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Shouldn't the control group be wearing the device but have no vibrations active?
Finding a cure or treatment for tinnitus would be awesome. I have a very mild case from a few too many loud concerts. What I find amazing is how we don't attack the source of the problem much that I can see. Concerts, clubs, fireworks, even movies blast away above any reasonable level, causing damage to large parts of the population. We all just get progressively damaged hearing bit by bit. And yet there's very littl…
Industrial progress has so far required loud noises, freeways, construction zones etc with little regard to their impact on peace, wellness and hearing.
When you put a finger in your ear and create a bit more or a bit less pressure - does that change the frequency of your tinnitus?
Because for me it totally does. And I wonder if every tinnitus is like that.
Also: Is your tinnitus mainly on one side or equally on both sides? For me it is mainly on the right side.
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A few years ago, after a Ministry concert which was off the scale loud (or maybe I just have become off the scale old for this kind of music), I bought a pair of Earasers ( https://www.earasers.store ) and the few times I had to wear them, they worked great, protected my ears while being fairly transparent, and did wonders for my enjoyment of the music.
I've been using Hearos. I'm curious how different the Earasers are in terms of flatness. With the Hearos I can push them further into the ear to make things quieter, but the more attenuation, the less flat the sound is. I tend to pull them out a bit so that it's a little louder but flatter. Either way, it's real nice to leave a concert without concert-ear.
Just my two bits, but I don't think the different brands are all that different. Some seem a bit bigger or smaller, some cost more or less. Of course I can't say that for sure about a brand I haven't tried though.
I had a ringing for a weekend and found and used this extensively https://github.com/generalfuzz/acrn I remember it being after some loud event. But I honestly can't remember. It went away. But it might not have been tinnitus and just an ear infection. Or it might have helped, I'm just one sample size.
Interesting. It seems my tinnitus is around freq 8200. I'll give this tool a go when I'm in a more quiet environment.
>The device we asked them to wear has four vibration levels. Half the volunteers (the control group) had the device set to the lowest vibration (level one), and half had it set to level three (the experimental group). Level 3 is the effective vibration level for motion sickness reduction. Shouldn't the control group be wearing the device but have no vibrations active?
If not, I agree with you. Or just find subjects that don't know what the devices do so they can just sit on their heads doing nothing.
Sometimes the tinnitus just stops by itself, and this can be for days. I am aware of some triggers for it.
I would urge anyone that suffers from tinnitus to get their hearing checked if they haven't already. Getting hearing aids has given me significant relief from tinnitus and if my hearing aid battery dies the tinnitus comes back fairly quickly. It's as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound. Of course, there are multiple reasons for tinnitus to occur so your mileage may very, but it's absolutely worth…
> It's as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound. Holy crap. You just blew my mind. "Silence is deafening" makes more than just figurative sense. From a young age, I've always noticed a light ringing while in extremely quiet places. Not enough to bother me, but enough to notice my ears straining to hear sound.
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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.
Or you could just not go. There's no reason other people should have to compensate for your sensitivity and lack of willingness to wear hearing protection.
How many times do you have to go to loud concerts before you buy a set of earplugs? They even sell them at damn near every show I've been to, and disclaimers all over the place about the music being loud...
What I have done in the past (which is a temporary solution) is play a matching frequency from a free phone app and make the volume repeatedly lower and higher for a few minutes.. This cancels out the pitch in my ear for a while. Sometimes the tinnitus just stops by itself, and this can be for days. I am aware of some triggers for it.