Dysacusis Doesn't Get Better, Does It?

[zkdr2]

I've heard of many people who have habituated to tinnitus with TRT. Even I did, and it went lower after nine months, just by listening to masking sounds.

Hyperacusis also has a known strategy of gradual exposure to sounds. It is less well known than tinnitus, but it still has its fair share of success stories.

But dysacusis? The last time I got over this, it took a year. I think the only thing I could do was basically give up and take solace in the fact that I could go into a quiet room and barely hear it at least. I had to surround myself with people all the time and get out of the house. Now I work from home and I have no friends nearby.

Almost everyone on here basically says, "Avoid sound!" Yeah, and live my life like a complete hermit? Give myself hyperacusis if I don't have it already? Are you serious? I don't want to wind up like one of these people you check on years later and they say, "Yes, it's still bad."

Somehow we have to focus on the two or so success stories here and hope that the ones who stopped visiting didn't end their own lives. I don't want to have hope anymore. I'm tired of telling myself, "Give it a year." What happens when a year comes? Nothing.

I'd rather stay coasting at a three out of ten than rise to a seven on false hope and crash back down to a one.

Apologies for being so pessimistic. I keep thinking the positive success stories are doing nothing but giving us false hope.

 

[delta784]

I've heard of many people who have habituated to tinnitus with TRT. Even I did, and it went lower after nine months, just by listening to masking sounds.

Hyperacusis also has a known strategy of gradual exposure to sounds. It is less well known than tinnitus, but it still has its fair share of success stories.

But dysacusis? The last time I got over this, it took a year. I think the only thing I could do was basically give up and take solace in the fact that I could go into a quiet room and barely hear it at least. I had to surround myself with people all the time and get out of the house. Now I work from home and I have no friends nearby.

Almost everyone on here basically says, "Avoid sound!" Yeah, and live my life like a complete hermit? Give myself hyperacusis if I don't have it already? Are you serious? I don't want to wind up like one of these people you check on years later and they say, "Yes, it's still bad."

Somehow we have to focus on the two or so success stories here and hope that the ones who stopped visiting didn't end their own lives. I don't want to have hope anymore. I'm tired of telling myself, "Give it a year." What happens when a year comes? Nothing.

I'd rather stay coasting at a three out of ten than rise to a seven on false hope and crash back down to a one.

Apologies for being so pessimistic. I keep thinking the positive success stories are doing nothing but giving us false hope.

How old are you?

 

[DimLeb]

Give myself hyperacusis if I don't have it already?

No one has ever developed hyperacusis simply by staying in relative silence. You might notice some sounds seem louder than usual when you're exposed to them again, but that's just normal conditioning of the ears. It's similar to thinking high frequencies sound very sharp right after cleaning earwax, but then getting used to them the next day.

Hyperacusis is caused by damage to the hearing system, such as from an acoustic shock or an ear disease, not from silence.

As for the rest, it's hard to say. Dysacusis goes away over time for some people, while for others it stays permanently, and some never develop it at all. I may have had it when my tinnitus first began, but it went away after about a month. Now, after four years, I may have developed it again in a mild and occasional form that affects only certain sounds, but it's difficult to be sure. Over the years, I've experienced many temporary symptoms—reactive tinnitus, ear fullness, and diplacusis—that I can't fully explain.