What Is Habituation Like with Really Loud Tinnitus?

then why are you on this site seeking "support"

 

Maybe giving support???

 

Always good to see the average member engaging in a bit of delusional reverse psychology: if I can convince myself (read: fool myself) that I am doing better, then perhaps I can also convince my surroundings of the same. Somehow the following quote comes to mind:

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
--Abraham Lincoln

 

I think people get for different reasons. Zoloft is the only drug proven to reduce t for a reason. Otherwise, you wouldn't see people on here talking about how they got T from their 5db "loss" as if everyone starts out with hearing at 0. But I won't go off on that. It's so hard to tell what will happen b/c everyone's situation is different. Sounds like for some people it goes down for others it doesn't. Some get used to it some never do. It is also hard to tell how loud someone's T really is since it's so subjective. Even my own is hard to rate. I would like to think that one day it won't scare the crap out of me but I can't imagine that. I know I will never think of it as my friend or be comforted by it, rather it is the complete opposite. I'd like to get inside my head and beat the shit out of it. I would like to think that at some point my brain would filter it out and stop hearing it but idk if that's possible.

 

I'm sure if you looked around this forum long enough you'd find a few posts about Zoloft apparently causing somebody's tinnitus, such is the variation in our experiences and how we interpret them. That's one of the things that can be so frustrating. Tinnitus is treated as the disease when in fact it's a symptom of a deeper disease process, and thus, yes...different reasons, many unknown it seems.

 

Yeah, I saw that post further up too, I was a bit WTF....oh well, whatever. If it works for someone it may just work for someone else...not me though.

 

What do you mean ? Getting used to it and not habituated.

 

Do you have spikes? How much maximum do they last?

What caused tinnitus, did you pass the audiometry in the extended range?

 

It seems to me that everything depends on the loudness and obsession with the tinnitus.

If the tinnitus is weak or even mild, in time you can get used to it and live a full life.

But if it is heavy, is it possible?

Especially frighten spikes. What is this .... Where do they come from.