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Andrea Botez (DJ) shares her recent tinnnitus story - LoneWolf - December 13, 2025
I wanted to share this. It touched me because that is when I got my tinnitus. In my 20's partying it down at the techno club. She is an influencer, but still brave for her to come forward. I would of not been able to do that at that age.
RE: Andrea Botez (DJ) shares her recent tinnnitus story - Mike - December 21, 2025
Plus one here!!!
At that age, this is heart brreaking, but she seems much better about it than I was. I still remember that night like it just happened. I was at a concert, standing way too close to the speaker, letting the bass hit me full force. I loved how thick and heavy the sound felt, how it was right in my face and in my chest. In that moment, I felt alive, like nothing else mattered except the music.
Three days later, everything changed.
I noticed a ringing in my right ear that wouldn't stop. At first I tried to ignore it, told myself it would fade. It didn't. That same year, I got the word that would follow me for the rest of my life: tinnitus. I was 23 years old, and I was completely crashed. I couldn't understand how one night, one moment of loving music too much, could take something from me so permanently. I'm 48 now. Twenty-five years have passed, and I've been struggling ever since. The ringing comes and goes, sometimes quiet enough to almost forget, other times loud enough to take over everything. It's been there through my youth, my adulthood, through moments of joy and moments of deep exhaustion. People who don't live with this don't understand how heavy silence becomes when it's never really silent again.
Some days I cope better than others. Some days I'm tired of fighting it. I grieve the version of myself who didn't know what tinnitus was, who stood by that speaker without fear. This condition has shaped my life in ways I never expected, and even now, decades later, I'm still learning how to live with it.
I'm sharing this here because I know I'm not alone and I am happy for the next generation that they have these social media tools that allows them to share things like this for a cautionary tail for others.