6 Months In and Much Better but Emotions Vary

I got T one morning and over the next few days of researching and suffering thought it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

Things got worse when i learned I got sudden hearing loss. The T became the least of my concerns until, over the next few weeks, i had regained most of the hearing that was lost and my mri was normal. I was somewhat relieved to hear about habituation and the studies that show that the psychological burden of T usually subsides.

My T has not stopped for one second in over 6 months. But the emotional burden overall has subsided a great deal. The way I feel about T, whether I notice it much, whether it depresses me and how I feel about the future can vary wildly. For several hours or days at a time I feel like it's a minor nuisance but the emotional response can be much worse at times for several hours. I read personal accounts describing this phenomena of varying emotional responses described as "good or bad days" but I don't think I fully understood it.

How could your response to it vary so much if the stimulus does not? Now i know that's how habituation works, it's erratic and non linear but with a slow overall improvement. My quality of life went from a 9 before T to a 2 for several weeks afterwards.

Now it's about a 7 most days but I get emotionally troubled and feel like a 4 at times. But the " bad days " that I read about early on on this forum get less frequent and the 9 quality of life i had before T I am hopeful will return based on accounts of the good people here.

My progress is 90% through habituation. I have a suspicion that some supplements have helped slightly. I am very thankful for all of you in this forum. I still actively seek out T cures or reductions in volume. I don't think this retards habituation much unless it's obsessive. My T started suddenly after a very brief sound exposure.

On another hopeful note I too have heard from several construction and manufacturing employees whos T went away entirely, not habituate but go away completely as I made sure to ask specifically. One after 7 months another after an unknown number of months " months and months " as he described it.

I also was shaken by a war vet who after 20 or so years of his gun induced T still masks the sound to go to bed!! That really concerned me as I figured that he should have habituated much better.

Cheers!

 

GREAT SUCCESS! Congratulations!

 

I'm glad to hear you're doing better... Out of curiosity, what supplements have you found helpful?

 

Thanks Atlantis. linearb I sense a reduction of volume and annoyance when I drink hot tea infused with Ginger or when I take a ginger pill. I caught on to this after I drank a green smoothie with ginger. After that smoothie i definitely had a significant reduction in T. I also think Turmeric pills with the active ingredient curcumin might be doing the same. It is a temporary effect lasting a few hours but it may be reducing chronic inflammation that is stressing the inner ear nervous system. I don't have any other disease or ailment besides T.

 

In 2014 when I got T I would mask it everynight, then went to a TRT therapist for a few sessions of counseling. She said that I should try sleeping without masking, and she was damn right, all 2015 I thought about my T a rough 20 times. Should have come here to tell people about my success, but when you don't think about it you go back to your normal life

 

I feel like I am in the same boat. For me sleeping without masking, ear pain, jaw pain/tension, fullness, H and other things that accompanied my tinnitus mostly all got better within 5 months. Emotions also got better, but I've had good days and bad days...some days were half good, some days were half bad...what a rollercoaster. It's exhausting.