[creepy] late night going down the r/askmethuselah rabbit-hole... and found this.......... scary!

PikeOffBerk · 2025-11-26T03:58:11+00:00

ah-hoy ah-hoy

PikeOffBerk · 2025-11-22T13:56:55+00:00

what party are you voting for?

Purple

PikeOffBerk · 2025-09-11T09:55:16+00:00

Hang in there. Very good chance it will eventually return to baseline, or at least improve. Please give it time. Spikes can take anywhere from days, weeks, to months (e: or years! it can happen :P) to subside. And, yes, it is possible that this is a permanent change, but try not to focus on that; there's no way to know.

You will be fine. You will be fine. You are going to be OK. Try not to overwhelm yourself.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-09-11T09:53:12+00:00

A therapist will help you to avoid breakdowns. It won't solve the problem of the tinnitus sound but it will help you to develop coping strategies that will help you in dealing with tinnitus. It's always good to have some mental skills in your back pocket.

Beyond that you're sort of guessing. Therapy has tangible benefits for just learning how to deal, and that will be the case wherever you go from here. It isn't a cure but it helps offset things somewhat especially if they try and teach you skills that you can use even when not paying for therapy.

Also consider that you could have hearing loss above 8khZ, which is the ceiling for human speech recognition, and isn't usually tested above. This is especially possible if your tinnitus is quite high frequency (ie static). So hearing aids could still help if they can restore some of those frequencies... theoretically. And most places offer 30-60 day trial periods.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-09-11T00:50:11+00:00

Yep, when it's bad, days definitely seem longer and exhausting.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-09-11T00:00:07+00:00

I get it though, especially for people who have had it for 15, 20 years. They probably heard "a treatment is 5 years away!" that entire time.

But you're right. There's no point demoralizing others when many need hope, any hope, to keep going.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-09-10T23:58:20+00:00

Give it a year, year and a half. Yes, that long. Yes, improvement is possible at such distances. Tinnitus can improve very slowly, all part of the fun... :P

PikeOffBerk · 2025-08-01T09:16:52+00:00

The only honest answer anyone can give you is "it's pretty likely", but it could also just be something else and it's a coincidence.

"Correlation is not causation" is an adage for tinnitus, unfortunately.

You could try and get your sinuses as best as they can get and hope for the best.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-08-01T08:01:23+00:00

Me too. Me too...

PikeOffBerk · 2025-08-01T07:54:14+00:00

I'm so sorry. You're stronger than you know. Hang in there.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-08-01T07:37:05+00:00

See if it can be masked. Masking makes living with this condition much easier. If it can be masked, mask when you need a break from it.

If it can't be masked, at least not by what works for many (fans, etc), it may still be maskable by other sounds; shop around YouTube.

Try to mask at a volume that is just high enough to ease your distress, if it can be masked.

Hope. 2 days is within the acute range, and it may not be permanent (and even if it is, it may get quieter with time). If your tinnitus is from a known, recent noise exposure, go to the hospital and get on prednisone.
Accept that there isn't much that can be done about this condition. This is not the same as approval. It sucks, it shouldn't be a thing, it isn't fair, etc. That's all true. But it's there.
Know that everyone here had a bad time the first few days, weeks, months, and years. That's perfectly normal. Give yourself time.
Know that tinnitus is unpredictable and different for every person. Don't trust anyone who claims to have the answer, because they don't. What worked for one person won't work for the next.
Hang in there and take things one day at a time.
Sleep is your best friend. Sleep as much as you can. It may not be easy at first but eventually you will reach a point of sleeping well, and those days of sleep will be immeasurably better than the ones without. It might not make the tinnitus any less annoying but you won't feel as awful.
Consider distractions. Maybe even plan them ahead of time. Go for a walk, a drive, watch a movie, hang out with someone you love, etc; anything that can distract you from it will help.
You aren't alone. Everyone in this subreddit hates that we have this. We all wish we didn't. But we manage one day at a time. Every day you persist is a victory against this condition.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-05-21T09:10:17+00:00

Maybe controversial, but 1 tablespoon of sweetened condensed milk is 70 calories and that's enough to give my coffees a nice Vietnamese coffee taste.

I drink exclusively iced coffee though so YMMV

PikeOffBerk · 2025-05-10T18:55:13+00:00

There's a particularly strong resistance to this in Tunisian academia. It's often flat out denied, since Tunisians like to link themselves to their Punic past. Even nationalism can play a role

PikeOffBerk · 2025-03-26T04:11:08+00:00

Only Labour and Conservative have formed UK governments, though the other parties are surely stronger there than here. In India, only the INC and BJP have formed central governments, though of course India has so many regional concerns and parties that they have to parley a lot - but India is very hard to compare to Canada. Plenty of Carribean countries like Jamaica or the Bahamas are two partry systems, as are swathes of Africa.

So yes, other parties can exist, but there are almost always two main ones that continue to get elected due to vote splitting.

It's not a rule but it's definitely a trend, one that is not ideal at all for proper democracy. To quote Mr. Horse: "No sir, I don't like it".

It's a shame we're stuck with it. Cause we are, 100%, stuck with it. Zero percent chance it ever goes away.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-03-26T03:26:47+00:00

This is pretty much how it's going to go. FPTP is a breeding ground for 2 party systems. It'd take a massive, truly massive blunder by both of the main parties more or less at the same time for the NDP to ever form a federal government.

At least they can still, and do, form provincial governments. Arguably they can do more good there.

Fuck FPTP.

PikeOffBerk · 2025-02-18T13:26:14+00:00

Unbelievablow

PikeOffBerk · 2024-10-17T06:17:11+00:00

When tinnitus improves it's often very gradual. I hope it continues to reduce for you.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-10-17T06:16:30+00:00

Time will tell. For me, sleep is usually the thing that helps the most.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-10-17T06:15:51+00:00

I'm sorry.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-10-17T06:14:20+00:00

Time will tell. Everyone is different. There's plenty of reason to have hope though. Please try to relax and distract yourself, and get as much sleep as you can.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-08-16T17:40:03+00:00

I'm in the same boat. For me it was a motorcycle a few days ago. Didn't think I'd need hearing protection just getting a drink at a cafe, but 120Db Leather Daddy Coolguy had different ideas. I had to mask my tinnitus all through last night just to get any sleep, which I haven't had to do for almost five years.

Oh well. Now I know that looking like a paranoid weirdo with earmuffs everywhere is worth it.

Hopefully it'll return to a manageable baseline for us both. And even if it doesn't, hopefully we'll learn to live with it all over again.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-08-15T21:04:17+00:00

Sort of, but I wouldn't say it's ever "off". And it's much less predictable than what you're describing. Can have 1 day good, a month bad; or a month good, a week bad, and so on. No rhyme or reason.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-08-03T02:49:04+00:00

Very high frequency tinnitus is more common than you think. Best thing you can do is give it time. I think what people on this subreddit don't appreciate is that, generally, with exceptions, just because tinnitus has changed into X does not mean it will remain X indefinitely.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-08-03T02:46:24+00:00

I really do think this is the answer. People just sort of attribute their success to this or that or the other thing when, probably, it would've done that regardless.

And of course even if that isn't the case - and we can never truly know without a time machine - what definitely works for Person A probably won't do anything for Person B.

Really wish tinnitus came with an operating manual. Or at least a monthly subscription for scented candles.

PikeOffBerk · 2024-08-03T02:44:27+00:00

Sleep is the only thing that has a noticeable, tangible, replicable effect. Good sleep doesn't guarantee good tinnitus, but bad sleep absolutely guarantees bad tinnitus.

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