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Suicide up next folks. Tinnitus for decades hasn’t been fun.
If you mean yourself, don't. Get help if you need it (medical, counseling or both).
Tinnitus really is a horrible. I suffer from it and find the ringing detracts significantly from my cognitive abilities; my train of thought is often derailed because my brain is being goofy and fighting with the noise. I also had headphones glued to my ears all through middle-school and high-school, and even though I was careful with the volume I can only assume this is the culprit for my current auditory state. I w…
That's not just noise, it does... something... that provides instant relief.
That site also has a great variety of background sounds which you can adjust and combine in myriad ways.
A 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…
My tinnitus is usually not bad enough to be bothersome, but when it gets painful, I listen to https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera... That's not just noise, it does... something... that provides instant relief. That site also has a great variety of background sounds which you can adjust and combine in myriad ways.
I just listened to that for 5 minutes and my tinnitus (which was pretty bad today) just vaporized. I feel like my jaw has relaxed for the first time in weeks. How did I not know about this??
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Do you cut the foods out of your diet and see an improvement? Which ones?
For me it's alcohol.
Now that I wear an HR monitoring watch 24/7, I can easily spot nights I drank too much. Instead of 62 resting heart rate, I'll have 75-85. And if you think about it, normally when you have somewhat elevated heart rate, something active or interesting is going on (which provides distraction). But if you're just chilling, but intoxicated, you may be more likely to notice the increased blood pressure.
There is no cure for this, as far as I know, because it is an external sound. And it's nearly impossible to identify the source for many reasons (difficulty in detecting/recording, ease of transmission through solid objects (such as the ground), and long waves which can carry very far).
It just takes a little ambient noise to mask it. The sound isn't painful, per se, because it's very low amplitude. But when there is nothing else to distract, it feels like having your head inside a washing machine.
Sources can include large engines (locomotive, truck, ship, whatever.), heavy equipment (particularly at factories), and my favorite - wind over a mountain ridge. The last one can carry for miles!
I think I've had it my whole life. It's that persistent high-pitched noise - almost like the imperceptably high sound old TVs used to make when they were turned on - when nothing else is making sound. If there's not a lot going on around me I can hear it quite well. I pretty much tune it out and it doesn't affect my quality of life. I sort of understand where the author is coming from. About ten years ago I ended up…
As many people, I cope with mine by just ignoring it, most of the time. Sleeping has been hard though, since I can remember. Today I resort to some kind of color noise, such as a fan, air conditioner, or white noise apps (brown noise works best) or I just fall asleep (often with aid) watching TV or listening to a podcast.
In the end, it's not really a practical problem, but a more philosophical one: it makes me sad to think I'll never be able to experience silence.
My tinnitus is usually not bad enough to be bothersome, but when it gets painful, I listen to https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera... That's not just noise, it does... something... that provides instant relief. That site also has a great variety of background sounds which you can adjust and combine in myriad ways.
Ultra low frequencies are my problem. When it is quiet (at night), if there is anything generating low frequency waves anywhere around, I may hear it. It feels like an incredibly subtle repeating gentle puff of air entering the ear (which makes sense, given that it's a pressure wave). And unfortunately, one ear is more sensitive to it than the other, which gives me a feeling of uneven pressure from one side of my hea…