I Read About People Who Cope with Tinnitus When I'm Down...??

So when I'm down or having a bad T day i read about others with T that are just fine. It helps me.

Anyway sometimes I google "celebrities with T." Not that I particularly worship them or anything but it helps to see that someone you may have seen look happy and healthy are seemingly ok.

Alot of these lists talk about hearing loss when the list says "celebrities that have T." It's find of frustrating because although hearing loss is an impairment it is not T.

Or do they have T? I'm a little confused on that.

 

You can have T without hearing loss and vice versa.
You can also have mild, moderate, severe, excruciating T.
You can also have mild, moderate, profound hearing loss.
All combinations are possible.

I don't find it particularly useful to compare your T with someone else's since you don't know what they feel. And even if you could somehow know, what would be the purpose of the exercise?

 

I know this people have Tinnitus.
Gerard Butler
Will.i.am
Chris Martin
Louis Tomlinson
Here is the list
http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-with-tinnitus/celebrity-lists
Tinnitus is very common and in the future around 10 15 year you will hear alot more famous people who get T :/ Mild Tinnitus is very commen, but T like we have is not but it might be in the future because there is alot loud noise around us.

 

Whats difference with mild and your t?

 

i was born with mild T i could only hear it when there was no sound around me at all now i can hear it when im driving in a car :/

 

I see alot of kids/teens with headphones on about everytime I leave the house. More than I ever used to. I can see tinnitus affecting a lot more people in the future.

 

When I'm on medication that lowers my T and makes it more tolerable, I can still hear it while driving in a car if I look for it. Yet that reduction makes the difference between night and day for me. I just have no frame of reference for what other people hear. I've never had "mild tinnitus", just zero tinnitus and then severe tinnitus.

 

@Alue
What medication can lower your T ?

 

Can you compare it to something or describe it?

 

Strong medications I don't recommend you take unless you have severe T and are willing to take the risks...

It's a very high pitched hissing like a dog whistle but a bit lower. Maybe 14-16kHz. It's more in my head than in my ears. Similar to the sound those old CRT televisions make. Or like a pinhole leak in a steam pipe. It's a single tone, but not really a single frequency, sounds like more of a hissing spanning several frequencies.

 

@Alue
What is the name ? You mean Xanax/Benzo or ?
Or trobalt ?
Crystal meth ?

PM me if it's an issue

 

Retigabine. Like I said, I wouldn't recommend it unless it's severe and you are willing to take the risks.

 

@Jake007 It's always there, never goes away. It does get worse at night or if I don't sleep well. I have hyperacusis too and loud noises seem to make it worse. That being said, it doesn't seem to fluctuate as much as most people's tinnitus.

What's yours like?

 

I'm what you would call new, at first it was a loud tone, now it bounces from that to a high pitched dog whistle as yours, sometimes both at same time. Mine is constant always there. The only time I don't hear it is when I'm sleeping. I'm guessing since I'm only a little over a month into this there's no telling what I'll end up with as a baseline. I can hear it going 60mph with window cracked and my t ear is by window. I have a slight case of h, nowhere near what other people have. I was told it'll go away. Mine also seems to get worse at night. Do you have hearing loss?

 

No detectable hearing loss in the normal range. Some loss in the very high frequencies >12 kHz, but I have no baseline for those to compare it to. I do have more loss in the 12-16 kHz range in my left ear than I do in my right ear. My left ear was the one facing my acoustic trauma and is worse than the right.

No telling what will happen with your T. I don't know as much about cholesteatoma as I do about noise induced hearing loss.

 

I had this problem to for 1 or 2 weeks it was i 2016 december, i had a very loud sound, i startet out with a low sound in my left ear then it got worse over 1 week it was a insanely loud sound in my left ear and i could only hear it in my left ear, no matter how i turn my head or body i could only hear it when my computer is on so everytime i turn my computer of it stop and i could only hear my normal T again. But after 1 or 2 weeks this did go away by itself and now i only have my normal T and a sound more in my left ear, that sounds like someone is whistles in my ear but this sound is as low as my normal T now, and is has been like that for over 1 mounth now so i think its some kind of scar in my ear after dat experince :/ and now i sometimes have some reactive T, reactive T is sound i only can hear when there is other sounds around me :/ its pretty wired.

Sorry bad english.

 

My left was at 50db right at 20db. I don't know how to figure kHz, can I figure that out by looking at my hearing test?

 

Reactive t is when you can hear a different t sound with certain noises?

 

ye i think so atleast that what i heard, and it match with what i have :/

 

Or that your T gets louder after exposure to (moderate) noise. Sometimes when I try to listen to music, my T just gets louder and I stop listening because it ruins everything.

Right after my last acoustic trauma, even the voice of someone could spike my T.

 

One year after mine, it still does that

 

I've read that actor Kiefer Sutherland has profound hearing loss in one ear and partly in the other, due to all the loud noise he's been surrounded by in action movies/tv shows. He can't wear ear protection because he has to hear the cues during the action.

I'm not sure if he has T though, but I guess it goes with the job he's sacrificed.

Apparently, Neve Campbell has T too. From too many night clubs.

 

I was doing that today. Bad idea, I stumbled upon some heavy negativity on this forum. This place can be very helpful when you are new to this world, but sometimes people here can really put you down with a bunch of misinformation.

But reading about Willian Shatner always inspire and helps me.