Photo Album of Tinnitus Talk Members

Nice Metroid Dread stickers @ZFire.

 

When You can bring Peace to your Mind, You can feel Stillness within.

 

For the past week and a half, I’ve been sitting outside with my dog for the majority of the afternoons, either at a park or in my backyard. I’ve been getting back into reading (or at least trying to).

Whenever I’m in my backyard, I’ve noticed this butterfly flying around. It seems very curious, either always landing right by us, or trying to land on my dog or on me. You can see it right by my dog’s paw in the photo. I’ll be sad once the butterfly is gone!

 

Right, let’s see if bee stings really do reduce tinnitus.

 

This doesn’t look like any camp site I’ve ever seen... very swanky. Where are you?

P.S. Careful, I’ve lost a couple of pairs of shoes/socks by this kind or relaxation by an open fire.

 

Just livin' the life, eh?

Breakfast fit for a king.

 

That’s why they call this place AutoCamp. I’m in their Catskills location (posted more pics above your post). It’s 2 hours away from the city. They offer overnight lodging(cabins, tents, suites, airstreams) and accommodations with decent amount of amenities. Most things are taken care of. They leave a nice bundle of wood (for fires) in your place of stay before you arrive and you can buy s’mores kits in their central hub (clubhouse), etc. It’s definitely very pricey, but I was able to negotiate the price down because I extended my stay here (3+weeks) which means a discount. Let’s just say they gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse.

Understood, but damn I’m freezing my ass off over here. -.-

 

Ah, I didn’t click on the spoiler button so I missed all the photos!

I used to do a lot of camping in my early 20s but that was more of a rough camping experience, going for big cycle rides up north with just what I could be bothered carrying.

To be fair, anytime I’ve lost a shoe to the fire, I’m pretty sure a fair amount of alcohol was involved

 

Now if you could send some of that nice warm weather up here, it would be much appreciated.

 

Think it’s time to reveal my face. Going to do before and after photos of my tinnitus onset. I’ll spoiler tag it in case some of you still want to keep what I look like up to the imagination.

Spoiler: Face reveal

Before onset:



My most recent picture. Eyes are looking more baggy (dark circles):

 

Mild and stable tinnitus pre-spike, how unaware and careless I was. I haven’t smiled or had a picture taken since, hopefully I can return to this thread to post a happy after photo.

 

I am not smiling just yet, I’m still trying to wrap my head around how this new tinnitus works. But I took the advice from @Ed209 and @Michael Leigh and got out of the house. I had a brief 10 minute period where I actually felt normal again. It’s not much, but to me it was something.

 

Getting out and about in nature is great masking and even better for mental health. Even if it is for only 10 minutes, it's a start. It looks lovely there with the calm water

 

I managed to get out for a couple of hours. It was just a 10 minute period in the two hours I wasn’t thinking so much about the tinnitus. It’s the first time I’ve dealt with reactiveness; my tinnitus sits above any noise which I’m struggling with the most at the moment. But I agree, getting out in nature was at least good for my mental health.

 

Security team for an event we organized at our camping.

I swear you can enter anywhere if you wear a reflectant vest and a walkie talkie.

 

Very handsome. What I pictured.

 

This photo is amazing!

 

This is good news to get out of the house @Hardwell. In addition to this, taking up a new hobby or interest will help to take your mind off the tinnitus. The habituation process takes time, especially after a second noise trauma. Be patient and stay resilient. The tinnitus will fluctuate and there will be good and bad days but don't let these minor setbacks stop you from moving forward and believing that you will succeed.

Michael

 

Thanks. Let’s not forget about you though. Looking lovely yourself too.

And SpongeBob!

 

3 week camping trip coming to an end tomorrow. Had a relaxing time. Hiked trails, activities, etc, and hell, I even enjoyed working remotely from here too.

The people working there were great. I bought the whole crew pizza yesterday. Reward kindness with kindness is my motto.

 

Looks great there. I’m reassured to know that you can still enjoy such things even with Satan’s rape alarm in your head.

 

Good you enjoyed it, but it must have been hell noisy there. Portable generators, music, etc, I bet.

I loved camping before, but often hated it if there were loud people nearby - and more often than not they were. I was always happy if we found an empty campground. Winter camping turned out to be the best. Or summer in the desert.

We always did tent camping. RV and all the noise these involve never appealed to me.

 

I’ve been shocked by how quiet everything has been here, relatively speaking. Chilling outside my cabin especially late into the quiet night is incredible. Didn’t realize how much I needed this until now.

The clubhouse did have music, but really low ambient stuff. Hardly audible.

Me being a city boy all my life, camping was like a foreign concept to me. But now, ever since developing severe tinnitus and hyperacusis (mild now), camping and hiking is in my cards and future.

If I ever get married, my honeymoon will be at a campsite. Laugh all you want guys.

 

Camping is great, but I don't get most people's attitude to it. They want to get out there and maintain as much comfort as home. A/C? Watch TV? WTF is the point?

The true experience is backcountry camping, whether out of a vehicle or when backpacking. We've done the latter a little bit back in the day and it was great.

 

The outdoors really is awesome. Saltwater fishing around the marshes and islands of Louisiana is the best. Before getting tinnitus, my favorite thing used to be getting on Google Maps with a cigar, inputting some new GPS quadrants on my maps, then launching the boat and just exploring.

 

Must be a blast. I never was into fishing or boats (well, really enjoyed some sail boat trips friends took me on occasion), but I totally see the allure. Sorry, man. Hope you can back into it one day. Motor boats are loud like hell though.

Maybe 7 or 8 years ago we made a trip to LA and vicinity. Drove around marshes and islands. Pretty other worldly.

 

Used to do a lot of the type of camping when I was younger, and it was great fun, but I think it’s also nice to be comfy.

A yurt and a wood burner is my ideal tbh, although I have a van, but anyway, a lot of people these days need Internet etc as they work from home.

 

Trousers can be useful too!