New to Tinnitus, What to Do?

@Michael Leigh, from all your posts I've read, I would say you've never had severe tinnitus. Your advice has probably worsened a lot of people because you feel you know it all. Go outside and get on with life. Stop giving bad TRT/sound enrichment advice to those with hyperacusis. You recommend to use sound generators but then say not to use headphones. What's the difference?

No-one should be advised to take medications for tinnitus. Ever.

 

God bless you sir, thank you

 

I have explained the difference between headphones and white noise generators many times in the forum and just recently in a post this week. I recommend white noise generators should be used under the guidance of an audiologist/hearing therapist that specialises in tinnitus and hyperacusis management.

You would rather someone sink into deep depression because of their severe tinnitus than advise medication that could prevent them from causing their early demise.

Michael

 

For me and a lot of people I know, less anxiety = less tinnitus.

 

Thanks for the courage you exemplified by calling out @Michael Leigh for constantly dispensing advice that can definitely worsen this condition.

You exemplify the skills of a Phillip Marlowe (the classic Private Investigator in Raymond Chandler's Crime Novels) when his refusal in such a pig-headed fashion to dispense with such pernicious advice has aroused your suspicions about whether he really has ever had severe tinnitus.

On a fantasy level I played with the supposition that he is merely a catfisher who at most has had this condition moderately and for whatever perverse reasons enjoys antagonizing scores of posters. Also, would such catfishing account for the numerous aliases he hides behind?

When you recommend that he "go outside and get on with life", I for quite some time have felt exactly the same thing. I contemplated the sheer volume of time it would have required for him (or anyone else, for that matter) to have posted 9,357 entries; why would anyone feel the necessity to repeat themselves this many times with the same injurious, stupifying banalities?

Another Phillip Marlowe deduction might be, "Because the guy's got almost nothing else in his life."

 

Sometimes I visit Tinnitus Talk just for this feud.

 

As far as I am concerned, this is no different than finally facing up to the proverbial obnoxious schoolyard bully.

I have never had any problem of this nature with any other poster.

I commented quite reasonably on one of Michael Leigh's posts and he tore into me. I ignored it, and he did it again on another one of my replies.

THAT DID IT.

Look capt'n, I don't know where you come from but us Chicagoans have a definite zero tolerance policy for this breed of bully.

Sometimes I feel like I'm Gary Cooper in "High Noon" and the rest of you are the townspeople.

Think that one over.

 

As someone who constantly laments being “gaslit”, you seem to be okay at gaslighting another member who’s had tinnitus for A LOT longer than you.

Look, I know Michael Leigh may not to be everyone’s flavour and he’s quite rigid with his beliefs, but his advice does probably provide a lot of relief to new members and I feel his advice comes from personal experience/a place of genuinely wanting to help fellow members.

 

You are quite right @Stayinghopeful, I visit this forum to try and help people that are having difficulty coping with tinnitus and hyperacusis.

@Travis Henry is being disrespectful and that's fine, because it shows more about him than me.

Michael

 

Would you like a lenghty list of all of the recommendations that @Michael Leigh has so pig-headedly insisted on that have been empirically established as being either worthless or quite detrimental?

I can furnish such a list upon request.

@Michael Leigh is the verbal equivalent of a bacillus.

It is everyone's moral responsibility to remain alert regarding the above and thus quarantine him such he can inflict no further damages, especially on new posters whose desperation entices them into believing anyone who presumes real medical knowledge about this (even if this "expert" happens to be no more than a retired carpenter).

 

@Michael Leigh, thank you for all of this. When you say the sound machine should be set lower than the tinnitus, do you mean the tone or the volume of the sound machine? So I should still hear my high-pitched hissing over it, but not mask it?

Thank you!