
  29. katriina

    Sum Up Tinnitus With One Picture » Go!

    This is pretty much it:
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    How Lower Ringing or Humming Can Be Masked?

    I usually have high ringing that is easily covered by white noise etc, but what noise works best for lower humming or ringing? Having spike right now and my ears went crazy, I'm just hoping that tomorrow I only have that normal ringing that I have used to...
  31. katriina

    15 Years of Tinnitus and Counting

    I also though that :D I thought if there would be something that everyone who wants could donate to steve or markku and then end of the month that amount of money would be donated to some organisation and then they could tell in this forum how much money we collected.. I just don't now how...
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    15 Years of Tinnitus and Counting

    I really try to think different ways how this could be possible because this site has already so many T-people who could donate. It's only that we should all donate to the same organisation because if we all donate to random organisations, then the biggest benefit wouldn't be possible.. I...
  33. katriina

    15 Years of Tinnitus and Counting

    I have also thought about that donating thing.. If everyone on this site would donate regularly a small amout money, that would help a lot. I think that everybody should donate to the same organisation to make any difference..?
  34. katriina

    15 Years of Tinnitus and Counting

    It's amazing how much sites like this helps and gives us hope!! I can't even imagine how depressed I would be if I hadn't had support and information from this site! Also I love here that I can see in "research news" that somebody is really working on cure/treatment! :) It gives us so much hope...
  35. katriina

    Caffeine (Including Coffee and Soft Drinks) and Its Effect on Tinnitus

    Does coffee affect your tinnitus? I have given up coffee and I really miss it, although I haven't tested if that even affects to my tinnitus...
  36. katriina

    Acupuncture for Tinnitus

    @tomytl How did you get your T? Let us know if acupuncture worked for you, I could also think about it but I'm not sure if it would help T that has come from loud noise... Although my T changes if I stretch my neck so if acupuncture helps to relax muscles then it could be worth trying...
  37. katriina

    Some new experiences with tinnitus

    When I move my jaw side to side I hear and feel clicking too.. Do you feel your clicking and can you say does that klicking come from your ear or from your jaw? Mine comes from jaw movement. My T also variates all the time, sometimes it's beeping and sometimes it's ringing etc.. Can't say...
  38. katriina

    Stopped Smoking and My Tinnitus Became Worse?

    No, I just try to stay strong on my own and think to myself that smoking isn't worth it... It's still hard! I'm not sure, although I have a very stressful period going on in my life.. @yonkapin Thanks, I really try to stay strong and give it a chance so I will see how quitting effects to my T!
  39. katriina

    Stopped Smoking and My Tinnitus Became Worse?

    I thought that too and I hope this T calms down soon... I just don't believe that this increase in volume would all be because I quit smoking! I would understand it if I would have smoked like 10 cigarettes per day...
  40. katriina

    Stopped Smoking and My Tinnitus Became Worse?

    I seriously think that I start smoking again if this kind of spikes will contiune... I just can't handle it! My tinnitus also lowers while smoking o_O Have you always smoked or did you start smoking after tinnitus?
  41. katriina

    How Long Have Researchers Known That Tinnitus Might Be Caused by the Brain?

    @Stina That is also something that I can't stop wondering, if there is so many causes behind T but all we experience noise that doesn't really exist, doesn't that mean there have to be something in common? Something that makes our heads ring like crazy.. I just don't get it if someone's...
  42. katriina

    How Long Have Researchers Known That Tinnitus Might Be Caused by the Brain?

    I'm just wondering that how long they have tried to find a treatment or a cure for tinnitus from that moment when they discovered that our brain might cause it and not the ears... I mean if it's something like 40 years, then I will be desperate because almost nothing has happened, but if it's...
  43. katriina

    Stopped Smoking and My Tinnitus Became Worse?

    I don't get this... Now my left ear started low ringing that hasn't been there for a long time... My right ear doesn't ring that loud anymore but why my left ear started this low loud ringing!!!?? Can this have something to do with quitting smoking??? I haven't smoke for 5 days now.. But I...
  44. katriina

    What the heck is going on in my head!?

    As you know, I have had constantly changing tinnitus in right ear. After a while I noticed ringing in my left ear too which wasn't constant so it wasn't as bothersome as in my right ear. Now my left ear started to keep beeping and changing noises too!!! I'm scared... I haven't done anything that...
  45. katriina

    AM-101 TACTT1 Results Released

    I just wonder if AM-101 will work as a treatment for tinnitus and one can't say in which ear tinnitus is, does that mean that one have to take injection in both ears?
  46. katriina

    MEGA TINNITUS

    I can't even imagine how big your panic was when you had that Mega T.... I guess you appreciate and can handle your present T much easier when your Mega T faded away!
  47. katriina

    The Positivity Thread

    Positive news: I ate yesterday so much salty and sugary foods and even drank a glass of pepsi, so I was extra prepared to a huge spike, but NOTHING happened!! :cool:
  48. katriina

    Tinnitus. The new silence.

    I don't accept that this is the only silence I will ever hear... I believe that I can hear silence as anyone else without T in the future. I'm so young that there will be cure in my lifetime and in the meantime I just have to adapt to this situation and keep living in hope :)
  49. katriina

    AM-101 TACTT1 Results Released

    @urtica I hope it helps you! So you have had tinnitus about 4 months now? You said it hurts a lot, but I can say that if it eventually can take even slightly away my tinnitus, it would be worth it :D
  50. katriina

    The Positivity Thread

    Today I walked outside and listened music with EARPUDS! With lowest volume that is possible of course but it was still a huge step forward to me :) My T is still loud when I go sleep and when I wake up but in the daytime it keeps pretty quiet, I assume that is a good sign...
  51. katriina

    Autifony Therapeutics Phase I Study for AUT00063, for the Treatment of Hearing Loss and Tinnitus

    I really hope that cure for tinnitus is going to be some pill or injection like AM-101 and not any surgery.. Like brain surgery sounds little too scary for me!
  52. katriina

    AM-101 TACTT1 Results Released

    Do you know already when you will get your first injection?
  53. katriina

    The Positivity Thread

    @Grace Maybe that was a premonition dream (y)
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    The Positivity Thread

    This thread is just what we all need! Today my T has been really quiet and I even had power to plan my future, where I want to study etc. I have listened good music and I even laughed many times today, and I can say that hasn't happened too much since I got T. I played with my cats and ate with...
  55. katriina

    I don't think I ever will be able to habituate

    @citigirl13 I have protected my hearing when I have known that there will be loud noises, like concerts etc.. At this time I didn't protected my ears because like I said, didn't realize that noise was so loud :( It was big mistake I didn't realize that. @Dr. Nagler I know but habituation is so...
  56. katriina

    AM-101 TACTT1 Results Released

    I'm glad that so many from this forum can be part of this trial! Really looking forward to hear how it works for you :)
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    I don't think I ever will be able to habituate

    Mine is probably noise induced... I got it from watching floorball game and there was a guy who played drums next to me. I didn't realize noise was so loud that it could make harm to my hearing :( It pisses me off because I have always protected my hearing as well as possible! How did you get yours?
  58. katriina

    Don't You Hate It When Noisy Motorbikes Go Past!

    I know exactly that feeling.. Last when I experienced that was today! It doesn't even have to be motorbikes, just normal traffic is loud enough!! When loud motorbike drives by i always wonder how they handle that noise? They must have T too or otherwise I don't understand o_O
  59. katriina

    I don't think I ever will be able to habituate

    @citigirl13 Yeah, I thought too that it was a good sign at first but now I'm not so sure about it... That it varies all the time HAS TO MEAN SOMETHING, right??? There has to be something going on, I hope it's something positive! But it has varied like two months now and that's why I'm confused...
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    I don't think I ever will be able to habituate

    Here we go again... My T keeps ridiculous loud fleeting sounds again. My good ear has started keep noises too but they fade away quikly. This kind of T irritates and scares me the most. It is now quiet and suddendly it increases dramatically, my mind just can't take it. This happens all day...