I had sudden tinnitus start in my left ear pulsing a high pitch with my heartbeat. Then slowly a crackling started in my right with its volume based on what I'm hearing. Now Im bombarded with noise every moment of every day. Docs have basically said "welp this is your life now". The Antidepressants arent cheap either!

[–] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Two things helped me: learning not to listen to the "noise" (it's not truly noise, it's a kind of nerve damage), and hearing aids. When I first put the aids in the tinnitus vanished. The downside is that all the work I'd put in to not listening was overturned, because I "heard" the sounds again when I took the aids out. Still nice to have that respite though.

Training yourself to not listen to the racket isn't easy, but it is so worthwhile. Turn your attention away to something else - a smell, a photograph, your pet, anything. Focus away. Just thinking about tinnitus is making it "audible" to me, lol! It's not real sounds, it's your poor abused nerve endings firing off random signals. White noise works for a lot of people, but it never has for me.

Visit https://tinnitus.org/ for more info. There's a download section where you can get a pdf of a scientific paper describing the method.

[–] virku@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That sounds horrible!

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Big Pharma antidepressants ain't cheap, grow a little 🍄 yourself

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you found anything that helps yet? Brown noise? This is also supposed to help: https://trudenta.com/this-simple-trick-may-help-with-tinnitus/

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 2 points 10 months ago

I've had tinnitus since I was born, that trick does help, but only for a couple minutes. I just live with at this point, I've never had true silence so idk what I'm even missing