I suffer from tinnitus for 7 months now. I'm almost ready to end it all by committing suicide. I'm just postponing...

What do you mean by silent treatment?

youtu.be/KBgkPOGD6gw idk if this could fuck you up but probably not, one of my mates did it and said it was the only thing hes tried that helps it. Read, 'helps' still there but better. Also please seek therapy dont commit suicide

I feel your pain, altough I'm sure its not as bad. During new years eve 2007 a large firecracker exploded close to me, I've had a high pitched noise in my left ear since. It was very bad in the first few weeks and got me really scared, I had trouble sleeping and concertrating, driving me mad as you are expierencing now as well to an extreme. I'm very lucky the intensity has decreased to the point I'm only aware when it is quiet around me so falling asleep is sometimes still difficult.
For some people it helps falling asleep to play white noise as rain (like these 10hour vids on youtube) or something like a heavy fan in the room. There are some therapys which seem promising but are rarely covered by insurance. These are mostly aimed to help you accept/ignore the noise, alouthg the results are very promising.
maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/tackling-tinnitus-behavioural-therapy

Another therapy called CR Neuromodulation attempts to reset your brain by playing noises similar to the noise you are hearing. This is a pretty intense therapy as it requires you to be exposed to these noises for several hours daily for months. Also see the vid below.
youtube.com/watch?v=2SOCz8InaQE

I hope this helps.

Hey OP I got tinnitus also, it just happened one day in both ears and its been on for about a year. The start of it was HELL I couldnt sleep i was so scared and it felt like I wanted to die. But one day I literally just accepted it. Trust me on this as long as you take care of it not alot of sodium helps alot because it gets louder with blood pressure going up, you will forget it. Eventually it comes to a point of I honestly forget that I have it and have to focus to hear it. A weird thing I did was use it as a white noise, to fall asleep I actually focused on the sound and it calmed me which is really weird I know but it helps.

also to add to this for mine at least, having an outside source made mine worse because I would try to focus on that and in turn my hearing would go up a little and the tinnitus gets worse. You just need to bare with it until you adapt. Be strong OP this is a mental battle you and many others will have their entire life so you need to focus and be strong. Come to accept this will NEVER GO AWAY and that is step one into calming this demon down.

HUGE anecdotal account incoming, OP:

I had one of those giant skyflower fireworks go off about 3 feet away from me 6 or 7 years ago. I absolutely couldn't hear anything for about 10 minutes, just that horrible ringing. Thankfully, my hearing returned but I was left with a bad ring in my ears. Eventually? It just stopped bothering me. Full stop. But the thing is, I was regular listener of music back then, all the way to now. Always kept it at a reasonable volume, not because of the tinnitus but because I just play them with speakers instead of headphones. Eventually I figure I cured my own tinnitus by giving my ears something to occupy themselves at many hours of the day. My tinnitus would return at night when I didn't have music going, but it was totally manageable and didn't bother me at all.

However, I aggravated my tinnitus last year by listening to a lot of music at high volumes. It was fucking bad, for a week straight I just could not sleep. It was the worst week of my life. I tried to cold turkey any music or loud sounds and it was fucking maddening, so I started to listen to music again at lower volumes. It, again, gave my ears something to focus on that wasn't the ringing. After about a month of this, I was back to my normal state that I'd been before I aggravated my tinnitus.

tl;dr listen to lots of music at low volumes whenever you can. Avoid headphones, but if you must, put them at 30-60% volume. This is a FANTASTIC track to start off with if you're inclined to try what I did.
youtube.com/watch?v=AsIjyJvhR9A

To clarify, I am definitely not saying only listen to ambient music. I listened, and listen to, whatever the fuck. Just never go above 60%.

An electric fan left on at night is the stereotypical advice.
You'll just have to learn to deal with it. It does get easier. Don't expect any help from doctors, they'll just try to refer you to a psychologist who in turn will also tell you to just deal with it.
t. born with tinnitus

I've had minor tinnitus most of my life, I think - probably comes from when I was younger I played a lot of guitar, drums etc after school and they didn't really control us or the volumes.

Into adult life, I've always kept headphones etc at reasonable levels, sometimes loud but not ridiculous (I know many friends listen to them max volume all the time!) but I always knew my hearing wasn't as good as everyone else but was still perfectly fine and far from bad.

It was never really that noticeable only perhaps at night, but even then I used to consider it just the 'sound of silence'. I never really thought about it much but a few weeks ago I went out to a club with friends and the music was so ridiculously loud. Most of us were pretty drunk and me being fairly chilled didn't really worry too much about the volumes. Afterwards, hearing was muffled for like 2 days and the tinnitus was bad for me and my GF. Hers eventually went away fully, as I think she had better ears than mine to start with.

Since that day, my Tinnitus is so much worse. It took about a week or so for my hearing to go back to what it was - in fact, its probably slightly worse but not as noticeable as the hearing loss you would get from a gunshot/firecracker etc.

Now the Tinnitus is bearable I guess, but I notice it a lot more. I do wonder how much of it is just me noticing it more because of what has happened recently. But its hard to tell and I'll never really be able to gauge it. If there is any noise, music, talking, ambient sounds etc, for me I can't hear it too bad but it could always get worse if another incident happens.

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1. There are some mobile apps, just search tinnitus or white noise. There is even one on the Apple store that lets you figure out your tinnitus frequency.

2. I for one will be getting some earplugs for future concerts etc - I won't use them if I can get away with it, but I am not willing to deal with 90 db + again as its just not worth it and will result in hearing loss and increased tinnitus again.

3. Drinking alcohol can make it more likely to get tinnitus from ear damage like I have described. Apparetly it makes your blood more to the surface of your ears and somehow results in more damage.

3. The thing another user tried to describe does work. Put your palms over your ears, your fingers behind your head just where your skull ends at the back. Put your index fingers on top of your middle fingers and then press and slide them down so that you hit your head with a drum like noise. You have to do it like 50 times while making sure you keep your palms covering your earholes. It gives some temporary relief.

4. I used to not care much because I always thought it was just the sound of 'nothing' I was hearing at night. Funny because I saw some YT comments that were similar where people didn't even realise they had tinnitus - I think its more commonplace than we think. We live in a world where we have created the potential for these loud sounds etc, so hearing damage is just a reality of modern life.

Try not to stress about it too much. I've also heard good results for people who initially were freaking out but over months and years it did slowly get better, although it never goes fully. I've seen some mentions of some new drugs that may help but its early days.

Interestingly it apparently happens when certain cells in your inner ear get damaged to the point where they can't send the sound signal any more to your brain, and so your brain miscalculates it and picks it up as the tinnitus.

So it's literally not real - weird huh.

Guys I sometimes have tinnitus in my right ear, I mean it's really high pitched. But not all the time. It started recently and usually it's followed by listening to some music and after that when I move my head (neck) that pitch gets louder or quieter. But I don't have it all the time. What should I do to prevent any further damage or whatever? Why are earbuds bad?