Poll: The Hardest Thing About Tinnitus for You?

For me, it's insomnia. Secondly it's feeling of depression.

 

TORTURE

 

To sever due to Menieres.

 

The realization of a fight that you didn't want to get into, and you're left with marks.

 

Needed to have an "All Of The Above Selection."

 

Waiting for it to get better because all my life things get better with time. I suppose I'm not being patient enough again.

 

All of the above. Destroyed my life. People criticise me all the time for how i chanced, but if i tell them the reason, tinnitus, which prevents me to do almost everything (sleep, rest, relax, focus, work, be an enjoyable company, being optmistic and powerful, self-esteem, believe in myself, ability to deal with stress and get the job done) they simply dismiss it and they do not care. I am not sure how much i can put up with who i ended up to be. Too humiliating. And all that because of an invisible reason that nobody understands or gives a shit.

 

Someone who never had this can't possibly even begin to understand the terrifying 24/7 torture by a continuous high pitch sound (or sounds)...to be honest if it didn't happen to me, I wouldn't really believe it myself.

 

Interesting poll. Thanks for posting.

 

the fact that it gets louder by daily sounds. making me avoid certain things

 

Needs a "volume" option.

 

Everything about tinnitus!
The high pitch sound, the volume and that it never stops

 

A lot of these options are interlinked. For me, it's anxiety/panic which naturally affects most areas of my life.

What I find especially disturbing is the sheer relentless of it: mine is 24/7 and it's terrifying to think you may not know silence again in your life. Thankfully, some of the low frequency sounds that decided to move into my head two months ago appear to have gone. I'm now left with a sort of metallic-rumbling-bass sound (hard to articulate) and musical tones/voices/hymns which moves about in my head from one day to the next. Occasionally, I'm getting a day of metallic thumping-banging sounds in the top of my head. That's the absolute worst. I haven't come across anyone on here who has described the same sort of thing so, even on a tinnitus forum, you can end up feeling alone.

 

its insomnia for me, it really takes a toll on me especially when i have not slept for atleast 3 days, another thing is my time to think, it harder to concentrate with a constant ringing ears

 

All the above . This is the Devil , if it not a sickness. Trying still to figure out ,how to destroy him. I didn’t want say that because we all good ppl. What else can it be?

 

For me it's the fear that it will become worse, and how that fear affects me in my daily life. So in a way I guess that it's all of the above.

 

For me it is the fear of losing hearing and inability to listen to music again... I am really scared for my future. So scared that I just freeze and can't focus on other things.....

 

I agree...to me this condition is the absolute pinnacle of pure evil.
Human beings are not programmed to live in constant noise.
The need for silence and being able to relax and sleep is one of the basic requirements of long term survival.
Tinnitus is a completely unpredictable, brutal 24/7 torture, it feeds on fear and anxiety and it is invisible to anyone around you.
What I don't understand is, that mother nature has usually pretty good mechanisms of keeping us alive and well (or at least trying to), but having the brain amplifying this anxiety causing sound, without realizing that by doing so it is slowly killing the body with stress is not a very well thought out mechanism at all.