Hello everyone,

Sorry I have been absent from posting lately, hoping everyone is having a nice summer, trying to stay cool in this heat!

As most of you know I woke up one day in March 2011 with an unusal loud hiss/ringing in my ears. I have always had a mild ringing, on and off, but not to that degree.

Since I have sought out some information on tinnitus from this group, as well as doctors, learned a great deal, but still have no definite reason for the sudden tinnitus that accured 4 months ago and I still experience.

Since, I am happy to say all though I still experience the tinnitus I have somehow adapted to the rining, or it has become a bit better, I am not really sure, odd but true. Odd that I am not sure if I am just used to it, or it is better.

The first few days then weeks, I thought about my ringing ears constantly, listened for it always..... and changed my eating habits to try to reduce the ringing.

In doing so I have also lost 30 lbs now, lowered my BP, and started vitamin D, since that was determined very low.

I drink lots of water, walk daily and eat only healthy foods.

It took lots of changing of bad habits, but I made up my mind to eat healthy and walk daily to lose some weight and be more healthy for more reasons then just reducing or curing my T.

I am not paying, or going to a gym, although I do think for some that can afford that, or like that a good idea.

I just got educatinal food and health books, bought good sneakers and try to walk and ride my bike daily.

In addition I cleaned my frig and cabinets organizing them to be able to reach for healthy snacks and treats at all times.

When I shop I read all the labels, and try to eat fresh fruit, veggies, and eat low fats day by day, and have changed all my cooking options.

I do feel much better, more energy, feel less depressed, less anxious and my tinnitus appears to be less especially during the day.

At times I do not even remember I have ringing in my ears sicne it is at bay most of the time.

I do still have the unusal loud ringing upon awakening, but even that I do not think about it as much and it seems to reduce soon after I am up. But id did always reduce from the begining.

So, I am not sure if my T is same, or I am used to it, or it is possibly getting better.

I honestly think it might be a bit better, since I am not distracted by it all the time, the louder odd nosies through out the day seem to be on the most part gone.

Or I am not aware of them, just not sure.

Night time while watching TV I do not seem to hear my T, and while busy during the day also do not appear to notice it. If I stop and listen, I at times hear some, but since I always have had some T., not sure if I might have always had that, and the worsened T., in March might be getting better...Aaaaaa, who knows?

Night time was never a huge issue with me though, but I did notice it in March at night, much more than presently.

I still do not understand why I suddenly woke up with the loud ringing in my ears that day in March, or why I still to date wake up wiit ringing in my ears, then it tends to go down after I am up for a while.

This has been unexplained to me, and my research has not revealed any explanations to that phenomenon either.

My only ideas are, I ate an extremely salty diet of corn beef the night before, I was under stress, I had a migraine two days before, but I have had migraines for years as such, ate salty meals before of course, and have had stress on and off too, so????

Also, I took aspirin, for 8 years, sometimes two a day for neuropathy.

I have since reduced the aspirin down, eliminated all salt, and my stress is a bit less, but still the "sudden" unset of worse T., is what puzzles me????

Since T., appears to come about from more than one possible medical/medicine contributers, in addition to the brain is involed, it becomes a sincerely complex condition to determine the exact cause for many, my opinion anyway.

At any rate some things that appear to distract me from my T., is shopping, working on a project, plays, musicals, and water falling and playing with my grandson.

Things that appear to worsen my T, appear to be a poor salty high fat diet, being hungry, wind blowing through the windows while driving in the car, being very overtired, working out to vigerously, and to date I still always have T, after just waking up, even after a nap.

I am not as anxious about the T., although it still is a condition that I have and if I think about it, listen for it, it is not pleasant and I wish I knew the cause.

Patty