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I suffered no side effects or withdrawal symptoms after I stopped taking Rivotril. It has not returned for over two years. Also have extremely...
Hi Biaxca, my symptom consisted of a sporadic thump in my left ear that would happen a couple of times a minute. It took about 3 months to resolve...
Not sure if this will be of any use to anyone but it's what I do for severe (though not catastrophic), very loud tinnitus (I don't have...
And a second term of Trump is the solution? Slightly abbreviated extract from Ian Hughes's highly acclaimed book Disordered Minds: How Dangerous...
Inflation, eh? Maybe an economic history lesson is in order, starting with the UK (because that's where I am). Thatcher got elected on the back...
Veterans like myself and Michael Leigh are well aware that there’s nothing out there right now apart from TRT, CBT and MBCT. So I am not sure...
I missed this earlier post of yours. What surprises me about it is the fact that it was recommended that one should make tinnitus the actual...
Chinmoku, you are such a star! And it’s a real shame that the stunning, evocative post that you have contributed has to appear in a necessarily...
Chinmoku, I sincerely apologise if any of my earlier posts, especially the one about Kent Taylor, caused you discomfort in any way. I have the...
When TRT is presented as exceptionless dogma, I would very much agree. However, this is not the position I have taken in previous replies to...
You know what, Chinmoku? I am tired of disagreement and will readily bow out of this thread and this forum in deference to you guys. But there’s...
He was suffering from additional, post COVID-19 symptoms that your disingenuous post conveniently overlooks.
Years ago I had an operation for an umbilical hernia which was treated by the insertion of a a surgical mesh. A couple of days afterwards I...
This is me writing several years ago: "I certainly have profound suicidal ideations. Now my tinnitus fluctuates between being extremely loud and...
They might well be (as Digital Doc has also suggested). I have never tried the foam ones so I can't compare, though I did wear wax earplugs to a...
Boots sell wax earplugs. They pretty much eliminate all external noise. They are called Boots Muffle Wax Earplugs and retail at £2.69 for a box...
There is a problem with TRT, CBT and MBCT if they are advocated in a manner that makes them unfalsifiable as methods to affect habituation. In...
Hi Maddie, it’s difficult to tell as I have never listened to Audiobooks. But either should be fine.
The answer to your first question is 'no'. Some have succeeded in habituating to very loud tinnitus. A good example is Dr Stephen Nagler who has...
I had my second Pfizer vaccination on Wednesday evening. Like yourself, I have loud tinnitus (mine consists of a variety of tones) and hearing...
When it comes to the management of the accompanying anxiety, it doesn't sound as if your fiancée is presently in anything like the right frame of...
Had my first Pfizer jab yesterday. Feel okay so far. [ATTACH] My tinnitus is loud today but no more so than it is on other loud days, so I...
When it comes to the limits of free speech and a consideration of what it is appropriate or inappropriate for a President to state in public, the...
The Trump supporting ‘Biden stole the election’ mentality in a nutshell (thanks to the British philosopher Stephen Law): ‘Dave believes dogs are...
This lengthy article on Obama by David Runciman in the London Review of Books might be of some interest to readers of this thread, given the...
When it comes to the USA, the election of Trump is actually unsurprising, as there is some evidence that a minority of the voting populace...
Slightly abbreviated extract from Ian Hughes's highly acclaimed book Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy. The...
Billie, very sorry to read this. I don't have experience with vertigo and you probably know this already but your mention of sudden hearing loss...
ISIS recruits would probably be unconcerned as long as their own demise preceded that of their relatives. This is from Olivier Roy's Jihad and...
After fifteen years of this unrelenting shit (screamingly loud tinnitus blasting 24/7 from my left ear), I have finally have enough.
This could be tensor tympani syndrome that you are describing. Although I am presently having renewed issues with this condition, I have been...
This link may possibly provide some reassurance (about the voices not the tinnitus). [MEDIA] I don’t hear voices myself. With me it’s just loud...
Hi Nikkilu, I noticed that you are in the UK. Boots sell a cheap brand of wax earplugs called ‘Muffles’. When inserted, you will barely hear a...
I wouldn't say that habituation is a 'myth' or involves some kind of stoical, coping-through-gritted-teeth scenario. Just to be clear for any...
I don't like the term 'habituation'. But I would say that my tinnitus doesn't bother me most (though not all) of the time and when it does I just...
Symprove worked very well for me but is expensive and only available in the UK. Unusually for an alternative remedy (it’s not a drug), there’s...
My TTS went away over time (though it still thumps when I burp!). A combination of Mindfulness and low doses of rivotril helped. I was able to...
I have what is probably bog standard tinnitus, in the sense that it varies from loud to very loud (with occasional quiet days thrown into the...
I work about a 55 hour week. The work is utterly immersive, demanding and stressful, but fun and creative too. This means that I can go long...
Hi Glynis, I only swing by here occasionally but was sorry to read that you are going through a tough time right now. I generally do okay with...
For me, what I would call the slacker mentality eventually kicked in and I just couldn’t be bothered rising to the bait. Might seem an odd way to...
I was suicidal with tinnitus several years ago. Decided to give Mindfulness a try. And I am still here. I followed the protocol outlined in Jon...
I missed my own mother's funeral because she died before I had turned the corner with this condition. So I wouldn't be too hard on yourself about...
Valeri, I didn't think I'd get a chance to sit in front of a computer for the rest of the day and so am taking advantage of an unexpected...
Hi Valeri, I’ll have a think about which resources have proved to be most helpful down the years and then I’ll get back to you. The only...
Valeri, that photo more or less captures the human condition, not just life with tinnitus. Looking at it and knowing the distress that you are in...
First of all, I have heard about people who have habituated tinnitus after having it for more than eight years. So don’t write yourself off or be...
Tracy, I don't swing by this place all that much these days, but this is me writing in another forum several years ago. It is pretty obvious that...
I haven’t had the surgery but Gerald Brookes is a London based surgeon with the relevant expertise. If you Google his name together with...
Although meditation helped me to habituate tinnitus (and I have continued to use it to deal with intermittent but chronic pain), I would be wary...
This is a good (simultaneously harrowing and entertaining) book to read for anyone who wants to get a sense of what chronic pelvic pain is like:...
It took me about five years to get a handle on my tinnitus so I wouldn't get too discouraged. What made a difference for me was reading John...
I am aware that Dr Nagler is a controversial figure and was both a recipient and practitioner of TRT, but in his well-known 'Letter to a Tinnitus...
This is my hope too. Habituating to tinnitus was a dreadful ordeal in my case and took a very long time. It's good that - in the absence of a...
Acclimatizing to tinnitus can be a slow, incremental process. It can also be a bit like a game of snakes and ladders, one in which a sudden...
Not in any particular order.... Sion Sono's Love Exposure is the best film I have seen over the last few years (though take care over the trailer...
I have reactive tinnitus and wear bilateral hearing aids outside as well as in. I'm rather prudent about this and avoid doing so in the presence...
Higgs Boson Blues is my favourite epic song from the last couple of years. It's mesmerisingly good. Here's my second-favourite : [MEDIA]
Derpytia, this post is pretty much a duplicate of one I wrote shortly after joining this forum. Apologies to other readers for the repetition but...
The road to habituation is often rocky. It sounds to me that you were shakily habituated. A prolonged spike, a permanent increase in volume, or...
