Over the years, I've been treated on and off for my TMJ by a physical therapist.
I guess at this point you will just want to avoid any further trauma to your ears, and hope that you will be one of the people who report experiencing fading after more than a year of no change...
Whether you try or not, you will get there. With time your brain will lose focus on the tinnitus and the tinnitus will no longer affect you in any way. It will just be there and it will slowly fade into the background of your awareness until it no longer is in your awareness at all.
As my hyperacusis is slowly getting better, my anxiety and fear are also getting better.
Habituation is great, but it shouldn't be confused with actual improvement. Honestly the stories of actual volume decrease are far more meaningful. "You'll get used to it" is akin to saying "You'll always have it", so I actually think this is not the most supportive or optimistic thing to tell someone.
Thank you for sharing this. I did not realize this, as I was focusing more on the anxiety reduction, not the volume reduction. I still think that there are a lot of forum visitors that have more issues with the anxiety than with anything else. But I will take your point of view into account for my future comments.
Ok, dear brain, please delete these multiple tones within the next 6 months. Thank you.
Damn, I rolled the dices ten times straight and all my results were in the 51-100 range. I guess I'm f$$$!
Do you mean it's possible to make tinnitus permanently louder by moving the jaw forward?
No, make it louder for as long as the jaw is pushed forward. When you relax, the sound ought to go back to normal.
No, you probably didn't do any damage, don't worry too much about it.
I presume a "residential stay" means at a psychiatric clinic. I had pretty much the same thing - but after taking high doses of Valium initially and then tapering off to 2 mg at night. Unfortunately, when I returned home, the tinnitus basically came back. I have also experienced it in my parents' place when I went back to the UK.
They said up to a year there's a chance of tinnitus of going away but we still see here every now and then success stories of people's tinnitus going away after a few years.
@monkey124 - that's great news, very happy for you.
@NYCGuy - I understand that tinnitus can get better, but I am talking about the specific scenario in which one changes their environment in a big way to a low-stress environment and this seems to make their tinnitus disappear incredibly quickly.
Thank you. I will try and hold on to hope.
My initial tinnitus completely resolved. It was bilateral ringing caused by an AC/DC concert without earplugs. People ask me about the timeframe. I usually say about two years but the thing could've resolved sooner. I just stopped caring about it. It was also easily masked so I wasn't as aware of it unless I was in a quiet room. Truth be told I feel almost foolish - how out of my mind I was about that level of tinnitus compared to what I have now - high-pitched torture. I can't mask this one - from another acoustic trauma 2.5 weeks ago.
@Forever hopeful, I gotta ask.
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