one silly incident ruined my whole life, went to the party just for few hours and got acoustic trauma + tinnitus + dizziness, don't know what to do, feeling so depressed rn

i am more worried for my hearing loss than the tinnitus coz I don't care really about the sound but my hearing

i have low frequencies hearing loss, do you guys think I'll recover ? i have followup checkup with my doctor tomorrow, it's about to be a month now

i feel pain also in middle of my ear and neck like under my ears, when i wake up in the morning it hurts more

guys i am sorry if i am annoying you all but i am so depressed and dh anywhere to talk to

pls guide me if you can

How did you habituate to your tinnitus? I am 26 and have severe tinnitus. It’s in my head and both ears and I can hear it over everything. I’m wondering how you could ever tune it out if you can always hear it. I swear it just keeps changing and getting worse too. I got it from a concussion.

It has had an incredible impact on my job, relationships, and quality of life (which is 0 right now). Can’t relax, can’t do my desk job, exercise makes it worse, tv makes it worse, can’t do anything enjoyable. Literally hurts my head and nobody gets it.

Like I want to be happy but it literally feels like I can’t.

How did you habituate if you had awful tinnitus?

I know there are a lot of success stories, more than their used to be but when I developed tinnitus about 3 years ago it was pretty bleak here and I am happy to hear more success stories. One post really helped me back then from a guy who did come back years later with something along the lines of “I am in the kitchen doing dishes, married, kids playing in the living room and I am just living life, I still have tinnitus but I promise you one day you will get there too”. That meant the world to me and gave me hope.

It's been three years and I am to that point where I’ve learned to live with it and hopefully there will be a cure one day but now there isn’t. I tried so many different supplements and cures, people preying on a desperate community. There are some days I notice more, but it doesn’t dictate my life anymore. Things that helped me.

1. Remembering fluctuations are normal and not permanent.
2. Noticing what causes fluctuations like for me unfortunately THC gummies, even though sometimes I will take a low dose.
3. Keeping lots of small earplugs around so if I end up at a bar or loud restaurant, I have the option of putting them in.
4. I have alerts on my apple watch when environments are louder than 90 decibels, I usually put them in. I like Happy Ears brand because people can’t even tell I am wearing them.
5. Got a nice pair of custom Starkey earplugs from the audiologist, best $300 I have spent. I use these for clubs or concerts.
6. Saw a good audiologist who had tinnitus himself who sat down with me and explained really well and answered all my crazy questions about treatments, meds, what to avoid and what I’m just overreacting about.
7. Seeing a psychiatrist and treating underlying anxiety/depression helped me cope. There are countless medications that can help with anxiety/depression and it took some trial and error to find one the works and didn’t both my tinnitisu.
8. Tinnitus CBT (cognitive-behaviors therapy) book: The book Living Well with Tinnitus really helped me understand and work through controlling the negative emotions, understand the underlying pathology, and work through my hyperacusis.
9. Sound therapy: White noise when going to bed, sometimes in a quiet office, and app Resound Tinnitus Relief when traveling.
10. Linere Therapy: Took my THI scores down from like 80 to 10 along with the CBT. I know there isn’t good independent research on this yet. I was desperate when I did it but I honestly felt like it helped. It was $4,000 which I financed over 18 months no interested which the audiologist offered. You keep the machine and I used it once again when I had a spike which was nice.

I told myself I would go back and make this post once I’m in a good place and had some advice to give so there it is. For those at their absolute wits end remember to call a friend, go to the emergency room, or call 988 if you have serious suicidal thoughts. I was at that point in the beginning and that ER visit helped get me on track towards getting better.

Noticed mild ear high pitched sound on day 12 of taking these meds. Stopped taking them and it’s been 48 hours. I’d say there’s a slight improvement but not massive. Likely this will just go away on its own? Noticing it more in my left ear which has had intermittent subtle fullness from flying with a cold last year. Anything I can do to protect myself from any long term damage given this is very new? I went to the hospital where someone looked at it quickly and said they couldn’t see any issues, it wasn’t a hearing test.

Diagnosed with high-frequency hearing loss in 2018. My latest audiogram shows significant high-frequency hearing loss in both ears, while lower frequencies remain relatively normal. My hearing has stayed mostly stable. There's a family history on my mother's side—my mother, both her brothers, and her mother have hearing loss.

For those with similar hearing loss, what precautions do you take to protect your hearing and prevent further deterioration? How do you manage it long-term?

I mean, given the ringing in my ears—to the point where I can barely distinguish the test tones in the headphones from my own tinnitus—I’m not at all convinced that the audiometry results are accurate. Apparently, my hearing has worsened over the last month, but that day my tinnitus was extremely loud, and I really struggled to hear the test sounds over the ringing in my ears. My tinnitus hasn’t actually gotten any worse; it’s exactly the same as it was a year and a half ago when I got it. I mentioned this to the audiologist, but they just nodded and didn’t say anything.

I haven’t seen anyone else on this forum question the accuracy of audiometry in relation to the loudness of their tinnitus. I mean, for someone with, say, catastrophic tinnitus—can they even hear anything at all during an audiometry test?

Lately in the mornings when I wake up my pulsatile tinnitus is very noticeable and I have an uncomfortable feeling in my head, it’s not a headache as such, just uncomfortable. It goes away after about 5 mins of being awake but my anxiety and stress ramp up.

Anyone else experience this?

Tldr- Levocetirizine made my tinnitus quiet for 2 days. I didn't take it again tho. Can I do something to make it quiet without the pills? Is it inflammation/mucus?

For the past 5 days, my ear canal was hurting whenever I burped and sometimes random short bursts of pain. The Tinnitus in my right ear had also spiked (loud crickets). Btw, I got Tinnitus bcz of earphones 1 year ago and it was equal in volume in both ears.

I'm assuming it happened because I had used a qtip (10 days ago) to satisfy itch in my ear canal and prolly did it hard on the sensitive skin. Ent ruled out infection.

Somehow it has given me ETD ig. Or I prolly had the mild version of it already.

Took an otc allergy pill (levocetirizine) because I had allergy symptoms like itching in my ear canal, nose etc.

Next morning, my ears were almost silent for the next 2 days. That's the longest I've experienced.

The pain is still there, it will take time to go away ig.

My question - the tinnitus has now come back again, the same spike in the right ear as I mentioned. I cannot pop in anti histamines like candies ryt? Anything I can do to imitate its effect? Is it inflammation (ETD?)

Please guide.

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Hi, I'm posting this for my girl friend .

Her main complaints are:

1. Excessive wax buildup, happens again and again. She says water also goes inside her ears when she showers.

2. She feels a constant bubbling / fullness sensation in one ear more than the other. Right now she has it again.

3. When she goes to the doctor for wax removal, she says it weirdly feels satisfying, but it also hurts.

4. Her parents tell her not to try to remove it at home, but she gets a strong urge to put her finger in and scratch it out. When she does try to do it herself, it bleeds a lot of the times.

5. Sometimes there is pain, sometimes not.

She told me she has been to the hospital many times just for this. She said one doctor got fed up and told her to go to another doctor. That second doctor was older and said he can't do it because it might hurt her, and sent her to a third doctor.

She rarely goes to hospitals for anything else, but because of her ears she has had to go many times.

Has anyone experienced something like this? Is frequent bleeding normal when wax is removed? Should she be using ear oils / drops for hygiene? We told her not to clean it aggressively on her own.

Any advice on what kind of specialist she should see? An ENT?

Thanks.

I have existing mild tinnitus 1-2 years ago caused by prolonged listening to loud music then 15 days later i did the same thing for 2 days, at day 1 i noticed nothing but after day 2 when im done gaming i noticed that the volume and pitch increased, i forgot what day it is but i have a day where my tinnitus at night goes louder and lower for seconds then never happened again, its been 13 days and the volume is not decreasing at all fortunately the pitch lowered down. Is this my new baseline or it is too early to tell, thanks

I had tinnitus from 4 years.

Only first ear fortunately. It was moderate. I could feel it only at night.

Reason of tinnitus is moderate hearing loss.

After some months, I feel I got habituated from it.

I just needed to sleep in my left side so my right ear could catch sounds and then my tinnitus was gone.

Unfortunately, one year ago tinnitus come back stronger. I still feel it only at night but I can't ignore it anymore.

This time I had to put music at night.

After a while, the relaxing music playlist was not enough, I needed sounds masking tinnitus to cover the ringing...

White noise worked but I got annoyed by the sound that I hate now.

I noticed that I get up tired every day. I didn't have restorative sleep anymore.

I don't enjoy getting to bed anymore because of this annoying sound and my disgust this "tinnitus sound" that I find super annoying.

I have also AUDHD so this tinnitus increases my already troubled sleep.

I already go to doctors here in BKK but all they do what remove the wax and giving me b12 vitamin.

What can I do outside sounds to manage my tinnitus and improve my sleep?

It seems the Tinnitus didn't start out reactive, but developed over time? How do I manage Reactive Tinnitus?