Never Get Complacent — Tinnitus Can Get Worse

Hey everyone,

I'm probably not the only one that has experienced this but never get complacent with your tinnitus.

After being very careful for a year I barely noticed my tinnitus. I slowly started listening to earbuds again and forgot I even had it.

Now it's suddenly back after a one too loud session of music listening.

I'm on Prednisone now and hope I can get back to baseline or at least less loud than now. It's about 50% louder than when I first got it.

I will try acupuncture this weekend as well and hope for the best.

 

Good luck. Not sure I'm sold on the idea that all headphone use is bad but as you point out, certainly volume is. My guess is that if just 1 session, it will recede in due time.

 

Hi @Bennl.

I am sorry to hear of your situation and hope your tinnitus improves with time. Unfortunately people that have noise induced tinnitus and habituate, risk making the tinnitus worse if they use any type of headphones even at low volume. I am specifically referring to people that developed tinnitus from exposure to loud noise. Please click on the link below and read my post: Can I Habituate to Variable Tinnitus? Hopefully your tinnitus does not increase or become variable.

My advice is not to return to using any type of headphones again, including headsets, earbuds, AirPods.

Take care and hope you start to feel better soon.
Michael

Can I Habituate to Variable Tinnitus? | Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

 

I'd try Nicotinamide Riboside too.

 

So I found my audiogram from 2 years ago. I had the worst ENT doctor who said I have genetic hearing loss (he could see that due to the graph line is typical for that).

Then he just said there is nothing you can do about it, goodbye.

I'm sure it's sound-induced though. I will get a new one next month.

I only have tinnitus on the left side (''links'' on the graph).

My hearing loss seems worst at 2000 Hz. Is that typical for noise induced?



Any insight is appreciated, thanks.