Joining the club.

Hi guys, I'm 30 years old and joining the club. Even though I had heard tinnitus every time of a loud night out this time is not going away. I am an amateur musician and heavy headphone user who also works around a lot of noisy equipment... this suck.

Joining to get support, and good ideas for coping. From what I read tinnitus is not something steady that remains the same forever, rather something that changes tones, shifts in intensity and sometimes appear/disappear/reappear.

Masking sounds work as a charm, unfortunately I can't be plug to weird tones and white noise all the time.


Will hear from me . Hope you guys are doing better.

 

Hi VT, to TT. You will find pretty much all the different things that have been tried & tested here for coping, as you seem to already know. hopefully the noise will go away again for you soon.

 

Hi VT and welcome. You will definitely find this forum of great support and a good source of helpful information. Stay well.

 

Hey welcome VelvetFont,

what kind of music are you into ? I'm also an amateur musician

 

Welcome.

Hey you made it to 30! Being a musician that's a good thing! For most it comes earlier especially in this day and age.

Yes you are correct it does get better, under the right precautions from this point on.

I stay away from masking with white noise, it's to harsh and can even aggravate your Tinnitus.

I use pink noise and have even taken the time to remove some of the higher frequencies even more, you can download it on my site:

Download: files/Pink Noise - higher freqs reduced.zip

Remember to loop it as it's only 2 minutes long.

Let me know how you get on.

LDK

 

Hey guys, thanks for the welcome!

Well.. this Tinnitus thing is really getting on me now. I have read plenty more info and the most useful advice was from the british BTA Where it mentions that after a while our brain is able to stop paying attention to it to the point of not hearing it even though it is still there.

@James White , I have been into a lot of different genres through the years. I started with alternative rock on bass, moved to indie rock on guitar, moved to Spanish rock on piano and up until then everything was good but then I moved to dance music, specially disco/house and that's what kicked in the Tinnitus. I used headphones (loudly) for almost 2 years exploring the genre and going out very frequently (sometimes up to 4 times per week) to hear some local DJ.

The weekend was very good. I almost stopped listening to the noise. At some point in the night I woke up and I did not hear anything, only silence. I wanted to wake up my girlfriend and say to her: ¨Hey, Listen! There is no more sound!¨Of course I knew that wasn't a good idea and I went back to sleep. I thought the worse part of the Tinnitus was over but today has been horrible. Like a dentist electrical drill in my head all day during work. It makes me wonder... what happened in the weekend that I almost stop hearing the noise but now it is as loud as it can?

@Mr LDK , thanks for the link! It doesn't work that well for me as I can hear my high pitch Tinnitus over it but it may work later. I ll try using it for sleep as so far I have tried to sleep without any background noise.

Will keep in touch, thanks all!

 

Howdy, VT... from one newcomer to another, welcome to the zoo Mine also waxes and wanes... weekends are usually relatively quiet for me also but Monday morning back to work and mine's singing loudly by the end of the day. I take melatonin tablets (my brand name of choice is Alteril) to sleep...two or three a night. They seem to have a calming effect not only in helping me get drowsy but it seems to turn the T down a notch too.

 

Hey @AnnieM . Luckily I am good with the sleep so far. If someone was meant to have a pain sound in his head and go to sleep is me. I could manage to sleep standing straight, I am such a sloth.

Today the T was so good. I woke up and I did not hear it until I thought of hearing it. It laid cool for the rest of the day and just kicked hard when I got back into my quiet room. My quiet room is such a Tinnitus room. It is like the normal sound of the every day life is now too much to my ears and give me a hard Tinnitus when in a quiet space. Like now normal sounds impact me as I went to a loud concert. I should get checked by an audiologist . So far I have not detected hearloss. But better be safe than sorry.

Stay positive.