I was dumb enough to watch Mad Max 4k Blu-Ray within my enclosed home theater using my Nakamichi Dragon with 4 12" Subs at 50% volumen.
The result was that by the end of this 117dba Peak Generating Movie (132 DbC) my hearing was muffled on my left ear and I could hear a faint ringing.
2 days went by didn't pay too much attention as I've always been a bass head that loved loud music, thought it'd go away eventually, but after 3 says the ringing went higher.
Naturally, I went to ENTs, Audiologist, and Nose/Throat/Ear Docs, none of them had anything for me aside from Prednisone, steroid nasal spray and the clear statement that this ringing was here to stay... Forever.
I researched like crazy and stumbled upon TinnitusTalk, I read countless threads and one thing seemed to be prevalently mentioned, NAC (N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine)
At this point I had been taking Prednisone for 2 days, which was changed to Dexamethasone IM because I had told my Doc that I read Dexamethasone and insisted it was superior for NIHL with less side effects to the ears like Hydrops ETC, doc agreed, and I swapped to 10mg Dexamethasone IM for the remainder of the 7 day course.
I could swear the Prednisone had worsen my Tinnitus, but at the same time I did notice improved hearing on my muffled ear, and even my good ear, same for dexamethasone but without the Tinnitus increase.
SideNote: (I've never had Tinnitus in my life before this initial event)
Move forward to 15 days after this terrible event that hurt my ears, I developed Hyperacusis, any noise that before was pleasant and comfortable (80dba and even 90dba) was now triggering the worst T imaginable the same night, and it made my ears feel muffled.
Desperate I started taking Jarrow's NAC Extended Release, at first I felt some relief with my hearing, and by day 5 of taking NAC (Day 20 since the event) I could swear my hearing was the best it's been since the initial event.
Sadly, that didn't last long, as just 3 days later experienced this improved hearing, the worst T ever imaginable came to me, rushing in like a tow truck trying to repo a Truck at the grocery store, fast and hard, funny enough this seemed to coincide from the time I swapped from Jarrow's ER formula to Thorne's IR 500mg capsules.
This is when I realized that, I was getting worse, and I believe NAC had everything to do with it.
How could something that was making me feel better for 5 days suddenly harm my Tinnitus like that?
The main problem was that I had habituated somewhat to my 20 day old 1500Hz Tinnitus, but after taking NAC a completely new, even more intruding high frequency tone showed up, and it was hell.
I even low-key started to miss my previous 1500Hz frequency Tinnitus, which was drawned under the new 7500Hz tone.
For the first time ever, I needed masking sounds like Violet noise, which sadly, when waking up the next morning, those same masking violet sounds giving me relief at night, would make my ear feel muffled when waking up in the morning, and this only happened to the ear facing the violet sound at maybe 5-10% the volume of my phone which sat on the nightstand next to me, so I stopped masking sounds too.
It's been 2 weeks since I stopped taking NAC, and it's been around 5 weeks since the initial and regretful Mad Max event, now I started taking NR, Resveratrol, Acetyl-L-Carnitine, ALCAR & NMN, but I can definitely say that the HF T that NAC apparently caused me, that hasn't gone away as I hoped it would, I'm afraid it'll become chronic, which would really frigging suck.
I'm posting this as a counter warning to those taking NAC due to so many success stories, and maybe the dosage and time length I took it had anything to do (Like I said, first 5 days seemed great) or it could even just be the swap between Jarrows to Thorne.
Just be careful, there's much we don't know yet about these supplements, tinnitus and hearing loss. Why did NAC caused me to develop a high frequency T? I don't know, what I do know is that I'm done with NAC.
TLDR: NAC gave me new High Frequency T Tones, my T bothersome scale went from 4 to 8, and it hasn't improved after 2 weeks of stopping NAC.
The result was that by the end of this 117dba Peak Generating Movie (132 DbC) my hearing was muffled on my left ear and I could hear a faint ringing.
2 days went by didn't pay too much attention as I've always been a bass head that loved loud music, thought it'd go away eventually, but after 3 says the ringing went higher.
Naturally, I went to ENTs, Audiologist, and Nose/Throat/Ear Docs, none of them had anything for me aside from Prednisone, steroid nasal spray and the clear statement that this ringing was here to stay... Forever.
I researched like crazy and stumbled upon TinnitusTalk, I read countless threads and one thing seemed to be prevalently mentioned, NAC (N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine)
At this point I had been taking Prednisone for 2 days, which was changed to Dexamethasone IM because I had told my Doc that I read Dexamethasone and insisted it was superior for NIHL with less side effects to the ears like Hydrops ETC, doc agreed, and I swapped to 10mg Dexamethasone IM for the remainder of the 7 day course.
I could swear the Prednisone had worsen my Tinnitus, but at the same time I did notice improved hearing on my muffled ear, and even my good ear, same for dexamethasone but without the Tinnitus increase.
SideNote: (I've never had Tinnitus in my life before this initial event)
Move forward to 15 days after this terrible event that hurt my ears, I developed Hyperacusis, any noise that before was pleasant and comfortable (80dba and even 90dba) was now triggering the worst T imaginable the same night, and it made my ears feel muffled.
Desperate I started taking Jarrow's NAC Extended Release, at first I felt some relief with my hearing, and by day 5 of taking NAC (Day 20 since the event) I could swear my hearing was the best it's been since the initial event.
Sadly, that didn't last long, as just 3 days later experienced this improved hearing, the worst T ever imaginable came to me, rushing in like a tow truck trying to repo a Truck at the grocery store, fast and hard, funny enough this seemed to coincide from the time I swapped from Jarrow's ER formula to Thorne's IR 500mg capsules.
This is when I realized that, I was getting worse, and I believe NAC had everything to do with it.
How could something that was making me feel better for 5 days suddenly harm my Tinnitus like that?
The main problem was that I had habituated somewhat to my 20 day old 1500Hz Tinnitus, but after taking NAC a completely new, even more intruding high frequency tone showed up, and it was hell.
I even low-key started to miss my previous 1500Hz frequency Tinnitus, which was drawned under the new 7500Hz tone.
For the first time ever, I needed masking sounds like Violet noise, which sadly, when waking up the next morning, those same masking violet sounds giving me relief at night, would make my ear feel muffled when waking up in the morning, and this only happened to the ear facing the violet sound at maybe 5-10% the volume of my phone which sat on the nightstand next to me, so I stopped masking sounds too.
It's been 2 weeks since I stopped taking NAC, and it's been around 5 weeks since the initial and regretful Mad Max event, now I started taking NR, Resveratrol, Acetyl-L-Carnitine, ALCAR & NMN, but I can definitely say that the HF T that NAC apparently caused me, that hasn't gone away as I hoped it would, I'm afraid it'll become chronic, which would really frigging suck.
I'm posting this as a counter warning to those taking NAC due to so many success stories, and maybe the dosage and time length I took it had anything to do (Like I said, first 5 days seemed great) or it could even just be the swap between Jarrows to Thorne.
Just be careful, there's much we don't know yet about these supplements, tinnitus and hearing loss. Why did NAC caused me to develop a high frequency T? I don't know, what I do know is that I'm done with NAC.
TLDR: NAC gave me new High Frequency T Tones, my T bothersome scale went from 4 to 8, and it hasn't improved after 2 weeks of stopping NAC.
