I was on that one for a little while, it's a common side effect from what I know of.
Anyway... today was bad, very bad. I freaked the fuck out. For one, a cart a friend of mine, who works at a dispensary and is pushing on the side is totally delta-11 or something, I had some of that shit last night and I felt like I was on acid, bad acid, and it made my tinnitus out of control. I was fine by morning and naturally for my hearing test earlier, I passed fine besides my left ear not hearing some higher pitched sounds which isn't surprising given the static it has.
on the way back, the spike was so tremendous I couldn't believe it. Like I became mega suicidal again, thought I won't see 30 and all that shit... this has to stop, I have to get help. Either way, I'm enjoying some silence after a hard run and a long shower. It's possible this is part of the "healing crisis" post acupuncture where things get worse at first, also possible that cart was just no good. It tasted way too fruity to be legit and aren't from a dispo. I thought at first it was but then I realized I felt 10x higher than I normally would, and d11 is 3x stronger than d9 so, I think this is why I was way, way too high last night. I don't think that had anything to do with how I felt today or my spike, I mean it could've, it's just annoying how whenever I go anywhere on the highway say, 20 minutes away, it goes away in my right ear completely most of the time. I'll see if it starts spiking coming back from work tomorrow, it didn't all last week.
Well, there goes the left ear, but that's normal I guess... Last Wednesday was the first day it seemed like the acupuncture was helping, and today was Wednesday and I didn't have the same result. Maybe because I avoided the stomach needles, I'd hope not. Also stuck in low pressure and random cold weather in June which is not only depressing itself but could be contributing to the tinnitus being worse. Pressure has to be a factor because why else on the highway would it go down on my way somewhere, get worse on the way back? It's like the initial pressure resets it to none and then more pressure brings it back worse.
Although that study sounds promising, I don't know that I have somatic tinnitus. I've tried all the back of head tapping, listen to this or that frequency, etc. that helps the majority of people with tinnitus, but not for me. They've had "promising" studies about tinnitus for decades but people are still suffering and unsurprisingly, on the tinnitustalk forum there have been suicides linked to it. I think I've read 20% of people with tinnitus have had thoughts of suicide but very few actually attempted. I don't know if I will and that's what scares me.
But the body and the way it interacts with the things we take, the way we feel, the amount of daylight, the amount of sleep, is so infinitely complex that you may never get any answers. So often, that's sadly the case with these odd or debilitating things we just can't seem to understand. Out of purely speculative interest though, you do see random stuff like this, which probably means absolutely nothing and has no salience whatsoever to your issue. But nevertheless, could be a little food for thought to munch through:
