I had it for a couple months earlier this year and it was terribly annoying. My ENT took all sorts of images (CAT, MRI) and in the end just gave me some strong antibiotics in the ear. After a few days I was like, what is wrong, and realized it was gone. Of course there are many reasons but in my case it was some oddball bacterium.
The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
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#12This is another article about tinnitus: > A Music Lover’s Guide to Tinnitus: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2985 It has great resources too: > Hearing Wellneaa for Musicians: http://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal/Fulltext/2017/0400... ? > American Tinnitus Association: https://www.ata.org/ (And warns about apps like this: Tinnitracks: http://www.tinnitracks.com/en ) — UPDATE — It was also posted to HN;…
wait, what's the ATA warning about tinnitracks? On the surface seems like a good idea to me... but couldn't find reference to it good or bad on the ATA site.
Re: The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
#13Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a…
Do you know why this works? Because it jostles the sternocleidomastoid muscle which connects to the base of your skull behind your ears.
If this technique cures/helps your tinnitus its because you probably sit/stand with bad posture. You can attain more lasting results by regularly stretching that muscle (massage/pull on it). This will not cure hearing-loss related tinnitus.
Personal experience: this not only cured my tinnitus, but also cured a pattern of headaches I was experiencing as well as pain from my eyes that I thought was due to eye strain (from being latched onto a computer screen).
Re: The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
#14Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a…
Is there a good illustration of this method? I have tried to interpret it several times over the years and never experienced any benefit.
Re: The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
#15This is another article about tinnitus: > A Music Lover’s Guide to Tinnitus: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2985 It has great resources too: > Hearing Wellneaa for Musicians: http://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal/Fulltext/2017/0400... ? > American Tinnitus Association: https://www.ata.org/ (And warns about apps like this: Tinnitracks: http://www.tinnitracks.com/en ) — UPDATE — It was also posted to HN;…
wait, what's the ATA warning about tinnitracks? On the surface seems like a good idea to me... but couldn't find reference to it good or bad on the ATA site.
Ah, should've grouped things better: the linked Resident Advisor article warns.
"Notch therapy has been around for a while and, as with many tinnitus therapies, its efficacy is disputed. Various online resources can help you explore it for free, but it has also been repackaged and marketed as a (paid-for) app by the likes of Tinnitracks. It's worth treating their miracle-cure claims with scepticism."
(The "Various online resources" is a link to: http://www.notchtherapy.com/)
Re: The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
#16An interesting collection of research papers on Tinnitus: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4725/towards-an-...
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#18Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a…
Do you know why this works? Because it jostles the sternocleidomastoid muscle which connects to the base of your skull behind your ears. If this technique cures/helps your tinnitus its because you probably sit/stand with bad posture. You can attain more lasting results by regularly stretching that muscle (massage/pull on it). This will not cure hearing-loss related tinnitus. Personal experience: this not only cured m…
Do you have a source for this? It seems dubious that tapping a muscle 50 times would be an effective treatment for muscle strain.
Re: The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
#19My tinnitus is a side effect of a double stapedectomy, replacing the stapes bone in my middle ear with a titanium replacement. I have no regrets, my hearing went from 20% of normal to 80% and allowing me to have mostly normal hearing. At first, the tinnitus was maddening, I would wonder if I would rather be deaf then have the constant ringing. Then I read an article about counseling and training as an effective metho…
they replace this tiny bone with titanium now? unbelievable!
Re: The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
#20A good way to deal with tinnitus is by trying to find sounds/background noise to tone it down or drown it out (and by drowning out I mean not loud, more like a gentle distraction).
This can be anything from the sound of the rain, a shower, car with windscreen wipers on, the tumbling and rumbling of a dryer, a train, the winds, birds chirping, waves etc..
There are plenty of white noise generator apps available, just experiment and if you find something that seems to help set a timer. It will help getting to sleep. Rest is so important.