MattHooper
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Thank you.I'm truly sorry to hear this. I hope it gets better for you.
FWIW, mine spiked up a few years ago and never went away, though intensity varies. But I find I can still 'listen through' and sometimes ignore completely. I also find that after listening to music, it's worse for awhile :< This is via speakers, headphones/earbuds makes it even worse.
Also fwiw, I did Lenire for six months solid. It didn't work. That's a few thousand $$ that could have gone towards , I dunno, a nice electric scooter , a vintage Fender P bass, or something like that. Still, I feel it was worth a try, supposedly it had a 70% success rate.
I’m glad you’ve managed with yours. Obviously this is quite a common condition.
My Tinnitus has long varied, and it was fairly common for it to be louder after listening to music for quite a while. That never really bothered me because it didn’t get too extreme and it would also fade in an hour or two or by the next day. This time was different. Though as I said I’ve habituated quite a bit to it. So a lot of this could be simply just about how spooked I got.
I actually plan to try listening to some music today.
As far as treatments, I once had an absolutely horrendous period of hyperacusis. All sound was distorted. All sound was painful, including even my own speaking voice. You can imagine that’s not a good scenario for somebody who has to work all day long sound effects design! So I did a treatment for it, based on TRT (tinnitus retraining therapy), employing little gentle noise generators in my ears to habituate. It seem to have worked: by the end of the therapy, my ears had never been stronger, and I was able to listen louder than I ever had in decades. it’s just too bad about my tinnitus spike ruining things for now.