A few days ago I randomly got tinnitus out of nowhere and I didn’t understand what’s up. An hour or so ago I finally understood/learned what’s happening to me and read up on tinnitus and I’m devastated. I’m only over 20 and having this for the rest of my life as it becomes worse is heartbreaking to me. I was already overly sensitive to certain noises and am in love with music but with tinnitus I lost something precious and permanently gained somethimg that I just will need to live with. I’m heartbroken and scared. I know I will learn to accept it within a week as my brain processes this new experience but right now I just feel gutwrenchingly horrible. Especially so when I was already having some other physical and mental health issues that I’m unable to cope with and this adds to the burden. I need some advice on how to live with it and some comfort in knowing of other people going through the same. Thank you. :(

(I don’t live is US if that matters in any way.)

  • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    It’s not loud luckily (by default and most of the time) but it does intensify with exposure to noise (but doesn’t completely go away) which I’m not sure if it aligns with experieces of other people in the thread. I’m not sure how diverse the experiences can be. Someone in the comments tried to convince me that it’s very likely temporary due to my new meds I tried but I’d rather start adjusting regardless and make additional decisions after hearing from the doctor soon.

    Great to hear that it doesn’t have to become worse. The experiences I’ve encountered when looking things up were consistent on that so it’s a bit of a relief that it isn’t a guarantee.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      12 hours ago

      Yeah and you get used to it. For me it took several weeks or months to get used to it and I was constantly thinking of it. I felt very scared it would get worse but it didn’t.

      If it’s not an annoying sound, its probably your fear that makes it hard to relax to. It was like that for me. The fear was worse than the sound. And then the fear goes away when the sound doesn’t get worse in weeks, and then you can finally stop thinking about it.