When you talk about improve the threshold, does it take the pain from sound away fully or partly? Does everyone improve to be able do thing's without hindering from pain? Is there days when symptoms are low, but then back to worse again? I have both tinnitus, hyperacusi with pain & deaf on one ear
Hey! I also live in Colorado, been an RN for a while and also developed Hyperacusis and Tinnitus 😭😞. Unfortunately, I am having a hard time with tinnitus mentally (depressed & anxiety) cannot wrap around the fact that will have to live with this for the rest of my life 😩. My tinnitus + hyperacusis started with muffled left ear (after I stuck my pinky finger to scratch my itch). My tinnitus is a bilateral static noise with some humming noise. My hyperacusis is slowly going away but not my dysucusis hasn’t gone away - whats your thoughts about habituate from tinnitus…it’s my only hope or sound therapy etc?
Hi- thanks for writing. I have had tinnitus for most of my life, so that is less of an issue for me. I have learned to notice what makes it better and worse...caffeine definitely can make it worse and having "noise" around like a fan when sleeping can be good, while something a little too loud can make it much worse...it has been 9 months since my hyperacusis/dysacusis started and it has slowy gotten much better, so don't give up hope...being around "normal" life noises without hearing protection has helped me to habituate a lot, but it is for sure full of ups and downs. The other thing to make sure of is to absolutely go see a good audiologist familiar with these issues- as I said in my vids mine in Longmont at the tinnitus treatment place is fantastic. This can inform you where your hearing level is and just give you a well rounded understanding of what you have going...the depression and anxiety from these issues is normal and you must try to do something to give yourself a positive...as I said in my last vid, working out both makes you feel better and gets blood moving to your inner ear...given thst your issue stated by itching your ear, you really need to get looked at to make sure something else isn't going on thst is at the root of the issue. Hang in there, treat yourself well and remember thst it can get better as mine has but it is a slow process. Let me know how you are doing. Todd
Hey Todd, 6 months in with this hell of tinnitus & hyperacusis. Unfortunately I keep going through all these changes that make my anxiety spike back up again like fluttering (spasming) sounds in my left ear which has gone away……. Praying it won’t come back since it’s been a month, but now recently been hearing distorted sounds like the airplane after rumble sound afterwards when it passes when am in the shower or when am outside kinda like a background sound. And now left ear pressure with clicking sound and sometimes feels muffled- and it’s doesn’t help living in Colorado with high elevation. Strangely I feel more comfortable (less anxiety) with my tinnitus (static noise) than with all my other issues I’ve mentioned which scare the crap out of me and get me more depressed cause scared shitless it won’t get better and ENT don’t know crap about it. Todd my questions are the following; did you have distorted hearing, if so how so? You had mentioned you had pressure w/clicking sounds but was it ever muffled hearing at times? And how about muscle spasming/fluttering? Lastly if you don’t mind me asking a more personal question how were you able to handle your anxiety/depression if you had any besides meditation? Have any of these gone away or improved? And what have your ENT recommended for any of them? And how are you doing overall? Sorry, for all the questions but UCHealth ENT specialist have been unless as they don’t know nothing and just rush my appointment to move on to the next. 😞
Hey, I will be doing another vid very soon...I just crossed the 1yr mark since the beggining of this stuff and am finally doing very well. I hope you are too! Update coming...
When you talk about improve the threshold, does it take the pain from sound away fully or partly?
Does everyone improve to be able do thing's without hindering from pain?
Is there days when symptoms are low, but then back to worse again?
I have both tinnitus, hyperacusi with pain & deaf on one ear
Hey! I also live in Colorado, been an RN for a while and also developed Hyperacusis and Tinnitus 😭😞. Unfortunately, I am having a hard time with tinnitus mentally (depressed & anxiety) cannot wrap around the fact that will have to live with this for the rest of my life 😩. My tinnitus + hyperacusis started with muffled left ear (after I stuck my pinky finger to scratch my itch). My tinnitus is a bilateral static noise with some humming noise. My hyperacusis is slowly going away but not my dysucusis hasn’t gone away - whats your thoughts about habituate from tinnitus…it’s my only hope or sound therapy etc?
Hi- thanks for writing. I have had tinnitus for most of my life, so that is less of an issue for me. I have learned to notice what makes it better and worse...caffeine definitely can make it worse and having "noise" around like a fan when sleeping can be good, while something a little too loud can make it much worse...it has been 9 months since my hyperacusis/dysacusis started and it has slowy gotten much better, so don't give up hope...being around "normal" life noises without hearing protection has helped me to habituate a lot, but it is for sure full of ups and downs.
The other thing to make sure of is to absolutely go see a good audiologist familiar with these issues- as I said in my vids mine in Longmont at the tinnitus treatment place is fantastic. This can inform you where your hearing level is and just give you a well rounded understanding of what you have going...the depression and anxiety from these issues is normal and you must try to do something to give yourself a positive...as I said in my last vid, working out both makes you feel better and gets blood moving to your inner ear...given thst your issue stated by itching your ear, you really need to get looked at to make sure something else isn't going on thst is at the root of the issue. Hang in there, treat yourself well and remember thst it can get better as mine has but it is a slow process. Let me know how you are doing. Todd
Hey Todd,
6 months in with this hell of tinnitus & hyperacusis. Unfortunately I keep going through all these changes that make my anxiety spike back up again like fluttering (spasming) sounds in my left ear which has gone away……. Praying it won’t come back since it’s been a month, but now recently been hearing distorted sounds like the airplane after rumble sound afterwards when it passes when am in the shower or when am outside kinda like a background sound. And now left ear pressure with clicking sound and sometimes feels muffled- and it’s doesn’t help living in Colorado with high elevation.
Strangely I feel more comfortable (less anxiety) with my tinnitus (static noise) than with all my other issues I’ve mentioned which scare the crap out of me and get me more depressed cause scared shitless it won’t get better and ENT don’t know crap about it.
Todd my questions are the following; did you have distorted hearing, if so how so? You had mentioned you had pressure w/clicking sounds but was it ever muffled hearing at times? And how about muscle spasming/fluttering? Lastly if you don’t mind me asking a more personal question how were you able to handle your anxiety/depression if you had any besides meditation?
Have any of these gone away or improved? And what have your ENT recommended for any of them? And how are you doing overall?
Sorry, for all the questions but UCHealth ENT specialist have been unless as they don’t know nothing and just rush my appointment to move on to the next. 😞
Todd, update please how you doing?
Hey, I will be doing another vid very soon...I just crossed the 1yr mark since the beggining of this stuff and am finally doing very well. I hope you are too! Update coming...