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Hi everyone, I’d really like to ask someone with some motorcycle-experience some (possibly dumb) questions about motorcycles / tinnitus (or hearing loss in general). It’s been my dream for years to get my license, and I’ve been saving up since I was about 15 years old. Unfortunately at 19 I...

I simply don't want to have to casually explain the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. (And then be met with confusion or distrust.) My tinnitus gets structurally worse and it's a fucking punch in the throat every time. When it gets really bad I take a day off. I can't handle it 24/7, I...

(Disclaimer: I still have tinnitus, this is not a succes in terms of a literal cure) I'm hesitant to post this in success stories, as I know it's not always appreciated when the success does not entail a physical improvement or the disappearance of the tinnitus itself. But for me not being...

I get fleeting tinnitus often, and when I do I’m always glad my permanent tinnitus doesn’t sound like that. Fleeting tinnitus is so loud it seems to cancel out certain hearing frequencies and in my case it always gets steadily louder as it goes on (for about 35 seconds on average). I always...

Hello Dr. Nagler, First of all thank you so much for your contributions to this forum, you are a great source of expertise and your answers are always helpful. It’s so very kind of you to take time for us on here, thank you! I have been offered to consider taking part in a Deep Brain...

My hearing tests came back and it turns out I have decent hearing for my age. My dad does not believe I could have tinnitus if there’s no ‘visible’ damage (i.e. medical ‘proof’). He swears it has to be psychological (i.e. I must be crazy). He refuses to read anything I ask him to because he...

There was this time where I had bad episodes of depression before I had tinnitus, and on a good day I made a list I called ‘Things that are good (that will still be good when you’re feeling bad)’ It had things like my favorite foods and movies, the sound of rain, reading, writing, the sea, hot...

I have to get 5 fillings and 5 teeth pulled (4 of them wisdom teeth). They don’t know why my teeth are that bad. I planned them some time apart so I can assess the effects on my tinnitus. I’m so so devastated as my tinnitus is already becoming worse without any exposure to loud sounds, let alone...

I’m becoming insufferable myself. I know there’s people out there who’s hardships have turned them into better people wishing to spare others of their own suffering. I’m afraid this is me slowly finding out I am not one of them. The first thing that worried me when I got this was, ‘how am I...

I’m so scared of being in a soundproof room and being fully confronted with my tinnitus. I’ve been (semi)masking 24/7 and I freak out in quiet places, let alone soundproof places. Any tips?

Hi everyone, So this week I will be ‘interviewing’ someone who has suffered from severe tinnitus for quite some time, but has managed to find ways to deal with it. His tinnitus is above 80 dB , so indeed very severe (in my opinion). I was wondering if (beside the obvious ones) anyone had any...

How do you guys deal with tinnitus that is unmaskable? What are some alternatives to masking that might offer some relief? I read somewhere that coloured lights can be helpful. My tinnitus has gone up from mildly severe to rather severe in these past couple of days. Dealing with a lot of fear...

I feel like Citalopram is making my tinnitus worse (by 20%) but I really want it to work for my anxiety. Should I stop immediately or wait 2 weeks to see if the symptoms subside? My psychiatrist thinks it may be a side effect of a side effect (stress). But I’ve read it is supposedly ototoxic...

Hi everyone, I’m going to quite a bit of a rough time, to put it mildly. I am having severe anxiety attacks about my tinnitus, ever since it started. It is now at it’s worst (at least I hope this will remain to be the worst). The attacks are so bad I throw up and almost pass out, the only thing...

I have loads of different sounds and pitches in both ears, most not super loud but still there. Will it be possible to habituate to so many different ones? Very scared.