Your post is very interesting. In my 12 years of tinnitus everytime I come up with something that helps it seem to only work for a short period of time. You get it stuck in your head that no matter what you do the tinnitus will always find a way to sneak back in and make your life a living hell. What has happened just in the past 6 days with my tinnitus has left me completly numb.

Neilster,
When I read your post it described exactly what happens to me on different days. No rhyme or reason. Yesterday was a very good day for me, tinnitus was low, noise didnt make it go up, then BAM, today it's higher than a tea kettle and everything makes it worse, and Ive got tones coming in and out.
This thing has a mind of its own. I keep thinking I have a theory and it gets blown out of the water. I quit coming up with theories. Drives me nuts. Best Wishes! Judy

I am with you guys.

My electrical stimulation works great, and then all of a sudden, I get a off the wall daily spike.

It's frustrating. But you can't give up. I know there is a remedy at there somewhere.

The man upstairs is going to come through for us. It's all it the timing. It will happen, when we least expect it.

I have the same as Judy. Loud t, noise goes up. Quiet day, which is rare, no sound sensitivity? I can blast the TV and it is okay.????

T is one great big ????

All I can do is to keep distracted the best I can and take it one day at a time.

Hugs to you all,
Sandy

Good thread, I'm glad I'm not alone in this, sometimes I think it's like a mystery given to the mysterious ones.. ie.. us! I did notice very few athletes and businessmen get it.. just artists and creative people :)

Anyhow... what about total and complete silence? I met a girl last week and her place is 100% dead quiet... my T was so low.. then i come home to my computer-fan-whirrrr filled room and i've got a symphony of crickets singing the god damned blues the whole night.

I have never had an apartment without background/wall/motor/fridge/neighbor/street/cars noise permeating it... do you think dead silence would help keep it down?

maybe this chasing the solution only to have it slip away is the psychological aspect of keeping the sound alive.. thats the one piece of god damned %*& that keeps coming back.. if i was only able to forget about it and not 'listen' to it for a year it would fade so deep it wouldn't be there anymore... but i could be wrong.. but how will we/i ever know!!! I can't forget about what i want to figure out... paradox of consciousness!

All I can say is I wish I knew, the best I have found is distraction and hoping that cure is on it's way.

Please try to find some peace, I wish that for you with all of my heart. :)

I would like to add something here..... this only applys to me, as we are all different. My T is not affected by any thing that is outside of my head itself. A quiet room is DEATH! that is when the noise is soooo loud that I can not deal with it at all. This is why I can't sleep at night. Wake up every 10-15 minutes. I must have some noise going on. I have a small aquarium air pump that howls all night long. I worked at first, now I don't know it's even on. I see the bubbles however...
Well, I've rambled on again, I'm going now to go make some noise....
Mike

A quiet room is absolute torture, must have some kind of noise constantly. Sleep with white noise as well as music playing. managed to get 6 straight hours last night......yay, a rarity for sure.

Very interesting... a quiet room for me is a ringing i can listen to and live with... a louder environment is a ringing that disturbs everything else.

dgn58,
Sorry if there is a big guy upstairs he would have desinged us so we wouldn't suffer this hell, at least not permanently without hope. Take prayer and meditation for instance. Those two things are now out the window. How can one follow the instructions of Psalms etc about meditation now? I can't believe an omnipotent God could over look this detail. I understand life is suffering and misery and maybe somewhere in the court of cosmic justice it will all wash out but until then and within the confines of this mortal coil I fail to see any redeeming spiritual benifit of this thing. You can call me a heritic, a lunatic and a negative nellie. For me I need to stand with both feet on the ground and live in reality. I don't say this to bring anyone down. I'm still a child of the universe, I will survive.

Wow! Seems like a big combination of us either like pure silence or need some white noise... Guess that goes to show everybody suffers differently. I find a hepa filter low noise fan works perfect when I sleep.

fotoduck

I understand what you are saying. I am a Christian, and I sometimes wonder why does the suffering become part of our lifes.

I had some real hard times in my life, and for some reason, I always seem to come out of it.

I know it's hard to believe in a higher power, but I have seen some things in my life time, that all I can say, that it seems like a miracle.

I really do feel there is something around the corner waiting for us.

I do believe that the cure for Tinnitus, is coming to us alot sooner, than in the previous years, because of the military issues.

From your mouth to God's ears dgn58. :)