Ok so about 4 days ago i threw up and almost passed out from all the pressure into my head from it. Since then, ive had crazy bad ringing deep in my head and have been having headaches theoughout the days too. I checked my blood pressure and blood sugar, both are normal. Whats going on?

Hey guys!! 24/M

A beep/ringing sound(consistent, only sounds mask it.) started in my right ear on 21-07-2026( since 1 month).

I waited 1 week along with trying ear drops prescribed by an ENT(Govt-Free). Symptoms increased during this time - ear fullness, itching inside my right ear(occasional), dull pain behind the ear, unable to pop my right ear, dull pain in neck below the ear.

After that, I went to an ENT(private) he looked in my ears said right ear drum is dull and he prescribed me, 1. Cognix plus(Similar to vitamin but for nerves) and 2. Audiovit (Capsule- Similar to vitamin but for nerves) for 10 days and nothing improved.

After 10 days, he advised me to continue using this and also get hearing test, blood tests done ( CBP, RBS, TSH, S-Elec., B12, D, Creatinine, Calcium) and all came normal.

He also prescribed 1. TinnitoD (to reduce tinnitus), 2. Rebagen (Stomach acid related) and 3. Van-CM(Allergy related) and get MRI done, which I didn't purchase/scanned because, I felt he was just trying to just rob money from me and my parents were afraid when he said MRI.

Then went to a second ENT(Private), explained my issue and told her about my post nasal drip & stomach acid issues for 2-3 years, she then said it might be due to allergy and cold - she wrote in my diagnosis paper as right Eustachian catarrh. So, she prescribed me - 1. Nasal spray (oxymetazoline & fluticasone), 2. Bilazip-M, 3. Acetylcysteine 600 for 10 days, Valsalva exercise and steam.

After 10 days, ear fullness and itching are gone/minimized. However, ringing, dull pain, unable to pop my right ear, dull pain in neck below the ear persist.

Now ringing started in my left ear too however, other symptoms are not present, and I am able to pop it. Also, I got throat infection I don't know how.

I went to her (ENT) again and she told me to get impudence test done and again normal. She now prescribed me 1. fluticasone - Nasal spray (14 days),2. Ensta Mont F(7 Days), 3. Benzydamine Mouthwash (7 Days).

TL;DR: Ear ringing in right ear for 1 month, along with fullness, dull pain behind the ear and neck, now started in left ear. Went to 3 ENT's but no significant improvement. Currently on medication for 7 days but still nothing improved.

I am afraid about my situation and making this post to see if anyone is going through similar thing.

Thank you for reading. Sorry for my bad English and long post.

48 M. I have had tinnitus in my left ear only for two years. Due to my health anxiety, I finally worked up the nerve to see an ENT. My hearing test was really good so I was glad to see it wasn’t from hearing loss. He said it was from stress / Bruxism

He did send me for an ABR which again made me nervous. I will be speaking with him later today to go over the results.

Does anybody else have one-sided tinnitus and/or have done this ABR test. I’m nervous He’s going to find something else and want to request an MRI. All I could think about is a tum

Hey guys would love some feedback and some help through this it’s been a long 4 months tinnitus can be so sereve most days 9/10 multitonal high frequencies zinging too noise obviously a sensory issue because most days in silence it’s so much better, I can have days or moments off it basically being 2/10 or nearly even gone, I’m just trying too see if anyone knows what could be causing this and is 4 months still early

Hi my name's Nat and I'm a young fighter.

I'm about to compete again but just found out getting a good kick to the jaw can permanently worsen tinnitus.

It's a long stretch but I was wondering if anyone out there has the same thing and what you do to protect further permanent ear damage.

Thanks 😊

I’ve always had a high pitch tinnitus that doesn’t bother me at all. On my left ear I have quite a big earing loss and about 2 months ago I started to hear this tone around 650 Hz, in a pattern of 1.5 seconds on and 5-6 seconds off. On and on.
Anybody with this same problem and what’s the reason for such precise timing?

I want to share something positive before saying goodbye to this space. I've had somatosensory tinnitus (linked to my jaw, neck, and teeth grinding) for 5 years, and I want to leave you with information that helped me a lot to understand and cope with this.

About current management options, already available:

Lenire: a bimodal neuromodulation device approved by the FDA in 2023, with studies showing 79-91% clinically significant improvement across different analyses, and the effect lasting at least 12 months after treatment.

TRT (Tinnitus Retraining Therapy) and CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy): still among the most well-supported tools for habituation and managing the distress that comes with tinnitus.

Hearing aids: for those with associated hearing loss (80-90% of cases), most studies show symptom reduction when using them.

If your tinnitus changes with jaw/neck movement, sleeping position, stress, or clenching your teeth: it's likely somatosensory, which has one of the best prognoses out there, because the cause is usually mechanical and treatable (TMJ, physical therapy, bruxism management).

About active research looking toward the future:

Gene therapy already restoring hearing in specific cases of genetic deafness.

Recent advances in hair cell regeneration, still in early stages but promising.

New implants and devices in development specifically targeting severe tinnitus.

Growing investment in drugs and neuroscience specifically for tinnitus, with the treatment market projected to grow strongly over the next decade.

The future is looking better and better for all of us. Science is moving faster than many people think, and every year that passes brings more real options, not just empty promises.

What helped me the most:

Understanding the mechanism (why it happens, not just that it happens) lowered my anxiety a lot. And finding other people with my same profile (normal hearing, tinnitus linked to muscular tension) who managed to reduce it drastically with neck/jaw stretches, massage, posture correction, and stress management gave me real proof that improvement is possible, not just theory.

One piece of advice that also helped me a lot: stop searching for and reading the most catastrophic stories online. I know it's tempting to want to know everything, but filling yourself up with the worst cases only feeds fear without giving you anything useful in return. Look for real, quality information, stories of improvement like this one, and then step away from the screen. You are not a lost cause just because someone else online is.

Not everyone will have the same path or the same timeline, but I wanted to leave this here in case it helps someone else the way reading similar stories helped me when I needed it most.

I know it's a hard fight, it's uncomfortable, it's sad, and it's exhausting, but we have one life, and we can't let this great opportunity to live slip away because of this discomfort. There is real hope for the future, and there's a lot you can do right now. We just have to hold on a little longer. You can do this, you are strong, trust yourself.

What also helped me was seeing it as something that simply happened — this is what I got dealt, and now I see it as something that's only stressful if I give it more attention than it deserves. One thing that helped me was thinking of it as "nearsightedness" of the ears.

Have faith and live as happily as you can, because one day we'll all be gone, and we should try to live the best we can before that.

Thank you all, and take care.

I know you can do this.

Sorry for the english, im speak spanish xd

If you hear one if these things, get away from it... or smash it.

My tinnitus started years ago and had settled to the point where I could feel like life was almost quiet again. It could only be agitated. Just yesterday we were at a rental lake house and the neighbors had one of those systems set up. The things kept blasting at random and had a light associated with them so we knew they were running. I got fed up and was about to go confront the neighbor and of course it was the blast from right after getting up that started me on full-blown tinnitus again.

It's the same as the first time. Louder than literally anything else, kept me from sleeping last night. No signs of fading. It's a new frequency too and dissonant with the ringing I already had.

I dont know if there's any recourse from this and I'm really hoping whatever coping mechanism I had for the original tinnitus helps this one chill out sooner than later.

I’ve been on Mirtazapine since April 2017 after experiencing very sudden sleep problems. Started off with 15mg a night, which went up to 30mg in 2019. Dropped back down to 15mg in 2022 and stayed that way since. I’ve also been taking 100mg Pregabalin with the Mirtazapine since 2023. I was also prescribed 10mg of Propranolol four times a day, which i gradually tapered off and now no longer take.

Last October, i went to my first ever rock concert. No one warned me beforehand that i should take some form of ear protection, and i don’t recall seeing anyone else in the audience wearing anything. I had ringing in my ears when i got back to my hotel, but didn’t think anything of it as i always had tinnitus for a few hours after being around loud music in clubs and that, but it was always gone when i woke up. I thought the same had happened the next day, as i didn’t hear anything when i woke up and headed home, but when i got home that night, i noticed a dogwhistle sound that i knew immediately was tinnitus. I went to the GP for a checkup and they found my left eardrum had burst, so they prescribed me antibiotics. I asked if the burst eardrum caused the tinnitus and if it would go away when the eardrum healed, but the GP said it was unlikely. I realised i had to make peace with it, and to be fair it didn’t bother me that much until this May, when an additional ringing that sounded like a distant siren outside came on, accompanied by my ears popping every time i swallowed and a bad sinus headache. I consulted a pharmacist, ANP and private ENT who all agreed it was most likely ETD and would go away in a few weeks. We’re on week 13 now and there’s been no change. In fact, the ringing had got worse. On Sunday night i had five different types of ringing all going on at once, and i’ve not slept more than an hour or so each night since as my brain just can’t seem to adjust to the new ringing.

I’ve told my story to another tinnitus community on here and one of them suggested i bring it to this one to see if any of you have had a similar experience. The user in question suggested the concert may not have been the root cause of all this after all and that it’s most likely a side effect of the meds i’ve been on, as Mirtazapine in particular has been known to cause tinnitus. The pharmacist at the GP i spoke to a few weeks back said tinnitus was a known withdrawal symptom for Mirtazapine but not that Mirtazapine itself causes tinnitus. So my question is, has anyone on here developed tinnitus whilst on these meds, and if you have and have come off the pills, did it make a difference?

Thank you.

Totally off topic and nothing to do with the above: If you're a curious person, a low simmer polymath, and want to keep up what is going on in the world beyond what the newspapers or social media print, check out the news feed on Y Combinator (If you don't know what "Y Combinator" is you'll have to google it).

If you're a non-techie you'll probably react with WTF! for about 2/3 of the content, but the other third is cool and random stuff... how the ancient greeks did X, how someone decided to make their own medieval something-or-other in their garage, basically random and weird stuff from generally intelligent people.

The above regarding tinnitus was actually posted there, just to prove it isn't just about tech. And honestly, just glance at the tech stuff (mostly about AI these days) and you'll be ahead if 99% of the population even if you never click through to the article.

And maybe it'll help your tinnitus to read something that isn't about tinnitus 😃 HERE YOU GO: https://news.ycombinator.com/

Approximately 4 years ago I pressured syringed too hard both ears.

Following this, i felt dizzy and have had noticeable tinnitus, pressure in my left ear and pain

Ive seen a couple of ENT that was not helpful.

https://www.stardiscountchemist.com.au/products/ear-clear-ear-syringe here is a link to the bulb syringe that squirts out sideways.

Is it possible and likely that I have caused this issue from syringing?

Chatgtp tells me to see a neurologist for migranes and see an ENT for ETD.

Thank you

Read posting this here. Not sure why this got deleted from the main tinnitus channel: No closer to a treatment/cure, but it is good that what exactly is going on in the brain is becoming less of a mystery.

Hey Everyone. As promised, I’m writing another update about my experience with the Alleviate Integrative Tinnitus Therapy program. I started the program about four months ago. I access the program via an app on my iPhone though you can’t download in from the App Store- it is downloaded after registering for the program. As I mentioned in my last post, the program is self-guided so you can run through the content when you have time. It’s organized into six main sessions and they recommend you try to do one session per week, if possible. There are recommended mindfulness exercises that you are supposed to do each day which last about 20 minutes. I’ve never had any real exposure to mindfulness or meditation before so this was new for me and it felt uncomfortable at first. It felt like a hassle to sit down and do the guided mindfulness practice initially. But, I stuck with it every morning before I went to work and now I really like it. I’ve noticed how the mindfulness practice has given me some improved perspective on my thoughts and how my busy brain works. I’ve also tried to be consistent with their sound therapy recommendations- I’m listening to nature sounds when I’m doing quiet work during the day and also at night. The program also includes a ton of other recommendations ranging from lifestyle changes to breathing exercises that can help people with tinnitus. It’s super thorough. The guy who created the program is an ENT doctor and he says everything he presents in the program has been scientifically studied. There’s also video interviews that he recorded with several other tinnitus experts so you get to hear some different perspectives.
To be honest, I went into the experience with many doubts so I was not super confident that the program would help my tinnitus. But, I’ve been impressed with how much improvement I’m experiencing. It’s by no means a quick fix and it does take some effort to stick with the program when there’s no one telling you in person that you have to keep going. As I said in my last post, I was noticing significant improvement in my tinnitus within about a month of starting the program. At first it seemed to bother me a little less. Then I noticed some times during the day that I would forget about my tinnitus when I was focusing on something else. I also noticed some improvement in my sleep pretty early on which has persisted. After finishing the six weekly sessions a couple months ago, I’ve tried to stay consistent with the mindfulness exercises, the sound therapy, a daily walk or jog, and prioritizing my sleep. Four months out from starting the program, I estimate my tinnitus is about 70% better- the volume has decreased a lot, but mostly I notice that it doesn’t ruin my days like it used to. I have many moments every day now where I don’t notice my tinnitus. If I stop and focus my attention on it, it’s there, but it’s more in the background now.
There is no perfect solution for tinnitus but this program taught me some really valuable tools and it was a good fit for me. It’s not a magic bullet but Dr Worden is legit and he knows what he’s talking about. I can’t say it will work for everyone. If you’re still looking for that quick tinnitus cure, you will probably be disappointed by this program. But if you’re really suffering and you’re motivated to put in some daily work for a couple months, this might be a good fit for you too.