After ten years of excruciating tinnitus, it is starting to go away…

Every several weeks I will receive a private message from someone suffering from tinnitus, asking me about specific symptoms (ringing, buzzing, vibrations, etc.) that I’ve written about. Sadly, each and every time I have had to reply that it’s unchanged, or even worse than when I last posted about it. However, for the last several weeks, my tinnitus has been in a remission of sorts. I am afraid that I do not understand nor can I pinpoint why this happening, but that it is happening nonetheless. I felt the need to disclose this because I couldn’t live with myself if I knew I could help others but chose not to. Especially after ten years of suffering myself.

Everything that I’ve changed in my daily lifestyle is as follows:

Eliminated all sugar from my diet, reduced sodium to approximately 500 mg per day, started drinking 8 cups of water per day, started intense cardio (HIIT, 45 mins per day) and weight training (mostly swinging dumbbells around), started eating a lot of yogurt (like over a kg per day) and fish (mostly salmon and sardines), maintained a normal sleep schedule (7-8 hours per night, excluding tonight because I can’t sleep with this percolating in my mind), reduced “self-touching” to once per week (this is contrary to my faith’s teachings but I have a very high libido), deep massages of my neck, jaw and around my ears, and eliminated all “explicit material” (trying to keep this SFW). I am 6’, 150 lbs, normal blood sugar and blood pressure levels.

Lastly, and I would be remiss not to mention this, and I know some people probably don’t want to hear this, but I have been praying daily and attending mass several times a week. I am only including this because I have made the aforementioned lifestyle changes before but it did not affect my tinnitus by much. Coincidentally, the only other time that I saw some relief from my tinnitus was when I was at my family’s cottage last year and begging on my knees to God for help. I have to include this because I cannot rule it out entirely, and if I am somehow being helped/healed by God, I do not want to “deny Him His glory” and have it rescinded.

If any of what I’ve written helps you, I only ask that you try your best to help others in return. I have already pledged the entirety of my existence to helping others to the best of my abilities should this hell of a disease be stricken from me. I have mass in about 7 hours but I couldn’t sleep with this in my mind, knowing that there might be someone out there who could be helped by it. And I’m also going social media free for forty days (Lent) starting March 5th.

Tinnitus has made me depressed, miserable, angry and unable to enjoy my life whatsoever, but I am starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. I am so, so, so sorry for everyone’s suffering. I can honestly say that I don’t hate many things, but I HATE tinnitus, I HATE cancer, I HATE disease, I HATE human suffering. I would do anything I could to relieve you all of your tinnitus, and I am so, so, so sorry I can’t do anything about it (except this for now). I hope that what I’ve written can help you or a loved one who is living through this hell. I’m going to do my best as I grow stronger and confront the challenges facing humanity.

I love you all very much. PLEASE DO NOT SURRENDER TO THIS DISEASE. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE. PLEASE KEEP FIGHTING. PLEASE LOVE YOURSELVES AND PLEASE TRY TO LOVE EACH OTHER. Goodbye for now.

Edit: I included the part about God because I don’t know, I don’t know if “God is healing me”, and honestly I would’ve called myself insane if I said that several years ago. But I needed to include it even if there’s an infinitesimally small chance it is the case. I’m not telling anyone that praying to God or attending mass will help them, I honestly don’t know, but it’s something that I have added to my life in addition to the lifestyle changes. And I wanted to include absolutely everything I’ve changed in my life that could account for this spontaneous remission of sorts.