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When you have music playing, you eventually tune it out and focus on something in the "foreground." That's exactly what you're trying to...
Then you are performing one of nature’s most beautiful functions, despite your stress. There’s something to celebrate.
Are you breastfeeding?
You can’t treat the stimulus, but you can treat your response to it. I say look into Zoloft or anything else to knock down your hyper-vigilant...
Anxiety and tinnitus feed on each other. If you have a baby, you've got extra stress -- but also a beneficial distraction. I have the same...
Update, Julia?
Sirhand, just add it to the list of “I wish I were young again” laments — and move on. Surely you’ve improved in some ways, even if you’ve lost...
Sirhand, there is no silence. You’ve never experienced it and wouldn’t like it anyway. Google “anechoic chamber” and you’ll see that a truly...
I see countless cries for help in the "Introduce Yourself" string, from people who have just come down with tinnitus -- but very few take the time...
Update, Marisa?
Update, Lakshmi?
Your underlying psychological condition, not the meds, might be more culpable. And improving your underlying psychology is the “cure,” when you...
Dylana -- update?
Staci -- update? Did you take any anti-anxiety meds?
Alicia -- update? It's been a few months.
Well done. You've shifted it to the back burner with the dishwasher, heating system, cars passing by, muffled dialogue -- the cacophony of daily...
Sounds like this didn't rattle you as much as some others on this site. That's good. Staying calm is the secret weapon against T.
Why were you taking antidepressants?
I second Hazel's observation that curing the anxiety is just as good as the curing the source of the anxiety.
Striveon, I used meds. Lorazepam for the short term to help me sleep and calm down. Zoloft for a one-year period. Then I was "cured." The tinnitus...
Michelle, for some reason I cannot engage in a private conversation. I see you poked me, but I can't poke back. I can only talk here. At first I...
I had what I think is hyperacusis for about a week. Any sound above a moderate volume level reached my brain as an ugly rasp, as if the sound had...
Tinnitus covers a huge spectrum. I'm aiming at the people who have bread n' butter tinnitus, the basic hissing/ringing, and are struggling to...
1. When you no longer give a shit about your tinnitus, you're cured. 2. Spend some time in a truly sound-proof chamber and you'll see that...
When I click on your name in my intro thread, I see Billie48, Male from Canada. I see five light blue links to click on: Profile page, Follow,...
I see no such option.
Is this the mechanism for having a one-on-one conversation?
Ashy, don't underestimate your adaptability. I remember waking up in the middle of the night to get some water and my ears were whooshing so...
Stacy, now that it's been several months, how are things with you?
Yes, Striveon, I still have it. I'm here to help newbies through the psychological hurdle when they first get tinnitus. It knocked me into a major...
Michelle, I've had the same sounds you're describing since 2011. Do you notice it's more intense after you wake up from a nap, or wake in the...
I was in this forum many moons ago. Now I'm back just to help others.
