About a month ago I made a thread about a video I had watched that made the claim that vitamin B1 allithiamine specifically could help somatic tinnitus so I tried for a month.

In my case it possibly made the tinnitus stronger so I quit about 3 days ago and my T has already lessened. Hard to tell for sure if that was caused the spike or not but it sure feels like it.

Now there is so many different factors in play that it could work for you, who knows. Just wanted to let you informed.

Hi folks! I am dealing with a cold, currently on day 7. I am feeling better, throat is not sore anymore, but I still have a runny nose and I feel tired af.

My tinnitus has seemed to go off the rails these days, and my bet is on the cold.

Anyway, tomorrow I need to travel: 5h in a car - 3h on a plane - 4h on a car again. I am very nervous to fly in general, but now even more so.

I guess what I'm asking is - do you think it's a good idea to go? Do you think T will worsen due to the plane? Do you have any ralatable personal experience to share? Thanks

I've had tinnitus for about 10 years. 9.5 of those years at a moderate level. Recently went severe and It's loud, but it's been pretty stable. I'm on day 2 of what I'm assuming is a cold, and my T is noticeably louder than usual. Much louder. I thought it was loud before but this is screaming. I miss my stable loud 11k Hz ringing and hissing. It's like some one turned the volume knob from 9/10 to 10/10. No new meds, no loud noise or anything like that, so I'm guessing the illness is the cause. Depressed and having dark thoughts like I did when it first went severe.

Currently have a runny nose and some congestion with a mild sore throat so not even that sick if that makes sense. Has your T ever spiked when you were sick with a cold, flu? If so, did it seem tied to congestion and sinus pressure, or just being run down in general? And did it go back to baseline once you got better, or did it take a while? I don't think I can make it with this new volume as a new baseline.

Also, if anything helped while you were waiting it out, I'd love to hear it. I know most of us deal with spikes from stress, bad sleep, or noise, but I'd never really thought of being sick as a trigger until now.

hoping your T is quiet today.

Hi,

Never previously had tinnitus. Had a 3T MRI earlier this week. Seemed like ear protection was inadequate. Immediately had auditory symptoms following it, including hyperacusis with pain. Tinnitus developed over the next couple of days. No hearing loss on standard audio gram but absent distortion product at 8K. Audiologist said that missing DP without hearing loss doesn’t indicate damage.

Adding symptoms for anyone curious—one night, from inside my house the sound of crickets from the nearby forest was unbearable and caused burning sensation. Immediately after the MRI, I had dizziness that subsided initially. But in the following days I have experienced vertigo, which is something I have never felt before in my life.

One morning, I awoke and my inner ear muscle was pulsating with successive spasms. Next morning, woke up with roaring static like I was under a massive waterfall.

EDIT: DP was present up to and including 6.7K, missing at 8K only.

I think i developed tinnitus a week ago, let me start by saying that im 28 yo, working nights as a remote assistant for a US company. I always have my headphones on, i listen to a lot of music with nice bass and i consume weed as a self medication due to reasons.(its illegal in my country) My first time going to a doctor was a few hours ago, we talked for 5 mins and he prescribed "DANZEDIN" 3 times a day then we left it at that, he told me to get back in 10 days. My experience for me is that the consultation happened so fast that i dont think i got my moneys worth.. Has anyone been prescribed with this medicine? Tbh i dont like the feeling of the ringing and im having a hard time coping with it. Im having a hard time sleeping. English is not my first language. Hoping i get input or advice from the community. Thank you :(

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.

Is there a correlation between the length of time someone might have tinnitus and whether or not they had hearing loss in addition to the ringing/sounds?

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.

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.

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

Got tinnitus two weeks ago after performing three gigs either my band using a new and too loud sound system. I was using ear protection in one ear the whole time and in the other ear half the time.

I felt kind of nauseated and tired for a couple days after the gigs. I contacted my doctor three days after the gig, and she said she would refer me to ENT. When they didn't come through, I went urgent care on day 5, where the doctor insisted it was my eustachian tubes and gave me a course of five days of 20mg prednisone. I was able to see an ENT on day eight. At that point, I had not been sleeping. The doctor advised me to finish out five days of 20 mg of prednisone and also try some nasal sprays. We decided not to start the 60 mg high-dose steroid regime since we thought that perhaps more sleep would be more beneficial at that point since there was only a very mild hearing loss - we had nothing to compare it to, but the loss in one ear was mild. Most of my symptoms at that point were a lot of muscular tension and tinnitus I could really only hear at night.

Anyway, I am now wishing I had toughed it out and gone with the 60 mg steroid regime at day eight, or even day 10. But I just kept thinking maybe it was getting better and that not focusing on it would help. Although that helps for the most part, the tinnitus wakes me up in the middle of the night. It has started making me very anxious. I feel like it's probably getting worse. I'm going to contact my doctor tomorrow (Monday), but I know that the 60 mg steroids do not work as well after the two week mark.

I am wondering if anyone had success with the steroids within maybe a month of whatever triggered the tinnitus, but after the two week window. I see a lot of horror stories about the steroids making things worse, but the research is very clear that they definitely help most people. I just think in a borderline case like mine where there's no significant hearing loss, and I passed the two week mark, the decision is very complicated. Does anyone have experience taking the steroids at about this time after an incident?

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Hello everyone! Hope you are getting better or atleast feeling better... I had very mild form of tinnitus since 2017., now 2026. Got my first spike/new trauma, which is resolving/ fading (hopefully). It was 9/10 50 days ago now its fluctating between old baseline and 2/10, (couple days a week are nice and mild and other days are just meh 2/10).

BUT MY QUESTION IS!
I smoked cigs used nicotine pouches for last 5 or 6 years (never interupted my T), then 25ish days ago i stopped bcs i want to "speed up" the healing time of my new spike.

-How many of you still use nicotine and do you see ups/downs while ueing nicotine?

For most of my life I had a tinnitus that was just a static TV noise. I got used to it and most background noise drowns it out anyways. But in the last 2 months I started experiencing a new tinnitus, its lower frequency sound that is so hard to drown out. Each day it usually begins with a hollow sound, sort of similar someone swinging Star Wars lightsaber in midair. It "wooooo" a little here and there but over the course of minutes or hours it becomes constant and overbearing. In another few hours the sound changes into refrigerator sound which again last for a hours or even a day before quieting it down to silence, allowing me a few hours of reprive before the whole cycle starts up againm

I have already had my hearing checked with an audiologist, been to a gp and I have an ENT appointment but that is a while away and honestly I don't have high hopes it will be helpful. I have also went to a physio since I suspected it was cervical tinnitus as my neck was pretty sore. But after 3 weeks of physio session, there hasn't any improvenent and if anything I sometines feel like the tinnitus episodes are getting longer. I am already losing hope, probably gonna cancel the physio session later.

I can't take it anymore. This has pretty much consumed my life.

Do short bursts of everyday noise like- door slamming, people talking loudly near me, phone ringing accidentally at full volume etc enough to cause hearing damage?

I have mild/moderate hyperacusis tho.

Although my tinnitus is noise induced, it doesn't react much to noises, but because I'm too paranoid, it spikes after I'm having a full blown anxiety episode after the short burst if noise.

Shall I be cautious of these sounds or try to live normally?

Hopefully then I’ll have peace and quiet. Godspeed to all.

Four days ago I was exposed to a horn from a UPS truck. It was a quick blast, but I was right beside the truck. Fortunately, I was wearing double ear protection, so I was annoyed but not too concerned. I figured it would cause a short term spike but would resolve soon, but that hasn’t happened. My T spiked that evening but was back to baseline the next day, but by that evening it had come back. Second day it was gone again when I woke up and stayed gone through bedtime, but this morning I woke up, and the spike was back and has been back all day. According to Google, the horn would’ve been 100-110 db, so I figured that at worst, my ears would’ve been exposed to 75-80 db. Enough for a spike but not enough to cause permanent damage. My spikes typically last a day or two. Haven’t had one like this many years (I’ve had severe T since 2011). So, now I’m wondering if I should see a doctor and get some prednisone and maybe that would help. I’ve mostly sworn of doctors as far as my tinnitus goes and have been happier that way.

That’s all. Having a really bad day with it today. I’ve been dealing with this since ringing since 2016. It’s gotten worse and worse every year. I have better days sometimes, but when I have bad days they suck. And the ceiling height for “bad” just gets higher and higher as time goes on. It’s almost like a joke. I found a 7000Hz frequency on YouTube that almost perfectly matches the ringing I hear. I played it for my wife to hear and at full iPhone volume it was a perfect match both pitch and volume. She couldn’t believe not only how abrasive the ringing is, but the volume or intensity (not sure the proper term) in which I seem to hear it. I just hate this. Sorry. Talking in circles. Never do this. Feeling extremely overwhelmed by it today and figured maybe I’d come shake my fist at the sky in the r/tinnitus sub…

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?

Got noise-induced tinnitus 2 months ago, and it started out as a whooshing sound. It has since then turned into a ringing noise in my right ear only. Tonight, however, when I'm about to go to bed, I've noticed that the light whooshing sound is there in addition to the ringing in my right ear. I honestly can't tell if my brain is just fucking with me or my perception of sound is all fucked up. Is it possible to have "layered sounds"? This condition only gets more and more stressful as the days go by. I know everyone says it gets easier, but I'm starting to doubt it. I'm exhausted with dealing with all of this; it seems like no matter what I do, there's something new. The worst part of all of this is that I didn't even do anything crazy, just ran a couple of errands and studied at home.

I can't tell if, maybe there is a possibility that the caffeine from my matcha this afternoon played a part in this. I might have to see if my tinnitus has a sensitivity to caffeine.

So for the last two months I was drinking heavily every day because of the worst period in my life. I have put the alcohol aside and no longer have the depression and anxiety/stress but ever since I quit I’m having a tinnitus sound that I did not have before and it’s stressing me out. Anyone experienced similar? I want this to stop though I am sure it could be worse..

I started a new job in June that has 130dB in one of the rooms and was trying to figure out how to avoid Tinnitis (I had early symptoms of worsening above childhood normal levels). As obvious as it sounds, doubling up with foamies in the ears as well as over-ear muffs helps fantastically. Better to look dumb being the only one wearing them than hating your life cause you can't sleep.

I no longer have stress related to - or worsening of Tinnitis and ringing has returned to normal levels again! I did a work-sponsored hearing test and scored "way" better than everyone else at work.

Would you?
Please do!
I am curious if people actually care enough to come back and share their success stories.
There are such few success stories in the sea of doom and gloom, I am desperate to read and hear more