It is if you treat it early enough. I am not sure if there are any treatments that you can get for it 9 months out. Maybe there is, but I have no idea. Etanercept would be a nice try, but who is going to inject me with Etanercept? Who will do that for me? Not any doctor I know. How am I supposed to deal with this weird distortion. I know it's due to inflammation or the microvessels affected by that inflammation.
As I said previously, I cannot enjoy music any more so I've decided to terminate my existence. It's not effective immediately but I am going to do it sooner or later, definitely within a couple of years. I will give it time but after that it's a done deal. Theres no cure for this shit. No cure at all. They keep talking about cures. Well, they've told of cures for paralysis for decades now. Where are we now? No closer than we were decades ago LOL.
I am done with my part. There isn't any coming back from this. It's done. Simple as that. Done.
That's rough, don't know what to tell you man.
My two cents is I've suffered from chronic fatigue for the past 13 years, it's robbed my career, friends, family, ability to communicate.
What keeps me going is what I refer to as a "cognitive intervention", a form of behavioral/emotional self instruction that - as fantastical as it sounds - basically makes chicks spontaneously horny for me.
I was like you one time, real interest and focus on one thing; for me that was combat sports, kickboxing, boxing, wrestling, mma etc., (former opponent was Israel Adesyna, current UFC middleweight champ).
I thought I was going to be the next champ, then this illness took everything from me, career in engineering, ability to train.
Like you lost music I lost that in life that gave me pleasure and satisfaction - but I replaced it with the only other physiological thing that gives pleasure.
Getting laid.
Basically a series of words that induce nerve-stimulation by causing girls to get real crazy ("jealous force"), then express their crazy into me ("union love"), details covered comprehensively in the links in my signature.
In my own quirky world I believe they could act as the next major CNS based intervention as it stimulates nerve firing.
My hope is it will ultimately stimulate CNS activity to eventually one day restore my energy, but it's great for
emotional-regulation, which is exactly one of the primary interventions for reducing the affect of tinnitus.
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I have Satan screaming in my right ear day and night for almost one year but in truth I hate it cause it's a health compromise, but because of how I feel (by way of the above words, self instruction, cognitive application), it otherwise doesn't bother me too much - cause I'm too busy scheming on how to bed-down my next hot chick - and that's a seriously uplifting feeling and great reason to live.
All the shit in life, all the loses I've had, and now tinnitus to boot? Hilariously I'm quite up beat about it all cause by way of the-word-application and scheming how to get my next chick, it's like all those terrible terrible problems, just become little things I can ignore.
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That's my side of this difficult tale of tinnitus-management.
Quirky as it is, cause of how you describe your situation I figure no harm to throw it out there. If it could do for you what it does for me then it may alleviate you of a very difficult decision (but it's an n=1 study so far so all I can do is point the way).
