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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 ImHereToVote »

Barbing wrote: post #24
cogogo wrote: post #15

Over the years I have seen a few threads on tinnitus. I have it very mildly and doesn’t bother me much. On the other hand I have had “floaters” in my eyes since I was a teenager (probably just when I noticed them). Until I saw a doc I thought I was going blind but apparently they run in my family. They are like visual tinnitus and my god do they drive me crazy. I find wearing sunglasses helps me ignore them but they…

That stinks, sorry to hear. It's mentioned when tinnitus comes up, or when dark mode isn't available. Couple months ago, someone recommended a supplement that it seems could easily(?) be DIY'd in case it's snake oil (even if it's more expensive, then they don't "win"!) :) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Thanks. I have been looking for "unknown or expired link" for ages.

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

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Post by ImHereToVote »

JimTheMan wrote: post #48
cuasijoe wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start eating pineapple, you will be surprised of the effect on the floaters.

There's something to be said about HN, the supposed rationality and intelligence of the forum, and the massive blind spot posters have about anything medical or otherwise biological. There is no scientific consensus on it! Although I doubt there's any harm in eating more fruit.

How can we possibly talk about something without a scientific concensus.

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

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Post by flyingshelf »

Moonman08 wrote: post #56
RoadieRoller wrote: post #54

I had a strong feeling that I was developing tinnitus after my my usage of Apple's airpods[1] for meetings, video calls (personal and Official) and such, especially after years of Work From Home. I used to get puss from my ears, and sometimes that tweet/humming sound after a long day's use. Later I switched to Bone Conduction headphones. I felt like BC Headphones has improved my condition a lot. No ear pain or puss o…

I’ve always wondered if it was my AirPods causing the tinnitus (or my acids reflux). Maybe I should give them a break and see what happens.

I read this a lot. My explanation is that it does not cause it but it does place you in silent environment (via noise cancellation) more often than you're used to, and that's exactly where you're likely to notice your existing tinnitus.

If you live in a noisy place, your noise levels might be high enough that you never even get the chance to notice it. AC alone might be enough to cover it if it's little.

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

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Post by arkh »

cogogo wrote: post #15

Over the years I have seen a few threads on tinnitus. I have it very mildly and doesn’t bother me much. On the other hand I have had “floaters” in my eyes since I was a teenager (probably just when I noticed them). Until I saw a doc I thought I was going blind but apparently they run in my family. They are like visual tinnitus and my god do they drive me crazy. I find wearing sunglasses helps me ignore them but they…

Called visual snow. Many people who suffer from it also have tinnitus.

And they're not "floaters" but look like old school TV statics. Easier to see over plain color (blue sky, night time etc.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

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

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Post by clort »

foxylad wrote: post #76
cogogo wrote: post #15

Over the years I have seen a few threads on tinnitus. I have it very mildly and doesn’t bother me much. On the other hand I have had “floaters” in my eyes since I was a teenager (probably just when I noticed them). Until I saw a doc I thought I was going blind but apparently they run in my family. They are like visual tinnitus and my god do they drive me crazy. I find wearing sunglasses helps me ignore them but they…

Same, tinnitus and floaters. And the number of others with both makes me wonder if they are correlated. I've lived with my floaters for twenty years or more, but sometime on a recent holiday the biggest one moved slightly to obscure the central vision on one eye much more often. Now when a floater in the other eye drifts onto the central area, I just can't focus. I have to flick my eyes to the side hundreds of times…

I went for an eye test earlier this year because I felt I had a massive floater that would not go away after several months, the optician said that a very early cataract was developing - so, its really just a normal floater but when it sits in front of the occlusion, the effect is magnified. Optician said a couple of years for the cataract to be significant enough to remove.

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

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Post by ubercore »

arkh wrote: post #94
cogogo wrote: post #15

Over the years I have seen a few threads on tinnitus. I have it very mildly and doesn’t bother me much. On the other hand I have had “floaters” in my eyes since I was a teenager (probably just when I noticed them). Until I saw a doc I thought I was going blind but apparently they run in my family. They are like visual tinnitus and my god do they drive me crazy. I find wearing sunglasses helps me ignore them but they…

Called visual snow. Many people who suffer from it also have tinnitus. And they're not "floaters" but look like old school TV statics. Easier to see over plain color (blue sky, night time etc.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

Visual snow is different from floaters, though.

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

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Post by AnthonBerg »

somenameforme wrote: post #86
JimTheMan wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's something to be said about HN, the supposed rationality and intelligence of the forum, and the massive blind spot posters have about anything medical or otherwise biological. There is no scientific consensus on it! Although I doubt there's any harm in eating more fruit.

There's a typical problem with many sorts of simple treatments. Even though they're simple, organizing 'proper' medical studies on their effect is quite expensive. It's not the drugs that are expensive in medical trials, but the organization, staffing, recruitment, monitoring, and so on. Who's going to pay? With patentable drugs this isn't a problem, because big pharma stands to make billions if they discover a paten…

Indeed. As I see it, it boils down again and again to this: Is someone reading the primary molecular-biology literature? Anyone?

(Law of headlines: No.)

For instance, Ginger and its pungent constituents non-competitively inhibit activation of human recombinant and native 5-HT3 receptors of enteric neurons, as they say. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nmo.12107

Ginger is a nausea receptor blocker. For one. It just… is. And it has to be a ton of other things too.

And it's very challenging to find the right words for this. This whole thing about propagation of information. "Hey did you know that humans don't read? They can but they don't, because if this or that was worth reading, someone would have told them!"

and yeah, almost no matter what I write on this subject I always sense a pungent bitterness in the words haha

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

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Post by stndef »

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 orchestra of it going on with the high pitches, those that sound like a vacuum going off in another room and hearing my own pulse. I do miss silence!

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

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Post by somenameforme »

AnthonBerg wrote: post #97
somenameforme wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a typical problem with many sorts of simple treatments. Even though they're simple, organizing 'proper' medical studies on their effect is quite expensive. It's not the drugs that are expensive in medical trials, but the organization, staffing, recruitment, monitoring, and so on. Who's going to pay? With patentable drugs this isn't a problem, because big pharma stands to make billions if they discover a paten…

Indeed. As I see it, it boils down again and again to this: Is someone reading the primary molecular-biology literature? Anyone? (Law of headlines: No.) For instance, Ginger and its pungent constituents non-competitively inhibit activation of human recombinant and native 5-HT3 receptors of enteric neurons , as they say. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nmo.12107 Ginger is a nausea receptor blocker. Fo…

It's always the problem of not knowing what you don't know. And as one grows older you tend to learn that you know less and less than you once thought, at least if you continue to seek out knowledge. Which makes it a bit paradoxical. The more you know, the more you know how little you know.

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

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Post by Nursie »

Nursie wrote: post #67
crooked-v wrote: post #28

For people looking for treatment for long-term tinnitus, notched sound therapy has been statistically shown to help by reducing brain activity in relation to the perceived tinnitus frequencies ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8832119/ ). In other words, it doesn't go away, but it becomes less "important" to the auditory centers. There are various professionally provided therapies of this style, but there ar…

I haven't used this for years and I don't know if it helped me or not, but the below is a bash script which will duplicate a directory of mp3s and 'notch' everything using the linux command line tool 'sox'. You'll have to figure out the frequency band you want to remove, it's currently set to remove approximately a half-octave notch around my target frequency, 13.5kHz. Sox can do lots of file formats but you'll have…

(If anyone uses it, you'll probably want to give it absolute paths, or you're going to end up making NEWDIR inside OLDDIR

And yes, this will do a whole nested collection, not just the content of a single directory)

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