The Kouhai who Went from Introvert to Influencer - Ch. 4

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On top of the hearing lost, since she fell asleep with a mouthful of toothpaste, this means she also got a mild chemical burn on her mouth on top of all that after waking up
 
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As someone who developed permanent tinnitus out of nowhere like this, this chapter hit especially hard. I still remember the sheer anxiety and sleepless nights. Take care of your ears folks.

Edit: I figured I'd add for people interested/concerned, tinnitus can easily come from stress! That's how I got it! (I was tested to hell and back and have no discernable hearing loss or ear damage). That's why this chapter hurt so much to read, because it's exactly what happened to me.

It all stared with a single ring like you get sometimes when your sinuses are stuffed or whatever, but then it didn't go away when I woke up the next morning. What's worse, it only started to spread to the other ear. After that, you watch your entire daily routine crumble. Your places of relaxation are no longer, you're hearing the noise(s) from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep. You can't be in a silent environment because it intensifies the noise, you also can't focus on it because it intensifies it, you can't relax by yourself without putting some kind of white noise to mask the soundd, you can't fall asleep easily because the sound bothers you, and all of this makes you more anxious/tired which in turn exacerbates your symptoms and the tinnitus, spiraling your mental health out of control.

It took a good part of half a year of intense medication and therapy to learn to accept this is my life now and to start adapting to it. I'm thankfully mostly ok now but sometimes the ringing changes and I almost have panic attacks, terrified of it getting worse. I do not wish this condition on my worst enemy.

So please take care of mental health and your ears. There's no going back once it happens.

permanent tinnitus? Greetings brother. Im coming up soon to my 25th anniversary with the shit :(
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Early days disco, before sound limits was put in. My ears got damaged by the music level. 18% loss on the left side, 15% of the right and a permanent ringing sound.. I was lucky i guess.

God . . . Yall have been thru alot (Ó⁠╭⁠╮⁠Ò) my deepest condolences. And I really hope yall getting better and better
 
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Jesus Zyugoya. Can you just leave the women alone and let them be happy?
to be real ...this kind of thing happen alot at many people,include myself ... and i force myself to stop listen use headphone when i notice i have similar case as her ( mine just early stage so i somehow manage reduce the effect ...still my left side are hearing less then right side )
 
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I get this feeling too. Sometimes when stress builds up my ears ring for a minute or 2 before going away. I take that as a cue to just sit down and relax.
 
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As someone who developed permanent tinnitus out of nowhere like this, this chapter hit especially hard. I still remember the sheer anxiety and sleepless nights. Take care of your ears folks.

Edit: I figured I'd add for people interested/concerned, tinnitus can easily come from stress! That's how I got it! (I was tested to hell and back and have no discernable hearing loss or ear damage). That's why this chapter hurt so much to read, because it's exactly what happened to me.

It all stared with a single ring like you get sometimes when your sinuses are stuffed or whatever, but then it didn't go away when I woke up the next morning. What's worse, it only started to spread to the other ear. After that, you watch your entire daily routine crumble. Your places of relaxation are no longer, you're hearing the noise(s) from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep. You can't be in a silent environment because it intensifies the noise, you also can't focus on it because it intensifies it, you can't relax by yourself without putting some kind of white noise to mask the soundd, you can't fall asleep easily because the sound bothers you, and all of this makes you more anxious/tired which in turn exacerbates your symptoms and the tinnitus, spiraling your mental health out of control.

It took a good part of half a year of intense medication and therapy to learn to accept this is my life now and to start adapting to it. I'm thankfully mostly ok now but sometimes the ringing changes and I almost have panic attacks, terrified of it getting worse. I do not wish this condition on my worst enemy.

So please take care of mental health and your ears. There's no going back once it happens.
I get it friend, i suddenly developed tinnitus in maybe the 3rd or 4th grade? You never really get used to it, you kind of just have to live with it.
 
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literal cinnamon roll, god damn it
(i suppose this is where the off-screen horizontal tango starts)
 
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It sucks. I've had what I think is very mild tinnitus for an extremely long time now, but it doesn't effect my badly really. Not like other people here have described happened to them. Heck most days I don't even remember I have it until I think about it.
 
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Where does it come from and how do we stop it?
It comes from tying to much of your self worth into your work and how other people perceive you.

Treatment is meditation, therapy, getting comfortable being by yourself, and in general tying more of your identity to things that aren't your job.
 
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Ah yes, the curse of a big tittied pretty gamer girl, forced to be forever alone as no man would possibly want her. So tragic…

Of course, with this author tragedy is just around the corner.
 

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