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Thank God for this site. But when I came here a few years ago I hung out on the Support page a lot without checking the Success page. That's...

Just curious ..... Would you say you are an introvert? Do you have funny, if not strange, little habits? Are you a cautious and careful person?...

What feelings do you get when your T bothers you?

This week my son told me his friend who plays in a rock band told him he's getting the "Beginnings" of tinnitus. My son told him he'd better talk...

I can't help but notice the strange reactions of people when I stick cotton in my ears or cover my ears with my hands. They stare, laugh and have...

As long as I can remember, fans, furnaces, TV's and all kinds of background sounds have really bothered me. Often, I'll ask people to repeat...

More good news about the 'Back To Silence' technique and how it's working for me. I spent yesterday visiting at the hospital and hanging around...

I'm done trying to hope for silence. I'm done trying to ignore my tinnitus. I'm done worrying and wishing and obsessing. This has been a...

I've got a little story about my ankle that I think can shed some light on how the attention switching exercise works. In other words, my recently...

I want to provide some encouragement for the folks trying out my recently posted attention switching technique. I posted it recently in a thread...

Got a Prednisone IV at the hospital in the middle of the night for breathing trouble, wow, sent my T crazy.. CRAZY. Today, on a pretty big dose of...

[MEDIA] Hello, I learned a technique from one of our fellow posters here and to me it's been a cure. I have not felt this good about my tinnitus...

It's been a couple weeks and I'm off Ativan for good. The T is no worse, no better. I was put on Ativan 10 years ago. Somehow this short term drug...

Hello friends, I've been gone a couple months. T is the same, in the background, thanks to some cognitive self talk. Same old T since the 70's....

Goodbye everyone. And special thanks to the person who posted the info about measuring my response, not measuring the T. It got me over a big hump.

Got up this morning. I was happy, relaxed... laid in bed a while thinking about what I'd do today. Probably 10 minutes went by. Then I was...

After reading about one of our members here wearing earplugs, going to the movies, and experiencing more T, more new tones ... I feel obligated...

Isn't it wonderful that we can come here and learn about Tinnitus and how to cope? And learn about lifestyle changes, medicine or maneuvers that...

I worked in the medical biz for 34 years. I witnessed hundreds and hundreds of people snoring and grinding their teeth in their sleep. Apparently...

for starters, I've had T for 40 years after my ears were blown to bits by loud music. I'm interested in opinions. Just thinking tonight... - When...

Missed Breakfast Emergency at the hospital Failed Easter BBQ - dogs & steak fell in the coals !! Car wouldn't start Evening came, I sat down,...

Here's a method I've been using since the 70's to knock my T down a notch when it flares up. I figured this out when I was a teenager. I'm 55 and...

I've sold a lot of instruments through the years just because they bothered my ears in a certain way. I'm talking acoustic. I can't do electric...

I mentioned my "Mega T" in a response in a post and feel that member "Mark" got some good preventative info. I want everyone to know there is T...

OK, I've had T for 40 years. Music induced. Ups and downs. Scary times through the years. And until a couple weeks ago I was getting a little...

Man, I guess I'm an old timer. Ah, the old days. EVERYTHING revolved around music. And there was lots of loud music around. So, who's pre-74 on...

Went to the ER the other day for a weird throat swelling allergic thing. They gave me a shot of Prednisone and Benadryl. Then I tapered off with...

.... because that person has changed my life. I can't quit smiling!!! It didn't happen right away, but about a week of measuring my response, and...

From 1974 til about 2002 I came up with all kinds of excuses to subject myself to loud music. I'm paying the price. Little by little, spike or no...

Wow .... do I feel good !!!!!!!! Tinnitus, ya.. when I think about it, when I listen for it.. it's there. It has been for forty years. Only...

I going back to Inositol. It's in GNC's 'Solotron' multivitamin. Years ago I was arguing with someone about the Atkins diet being drastic and...

Here is a picture of an album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, 1975. I was 17 years old with bad tinnitus (I'm 55) and I didn't like to look at this...

I'm 55. I grew up listening to scratchy records and hissy cassette and 8 track tapes. I mean, LOTS of scratching and hissing. And everytime I talk...

I'm a lifelong teeth grinder, chomper, chewing in my sleep first degree Bruxer. I've got the flattened teeth, cracked teeth and even the roots of...

Today, January 12, 2014, my buddy Fred was over. We were talking about our ringing ears. We were reminiscing about 1974, when Rock and Roll died -...

Do earplugs prevent tinnitus sufferers from further damage? I believe they do not - not totally. I believe if you have tinnitus and think earplugs...

The weirdest, most wonderful thing happened today. I listened to an old half hour TV show on YouTube with headphones. It was a BAD recording....

By age 12 I'd already been exposed to a lot of music that was too loud. But when I reached teen age, I began playing music that was too loud. Of...

In 1978 I started playing the fiddle. The old boys I played with warned me that I'd get neck problems, a 'knot' on my jaw, and ringing in my ears....

When I was a kid, my cousin got an eye shot out. I have a little sound in my head. I'll take tinnitus, thank you. My best friend had Muscular...

In addition to protecting my ears with plugs after a spike, and masking, and habituation, I've recently included a behavioral approach. And it...

Peter Townsend (The Who) was practicing with the band in the 90's for a Tommy tour. I remember reading of how they put him in a big plastic box...

I had a few hours of silence, amazingly, after doing accupressure on the two little indentations in front of the ear. Here is a diagram of the...

I've had ups and big downs with T since 1974. A few years ago I was reading an interview with Pete Townsend, who's probably caused more tinnitus,...

Here's some of my do's and don't's To sleep, I lay on my back with a tube shaped pillow behind my neck so my head goes back and I don't clench my...

Hello everyone. I have 'Rock and roll ears.' When I was a kid I played in bands and when I wasn't performing, I'd drum to LOUD music in...