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Well. I'm lesbian and my hair is very curly and fluffy and a friend of mine once said that I was the rainbow sheep of my family. And it has just...
I used to do horse back riding but Uni is eating all my time and all of my energy so now the only exercise I get is long daily walks with my dog :D
Yeah, I accidentally burnt some oil. I half forgot that the stove was turned on I'm not adult enough to adult :ROFL: Luckily the spike has calmed...
I'm gay through and through, hah. I mean. My name is Rainbow sheep and my avatar is a rainbow sheep. It couldn't be any more gay than that :ROFL:
I accidentally set my fire alarm of while I was making dinner (don't know what that says about my cooking skills, hah.) Unfortunately the...
Thank you to both of you!
Since my tinnitus spiked in August 2017 I haven't been able to do anything without masking my tinnitus. It would get on my nerves, trigger me and...
So. I have always just assumed that my tinnitus is noise induced due to the fact that I have been stupid enough to go to a lot of hard rock...
Oh this is nice to know. I started taking vitamin B not long ago because I have started eating mostly vegetarian. And I was afraid that my vitamin...
The stats I have read says between 15 - 20% but that only 3% of those are bothered by their T in such a way that it damages their quality of life....
Same thing happened to me last year. I never really figured out what caused it but my guess is that it was tense neck - and jaw muscles from being...
So. I got another spike in my tinnitus the other day and I really don't know what caused it. I wasn't near any loud noises at the time. It was...
I think I have had them my entire life without really knowing there was a name for them. I kinda assumed it was a normal thing I guess. Anyhow...
Mostly I just try to get on with my life the best that I can and do stuff that makes me happy. Seeing my friends, competing and attending poetry...
My T is a "fleeting T" that just never went away. I still haven't figured out why it decided to stay at that particular day, as I have had...
I have suffered from T for 4 years but got a nasty spike last year. My spike also got louder and louder the first weeks. As I was depressed and...
I have the same problem. And I also work in a very quiet envoirnment. My theory is that it is stress from work. Not that I feel particulary(which...
Sit in silence and enjoy the silence for as long as I possibly could without getting bored.
[ATTACH] So I discovered this while I was searching through the news. It's an article about a boy who got tinnitus after a very loud rock...
The problem with correlation is that it doesn't necessarily mean causation. And in this case I would say that it is very likely that developing T...
I listed restaurants and cinemas because I usually wear earplugs to the cinema. Depending on how loud the movie is. Went to see Love, Simon the...
Need to share this. I just had a few seconds of complete silence. I don't know how it happened our why but boy to hear silence again after 4.5...
Right now quite a few things. I have struggled with reocurring depressive episodes since my late teens. Right now I'm not depressive though so I...
A student who's paid to study ;) All jokes aside I'm studying to become a psychologist but in Denmark all students get economical support so that...
Audio books are good if you love to read but have trouble with focus or concentration. It's not quite the same as seeing the letters on a page and...
I usually use et every day of the week, yes. Sometimes I forget it, though, hah. Usually, I use it in the afternoon when I'm already studying...
I have one that I use in the winter because I suffer from seasonal depression. I come from a Scandinavian country so the winters are quite long...
So. I decided to write this post because I was looking for stories like this when my tinnitus spiked in August last year. So I had had tinnitus...
It differs for me. Sometimes my T becomes almost non-existent when I lie down and other times it becomes almost unbearable loud.
I don't know actually. Mostly because I don't know if I became more acceptant of it because it subsided or if it subsided because I decided to...
Yes. My tinnitus spiked in end August/start september and it was hell the first three months. I didn't sleep properly, I was depressed and anxious...
I have given up headphones but other than that I still live my life as I used to do. The only difference is that when I go to concerts, clubs,...
Tension in my neck - or jaw muscles seems to spike my T. Sometimes alcohol spikes it for a day too but mostly I can't seem to figure out why my T...
No I haven't found anything yet but I'm thinking about seeing an ENT for it. I guess they might be able to figure out what it is :D
I wasn't on them for long as they fucked up my anxiety levels so bad that I ended up having several full blown panic attacks a day which I haven't...
Either white noise or music. It depends on my mood and loudness of my T. If my T is loud I use white noise or pink noise to take the top of the T....
I just saw The Greatest Showman. I started without ear protection but I noticed the sound was uncomfortably loud during the singing parts of the...
I have read somewhere on a Danish page that it can be due to ear was build up. Not sure if it's right but it makes sense that the water from the...
I know I'm not the only one who's in a bad place from time to time and I'm probably not the only one, either, who sometimes searches the internet...
I have noticed that a lot of people with unilateral tinnitus tends to want to avoid sleeping with their bad ear against the pillow because the...
I sometimes get the feeling of pressure you're describing if my neck and jaw muscles are tense. Also massaging my neck has settled my tinnitus an...
I was put on Mirtazapin because of depression and tinnitus isn't listed as a side effect as far as I know. Sadly I didn't take it long enough to...
Will do, thank you!
Hello. I'm not sure how to describe it any better than I did in the title. Whenever I move my jaw in a certain way it seems as if air gets in...
Thank you for your story. I'm sure it will help someone knowing that it can get better. I myself found some comfort in it eve though I'm already...
My T does the same. I have no idea why but it is strange...
Hi guys. I'm sorry that I post so much, haha. Anyhow it's just because I've novice something strange. I know alcohol is supposed to make tinnitus...
The same thing sort of happens to me. At daytime it is only in my right ear, but when I go to sleep it moves to my left ear as well and whenever I...
Thanks for your answers, I really appreciate them! Tinnitus is a weird phenomenon. The same condition yet there seems to be so many different...
I owe to say though that the loudness of the ringing went down quite a lot the first few days of ringing after fleeting T that didn't go away. For...
Just being curious. How/when did you tinnitus start? In a lot of the stories I read it seems that the tinnitus either started immediately after...
Well. For some reason I came to think about this story I read on a Danish page in my early days of desperately searching through the internet in...
I'm grateful for a lot of things. My friends who stands by me even when I'm stucked in a black, depressive hole where I'm sure I'm no fun being...
Blue eyed scandinavian here. I would have been a perfect fit for the scandinavian stereotype if my hair was as blonde as it was when I was a child :P
I personally like habituation stories. They give me hope that even if my spike doesn't go away I'll be able to live a good life anyway (though my...
Haha, you're welcome, and you're right. I didn't even think about that :D Let's hope that we'll someday get to rediscover the sound of silence!...
3 years with T so manageable and mild that I wouldn't even think about it. Four months with a much louder, but still only moderate T. Needless to...
I've had the same problem in the beginning of my spike. Even when my tinnitus was marked by other sounds I would obsess about it worrying if it...
I would say it is, yes. Studying psychology I have seen how much progress there is in understanding the brain and how it works and thus also what...
This is such an encouraging story! Thank you very much for sharing. I needed that as I am having a bad T day today. Not nearly as bad as the bad...