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My answer to the title of this thread would have been different 1 year ago, but now the answer is 100% yes, I enjoy life at least as much as I did...

I understand your concerns and offer the following thoughts for you to consider regarding your decision. 1) When I developed tinnitus earlier...

If you are still experiencing muffling, as you noted yesterday, I wonder if taking prednisone would be beneficial for you. Prednisone can have a...

Amazing and heartwarming to read this. I have also set my mind to the "brain rewiring" approach to healing the hyperacusis and tinnitus symptoms...

I received the Moderna vaccines and the booster shot. The second vaccine dose was rough, but the booster shot produced one of the strongest...

Right on, man. I look forward to seeing his paper after peer-review. Of course, if you wish to take a quantitative look at the numbers that you...

The best way to address this question is to do actual research on this, like I suggested when I requested data from you. But I still have not...

I completely respect where you're at. I didn't mean to insinuate that I know what's best for ya, and I'm sorry if it came across that way. I...

Nah I'm for sure scared, but I weight that against the sense that I'll be disappointed if I miss my time-window to give this a shot. I'm trying to...

I hope you reconsider enrolling in the trial. Here's why: Even if you get the placebo, your participation would help to get the drug to market...

Side effects for me = terrible sleep if I take NAC after like 4 pm. Otherwise, I've been taking 600 mg/day for like 6 months. Not sure it's doing...

Good. From the small bit of attention I've paid to this thread lately, it seems like their sample sizes tend to be smaller than we might all hope...

I'm sorry to hear of your situation. The constant nature of your symptoms remind me of stories I've read by others on here (@Forever hopeful comes...

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing! Let us know here if you keep doing it and seeing improvements :) Best of luck.

I am a PhD researcher in biology with an editorial role in a prominent science journal. Oddly, since gaining tinnitus earlier this year, I feel...

5, unless it's actually for something weird, in which case: 1.5.

Hell yes. That's the power of regenerative medicine, and the reason we are all here ;)

Referring to proximal versus ultimate cause? At any rate, correlation does not imply causation. So the story goes, we in fact cannot say with...

Sifting through 98 pages of literature to find data points is not a good use of my time. You are the expert of your system, so if you indeed have...

I've used the basic Loop earplugs when I've been on an airplane and around noisy family members lately, mostly because Loops are comfortable and...

For sure. I bet your chances of healing are pretty damned good. My point was that you can cause further damage by wearing earplugs all the time...

I strongly recommend reading the material @Michael Leigh has provided to this community regarding the symptoms you're experiencing. Depending on...

Well said, @AfroSnowman! I'm no doubter or naysayer, @R. David Case, but I do believe in the power of statistics to sort fact from fiction. Doing...

I re-pierced an ear a few months after developing tinnitus. To me, there would be no logical connection between an ear piercing and a worsening of...

Hi @SD7, Yep. A damned whistle. After doing an obsessive amount of searching online however I've seen that my situation is unfortunately not so...

Hi @aura, Great questions! During the first couple of days following my injury, I had notable aural fullness, dizziness, headaches, and sound...

The distortions sounded like a mixture of the tinnitus sounds (fuzz/hiss) with the person's voice that would set it off... usually because the...

I find these to be sooooo much better than all the other earplugs I've tried: https://www.loopearplugs.com/products/experience ...actually comfy...

Same here, I first experienced RLS when I started taking NAC. I haven't had RLS now since avoiding NAC later in the day. I take it only before...

Thanks for sharing, Jeff. I haven't heard of this, but I have an appointment coming up with my doctor, and I'll definitely ask him about his...

Mine is the same.

I just looked into my magic 8-ball, and it said "It is a sure thing". It was right about me dating my high school sweetheart, too, so I'd say we...

Regarding the title of this post... This is precisely why one should not be defecating in attics. Sorry ;)

Thanks a bunch for sharing your success, and huge congratulations to ya!

Hmmm. Why? If sound can produce tinnitus, why can't sound eliminate it? It's not like we know any damn thing about the mechanisms that actually...

Well, there was only a 50% chance of you actually receiving the drug rather than the placebo, so it's not necessarily a loss (except in terms of...

Yea, airplanes suck for ears. I write this as I wait to board an airplane :/ As a little kid (<10 years) I once had severely muted hearing for a...

I'm considering it again now too. Clinics are just so far from me it's quite a task to participate... but hella tempting after hearing this good news!

Thanks very much. With any luck I'll have my just-in-case prednisone stash soon. Last time I tried to acquire it to no avail was directly after...

I like your style, @Matchbox ;) What has worked for you in the past when you request Prednisone? What excuse have you used that has caused your...

That didn't seem to be the case for me. My sensation of hyperacusis is definitely fading now after 6 months since it set in, following exposure to...

@hanekawasimp, I'm sorry to hear you're going through a rough time. For anxiety relief, I find major benefit from being in natural areas,...

Awesome. Thank you for the reply, and for providing the link. This is exactly the kind of constructive dialogue I was hoping to stimulate. I...

I urge this community to be more careful about the propagation of unsubstantiated claims, such as "microdosing doesn't do enough to provide the...

This is not dramatic at all.

Hi All, I am sharing an observation regarding how NAC can negatively impact my sleep if I take it late in the day. I've experimented with taking...

A healthy dose of paranoia, or rather caution, is certainly warranted. As soon as paranoia leads to anxiety, however, the complicated brain...

This is "citizen science" in action! Science conducted by the people, for the people. Although for this to be truly scientific and objective we...

If nothing else, perhaps the high cost of using Saffron as a treatment leads to rapid habituation because we're dishing out so much money for...

It has quieted down in the past 5 months for me. Most noticeably, when I talk to people now, I don't notice it at all unless they have super loud...

Yea, so where are things with this drug? Anyone else have any experiences to report? Worth trying?

Firstly, I'm sorry to hear of your symptoms. It's no fun, and yea it's crazy how rapidly it can set in from something that seems perfectly safe,...

Maybe check yourself into a hospital first? :D

Sorry for my ignorance, but I see a lot of details about in-ear masking devices and why to use them, but not much discussion from folks who can...

I think providing a thread here on particularly useless ENTs could be very useful for others. I have a couple of ENT names I would like to add...

Since the etiology of hearing disorders is so poorly understood, it seems like we might just need to try everything we can get our hands on as...

I'll be super interested to know about your experiences with all of these approaches!

The 50/50% split between a trip and a correct mindset being necessary for a brain "reset" you noted seems so very likely. I've read many places...

Hi Leif, I feel for ya, especially as you were wearing hearing protection. I wanted to share the following things that have helped me as I...