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Visited family on Saturday (COVID-19-safe, they all already had it) and we played a card game where if you drew a certain card you had to slap the table. Started out nice and quiet, but my father decided to be super-duper extra funny and slammed the table with his palm full force. It of course...

Hey folks, Just wanted to share my experience with Dayvigo (Lemborexant) which is a brand new sleeping pill, came on the market in early 2020 in the US and Japan. A lot of us struggle with insomnia. It is my #1 complaint every time my tinnitus spikes, too. I haven't really found any good...

Lots of ear issues this year. In the beginning of the year, I had a tinnitus spike caused by Lenire. That mercifully ceased a few weeks after I stopped the Lenire treatment. Then I had an episode of pulsatile tinnitus. Also cleared up after I got new mattresses/pillow/standing desk, was probably...

Hey, In May 2019 I heard my pulse whooshing in my right ear for a few weeks. Back then I didn't really care and it mostly went away. However, since a few days it's been back and due to the ongoing lockdown I really freaked out about it. It is a rhythmic thump/whoosh, exactly in sync with my...

Dear Dr Nagler, it means a lot that you're back on Tinnitus Talk. Thank you for returning. I'm scheduled for Femtolaser eye surgery. Afterwards one must take an antibiotic eye drop for a few weeks. The clinic's standard issue contains Tobramycin and Dexamethasone, plus a separate drop which...

Hey, Mild volume spikes, such as certain "blowy" letters in speech, or things bumping together, trigger a momentary something in my left ear that makes me hear a distorted "crackle" and feels like some kind of spasm. Also, that ear sometimes feels "blocked" for a few hours. However, my...

I'm a longtime tinnitus patient and have been used to it for years. However, even when everything is OK with it, I often catch myself being racked by anxiety that it will suddenly worsen, checking it, reading Tinnitus Talk and similar sites, and so on. It's like a "mild" case of PTSD - I just...

I was in the shower and noticed a weird new sound. I tested whether it was a new tinnitus sound and yes it was! Very loud low static in my right ear. I of course panicked and walked around like a caged animal for a while and it seems to have faded almost to nothing in a few minutes although...

Most of the equipment and weights in the gym I frequent are rubber-coated, so there's usually no danger of loud impact noise. Not all, though. This morning a guy tried to attach a rope with a metal counterweight on one end to a metal bar overhead. When he threw the rope up, the metal...

I'm purchasing custom silicon earplugs and ear impressions were taken this morning. During the process the technician pushed a little sponge into the ear to prevent the silicone from reaching the eardrum. The impression process went fine but the sponge compacted a lot of earwax together in my...

I have a -20dB musician's earplug with the triple-flange design. This morning I was at an event which was a constant 80dB so I had them in as a preventive measure. Now they might have been dirty or I don't know what, but after taking them out I noticed that the inside of my left ear felt...

Hey people, I've had my baseline tinnitus for decades; it's very stable. Then probably due to constant low-volume headphone use, I got a new tone. This happened 2 years ago; the new tone was initially unstable and changed and migrated to the other ear, but is also mostly stable now. If I'm...

Suppose you get a mild tinnitus spike from some harmless noise exposure such as going to the gym or a mall. Usually, such spikes gradually fade away. However, for me sometimes the reset is not a process, but an instant: I have the mild spike, then suddenly I experience half a second of...

Was at a restaurant. It wasn't even loud, 70-75 dB (measured using a professional meter), but just to be on the safe side I had my -20 dB Alpine earplugs in. All was fine until the food arrived. I had a salad with a lot of crunchy stuff such as onions and peppers. The crunches were quite loud...

Yesterday I stupidly did a 30-minute phone call out in the cold (around 0 °C or 32 °F). My cap covered my right ear, but my left was covered only by the phone. The left ear definitely didn't like it, I had this uncomfortable feeling in the ear canal all day yesterday, and today I had some pain...

My baseline tinnitus, normally very stable, has been acting up since a few days. It became noticeably louder and somehow sharper/shriller. No noise trauma, no illness, no new medications, nothing. I've been working a lot in the past weeks. Except for the 3 days of Christmas, I've spent every...

Lately I took up the habit of wearing my -20dB musician's earplugs when venturing out into the city, purely as a preventive measure. Yesterday some maniac with a souped-up car decided to do a 100-meter turbo dash, starting precisely next to me. It was super loud and I had 0 advance warning...

Due to selection bias, TT is often filled with bad experiences - tinnitus that got worse, or spiked, or terrible dentist visits, or damage done at the ENT etc. Thought I'd counteract this a bit by sharing two good experiences I had lately. 1. I went to the ENT to have some earwax cleaned out...

Hi all, I'm headed to the ENT on Tuesday to get earwax removed. I searched for threads on this topic and found contradictory advice. Is there a consensus on the safest way of removal (manual scraping, syringing, or microsuction)? Also, should I use eardrops before, and if so, which type (the...

Hi fellas :) These days I sleep just fine. Last night however, the tinnitus decided to be a real bitch. It was persistent and obnoxious, made me tense, and just as I was about to fall asleep this tension snapped me right back awake. Was tossing and turning until 2AM. Thankfully the T has abated...

Hi guys, my friends have recently switched to vaping. I know that propylene glycol (an omnipresent ingredient in vape juice) has been linked to causing/aggravating tinnitus so as much as I would love to, I myself will not vape. However, they will do this in the same room as I am. Do you thing...

Thank you for letting me join your forum :) I'm in my late twenties, male. I have had tinnitus since childhood, I can't remember its onset. I thought this was what everyone heard :) I used earphones a lot, that surely didn't help. 6000Hz buzz in both ears. About 2 years ago I realized that I...