Hyperacusis = Constant Pain or Not?

I just don't even bother with my hearing loss anymore. I just don't care about it. My Tinnitus is relatively the same but it's arguably hyperacusis induced. Funny enough, at the highschool I now attend I'm in a room of relative silence for 5 hrs. I hear my Tinnitus the entire time. And it has 0 effect on my quality of life and my work performance. I guess I've grown to accept the constant ringing and mellow hissing.

 

Tbh you would rather want stabbing pain instead of lingering pain. My theory is stabbing pain and loudness is due to due to chemical inbalances within either the auditory nerve or central auditory cortex. But lingering pain is thought by many to be auditory nerve damage.

But don't take my word as the Bible because honestly, Hyperacusis is still a very unknown and not well researched disorder/ condition.

 

Would you say your T is mild or moderate?
Have you done DPOAE?
Have you done an audiogram above 8khz?

 

Also I doubt an AC system could be causing. But I want to highlight that I am not you. Therefore what my tolerance level to sound is, is different to yours. But ask yourself this, maybe AC is bothering your Hyperacusis or is it anxiety and fear of having noise induced sensitivity? Possibly both?

I took magnesium glycate for a while and I believe vit C and A. However, id only recommend magnesium. I took airborne for a while on days I was around loud noise. However, I did not take them the entire time of my recovery. So I can't say if they helped or not because I still recovered. But what I can say helped is 1 reduced my anxiety. 2 got adequate rest. 3 protected my ears when I felt needed.


I just want to mention that, I'm still recovering! I'm currently on the bus wearing musucians earplugs. Not to say the bus bothers me or hurts my Hyperacusis but it's like a comfort blanket for my anxiety.

 

Me too. I have accepted it. I am only scared of H coming back like it was before. I kind of hoped that your hearing loss maybe reversed on its own. I mean you are young and, if I am correct, you don't have any genetical predispositions for hearing loss, so I thought that maybe the hair cells recovered. Well, as long as you can function normally, that is the most important thing.

 

Take Magnesium that melts in the water for hyperacusis and drink ginger tea. This helped me. Ginkgo biloba is also good for hyperacusis...

 

How much time it took?

 

It depends for everyone. So my recovery time is irrelevant.

 

@dpdx Hi, what is DPOAE?

 

This gives me some hope, did your tinnitus also settle?

 

My ear hurts so much....

 

My Tinnitus is better and hyperacusis is befter. I still have it though. It's been a year since I got it.

 

TRT?

 

TRT is for people who have severe anxiety towards their tinnitus and need a little mmmph to get use to it. And it's good for sound enrichment with hyperacusis. However, I never needed it.

 

What are the audiologist saying, TRT CBT and ignoring the research that it's peripheral neuropathy.