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Hi Danny, thank you for the encouragement from 12 years ago, I'm glad to report I'm still around, but I would have to say very tough going. A few weeks ago I ended up in a too noisy of a car and I've got another tinnitus spike.

It is just so frustrating that I was doing well and now I've got this ridiculous spike to contend with, it's just I'm kind of struggling and down a bit, is all, which I know no one wants to hear someone else is down, I'm not prone to depression, I'm actually normally a cheerful person, just from being able to experience everything I have, living in Canada, having access to education, all sorts of things most of the rest of the world can't even dream of, and here I am.

/ paul m. - sault ste. marie, ontario, and it's cold out.

getting T was so easily avoidable (for me). and then it worsening, and worsening, and worsening, was so easily avoidable. but nope, it all had to happen didn't it. with all kinds of physical pain now too. safe to say i did NOT handle T well.

5 year trophy... is that so. Thanks tinnitus talk. If only that calmed this atrocious spike. And so it goes. Hope some of my friends here are doing ok. I don't pop in much anymore.

i hate the fact that i am falling out of habituation again and again. It is so exhausting. It is so troublesome. I know i must conquer this, but i have no idea how. I don't know, if i can habituate again, when i know, i can get this again and again and again. Habituation is not a fix, it is like a placebo, so the millions will not get into good studies. It is so fucked up.

What makes it frustrating is that I can expose to sounds no problem, and then a few hours after or even in the morning I'll know if it was too much and if I'll spike or have a hyperacusis warning. Makes it SUPER hard to know how and when exposure is successful

I've talked to my psychiatrist. What i'm going to do is take clonazepam a bit more frequently for 1 month (0.25mg or 0.5mg every 3-4 days for a month). Since it works well on my tinnitus and hyperacusis, he suspects that clonazepam might calm my nerves enough to allow me to wean off protections and make my ears used to sounds again.

have u ever tried clomipramine

and.. just a reminder for myself. I habituated to all of that shit, even to the hum. I don't know, why my brain is so good in that, but he really got this. 2025 was a really fucked up year for me with a lot of other mental problems. I have gastritis for 3 months now, which is based on helicobacter pylori and the thing that i have little nutrition it the cause of my spike, i guess. I really, really struggle with it because i was not in a good place before. But what can we do? I try not to think about it, but it is basically unbearable. It is comforting that the sounds were like that 2024, because i forgot. I don't know, when i was getting better or what have i done for it. I think just one day it dropped in volume. And i was fine again. For almost a year. No spikes this summer. But now..

it is actually crazy that i forgot all of it from 2024. And that i have had H, like now. We must battle this shit. There is no way that we can let this win. ever.

loud T since six days. I cope really badly with it. I even have H again. It sucks so much. But i forgot that i have had a very long episode of a spike here. I need to do the right things now. I am so glad, that this forum still exists. Please, if you want to tell me something, share it.

Yesterday was a great day I had almost 0 pain and tinnitus was very low. I over did with digital audio it and today it's spiking badly. I am genuinely fed up with this, my life felt so normal and great yesterday, just for it to be bad again the next day. I don't care if the tinnitus gets worse, I just want to be able to not wear protection 24/7 and go outside. I want to play video games with sound again. I want to be able to speak with my friends over the phone. Just give me that and I'll be happy

how you doing it mate lovely football profile pic you have

That's it I'm fed up with hyperacusis. Tomorrow I'll ask my psychiatrist to put me on Clomipramine.

Sigh. Another ear problem. My hearing dropped again, but when I plug both ears, my voice sounds the same in both. What is this?

I really hate how those hearing drop out/tinnitus episodes we've all likely experienced throughout life now last so much longer... Always spikes my anxiety when it lasts longer than 30 seconds that this time it's not going to end. Plus they always make my ear feel crap afterwards now.

I've been producing music everyday for nearly a whole month now, just on my laptop speakers, mostly quiet. i used to produce a lot of music before in headphones (and never got T from that). Anyway, it's the only thing that makes me not wanna die and I don't hear the T during it, I helps me forget my reality. That's the beauty of music. But overall I think it's making my T worse so I need to take it easy

How is your T ? Hope you are doing well. Have not seen you around here in awhile.

i'm sad

my 30th birthday is 30th January, planning to return up into the stars & asteroids then. Tinnitus, unexplained foot pain & crippling depression is too big a hole and I can't face what my life has become.

Viltrumite smart DNA would prevent the onset of T

do you mean you don't wanna live like posting/checking on the forum all the time or do you mean giving up completely aka deleting yourself?

I've given up lol i don't wanna live like this. Wishing you all the best for your future. I will not be posting anything.

Hi there. Just wondering what your final impression was of the lidocaine/dex perfusion from Shea Clinic?

Hey mate, did you have a relief with your loudness hyperacusis and auditory hallucinations with clonazepam ? I have palinacusis ;

Sitting in light blue sweatshirt

Remember to be gentle to yourself. This condition is tough, exhausting and sometimes it brings even the best of us on their knees. That's why we need to love ourselves more than anything. We deserve the best life we can have. You are the key to that life.

How did you get along with Mirtazapine, mate ? I can't decide whether or not to start taking it.

@Eric N Please update if your spike from the neck ultrasound subsides. I'm currently going through the same thing.

Has anyone had success with NeuroMed? The protocol is $5000 and I'm not sure if it's worth it or just another black hole for my money to fall into.

I'm stopping by to wish my fellow Americans a relaxing, quiet Thanksgiving tomorrow. I hope you see, smell, taste, and touch things that bring you joy.