After the second dose of Moderna's covid vaccine I had mild tinnitus for a couple months. It came back at half strength after the third shot and eventually subsided. Tinnitus after the covid vaccines is a very common complaint. It's also said to occur frequently after natural covid infection, but I haven't had the pleasure of that yet.
Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
#62I've had tinnitus for many years. Too much listening to Black Sabbath with headphones maybe? Anyway, it's mild and doesn't disrupt my life. I saw a documentary on tinnitus a bunch of years ago and saw that some people have it much much worse. So, I'm lucky. I used to be very careful about protecting my hearing - double up ear protection when shooting, or running a chainsaw; standard protection when mowing, woodworking, etc. But, I've lapsed a bit for some reason.
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#63I've had tinnitus for the last 3-4 years. The noise seems to come from inside my head, not from my ears. I find fatigue has the biggest effect on it, the more tired I am the stronger the ringing. I suspect heavy fatigue brought it on in the first place.
I've gotten used to it now to the point where unless it's really strong I can more or less ignore it.
I can understand that some people find it distressing, but I've made my peace with it, it's now part of me.
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#64I had a fingernail infection that turned into cellulitis in December 2021. Doctors prescribed doxycycline and then bactrim when it failed to resolve. (This fixed the infection.) Shortly thereafter my ears started ringing 24/7 and it has not stopped in 2022 whatsoever. It turns out these drugs have a reputation for this. I think I would have rather amputated my finger. However, I would have required antibiotics for that also : )
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#65I've had it for almost 30 years, until about a year ago due to some crazy amount of stress it became so heavy that I finally did something about it. What ultimately helped and brought lasting relief were a few sessions with a cranial osteopathic therapist. Highly recommended!
Did you tell them it was for tinnitus, and is this a common thing they treat?
Also, do you have to go back periodically or has it made it go away?
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#66Amazing how something affecting 10-15% of the population still has no cure.
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#67Lol. I had a bout of what I would call tennitus this week after my neighbor borrowed $20 bucks from me. I wear ear pods frequent while I work. They came to my door and asked to borrow some money. I was on hold with a vendor, so I ran to my wallet, gave them the money and pointed at my ear, saying I was on the phone. I closed the door and turned back to my office—then BAM. A high pitch whine in my ear. I pulled the po…
Have you had a COVID vaccine? After getting ours, my girlfriend and I both noticed (although we didn't mention it to each other at the time) occasional sudden random hearing suppression in one ear, accompanied by a high-pitched tone. This would immediately start fading away and be gone in a minute or two. After a second booster, I suddenly lost hearing in one ear and now suffer massive ringing. It turns out that this…
Do note that Covid itself also leads to tinnitus.
Texas Roadhouse Founder Kent Taylor Dies After Struggle With 'Post-COVID' Symptoms https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
> Texas Roadhouse restaurant founder and CEO Kent Taylor died by suicide last week at age 65 after what his family described as a "battle with post-Covid related symptoms, including severe tinnitus."
As vaccines often stimulate a response similar to the disease, it should not be a significant surprise that it is possible to have similar problems - though to a lesser degree.
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#68Random aside: topics like this make me better understand the value of trigger warnings.
I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, but I typically don't notice it despite it being fairly loud.
Until, that is, I read the word "tinnitus"...
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#69I've had tinnitus for many years. Too much listening to Black Sabbath with headphones maybe? Anyway, it's mild and doesn't disrupt my life. I saw a documentary on tinnitus a bunch of years ago and saw that some people have it much much worse. So, I'm lucky. I used to be very careful about protecting my hearing - double up ear protection when shooting, or running a chainsaw; standard protection when mowing, woodworkin…
Did you lapse around the time you got tinnitus?
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#70I have it badly yes. Since very long time, tried everything. I regularly go to the specialist to see if there are updates, but my version seems to be not fixable. It gets far (far!) worse when stressed or tired. I had it since I was early 20s; it didn't get worse, but also not better. It's very annoying when counting on me hearing something in meetings (irl or via zoom/phone etc); there cannot be any background noise…
I never realized until I read your comment that my tinnitus must be the reason that I have trouble understanding people in certain situations. It's definitely not as bad as you are describing and it's less of a problem in my native language than with English, but it's definitely there.
It is less a problem in my native language as well! I'm Dutch but I have spoken almost exclusively English for work the past 20 years and yet, in Dutch, I have far less issues. That's funny, until you said it, I never thought about that. At least not as it being any relation to this.