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Sometimes when I feel congested, I get a small hand towel and run it under the tap with really hot water. Then fold it into a square and put it to your nose and breathe in. The steam sometimes helps loosen up stuff and you can just blow it out afterwards.

Uff, that's such sad news. I hope you have the necessary support to cope through this.

There are a lot of researchers working on tinnitus. Having read sooo many research articles, I can say that progress IS being made, but just not much traction. It's not an easy problem to say the least. Mostly because its a brain based symptom, and there aren't a lot of therapies that target the...

Could it be the sodium? Sodium is basically salt and some people say salt makes theirs worse.

I want to illustrate the significance of this study. Kuwaja and Schaettes recent paper in the last 5 years or so illustrated that tinnitus can occur with a normal audiogram. Kuwaja demonstrated loss of synaptic ribbon (which represents synapse between cochlear nerve and inner hair cells) with...

Talking to a guy who runs a lab and has contact with Kilgard, unofficial word is about 40% of patients respond to VNS. I didn't ask too much but I'm not sure whether thats in terms of improvement of tinnitus volume or the dreaded tinnitus handicap score/inventory. Either way, this is promising...

Click, I didn't take it aggressively, don't worry! What you wrote makes a lot of sense. I guess, i'm just scared of bringing it up with my parents and seeing their reaction. I got an earful in the beginning when I wanted to take a day off. They would think of me as being really weak for not...

Thank you for the replies. Click, I'm glad i'm not the only one with all these suicidal thoughts. It really is tempting in the beginning isn't it. The thing is, I can't really talk to my family about it. No parent would want to hear about it. I really hope you are right that this feeling isn't...

I know this board is full of positive people and I didn't want to bring the whole atmosphere down. I'm just really struggling at the moment. For the past week I've been really considering ways to kill myself. From jumping off a building, to getting a gun to ODing on the benzo's on my desk. I...

1.When did your T start? (Some people know a specific date, while others seem to have had it forever.) - first noticed it 20/aug/2012 2.Do you have any idea where it came from? - accumulation of hearing damage (though i dont go to loud places as often as other people) - viral upper respiratory...

How do they know what part of the thalamus to ablate? TCD theory by llinas and their research group is a proposed theory, it helps explain percept but not fully. I forgot the reason why. Still, sounds expensive but if it turns out to work I wouldn't mind having my thalamus ablated, if you know...

Hi Click. I am coping, day to day kind of thing. Mornings are the worst, that buzzing static sound. I am kind of going crazy. I'm still not emotionally accepting that its forever and that I have it. I keep thinking about the past and how happy I would be just to have that silence again. All...

Hi Fish, good to hear the trial worked for you! I wish they were running it in my country too. Maybe I should travel to Poland or something haha. When you say T in your right ear decreased, how much did it go down? Was it a LOT, or just barely noticeable? I am nearly reaching the 3 month mark...

Twenty-six tinnitus patients (17 males, 9 females) participated in this experiment at the multidisciplinary TRI tinnitus clinic of the Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium I don't know how to pm, but i don't want to post the paper up here (copyright stuff i guess)

Hi Click and Cookie, thanks for your replies. I'm just taking it day by day at the moment. Some days I cope better, other days I feel like breaking down and crying. Cookie, that sounds like heaven. There's nothing else in the world I want more at the moment than to just be able to rest my head...

Just wondering how you are coping at the moment? I'm taking small steps, trying to not check for sounds by blocking my ears. It's harder than it sounds but someone said it helps if you stop checking up on it all the time.

I can't do it, every day seems like torture. When I'm tired it just hisses away. Hiss hiss hiss, is this what the rest of my life is going to be like. I almost don't want to live anymore, I'm so sad. It's like one night you go to sleep and suddenly your life changes so suddenly, I'm so exhausted...

I found this in a link my friend posted to me. The music is quite calming. It's not actually mine but here are the links if you want to give it a try: Mirror 1: 01 02 Mirror 2 (same files): 01 02 Original source: http://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/vyzvt/my_tinnitus_regimen/

Wow, thank you for your very supportive messages. I feel like i'm really not alone in dealing with this. @click, you mirrored the exact sentiment that has been going through my mind. I'm kind of a perfectionist which makes it hard to put up with this sound. I feel like I need to have a clear...

Hi click. I suspect you are right. I have this fear that if I sit down and really concentrate, I might make my tinnitus worse. I know it's a stupid belief, but when I concentrate I tend to really tense my body and drown out outside sounds. I have thought about graduating and doing research...

I got a prescription for temazepam from my doctor, I only took 1 though. I woke up with louder than ever ringing and have been afraid of taking it again. I'm getting by right now by playing music at night. I can still hear my T but I try and focus on the music and it helps a bit. I will try and...

Hi everyone, I've been reading everyone's post on this forum and its made me feel better, so thank you everyone for our experiences and support. So I'm 25, I noticed a high pitched squeal with some slight hissing, kinda like a tv on an untuned station. It was weird because I noticed it...