louder tinnitus high pitch

[hazyfan]

Hi all, iv been suffering from a more louder tinnitus high pitch since a ear infection been going on 2 month, has caused me to have a near nervous breakdown, anxiety / depression have had to take antidepressants just to cope, life feels like daily slog of misery.... does it ever get any better to cope ?

[Jimmuck]

Hi Hazyfan,

You must be going through hell right now and I can well understand why. I developed tinnitus a few months ago so I am trying to come to terms with it myself as mine is also of the very loud piercing variety. Some days, especially when it spikes I feel like banging my head on the wall but I know it will eventually settle down and it has done, several times. I am still trying everything I possibly can to try and tame it and as long as I do that, at least I feel as if I am still in control and not the other way round. What helps me is keeping busy with hobbies and daily chores and I find playing musical instruments also lets me focus on something other than the commotion going on inside my head. Recently I have discovered really hot steamy baths calm it down and I am also trying CBD oil with varying degrees of success! There are many people on here with far greater knowledge of the condition and I am sure they will be able to help you more than I can. Try and calm down, although I know it is very very difficult and find something you enjoy to occupy your attention as stress and anxiety make it far worse. I hope you feel better soon and I look forward to hearing about your next QUIET day which WILL happen. Best wishes.

[hazyfan in reply to Jimmuck]

Hi Jim, many thanks for taking the time to reply to me, I guess the first few months are the toughest, I am trying to maintain my normal life going to work etc, but every day is s struggle hopefully time will heal.. I wish you the best

[Jimmuck in reply to hazyfan]

Hi Hazyfan,

You and I sound as if we are on the same journey in trying to come to terms with tinnitus. I am fortunate enough to be retired and I don't have any work related stress any longer so well done you on managing to cope with the daily grind as well! I was working freelance from home after I took early retirement five years ago but on the advice from the hearing consultant about stress making T worse, I decided to call it a day at the end of last year, so now I have lots of time to myself again. Keep checking into this forum as I have found it very beneficial in terms of advice from other sufferers and as they say..it's always good to talk!

[Curlew]

Hello Hazyfan, Yes, you won't believe me at this time, but it does get better and it will. If you look through my posts you will see that my T seemed to become worse after my lovely mum died a few weeks ago. I thought I'd never have the wherewithal to cope again and get back to a more normal life , but I have.

I didn't believe it when I read about people getting used to very loud intrusive T. Mine is 24/7 and believe it or not it us starting to become just like the background noise to my life, if this makes any sense to you.

Try and keep busy, I'm sure you don't need me to give you advice, but stick to positive stories and keep positive yourself, it definitely helps.

It's a trying and debilitating condition, but you will get used to it, it just takes lots of time and patience.

I've now come to realise that the weird thing is not having T, but having T and still being able to laugh and get on with life!

You'll get there.

Take care, C

[Lindsay6 in reply to Curlew]

Thank you for the words that even very intrusive tinnitus can be accustomed to ... hope has to stay with me after 5 full on years of trying to manage this ever increasingly high pitched and loud noise ( which doesn't like any of the healthy things I do 😡)

[hazyfan in reply to Curlew]

Hi Curlew, many thanks for taking the time to reply and giving me hope, its still early days in my journey so i am hoping time can heal and the anxiety / stress will fade down to a manageable level. I wish you the best

[Ruud1boy]

Was your recent ear infection the starting of your T, or have you been struggling with it prior to that. If it is just a recent thing, then you are still in the very early days of dealing with this affliction and they are generally accepted to be the most difficult.

I'm 14mths in to my relationship with Mr T and I'm only just now starting to see some glimmers of hope in terms of less intrusive tinnitus. I won't lie to you, the last 14mths has for me been a living hell and that's no exaggeration - BUT!! I've been clinging to the comments of other forum users telling that it can get better over time and I'm now starting to experience that for myself. You've just got to try and tough it out as best you can through the horrors of the 'early days'. Take care of yourself and you ears, get some meds from your GP if you need help managing your emotional state, learn and apply as much as you can about T, but don't forget to live your life.

If you think of yourself as the editor of your own daily newspaper, if you put tinnitus on the front page every day, you're always going to hyperaware of it. If you can start relegating it mentally to page 2 or 5 or 7, it becomes less of a problem. Sounds daft I appreciate, but most things are with this condition.

[hazyfan in reply to Ruud1boy]

Hi Rude, thnask for your reply, iv had very mild T, for many years only ever heard it at bed time never bothered me, then the ear infection has really made it loud intrusive, that's when the gates of hell opened, great advise about the newspaper , just wish my anxiety would calm down, even tho I m on meds to help, early days tho, but i am a better place than I was a month ago....

[Ruud1boy in reply to hazyfan]

Very similar to my own experience - I've had it for 10yrs+ but it never caused any problems and any sort of background noise masked it, but then it got massively worse at the end of 2016.

All you can do is take it one day at a time and hope that tomorrow will be better.

[hazyfan in reply to Ruud1boy]

just reading some of your posts, how you doing lately?

[Ruud1boy in reply to hazyfan]

Marginally better overall over the last couple of months, with a noticeably better period over the last week or 2 - I can still hear it, 24/7 and quite loud, but it's not causing as much distress as it was previously - that's habituation effectively, of reaction at least. The holy grail is 'habituation of perception' where you've trained your brain to the point that you no longer hear the noise. Might be some way off yet.

[hazyfan in reply to Ruud1boy]

That's really good to hear, have you done any treatments or just let time heal?

[Ruud1boy in reply to hazyfan]

I've been trying allsorts over the last year or so - hypnotherapy, reiki, acupuncture, reflexology - and I've looked into many more, but I can't say that any of them have had any impact on it. It can seem that the medical / audiology community offer very little practical assistance re T, but what they do preach is the best there is at the moment - understand the condition, use sound therapy (including hearing aids if necessary) and learn how to 'actively relax'. The last one is the most difficult in my opinion - when my T counsellor used this phrase, I genuinely didn’t understand what he meant. Basically it’s learning relaxation techniques to calm your internal static, which I still need to start working on.

[hazyfan in reply to Ruud1boy]

I just started had 1 session seeing a guy I seen on Youtube Julian Cowen Hill Psychotherapy, will see how that goes prob too early to see him as iv only had it 2 months and had no time to really work it out but I am desperate at the moment GP referred me to a councillor

[hazyfan in reply to Ruud1boy]

November when I had a fungal ear infection and noticed the loud version