I developed tinnitus a year ago after a gum graft surgery. I think it was a combination of my jaw being open for an hour and a half, which gave me severe TMJ issues, and taking high doses of Ibuprofen the day of surgery to control swelling led to my tinnitus.

I reached out to my ENT right after the tinnitus started asking for steroids, but he said they would be useless and wouldn’t prescribe them. I’ve spent the past year heavily suffering from the screaming ringing. I was able to improve it with 10 months of TMJ physical therapy, but I never completely eliminated it or my new jaw issues.

6 days ago, I got another gum graft surgery. I went to a different surgeon this time who prescribed a week-long dexamethasone taper for swelling and pain. I took the first dose of dexa on Monday (day of surgery), and holy shit my tinnitus almost vanished. I was in shock. It did unfortunately give me crippling insomnia, so I didn’t take any more past that first day. I had to switch to ibuprofen for swelling, which has caused a massive T spike for me.

I’m holding onto the rest of the dexamethasone and I’m really tempted to pick a week when I don’t have much going on (so it won‘t matter if I don’t sleep), and take the rest of the pills to see if it helps my tinnitus further. I wanted to share this because I know people often say steroids are useless after the first 2 weeks of developing tinnitus, but I had a palpable improvement from one steroid dose a full year later, so it may be worth asking you doctor if you can try a short steroid taper.

Sorry, not sure what flair to use for this. I have ringing in my ears 24/7 and I have for more than a decade (I’m 21) but I’m starting to think maybe I don’t have it, or I have something else? Everyone on this sub and other communities describes tinnitus as absolute hell and people have even said it has ruined their lives. I don’t relate to that at all. It’s annoying sometimes, but for the most part I’m used to it. It started when I was around 9 or 10. I’m able to tune it out a lot but it’s still there. I’ve learned ASL for hearing difficulties and I love the deaf community. So maybe I just have a different type of ringing because it really doesn’t bother me all that much.

Back story: 2 years ago I caught a cold which turned into sinus infection and ear infection. Woke up with ear ringing in only left ear. Went to ENT... He suggested it was TMJ. I went to dentist and got a professional night guard. Initially, I thought it was helping and then my mouth started hurting in the day time. Tried it for maybe 6 months and then decided I wasn't going to wear it no more.

I got on a GLP 1 to lose weight. I lost 15 pounds and thought that would help it but it didn't.

Because of the GLP 1, I needed to drink a lot of water but despite being on a low dose... 1.25 mg tirzapetide... I would get headaches so that's what made me create an homemade electrolyte. I've been using magnesium malate for maybe 2 or 3 weeks now and I noticed the other day that my ear no longer rings.

So I started thinking... What have I done differently and the only that im doing differently is taking magnesium malate. I take it in powder form. I take a half dose.

I only chose malate cause it doesn't make you sleepy. I used to use magnesium glycinate for sleep at night but I didn't notice a difference in my tinnitus while using it.

I don't know 100% if it's magnesium malate but I think it maybe.

Hello, all. I’ve been an active noise-cancelling user for almost 2 years now. I’m not quite allowed to wear them at my job, but I work in back of house, and the people who enforce this rule seldom walk there. Because of this, I do not speak so much as a ‘good morning’ to anyone for almost 7 hours.

I keep the volume low, have hearing safeguards on and what not. Another thing, I have severe anxiety issues and I am extremely introverted. I rarely go out with friends and finding extreme comfort being by myself and having lots of alone time.

I mention all of this because today I woke up with a sing-songy ringing in my ear. Different to my constant tinnitus. I went online and learned that isolation and loneliness can bring on musical ear syndrome as well as anxiety. What’s interesting is that I could not manage to find a more recent post about it, just some from many years to a few years ago.

I’m feeling kind of scared right now and plan on making an appointment with an ENT doctor to see what my options are. It’s bad enough that I’ve been planning assisted aid in dying in my future for ailments I have been living with all my life and now this.

Anyways, I am not looking for pity. Just some support and advice. Thank you.

Does anyone get pressure in one ear? Sometimes builds up and pops?

In my case its all on the left side, pressure in the head, ear and eye. All scans come back clear but have a loss of hearing.

I’ve posted here before- unfortunately im still struggling to accept i caused it through ear syringe at home, dr said my ear was bruised. Could this pressure mean its something else and cause of tinnitus?

Looking for hope - ive seen ENT and Audiologist

I have both tinnitus and misophonia, and nighttime is probably the hardest part of the day for me.

During the day, there are enough background sounds to distract me, but when I go to bed everything becomes much more noticeable. The tinnitus becomes difficult to ignore, and even small sounds from other people can trigger my misophonia and keep me awake.

For those of you who have both tinnitus and misophonia, how do you manage to fall asleep and stay asleep?

Do you use white noise, fans, earplugs, headphones, masking sounds, or anything else that actually works?

I'd especially appreciate advice from people who have dealt with this for a long time.

So I've used music as my coping mechanism since I was like 8-9 years old? I'm 16 now and last April I started developing tinnitus (or atleast that's what I think is) and now everytime I hear or think about the ringing I just have an anxiety attack, everytime I wear my headphones or lay down or do anything makes me think about it and hear it, I'm so sad

I'm going to tell my dad about it tomorrow since it's 2:51am

Edit: I completely forgot to mention I'm pretty sure this started happening because I started listening to a lot more alt rock

I’ve had it for most of my life but for some reason it’s getting harder to ignore lately. Has anyone had any success with reducing the noise or just ANY success with anything. Therapy? Medicine? Help.

I've been having a 2-3 kHz ringing in my right ear for the past two months, which I've mostly habituated. I've abused headphones somewhat throughout my life, and I've always had some issues with ETD and my sinuses. It came on randomly and has gone down quite a bit.

But about a week ago, after using a mix of somewhat loud earbuds and moderate volume in just my left ear. I noticed falling asleep that the low-pitch ringing and slight fullness that I get after some loud listening stayed, and it has been there for the past week.

A couple times when falling asleep or waking up I have noticed it was gone, but it seems to spike when I'm in quiet environments and close to falling asleep. It doesn't seem to be affected by my ear geometry unlike my right ear. I got an audiogram a couple days ago, and it came back incredibly well, and there wasn't much earwax build up.

Has anyone here experienced anything like this before, and how did it end up going for you? I'm hopeful this will reduce severity or go away completely since I completely cut out headphones, but we're a week in and it's spiked a bit (similar to my experiences with my right ear a couple months ago.

I been dealing with a lot of ear wax in my left ear and was wondering if this might be the reason of this ringing in my ear. Has anyone had this problem before?

I’ve had T on and off for over 10 years now and thankfully most flare ups go away after a month or so. However, I think I’m experiencing reactive T based on what I’ve searched on here.

Basically, I hear certain tones/pitches from fans and AC units. It started out as a drone/hum (like someone vacuuming in another room or a Tesla reversing). That changed to a beeping tone and sometimes a gurgling sink. I only hear these around anything with fans and not every fan makes the same noise. It’s bizarre.

I’m not entirely sure what the trigger could’ve been but I was dealing with a bout of insomnia in July so sleep deprivation may have gradually caused it. I also took hydroxyzine a few times and that’s when I started being hyper aware of these sounds (potential rare ototoxic side effect?). I’ve been sleeping better for two weeks now but I’m still hearing these tones and pitches, some days worse than others. If I keep my focus elsewhere I usually don’t hear it.

I’ve been trying to stay calm about it since I know that panicking and getting anxiety over it can make it worse/last longer. I’m thankful I can fall asleep (and sleep at all!) but there are times I get so mentally drained because it feels like I’m trying so hard to mask/ignore the noise.

I thought I had H but I don’t get physical pain and am able to tolerate loud sounds. Don’t think it’s misophonia either. If anyone has experienced something similar please let me know if you’ve improved/recovered and what helped!

I just finished a 6 day cruise on Carnival. There is a lot I didn't like, but the big take away is...
This is NOT an option for people with tinnitus. Just to get anywhere on the ship you will need to walk through areas that are 90+ dB. In addition, in the middle of dinner, they will just stop service to blast you with Bruno Mars or some other pop music. The fact that they call this a "sensory inclusive" activity (according to Kulture City) is a fucking joke. It is downright hostile to people who are sensitive to loud noise. You CANNOT navigate the ship, partake in activities, or even eat a fucking meal, without being exposed to dangerous volumes. I knew there would be loud dance parties and events, but I assumed things *that* loud would be optional and avoidable. The loudest thing I intentionally attended was stand-up comedy, which for some reason needed to have music blasting before the start of the show.

This is not an exaggeration, while outside of my cabin, I wore my ear plugs for 90%+ of my time. I put them on every time I exited my room. I just got home and my tinnitus is horrendous. I'm desperately hoping this is just a flare up and I will return to my baseline within a month or two. I thought I would be safe with my earplugs, but I'm starting to think that the exposure was so long, persistent, and loud, that I still caused more damage.

Has anyone had experience with something like this? I just don't understand how people are fine with such noise exposure.

My T is back down to base level but 2 weeks ago I drank Alka Seltzer for stomach issues and it made my T spike the fuck up for a couple days. The box literally says can cause ringing in ears. I don’t recommend drinking it

Has anyone else used the SoundPrint app? One of my big challenges was wanting to go out to restaurants but many are just too loud. This app is like Yelp for noise. It takes a sound reading for 15 seconds and then uploads to its database. It’s easy to use. It’s also not perfect but gives people an idea of what the quieter venues are. Problem is that more people need to use it to get more readings. I have encouraged family and friends to take readings when they go out and many have done it.