r/tinnitus

Hello,

I’ve had really severe tinnitus for a little over a year. It’s been debilitating, isolating, and demoralizing, all of which I imagine many of you feel as well.

I’ve been offered Lenire with a 1,000 dollar discount but honestly I’ve never seen someone post about success with Lenire. I’ve seen people say that they spent the money and it either didn’t do anything or it made it worse. I’m terrified of it getting worse.

Has it worked for anyone? Or anyone you know?

Thank you in advance.

Im so dumb. I have been in a spike for over a week now because of an exposure to a megaphone. Tonight we went out to dinner and the restraunt was super loud. I had my earplugs in the whole time, now in enhanced spike. I totally fucked myself and now this is going to be my baseline. Darkest spot I have ever been in. FML

I suddenly woke up with a more severe ringing and fullness in my ears than I ever had before in the middle of the night does anybody know what that could be? I got honked at right behind me yesterday and that’s the only thing I can think of that could have caused it. I did have peltor x5a on.

I have tinnitus around 2 months after antibitics. I want to live but its hard, its reactive all loud noises did my T louder. I don’t know if there medicine can do T just milder or get away reactivity. but I don’t know, my parents are old my wife young. I have to work and live but how? I work in drilling service and its super loud here, after worktime always its loud T, and worsened, I can go to home after 6 days. dont know what to do, go home or not its also not interesting but there also hard. HOW TO LIVE?

Hello agian. Starting out on guitar was so aaah. I have had tinnitus and documented my real time trauma on here on r/ tinnitus.

I have recorded jams on electric guitar everyday now for like a year, but it's not at all worth it. Like i have to ask everybody my age to repeat themselvs 3 times in a row daily. This is likely the worst "hidden" disibility i live with.

My biggest complaint is that my freetime i get like goverment holidays, breaks from job i littreally got nothing to do the like sit at home, scroll, talk or shop with friends, or drive random trips to nearby towns. I have been way more outgoing but, i am unable to use my time in those gaps, i quit drinking and smoking totally. But those gaps that went like clockwork back then by gaming, gym, movies, songs now are so boring i have nothing to do besides guitar, witch i am almost scared to pick up now.

My tinnitus is worst on my left side, i have a hard time listing to people my age, i wear hearing aids. I have a tinnitus that is like a wall bunker type sound to it, its spiked like crazy with facial pains on my left cheek very ofthen. I got fine hearing, but on my recent graph i says that my right ear is now better then my left ear???, at the it scoops at 6k to 10k, to like 30 dbHL part. witch was my good ear for months, like i did not found out until now last summer it was ok ish but not bad, i will wear plugs and stay away from guitar for some days now.

Even then the og trauma came from my right(still have low sensitivity and lack off feel in my right) I had this sort of tinnitus in my upper left ear/brain forever, that is sort of sizzling, my right ear does it a bit but its more hidden. I use maskers and now my aids but i has this annoying tremolo effect sometimes with music and shows.

My living situation is liveable, allthought i find hard to enjoy simple things i never took for granted. I can't enjoy tv, films or even music, i def does not hit the spot at all, like i can watch two movies the same day and feel nothing, only thing i see "media", or music "here comes the verse" it's absolutely ruined and damaged my perspective on life, art, media and how i view things.

Once you had to buy starter instuments since the one you had at home was unplayable. I was a nerd on pickups and own them all. when you actually start improving or doing it everyday; you constantly fear you might act go deaf in your early 20s. I am a hobbist, so i don't have fancy in ear monitors or headphones, i mostly use musicians earplugs and foamplugs.

To be honest i feel so selfish and that i have an ego, doing what my dad has been doing since the late 70s. I really just want to play all the time even if i don't get paid for it, but i start to littreally not hear people when driving now and i took a hearing test as of today. This hobby sucks so bad due to

How much risk it is, and absolutely no reward, not ten dollars even. once you go even mildy deaf as a hobbist, depression will be there day 1. Like video games, movie and songs aren't immersive at all as you remember them. Dude this can actually ruin people lives who aren't well established or have a family.

The weird thing is that i played an orange amp on my right side at like vol 3 far away on the theater stage and on studio, max 30 min a day with plugs. Like why does my left ear go bad if that was the best? Safe volumes on headsets, did'nt have a massive bad tinnutius episode due to new trauma, like what. I have not been invited to play for a single band or artist due to having mild autism. I just jam everyday with my looper.

Did go to my audiologist and she did fix my hearing aids to give me better audio. But still am confused.

Hi everyone,

I recently developed tinnitus in my right ear pretty much out of nowhere, and I'm trying to figure out whether anyone has experienced something similar.

The strange thing is that it isn't consistently there. It can get quite loud, then become much quieter or completely disappear for a while. Sometimes lying down or changing position seems to make it disappear, and then it may gradually come back after I sit up. However, the same position doesn't reliably fix it every time.

There are a few other things that make this confusing:

- For several weeks, I've had quite a lot of neck and upper-shoulder tension, particularly on my right side.

- A day before the tinnitus started, I irritated/pulled something in the right side of my neck. It felt much better the next day.

- Clenching/tensing my jaw can change or trigger the ringing.

- My right ear sometimes feels slightly blocked or like it needs to clear/pop.

- If I pinch my nose and blow, I can eventually pop the ear, although I have to apply quite a bit of pressure. The tinnitus/ear sensation can temporarily change afterward.

- I've also had very mild occasional dizziness/imbalance, nothing severe or disabling.

- When I tried putting a couple of ear drops into the right ear, they seemed to just sit there. My hearing became extremely muffled, almost like I was covering the ear, and the drops eventually came back out when I sat upright. The same drops went into my left ear normally without causing that level of muffling.

- Looking into the right ear with a phone light, I can see something pale/white inside that I don't see on the left. I haven't tried touching or removing it.

Because of the blocked sensation and the way the drops behave, I'm wondering whether there could be wax/debris or inflammation in the canal. But because the tinnitus changes with jaw tension, neck tension and sometimes position, I'm also wondering about TMJ/somatic tinnitus or Eustachian tube dysfunction.

I'm planning to have the ear properly examined rather than trying to remove anything myself.

Has anyone here had tinnitus with a similar pattern, especially tinnitus that comes and goes completely, changes with jaw/neck movement or body position, or occurs alongside one-sided neck/shoulder tension?

If yours turned out to be TMJ/neck related, ETD, or an ear blockage, what ultimately helped?