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    Seven Months with Sound-Induced Tinnitus: Is Anyone Seeing Improvements or Finding Hope?

    The biggest determinant of how fast you will heal is how quickly you return to normal sleeping patterns. Since April of this year, I have been suffering from an acoustic shock caused by a high-frequency hearing test that exposed me to 12,000 Hertz at 90 decibels. This turned my mild to...
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    Ear Pressure and Pain After a Restroom Hand Dryer and Child Screaming

    Have you tried consulting with ChatGPT? If you lay out your tinnitus history, including the things that triggered the initial onset and subsequent permanent spikes, along with any other relevant details such as COVID vaccines or COVID infections, it will provide you with a well-considered...
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    Have you tried Chatgbt? I have recently discovered Chatgbt and found that it was helpful and...

    Have you tried Chatgbt? I have recently discovered Chatgbt and found that it was helpful and informative. If you lay out your tinnitus symptom history, including a description of the intestinal issues that you are encountering, it will provide you with detailed explanations and prognosis and a...
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    I suspect that your gut issues are associated with stress as opposed to being directly related...

    I suspect that your gut issues are associated with stress as opposed to being directly related to tinnitus. I used buscopan to relieve IBS. I have recently found that magnesium glycinate has relieved a lot of anxiety associated with my tinnitus and reduced cortisol. This has beneficial effects...
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    21 Years with Tinnitus (from Heavy Jackhammers, Paxil) — It's Ruined Me and Taken My Happiness

    Thanks for your detailed reply. This is further evidence that the reckless and thoughtless actions of incompetent audiologists are a major cause of tinnitus suffering. My high frequency audiogram in April turned my moderate and manageable tinnitus into severe multitonal reactive tinnitus, which...
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    Aripiprazole (Abilify): Case Reports of Diminishing/Lowering Tinnitus

    What are you going to try next for sleeping? I’m on 5 mg of Dayvigo, but it barely gives me four hours.
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    21 Years with Tinnitus (from Heavy Jackhammers, Paxil) — It's Ruined Me and Taken My Happiness

    What I meant to ask is, did this high frequency test cause a permanent spike? Was that the reason for your suffering all these years?
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    Second Acoustic Trauma: Prednisone Helped, but Tinnitus Returned Louder — Would Dexamethasone Help Three Weeks Later?

    I had a similar experience in 2015, which resulted in severe insomnia and significant weight loss over a period of six months. However, I recovered about 90 percent over the course of nine months to a year. The cause was the burglar alarm in my mother’s house.
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    21 Years with Tinnitus (from Heavy Jackhammers, Paxil) — It's Ruined Me and Taken My Happiness

    My tinnitus went from moderate to severe reactive after a high-frequency hearing test in April of this year. It seems you had a similar experience. What impact did that have on you?
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    How are you doing, Juliane? What happened?

    How are you doing, Juliane? What happened?
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    Sudden Onset of Severe Nighttime Tinnitus with No Hearing Loss

    Three things are in your favor. The exacerbation of your tinnitus does not appear to have a definite cause, such as a loud noise. The exacerbation was recent (less than three months ago), which means it has a better chance of resolving than a long-standing spike. You seem to have some periods...
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    Am I the Unluckiest Person on Earth When It Comes to Tinnitus? My 6-Year Tinnitus Nightmare: How One Festival Changed My Life

    I’ve been taking Dayvigo (Lemborexant) for sleep for a couple of months, and it seems to work well when combined with 3 mg of Melatonin and 150 mg of Magnesium Glycinate. Good luck. I haven’t found any references suggesting that it causes or worsens tinnitus, and it hasn’t affected my tinnitus...
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    Mirtazapine (Remeron) vs. Trazodone — Which is Gentler for Tinnitus?

    I took Trazodone for a couple of months, and it seemed to help with sleep without making my tinnitus worse. I also took Mirtazapine for a few months in 2024, which caused heart arrhythmia, but I did not notice any change in my tinnitus.
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    Necessary Evil to Combat Severe Tinnitus — Long-Term Ambien (Zolpidem) Use

    I had a similar experience with Clonazepam back in the 1990s. I took it for a few weeks, it reduced the tinnitus, and after that, I was able to sleep naturally.
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    Best Wind Noise Protection for Tinnitus Sufferers?

    Are you saying that you got permanent spikes from riding your bicycle?
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    Seeking Advice for Reactive Tinnitus and Sound Distortion: What's the Best Way to Proceed?

    Hello @Jupiterman. You seem to be the voice of reason here, and I applaud you for that. I am nine weeks into reactive tinnitus after a thoughtless audiologist conducted a tinnitus frequency matching test, which involved blasting my left ear with 90 decibels at 12,000 Hz. Since then, I have...
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    Seeking Advice for Reactive Tinnitus and Sound Distortion: What's the Best Way to Proceed?

    You have reactive tinnitus and you’re playing violet noise? Good luck with that.
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    Hello. I took a couple of hours to review your messages today. A horrible chronicle but so...

    Hello. I took a couple of hours to review your messages today. A horrible chronicle but so relieved that you found the strength to carry on.
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    Tinnitus Worsened After Stopping Sertraline and Starting Mirtazapine

    Absolutely. I took 7.5 mg of Mirtazapine each night for the year that ended on March 31, 2025. Over the course of that year, my tinnitus intensity gradually increased, so I weaned myself off the medication this month.