Tinnitus Forum - Mytinnitus

Hi Loossenup,

Welcome to the forum.

Most tinnitus sufferers will fully understand your feelings. In the first couple of months it can indeed be very difficult. One has to be patient until one finds personally suitable measures that relieve and improve the symptoms. For me for instance the occasional simple painkiller (Paracetamol or Aspirin) has worked very well in the beginning. Later I discovered also the calming effect of alcohol-free beer. For more tips see my Home Page. These should merely be understood as suggestions though. They may not be exactly applicable for everybody, but if you try around along these lines, you should find some suitable measures for yourself. The only guideline really is to avoid everything that stimulates your nervous system, and on the other hand apply nerve calming measures (basically, try to figure out what aggravates and what improves your tinnitus). If you are consequent enough in this sense, it should eventually gradually improve. So don't worry too much about it. At the moment it may seem all a bit challenging, but if you are determined enough to take on the challenge, you are already on the road to recovery.

Thomas

Yes, I know, relaxing is easier said than done here. But on the other hand, the worst factor with tinnitus is in many cases actually the fear rather than any concrete reasons. As I said, this is largely a nervous condition, and as fear will very much strain your nerves, the tinnitus will get worse through this, which then will even further increase your fear, and so on, i.e. a vicious circle develops here.

So it is all important here to try to concentrate on the positive aspects and moments, even if these are not very frequent so far. Do not think so much about the future, but try to cope with it on a day to day basis. Once you gain only a little bit control over it (by whatever means), your fear will get less, and the tinnitus will improve then as well.

By the way, TRT is usually only recommended for chronic tinnitus sufferers in the later stages. So after 3 months, it would probably still be too early for this (and by the time you would be 'eligible' for it, you might well have gained control over it yourself already).

Also, I would suggest you consider whether the sound generator and white noise CD really help you. Noise maskers don't work for everybody, and in some cases they can even aggravate the problems. So if you feel this is the case, you should consider reducing their use.

Thomas

Hi Glenn,

Welcome to the forum.

I am sure you have read around already a bit, so you know that tinnitus is largely a nervous condition (hearing loss or not) (see for instance http://www.tinnitus.org for some more background information). So it is recommended that one avoids further artificial stimulation of the nervous system (like through caffeine or alcohol) and on the other hand applies some nerve calming measures if possible. On my Home Page I have given my own experiences in this respect, but the nervous constitution can be quite different from person to person, so lastly it depends here on personal experiments. Just try to adjust your daily habits somewhat according to which ones you think aggravate and which ones calm down your tinnitus. On this basis you should gradually get the condition better under control.

Thomas

Hi Sanjeev,

Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing your experiences.

It is well possible that yoga can help with the problem, but I would consider it likely that this is mostly due to the relaxation associated with it. Other relaxation techniques often help as well (I am just saying this because yoga may not be an option for everybody).

Thomas