A Couple of Noise Induced Success Stories for You All!

Hello everyone!

I have collected and translated some noise induced success stories that I have found online on Swedish forums.

Hopefully it will bring some hope to someone out there!


“I got noise induced tinnitus when I was 16 and it was really loud. I could easily hear it over a normal conversation. The first year was hell, but it got progressively better. After two years it had decreased to a level that I had to stand in a completely quiet room and block my ears in order to hear it.

Now it is two years and nine months since I got it and it's almost completely gone except if I have exposed myself to loud noises, then it can come back for a few days. I was also very sensitive to sounds in the beginning, but that has also disappeared.

My advice to you is to be very careful with loud noises, but at the same time try to “train” your ears a bit to get used to sounds again. You can do this by listening to low music on the stereo (do not use earbuds). It was in this way that my tinnitus became better. Today I consider myself completely cured, but I usually use earplugs in nightclubs nowadays.”


“It took some years, but I felt that the sound diminished as time went on.” (noise-induced)


“I had tinnitus for six months. I got it after riding a roller coaster (the noise was really loud). However, it disappeared completely."


“I was at a concert last year. When the band played their last song the singer screamed incredibly loud and I was standing next to the speaker. When I came home and sat on the toilet I heard a loud beep in my right ear. Then it disappeared very slowly over a few months.”


“After a concert, I had ear pain, hissing and beeping in my ears for a few months. It was extremely annoying, but it slowly went away."


“Like Dasha I got tinnitus from clubbing, and it has almost disappeared. However, it took a couple of months until I wasn’t thinking about it anymore."


I also found these posts on a saxophone forum:

"Yes, my tinnitus has gone away! About 25 years ago, I had it all the time, perhaps due to playing in a big band with powerful trombones playing behind me. Changing to different bands helped but the biggest factor was to stay out of the direct blast of loud trumpets and trombones. Perhaps aging and retiring from a day job helped also."


"Yep, I had it. Stop playing super loud music nightly. Learn relaxation techniques so you don't grind your teeth (any stress in the area can reduce circulation). Take ginko. Had it diagnosed some years ago. Did the above. Now when I wake up I can actually hear silence."


"Used to have tinnitus, it went away after a year or so, and I don't take chances anymore with my hearing."

 

Thanks for the post @Capricornus , it's always nice to hear some success stories. Doesn't seem like there is enough of them to go around!

 

Thanks for those! It does go away I've got rid of noise induced before and I'm 3 months after a stupid complacent relapse and it is getting better again

 

@Reece bude Hang in there! Give your ears a rest and try to find distractions to get your mind of T. I'm a strong believer of tinnitus going away. Great that yours has improved!

 

Great post @Capricornus! My noise-induced Tinnitus went away completely before (first time) after about 3 months, so I know it can disappear. I was consequently completely Tinnitus-free for 6 years, until I visited a concert. You can find my success story in this forum as well. If you see any new success stories coming up on those Swedish forums, please be kind to share them here as well. It will be dearly appreciated, as there is always a shortage on those stories. Thank you for your post.

 

Thank you @Vinnitus for your kind words! I will definitely update this post if I stumble upon new success stories!

I've just read your story, and that's the perfect evidence that tinnitus can indeed disappear on it's own. Very hopeful!

 

I had noise induced T in 2011,it completely disappeared after a few months,I think it was about 7-8 months and I could no longer hear it no matter how hard I tried.

 

@Tom Cnyc

 

@bill 112 That's just awesome. There's still hope!

 

When your t came and went, how loud was it...did it feel different to now?

 

I hope these stories are true, I feel like people make them up. I hope you guys aren't making them up that's really sad. It give me hope.

 

I always like reading these success stories when my T gets me down. -- It's been about 16 months for me and my T noise level is the same.

The good news is that I have learned to live with it and sleep well but would sure love to wake up someday and have zero ringing (like mentioned above).

I wondered why many people fall off the grid on this blog after a year and I think it is because they just want to stop dwelling on it and move on with their lives. -- I still check in once a week but my advice is still to eat well, exercise, and stay busy (an idol mind is the devil's playground!).

Good luck to everyone and hang in there!

 

@John Meyers It's seems to me that you have habituated in a way. But yes, I agree - complete silence without any annoying background noise would be blissful.

Have you experienced fluctuations in your T? Or is it always a steady tone/sound that never changes?

Take care!

 

Thanks Capricornus. -- The best way to describe mine is that it never fluctuates in volume per say but becomes "more noticeable" when I eat salty or sugary foods (or overeat in general).

This past week, I overate and today my T spiked. That is why I jumped on the forum for a little relief. -- For me, it seems to be very connected to blood flow and higher blood pressure from the salty or sugar foods which makes it spike.

When I am working out and doing cardio, it gets loud while doing it but becomes barely noticeable afterwards. -- Hopefully, that makes sense..

 

Same here! Mine sounds like static on a TV that gets louder and louder during exercise, but when I settle down afterwards the T goes back down or to a little below what it was before. Glad you are doing well and habituating. Happy New Year!

 

How long it took earlier to fade, what was the cause?

 

Any success story for stress induced tinnitus?

 

by the way, Capricornus doesn't post here anymore, but I've spoken to her on other forms of social media.

She's fine these days. It mostly faded for her and what little is left she doesn't notice.

 

Do you know how long it took for it to fade?

 

For her? I think about 9 months. For me, it started to fade at 14 and continues to improve. I'm pretty much out of the weeds.

 

how bad was yours?

 

You mean, you experienced reduction in volume/severity only after 14 months? If that is the case then there is hope for me still.

 

There's alway's hope! No matter what you read or what anyone tells you.

 

Hmm, not sure about that. I would generally say that T that has not faded somewhat in 2-3 years, will 99,9% never fade.

 

I don’t know. My grandfather had tinnitus following WW2. Decades later, he woke up one day and it was gone. He worked with heavy machinery his entire life (without ear protection), so he did the direct opposite of what some claim helps.

 

Did he lose hearing?

 

Because they habituate to it and do move on. I've connected with several people who disappeared from this forum, but contacting them on Facebook. The general consensus is life went on and they forgot about their T.

I've heard of several people get rid of T after 10 years. So that's def not true. Again, always have hope, anything is possible.

 

I agree...there are more people than you think that have it go away after years. They just don't care after all that time and probobly never heard of this forum.

 

Hope is the last part of a human being to die...

 

Not sure. At a minimum, I suspect he had lost some high frequency hearing.