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I have had tinnitus for 21 months. Yes, I have gotten better but my life has definitely been altered. Things I use to do easily are now hard....
Mick - I agree with you 100%. My life IS different from what it was before I got tinnitus. I try to ignore it but it gets so loud I just can't....
I was in the US Air Force back in the sixties. When I went to basic training at Lackland AFB, TX I was not allowed to bring ANYTHING with me....
Perhaps some people "move on" from Tinnitus Talk is not necessarily because they do not need the support any longer because they have...
Yup,same here. I woke up on the morning of 11/25/11 with a high frequency squeal like hearing an old CRT television. Changes during the day...
MacZilla - I do not know how common IBS is with the onset of tinnitus. In the early months of onset one of the things I contended with was, I...
Hudson, that guy at work who laughed off his T may be laughing on the outside and crying on the inside. That's what I do with family and friends.
So Lord of the Ring - Tinnitus (Tinkerbell) is not a problem for you?
My tinnitus onset was 16 months ago. I also had a severe case of hyperacusis. For me, it took about six months for the H to largely become a...
Jazz - No my T noise has not reduced and I notice it all the time. A high freq pitch goes up and down in volume during the course. of the day.
Emma - my short term goals a year ago were to stay out the hospital or the insane asylum. Well, so far I have accomplished that. My biggest...
Mick - I downloaded classical music from iTunes to use with Beyond Tinnitus. I really do not think classical or the New Age music makes any...
Mick - I have made improvements with insomnia and depresssion. Still have some anxiety. Cannot say the improvements are all due to neuromonics...
Jazz - are you just "annoyed" or are you suffering? big difference I think
Mario - A minor tragedy is a good way of putting it. Although at the time of onset it was major for me - still is. How do you know when you...
That's great. How about imagining suddenly being able to hear conversations and ambient sounds without a constant noise in your head? I would go...
I've had tinnitus for 15 months. I have improved but not to the point where I feel I am habituated. What happens when one becomes habituated?...
Jim - man, you look great and really relaxed piloting that boat. I am envious. Being out there on the water has got to have a positive effect on...
I kept a log for my blood pressure and matched the BP readings with T volume. Did this almost every hour. Then, I thought, this is nuts. So I...
"years away from clinical testing". Yeah, that's really hopeful.
Right now the title of my book would be, "How Tinnitus Has Ruined My Life". Perhaps a sequel could be "How I Kicked Tinnitus in the A$$ and...
Yes, I did. A waste of $300. Sound therapy offered through your computer. You have to be pretty computer savvy in order to get it working....
just1morething - yes, those are my thoughts. If I can only get to the point where the T is a minor annoyance, as I have heard some say, then I'll...
Mick - I agree. I have been told that tinnitus is "just a sound". Wrong! Tinnitus is more than that. It is also sensations in the ears and in...
just1morething - yes, I feel the same as you do. The incessant squeal in my head makes it hard to get on that airplane and just go. One of my...
I love to travel. Have been to many places in the US and Canada. Once to Ireland. Last place I visited was Orlando with my daughter and...
I talk to my wife and the rest of my family very little about my tinnitus. Why? Because there is nothing they can do about it. I have a...
My blood pressure shot up because of the anxiety associated with the onset of tinnitus. I went to see a cardiologist for echocardiogram and...
I have not yet habituated to the sound(s). Don't know when or if I can. I take little comfort in knowing that millions have this disorder....
My wife has mild case of the T because of the meds she is on. She describes it as crickets. Never knew she had it until I got mine and went...
Yes, I knew about tinnitus before it became chronic. I had short bouts with it whenever I had a wax build up in my ears. This last time I...
I am not enjoying life as much as I did before getting tinnitus. But I sure as hell do not want to "end it all" because of it. Who said life was...
Hello Nills - After four years would you consider yourself "habituated"? I have had my T for 15 months and it bothers me greatly. Next to a cure...
Yeah, my cardiologist said I was "overreacting". He said he gets the T from time to time because of stress and that two ladies who work in his...
Maybe there are some people, musicians or not, just not predisposed to getting tinnitus? I don't know. Just supposition on my part.
There is always hope. But telling your body not to react to a constant noise that provokes the flight or fight response is almost like standing...
BTW - I love the Rolling Stones. But after seeing them in a recent interview I really think they need to give it up.
Louise - I recall very well what I was like pre - T and long for those times again. But I realize that is in the past. I am not the same as I...
Hi Karen - I have had bilateral tinnitus for 15 months and all the nasty afflictions that come with it including anxiety. I believe I have mostly...
Louise - Onset of T came on for me at age 70. It was bad enough but after reading all the horror stories on this site and the TMSB forum I am...
Hello Topaz, I have had my tinnitus for 15 months. It is a high pitched squeal which morphs to swishing and then sometimes to crickets. I also...
Penny - I am not from the UK. I am from Iowa. Want to know about your dog. Looks like an English Springer Spaniel. My Springer, Julia, died...
Yes, since I got tinnitus I am careful about loud noises. The noise caused by the meteorite cannot be any worse than the high pitched screams of...
Lots of discussions going on in the NFL and at the college level about players getting their "bells rung". Concussions are a part of the game....
Louise - why is it taking so long for "them", the egghead scientists, to find a solution(s)? T has disrupted my life big time like I know it has...
Louise - my T is a high frequency tone which may morph in to a swishing which and change to crickets. Loudest in the AM and PM. In to this...
I think that loudness and pitch of the sound(s) has a lot to do with "getting used to it". The louder and higher pitched sound is much harder to...
To me a cure would be the elimination of the tinnitus signal. Habituation, hearing it but not reacting to it would also be just "peachy". I have...
I had retired a year before, then on 10/25/11, Black Friday, day after Thanksgiving BAM! like someone turned on a switch - I woke up on that...
That's nice but what does it mean for tinnitus sufferers now?
This is a question many would like the answer to. Unfortunately many "experts" say there will never be a cure because of the complexity of the...
