Do You Experience These? (A Few Ways How I Can Temporarily Decrease My Tinnitus)

My first post here after being a member for 2years, some of you already know my story

I got my T from an neomycin ear drop 2 years ago. My T developed immediately to an unbearable degree after using ear drop with an undetected eardrum perforation.

I have ultra high pitched hissing in both ear, the T in my right ear which I put the ear drop in, is absolutely horrendous. A loud buzzing - makes me feel like sitting in an airplane at nights and a loud screaming/beeping which is absolutely mind draining.

However, I do found some interesting things I experience, which have been mentioned before by other members, I have no idea why

1. I can temporarily stop my buzzing and beeping in my right ear by putting little finger in my ear canal, seal and pull out to make a vacuum force. Once I release my finger, the ringing comes back

2. Similar as above, it can be done by gently press my tragus and move it backwards to make a vacuum in my ear canal as well.

3. If I press my right tragus really really hard, my buzzing and beeping fade away while pressing.

4. If I do a valsalva maneuver or stand upside down, or any activity that can increase the blood pressure in my head. When i feel my head is full of blood, my ringing will decrease to a bearable level.

I have seen some people talking about the same things here. Anyone else experiences these as well? It may be worth to discuss. Thanks

 

Anyone please?

 

No luck here on those

 

I've had Tinnitus for about 7 weeks, that came on during/after a viral ear infection. Because of the short amount of time, I'm still trying to figure mine out. During the infection/treatment, mine would probably peak at 10/10 ... it was driving me crazy, but if I was in a quite room, it would lower. After the treatment, I'd guess it peaks at 5/10, which is still unnerving (at least for me). Anyway, the few things I've done so far to "reduce" the perceived volume are:

- Xanax (0.5 mg) at night seems to take it down to a very low level, and I can easily sleep. I can deal with this a lot better when I get a good nights sleep.
- Sudafed - for some reason, this takes it down too ... often my ears feel stuffy.
- Yawning, or "popping my ears", seems to help some.
- Listening to what I believe is my Tinnitus frequency (8 KHz), will help ... especially if I repeat it over about 20 seconds, and I'm in an otherwise quite room. This seems to last until a lot of normal noise sets the Tinnitus off again.
- Laying on an ear in bed, so it gets no noise ... I turn and do this to each ear as I'm trying to go to sleep. The Tinnitus can go to 0/10, at night, which I'm thankful for.

What really sets it off are just a lot of normal noises, like you might hear riding your bike, in a restaurant, or even listening to music. Also, if I'm really tired, it seems to get worse. By the way, I don't shield my ears for daily noises ... based on my ENT's advise. He said the ears/brain to re-calibrate (my term).

I'm resigned to having this for life, but would like to at least keep it at a lower "perceived" volume. It doesn't bother me much at a 1 or 2, but I start to have anxiety when it gets greater than 3 ... I think because I remember it at 10/10, and I was miserable. Mine also seems to go up and down, and bounce from ear to ear. I know everyone is different, so I hope this helps someone.

 

I have the exact same thing. What did the ent specialist told you or do you know what is is? Here is my story: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...ear-will-this-tinnitus-disappear-again.15420/