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My noise-induced tinnitus remains at about 60 decibels, when voice matched. I have had tinnitus since 1992, and it was fairly mild to start with....

In line with the themes of favourite quotations, favourite books, favourite pieces of music, favourite works of etc... I would like to propose...

In line with the themes of favourite quotations, favourite books, favourite pieces of music etc… I would like to suggest: ‘Favourite Works of...

My precious Sylvia died this morning at 8:40am in the St Catherine’s Hospice in Crawley, Sussex, U.K. For several months she had been suffering...

Here’s the latest scam - Acouphenol. It contains Griffonia Dry extract, Cimicifuga Dry extract, Ginkgo Biloba, Magnesium and Melatonin. The...

The trouble with meditation. Those of us with severe tinnitus, loud and constant, can expect difficulty when practicing meditation. In a quiet...

I would urge all those who suffer to download this inspirational book. In many ways it targets precisely what we have to cope with. Here are a...

For those of us who have been severely damaged - who live in a state of continuous inner head noise - the experience of ‘quietness ’ is no longer...

It’s always dangerous to believe that things could never be worse. Making my missus a coffee yesterday morning at about 11:00am - when all of a...

Sylvie is an embroidery designer. She feels so strongly that we are doing so many things wrong that she designed this this morning. [ATTACH]

Today was really hard - noisy, painful, hateful. This evening I needed to read something to sooth my aching head. A couple of days ago I had...

Man is the problem solving animal - and therein lies the problem. When we encounter any normal problem - we set about solving it. There is...

There is currently no cure for tinnitus. This is an indisputable fact. If there was - even the man in the street - who incidentally does not have...

Driving to my daughter’s house on Christmas Eve, for an Xmas dinner, I hit the kerb of a central road traffic island, which should have been...

Tinnitus is a cruel twist of fate, however it occurs. Perhaps even the cruelest of all. One of the biggest obstacles to a fulfilling life that one...

Tinnitus blights our lives. There is no question about that. Internal head noise is so hateful. Sometimes I don’t even know how to survive the...

I feel the need to address an issue that has bothered me for some time now. Most of us know that the curse of tinnitus has a very wide spectrum...

Until quite recently I have found Tinnitus Talk to be a cosy chatty place. Somewhere to come and have a natter. For a few days now I have...

John Stockdale was imprisoned in the infamous Hanoi Hilton for eight years, suffered appalling treatment, continuous torture, isolation etc... His...

Tinnitus can be anything from mildly irritating to devastatingly catastrophic. Obviously we all fit in somewhere on the scale. My own experience...

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The difficulty of achieving a meditational state with tinnitus. For many people with tinnitus, attempting to meditate is so difficult that they...

My therapist was a mature Austrian lady with an accent.. (Very appropriate - I’d read all about Freud - the undisputed father of psychoanalysis.)...

Notes on a schizoid childhood. This could be a bit long, so you might need to pour a cuppa tea, or just skip it altogether. May be of interest to...

As a community we really should come together once and for all, and discuss this business of ‘generalisations,’ and the trouble they cause....

People with tinnitus need support - all of them. There is no question about that - it is not nice. I would like to raise an issue that bothers...

Since the morning when my severe tinnitus started, in the summer of 2014, it has been loud, constant and unrelenting. It has never once abated or...

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Yesterday I drove a round trip of 500 miles to take Sylvie my misus, to see her lovely brother in Dordrecht General Hospital in Holland. So sad -...

[MEDIA] How sweet is this folks?

This item in Tuesday’s Daily Mail. (Excerpt.) Vik Veer - TRT consultant at Royal National ENT Hospital London. For it to be successful, it’s...

I desperately want a cure for the ‘hell on earth’ that is tinnitus. I long for it. It took almost everything from me, as I’m sure you all know by...

.....er......I would just like to mention to my extensive readership (who does this berk think he’s kidding - about 3 so far) that for the next...

I would like to draw everybody’s attention to the amazingly successful reports coming from @kelpiemsp between October 25th 2018, and February 19th...

Hypnotherapy delivers subliminal messages to the subconscious mind. (They are delivered below the level of full consciousness.) Auto suggestion...

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This wretched ‘thing’ is such a variable and subjective condition that one wonders if any advice can be worth giving or taking on board. We can...

Here goes folks. This is the video that my lovely friends Phil and Sue Swallow filmed, directed, and helped me to make. It focuses on the...

There is still no cure for tinnitus, and no treatment to reduce tinnitus noise. I have a severe and constant form of this condition. My feelings...

Tinnitus is such a sad condition for all concerned - obviously a tragedy for the sufferer, it is also a very real tragedy for the partner, and the...

Is Cortisol Now Our Enemy Number One?’ I have been reading and re-reading Laura Cole’s excellent informative book, “Living With Tinnitus.”...

Before I wake, before my eyes open, I am aware. It is there - as if it can’t wait to torment me again. In truth of course, I know it never left...

My tinnitus noise is constant. My suffering however is not. Sometimes - some whole days - I suffer like hell. (I want to die....) Sometimes -...

Obviously it’s not a cure, but I would like to contact any members who do meditation, that find it helpful. Dave x Jazzer

Dear friends of Tinnitus Talk - after another very noisy NYE, yet another year of noise for all of us, as the rest of the world enjoys its peace...

We suffer so much - there is no question about it! I have to say, I personally would not make it, would choose NOT to make it, without both my...

Last day in the Caribbean, on the island of St Thomas, before going back to New York. It seems to have a deeply religious culture: 25% Christian...

There is little doubt that I have come under attack on here recently. It appears to stem from the fact that I consistently stand up for the most...

The toughest lesson in the world. We all had pretty good lives - am I right? Some of us had truly wonderful lives. I would’t have traded my life...

On Christmas Eve I had roast chicken for dinner in the Club Britannia (Posh) restaurant onboard the QM2. I spent Christmas morning talking to god...

Advice to Self. Make something of your life (Dave). Yes..... I know it’s noisy, I know it’s so difficult, I know it feels totally impossible, But...

We are left to pick up the pieces. In reading the experiences of many members I have come to the conclusion that in many cases, perhaps most...

Folks I’m feeling a bit out of touch with all of my tinnitus mates, at the moment. I’m stuck on this boat somewhere out in the mid-Atlantic. We...

My video man Phil Swallow and I managed to finish filming a tinnitus awareness video yesterday. I have only seen a rough cut, but I think and hope...

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I meditate every day, in a lovely warm bath. Eyes closed - I lay there and ask my tummy to take over my breathing. No moreconscious breathing - I...

D.W.Winnicott was a brilliant child psychologist. Together with John Bowlby they set the tone for modern parenting, designed to make the creation...

Folks - this sentence comes from an item relating to soldiers returning home after fighting on the Western Front in 1918. The total horror they...

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This ‘thing’ infects every millisecond of my existence, the entire soundtrack to my life. My soundtrack used to be jazz - such a joy. That’s now...