Tinnitus and White Noise and Stuff...

Hi, I’m Kassidy, I’m 18 and I’ve had tinnitus for around 4 years now. So you’re probably like, “Why the hell have you waited so long to join a forum?” Well I had it under control for a long time. I’d use white noise at night and sneak headphones in during class.

But starting around last summer the sound I was using on my white noise app started making my tinnitus louder. So I changed the sound, and around a month later the same thing happened again.

And then I went to a baseball game, where there was a band of bagpipes playing, and I thought my head was going to explode. That was pretty much when I found out about reactive tinnitus.

Since then I’ve been changing sounds every few weeks, because I still can’t sleep without it.

So basically I’m here for advice because I’m running out of sounds and patience. Thanks, and I hope you all are doing well.

 

Welcome to the forum. I wrote about masking and some nice sound sites in my success story. For brevity, you can read it from this link. Hope you find other parts of the success story helpful to you. Good luck. Take care. God bless.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...w-i-recovered-from-tinnitus-hyperacusis.3148/

 

Hi. I would advise using earplugs or earmuffs when you're exposed to loud noises, like the incident at the ball game.