I had tinnitus for more than a decade but it didn’t bother me. The scary part was the constant muffled hearing. I used to cup my hand behind my ear a lot.
It was a side effect of an anti-anxiety drug which I no longer use.
Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
#92Random 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"...
Fully agree, but this is the first time in 18 months that I am able to read a thread about tinnitus without feeling any unease. I read every single comment, even the ones that shouldn't have been posted for their utter lack of empathy.
Heh, nice! That is honestly really great to hear! Err... no pun intended...
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
#93Have had it for decades, caused by working in computer rooms with hard/raised flooring and loud power cabinet blowers and air handlers. I manage it with these earplugs: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051U7W32 I sleep in them, mostly so noises like the furnace coming on or the cats getting rowdy outside my bedroom don't wake me up. But also wear them anytime the tinnitus is bothering me. Things like road noise wh…
I'm confused as to how earplugs help with Tinnitus. The sound is coming from within your ears. At least in my case, the external world has no significance in the volume of the tinnitus. In fact, cutting out noises makes Tinnitus more apparent. Something like a white noise machine helps marginally, as it gives the brain something else to focus on.
Putting the earplugs in doesn't make tinnitus go away. But overstimulating my ears seems to aggravate tinnitus. For example, I worked for 9 months mixing my sister's CD, 6-8 hours/day. I liked the work, but there's no way I could do it for a career because it caused my ears to ring even more when I wasn't mixing. Earplugs give my ears a respite from high-frequency noise, which for me, over time, seems to calm down the tinnitus a bit; it lowers the volume if you will. It doesn't ever go away though.
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#94Tinnitus seems like a solved issue for me.
Even a small amount of dirt cheap taurine supplementation completely cures it https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997922/. It also cures my anxiety and eye floaters. I wonder what's going on biochemically for it to have such a strong effect on me, or perhaps what nutrient is rate-limiting my endogenous taurine creation, but I'm happy enough having discovered a cure.
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#95Lifelong tinnitus here. Doing all of the followings has helped me greatly: * Brownian noise generator, as needed * cold compress on forehead as needed * avoidance of large number of Rx (ototoxic) * no tobacco-derivatives * no cannibus (did not discern between THC or CBD (sp?) * no overeating All those are very noticeable in form of tinnitus when violated. But it took a very long time to discover what works and what d…
> At age of 48, I lost 85% of hearing within 30 minutes of taking one dosage of Zyban (Wellbutrin-class) Rx
Devastating. So sorry to hear that.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
#96Very rarely it comes and goes away after several seconds. Is there a chance that it won't go away someday? Any preventions?
Find the cause.
Mine was a side effect of an antianxiety/antidepressant drug—one of many side effects. It went away eventually but I had to stop taking that drug in order for that to happen.
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#97I also have tinnitus (mainly in my left ear, but applies to both), since February of 2022. It also makes me to feel unbalanced sometimes, but I can still walk anyways.
The doctor made blood tests, blood pressure, and a few other things, and found nothing wrong.
Doctor told me to go to ENT specialist. The specialist tested my hearing, and examined my ears and nose and throat (he only examined my ears/nose/throat at my insistence), and found nothing wrong.
Because I also seemed to have a vision problem, I also went to optometrist, and they made vision test, eye pressure test, and visual field test; the only thing they found was blepharitis.
(At least, I did not have to pay for it.)
There may be side-effects of COVID-19 vaccine (which may have a long enough delay before it occurs, that it was not known at first), and I don't know if that is causing me to have tinnitus and headaches. Maybe it is because I have had too many booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine, so maybe it is overdose.
I will also read the other comments here.
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#98I'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?
No. Maybe I wasn't clear - I was very careful with my hearing because I already had issues (i.e. tinnitus). I think the reason I lapsed is because I wasn't engaging in loud activities as much as I used to (e.g. shooting) and just kinda got out of the habit of ensuring I always had my ear plugs and muffs around.
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#99Yeah, I have Ménière's, so I also have tinnitus. An important part of my own habituation is that I quit paying attention to all pop science news about it, including upcoming treatments, prosthetics, and clinical trials. If at some future time an actually effective treatment, prosthesis, or medication is developed, it will hardly be possible to hide from the news. Until that point knowing about all the things that wer…
What's the "heavy surf track" out of interest?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
#100Yeah, I have Ménière's, so I also have tinnitus. An important part of my own habituation is that I quit paying attention to all pop science news about it, including upcoming treatments, prosthetics, and clinical trials. If at some future time an actually effective treatment, prosthesis, or medication is developed, it will hardly be possible to hide from the news. Until that point knowing about all the things that wer…
What's the "heavy surf track" out of interest?
Like hearing a track of a roaring beach being played through headphones.