Noise-Induced Tinnitus Recovery After 2 Years (Not Habituation)

[Paulmanlike]

I think mine is tonal, I have 2 sounds. One is like a hissing, the other is like a eeeeee. It's easily maskable with a fan. Can you hear yours in the day?
No hypercausis.
I am on antidepressants, they're not a miracle pill. They help a little although I am still struggling with depression. It's horrible. The mornings are the worse after I am greeted with the tinnitus, as the days goes on sometimes I feel a little better. If you want to pm me you are welcome too.

 

[Vicki14]

250mg is fine @Vicki14 After 6 to 8 weeks if your stress or anxiety that the tinnitus is causing hasn't improved significantly then I advise that you speak with your GP about how you feel. If an antidepressant is recommended I strongly suggest you start taking it. It doesn't have to be a large dose and it can improve your mental wellbeing a lot. St John's Wort mustn't be taken with antidepressants. Please click on the links below and read my two posts. @Bear0211 please click on the links below and read the posts.

All the best
Michael
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/can-tinnitus-counselling-help.22366/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-and-mental-health.21978/

@Michael Leigh Thank you so much for your help and advice. Hugely appreciated!!

 

[Michael Leigh]

Thank you so much for your help and advice. Hugely appreciated!!

You're welcome @Vicki14 and hope you start to feel better soon....

 

[Paulmanlike]

@Michael Leigh can you give me some advice to get habituated? I obsess over it 24/7

 

[Bear0211]

@Paulmanlike
Yeah I can hear it during the day. If I'm super busy not as much.
I think I possibly added to the damage by getting an MRI a couple of months after the noise damage

I would just like the noise to reduce but I think it's too late for that. I also have tmjd and chronic migraines with aura so i don't think this helps. I'm a catch indeed! Haha.

Yes the depression is crippling me just now. I'm far too scared to touch antidepressants but I will now and again take an anti anxiety tablet.

Aww thanks. Ditto to you too!

 

[Paulmanlike]

@Paulmanlike
Yeah I can hear it during the day. If I'm super busy not as much.
I think I possibly added to the damage by getting an MRI a couple of months after the noise damage

I would just like the noise to reduce but I think it's too late for that. I also have tmjd and chronic migraines with aura so i don't think this helps. I'm a catch indeed! Haha.

Yes the depression is crippling me just now. I'm far too scared to touch antidepressants but I will now and again take an anti anxiety tablet.

Aww thanks. Ditto to you too!

Thank you Bear it's nice to know I can talk to somebody who is going through the same as me!

 

[Michael Leigh]

@Michael Leigh can you give me some advice to get habituated? I obsess over it 24/7

HI @Paulmanlike Please click on the links below for information on habituation.
Michael

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/the-habituation-process.20767/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/is-habituation-possible.12758/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/what-does-habituation-to-tinnitus-mean.12409/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/answers-to-hyperacusis-and-habituation.12058/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/inspiration.22894/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-a-personal-view.18668/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/hyperacusis-as-i-see-it.19174/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/the-big-picture.19308/

 

[Rick Brewer]

Hello @Joe J, I read your post about your T frequency getting higher and higher. Mine has also gotten higher in frequency and I think I may have made the same comment back in one of my earlier posts. I've noticed that not only has my T become higher in frequency, but I'm starting to have more low T days vs. higher volume hissing days. I think this has to be a step in the right direction... my high frequency hissing is a combination of high to super high frequencies. Maybe our T is healing 1 frequency at a time - starting from the lower end. If lower frequencies start to disappear, your T would be perceived as becoming higher in frequency. It's a good theory and I'm stickin' with it.

 

[Bill Bauer]

It's a good theory and I'm stickin' with it.

I like it!

 

[Rick Brewer]

Hello @Vicki14, thank you for the kind words. My every-so-often "mosquito" visits usually start out quietly in the mornings but morph into hissing later in the day. For me, the mosquito is an easier sound to deal with. Have you noticed any improvement in your T over the last 1.5 years?

 

[Joe J]

@Rick Brewer ya dude. It makes sense right. It'll keep going up in frequency...then turn into a hiss...then go high where u can't perceive it anymore or go away.

That's what I tell myself. I refuse to give up hope. The highest pitched ones heal last since they are theoretically more susceptible to damage.

 

[Rohit Saluja]

He remembers it took 6 or 7 years for it to totally fade.

Does your father has hearing loss too?

 

[Rick Brewer]

Hello @Rohit Saluja

Yes, he has hearing loss - especially around his wife. Kidding aside, not sure how bad it is though.

 

[dpdx]

Great story

 

[New Guy]

When I first got it it had lots of noises, including a piercing "ring" and high pitched crickets, That has all faded it just a hiss, high hiss. But it is slowly fading

I've got crickets in my right ear at times that sometimes move to my left. I've also got a constant high pitched E more in my right ear than my left. Last week, at 7 weeks, I noticed the high pitched E would turn to listening to static through a seashell for 10-15 minutes 2-3 times a day. The crickets would stay. I also noticed my T gets louder before this change takes place. I'll get frustrated because it's so loud than hear the static and get excited.

I'm hoping for a steady recovery and this thread has been very helpful.

 

[jjflyman]

I've got crickets in my right ear at times that sometimes move to my left. I've also got a constant high pitched E more in my right ear than my left. Last week, at 7 weeks, I noticed the high pitched E would turn to listening to static through a seashell for 10-15 minutes 2-3 times a day. The crickets would stay. I also noticed my T gets louder before this change takes place. I'll get frustrated because it's so loud than hear the static and get excited.

I'm hoping for a steady recovery and this thread has been very helpful.

At 7 weeks in, your T is very new and will most likely fade significantly in the coming months. But it will be slow, I am over 18 months in my recovery (that's just over 80 weeks), and I am about 90% faded, and still fading.
So be patient.

 

[New Guy]

@jjflyman

Thank you JJ. I've read many of your posts. You're a source of inspiration to me. The be patient part is hard but I'd rather be patient than give up hope. Got some more static/hissing for a little while today. Hopefully things continue to move in the right direction.

 

[Egg]

Hi Sarah! it was very positive to hear your story and that you are doing better.

I have some tinnitus (maybe) from a very loud concert and being next to the speakers. That is how it all started at least. However I know that I have been grinding my teeth quite a lot since childhood (probably every night) and no interventions have been helping with it. Now I'm wondering if the concert wasn't the primary cause but rather there was something leading up to it. Maybe you know something about that since it may be similar to your condition as well?

 

[Florida Viking]

God Bless you, Sarah Russett, for taking the time to compile these stories. This effort, I am certain, will be far more impactful than you might ever imagine.

 

[Lane]

I don't know if certain people are more apt to get T, or if once you had it it's easier to get again. Either way, I now carry high definition ear plugs on my key chain. I will be very careful from now on. I have no desire to be around any loud noise ever again!!

It seems increasingly clear to me that once a person gets tinnitus, there will likely be a lifelong vulnerability to getting it again. -- I say Amen to being very careful from now on, and I will be doing the same should I be so fortunate to recover.​

Okay so I compiled a bunch of those success stories

THANK YOU!!! ​

God Bless you, Sarah Russett, for taking the time to compile these stories. This effort, I am certain, will be far more impactful than you might ever imagine.

DITTO!​

 

[Florida Viking]

 

[Estan]

So anyway, I wanted to write this so that people know that things can improve after the 1 yr mark. I know it's so hard to wait. And it's terrifying. And some people will just have to live with it I suppose. But yeah. That's just my experience. I will be around to answer random questions if you have any for a while, but after that I'd like to leave this place behind forever. No offense, but I'd really like to never have to come back and just move on from this (having learned something, of course).

Thanks for this story, just about everything you wrote perfectly describes my situation, minus the tinnitus going away part. Will use this to stay optimistic.

 

[Jr_time]

@Paulmanlike
Yeah I can hear it during the day. If I'm super busy not as much.
I think I possibly added to the damage by getting an MRI a couple of months after the noise damage

I would just like the noise to reduce but I think it's too late for that. I also have tmjd and chronic migraines with aura so i don't think this helps. I'm a catch indeed! Haha.

Yes the depression is crippling me just now. I'm far too scared to touch antidepressants but I will now and again take an anti anxiety tablet.

Aww thanks. Ditto to you too!

.

Hope all is well, what anti anxiety pill do you take?

 

[JohnAdams]

maybe sometimes the natural process that prevents natural age related hearing loss from causing tinnitus can catch up and block the noise

 

[GSC]

good post

 

[Lisha]

Wonder post! thank you. I too have suffered from T that completely went away. Aprox 12 years ago a very load 1 hour exposure some machinery gave me horrible Tinnitus, but it completely faded away after 18 months. Now, I have had Tinnitus again for about 7 months after going to an outdoor concert. It too has faded about 70 % now and I expect it to fade completely in another 6 months or so.
like your post say's, most people who recover just get on with their life and don't usually post a success story, leading new people here to only hear the bad, and they think they will never recover.
I know there are people here who have suffered for years, but the vast majority of noise induced Tinnitus (if it was a short exposure, like a concert or something, not months or years of exposure, like working around loud machines)
will fade away in 6-18 months. It is just so slow, but it usually does resolve itself.

 

[Lisha]

Would you say noise induced like shooting guns outside without ear protection for 30mins. My will fade?

 

[jjflyman]

Would you say noise induced like shooting guns outside without ear protection for 30mins. My will fade?

A lot of variables to consider.
What type of gun? How many shots? Did you shoot or only watch from a distance? Did your ears hurt (actual pain) after shooting?

 

[Lisha]

There were four of us shooting without ear protection. I shot a 380 2-3 times whole clip and a ar 20 clip and a revolver 5 bullets. My ears did not hurt no pain.

 

[Rick Brewer]

Hello @Lisha I'm gonna jump in here. Quick question... How long after you finished shooting did you start to hear the tinnitus?