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We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
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Re: We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
#172I wrote this relatively recently in another comment. I think it applies here: I have tinnitus. I got it from going out too much. I wasn't the biggest party-hardy individual, but there were moments where I went out quite a bit. During that time I lived in Amsterdam and loved parties for: music, social experimentation and doing whatever. I wasn't too much into the drugs/alcohol thing. I think during my 'going out phase…
FWIIW I've always had tinnitus, and the Wim Hof Method does absolutely nothing for me regarding tinnitus (pretty cool trick for athletics though). Glad for you you've found some relief, but the other side of the coin is if you eventually get used to it.
Re: We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
#173This reminds me of the technique that went viral via Reddit a couple of years ago: https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief... I don't suffer from tinnitus, but I know people who do and some of them have said that this helped them.
Trust me, It never helped me. Edit: never knew telling your experiences gets you downvotes.
you're getting downvotes because your original comment sounded like a general fact ("it never worked." (probably not your intention).
Re: We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Note: this technique has some risks. Especially when you practice by yourself. The biggest one is that scientifically speaking, experts are a bit unfamiliar with it. I can only offer anecdotal experience. I will also offer an anecdotal experience. I went to a "breathwork" seminar once that involved doing a form of hyperventilation (but without the breath holding part which is what Wim Hof also incorporates I believ…
The worst I have seen is that one person was unconscious for 3 minutes. We were doing it with medical staff and they started to get the oxygen masks. Just before the mask was on he gained consciousness. As far as we all could tell, he didn't have a single issue. This guy could go crazy long without oxygen though, more than 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He was out for almost 7 minutes. I asked the doctors how it could be…
Unconscious, and not breathing?? That would be scary.
For the stuff we were doing, it was very deep, steady, and moderately faster than usual breathing, nonstop - the instructor thought afterwards that I may have been doing it "too fast", including the breathing out part, rather than letting it flow out naturally, but he'd never encountered someone having a seizure before. Regardless, I'm not going to personally experiment with it anymore, but I suspect I'm a fairly extreme outlier.
Re: We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
#175I hate this kind of "double weasel" headlines. Either of these would have been fine: We may have discovered a remedy for tinnitus – by accident or We have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus – by accident
I don't get the significance of the quotes, and the article doesn't seem to clarify. What, I wonder, is the intended difference between "we 'may' have discovered …" and "we may have discovered …" (except possibly a weird third layer of distancing)?
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go to concerts dude! Just wear protection. You can get these plugs designed for music. Just have a backup pair with you as well.
What kind of plugs are designed for music? That's interesting.
Just do a search for something like "music ear defenders/protectors" and you'll see plenty of options.
Don't go for the cheap disposable rubber foam ones because those just block your ears. Look for proper reusable silicone ones. They are specially designed to block harmful frequencies without muffling or distorting the sound.
Good luck :-)
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it isn't. There are three related reasons why. First, we don't exclusively experience a concert through our ears. The reason people use words like "thumping" to describe bass is because it's felt as much as heard. That experience is important to many forms of music, and it isn't possible to get it at low volume. The second is that the relative volume of different instruments is usually more important to the sound…
Sure, you shouldn't expect to cuddle the speakers - but I go to live shows in small venues where I'm trying to dig myself into the wall at the furthest point from the speakers because it's too loud. They just need to turn it down.
Some venues are better than others. Figure out which places and events have sound engineers that give a shit, and go there.
Re: We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
#179Ignore the click-bait URL, this gives me a temporary improvement: https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief...
Re: We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this now. The fact that this is needed just further illustrates my point. We first blast music above safe levels and then expect people to compensate for that with hearing protection. That's just insane.
No, it isn't. There are three related reasons why. First, we don't exclusively experience a concert through our ears. The reason people use words like "thumping" to describe bass is because it's felt as much as heard. That experience is important to many forms of music, and it isn't possible to get it at low volume. The second is that the relative volume of different instruments is usually more important to the sound…
To add: The music needs to be loud enough to drown out every other aural stimulus. You want to hear the music and only the music, not everyone's side conversations, not your clothes rustling around while you're dancing, not the sound of people's hard healed shoes on the dance floor.
Just. Music.