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I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by Anonyneko »

trueno wrote: post #114
numlock86 wrote: post #77

I got rid of mine for a year thanks to a comment on HN. The only reason it came back is because of my lack of discipline. It's bearable as I only notice it when I actively listen for it now. Anyway, I am sure this would just work again. So there was a comment that claimed it was related to bad neck posture. Being a keyboard warrior in my late 30s at that time I suffered the same issue: Tinnitus and generally bad post…

jealous. i've had tinnitus ever since i had memories. my literal earliest memories are laying down when i was put down for a nap and vividly paying attention to the sound. dunno if i was born with it or had some crazy ear infection or what but ive just given up that anything can be done. i'm fortunate it's not all bad but i can't sleep without a fan. i sometimes get sad that i genuinely don't know what no sound is li…

I'm lucky in that I learned to ignore it over time, so I'm not too bothered by it when I go to sleep. But when I'm particularly mentally exhausted it's much louder than even my retro fridge. Got a noise combo too, as my eyesight is also full of TV static.

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by picofarad »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #159
FeloniousHam wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree. I'll add as an aging "woke up sore" guy, side-sleeping with a knee pillow (just a regular pillow to prevent your knees from aching from pressure) was an enormous improvement.

I (lifelong side sleeper) started using a (dedicated) knee pillow about a decade ago and I am completely torn about them. On the one hand: amazing. Better spinal alignment, zero sensitivity or soreness where the knees meet, better sleep, easily the best $10 I ever spent. On the other hand: I can no longer tolerate the weight of my knees on each other for even a minute. Can’t sleep or even just side-lay for more than…

The book I have on how to sleep properly says that on your side you hook your big toe around the Achilles' tendon of the other foot, this offsets the knees.

But it also said to sleep on the floor, and no thanks.

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by ComputerGuru »

picofarad wrote: post #162
ComputerGuru wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I (lifelong side sleeper) started using a (dedicated) knee pillow about a decade ago and I am completely torn about them. On the one hand: amazing. Better spinal alignment, zero sensitivity or soreness where the knees meet, better sleep, easily the best $10 I ever spent. On the other hand: I can no longer tolerate the weight of my knees on each other for even a minute. Can’t sleep or even just side-lay for more than…

The book I have on how to sleep properly says that on your side you hook your big toe around the Achilles' tendon of the other foot, this offsets the knees. But it also said to sleep on the floor, and no thanks.

Yes, I found that as a workaround but I can't help but feel it's maladaptive since your spine is no longer aligned.

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by ctenb »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #143
numlock86 wrote: post #77

I got rid of mine for a year thanks to a comment on HN. The only reason it came back is because of my lack of discipline. It's bearable as I only notice it when I actively listen for it now. Anyway, I am sure this would just work again. So there was a comment that claimed it was related to bad neck posture. Being a keyboard warrior in my late 30s at that time I suffered the same issue: Tinnitus and generally bad post…

Reminds me of advise someone gave me. Deadlifting gets rid of back pain. So I don't have an insane amount of weights, but I have roughly 30 to 40lb I can deadlift at home, which does not sound impressive at all, but coincidentally, mundane tasks that would give me back pain no longer did. Also coincidentally, my ability to do pull ups went from 0 to several reps per day. When I stopped, the back pain came back, but n…

> I take my time unless I feel like I can do it quickly with the smaller amount of weight

What does that mean for you in practice, how long and how many reps?

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by QuercusMax »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #155
FeloniousHam wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree. I'll add as an aging "woke up sore" guy, side-sleeping with a knee pillow (just a regular pillow to prevent your knees from aching from pressure) was an enormous improvement.

I also hear that resistance bands as gimicky as they sound, they can be helpful especially for the elderly who have lost mobility, physical therapists on YouTube will say things like: elderly people who cannot go up or down the stairs after using resistance bands find they've regained mobility. So don't ever sleep on exercise, my biggest take away is you don't need to be a super weight lifter or whatever, you just ne…

I'm 43 and do mostly stretchy band exercises for upper body workouts to help my neck, shoulder, and arms where I have chronic pain. Takes up very little space, I can do 5-10 minutes throughout the day, and 20 minutes after doing a few sets my pain is much better.

You can actually build some muscle this way - nothing impressive, but way more than I had when I wasn't doing any upper body work.

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by darksim905 »

im3w1l wrote: post #38
darksim905 wrote: post #36

This page has so many dang scripts and the iframe doesn't do it any favors. I've allowed everything and it still doesn't load. There are far too few specialists that work on tinnitus and so many dental and ENT specialists choose to not take it seriously enough. I have high pitched 7k hz bi-lateral ringing, 24x7. I've had it my whole life. I am convinced part of it is due to being born very premature (I was 1 lb 11 1/…

Crazy thought but given that you have a pure sine frequency, maybe it would be possible to listen to an out of phase version of it to cancel. Same principle as noise cancelling except the noise is purely internal. Though I guess phase might drift over time making it not work. Still would be interesting to hear your results with this, success or not.

It sort of helps cancel it out at the time if I'm listening and on a computer. But as soon as that ends, the ringing continues.

I can count on one hand the nights I've had restful sleep, and one of those was after got home recovering from a surgery. Who knows.

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by Sindisil »

stndef wrote: post #98
Sindisil wrote: post #12

It's almost certainly my own damn fault I have it, but after at least 35-40 years dealing with it,tinitus sure as hell isn't my friend. Mine is high pitched, and varries in intensity but has gotten worse lately. Sometimes it makes jus existing down right hard, but usually it's only moderately annoying and I can mostly ignore it. I've tried an assortment of sound based methods to mask it or train my brain to tune it o…

Even if you have tinnitus, wear hearing protection for sure. Unfortunately, I have a connective tissue disorder, which is the cause of the tinnitus and the cause of my hearing loss as well. The more my hearing loss goes, the more apparent the tinnitus is. IF you're in a position where it isn't a health related issue, you can prevent it from getting worse, or at least reduce the pace that happens at. I have an orchest…

> I do miss silence!

Yeah, me too.

Mine is most likely from cumulative exposure to loud noise w/o protection before I was 20 (power tools, firearms, fireworks, live rock, punk, & heavy metal, etc.). That or the time I had a bad ear infection with a perforated ear drum (possibly cause by a Cacophony show in a little dive bar).

I used to hear my own pulse, especially when I would meditate, but no chance of that now, with my constant companion high pitched whine.

Stress, excessive alchohol, loud noises, or extended use of earplugs as noise suppression are all sure fire ways for it to make it more severe, but at least the latter isn't as bad, helps avoid the effects of loud noise, and usually the levels go back to "normal" soon after. Excessive alcohol is easy enough to avoid, so that just leaves stress. That's ... less easy to avoid.

Sorry to hear about your particular affliction. At least if it were just one sound it'd be a little easier to occasionally mask or tune out.

One thing that happens to me during particularly bad flare ups (like right now -- is it just me or does thinking about it make it worse?) is that I think I hear things nearby, but it's either mishearing something faint or complete audio hallucinations. One annoyance on top of another!

And yes, the best time to start wearing hearing protection is before your first exposure to potentially damaging noise, but the next best is now!

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by nchmy »

numlock86 wrote: post #77

I got rid of mine for a year thanks to a comment on HN. The only reason it came back is because of my lack of discipline. It's bearable as I only notice it when I actively listen for it now. Anyway, I am sure this would just work again. So there was a comment that claimed it was related to bad neck posture. Being a keyboard warrior in my late 30s at that time I suffered the same issue: Tinnitus and generally bad post…

what sorts of exercises did/do you do for the posture and neck?

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by Moto7451 »

numlock86 wrote: post #77

I got rid of mine for a year thanks to a comment on HN. The only reason it came back is because of my lack of discipline. It's bearable as I only notice it when I actively listen for it now. Anyway, I am sure this would just work again. So there was a comment that claimed it was related to bad neck posture. Being a keyboard warrior in my late 30s at that time I suffered the same issue: Tinnitus and generally bad post…

That anecdotally matches my experience thinking about it.

After my initial hearing damage from someone clearing a rifle before everyone put on hearing protection it took a while for it to attenuate to background noise but flares beyond that volume. Things that certainly avoid flares is when I have a good sleeping setup where I avoid being crumpled or my neck kinked. I have good posture in general but sometimes weird working locations, off site meetings, hackathons, etc would lead to my tinnitus getting worse.

I chalked that up to being physically tired from travel and lacking sleep (both of which seems to also increase my tinnitus)but when reflecting back I don’t recall having much Tinnitus when my son was a newborn through a one year old and I basically slept walk that whole year.

I think on the count back the neck posture and likely the muscles in my neck and head lacking tension is what is keeping it from being worse.

Re: I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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Post by itsamario »

numlock86 wrote: post #77

I got rid of mine for a year thanks to a comment on HN. The only reason it came back is because of my lack of discipline. It's bearable as I only notice it when I actively listen for it now. Anyway, I am sure this would just work again. So there was a comment that claimed it was related to bad neck posture. Being a keyboard warrior in my late 30s at that time I suffered the same issue: Tinnitus and generally bad post…

They use to call it rounded shoulders then labeled it as upper cross syndrome.

Our back should be subconsciously contracted. That's the opposite of how we develop and takes effort to develop and more to correct.

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