This video does not cure it, but it'll help you accept it and don't care about it
now most of the time I'm just not noticing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4zuVk5STuM
Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#62i think there is research being done on cilia regeneration: https://news.mit.edu/2022/frequency-therapeutics-hearing-reg... obviously time to get approved/confirm it works - etc lies ahead. other than that - i had taken up drums and was paranoid of tinnitus, i could hear ringing etc. once i got audiologist confirmation my hearing was 20/20 guess what? It went away. Anxiety levels can affect it...obviously it was mild…
> audiologist confirmation my hearing was 20/20 it’s possible you didn’t go to an audiologist. (/s)
Hmm,
My latest audiologist test was in an opticians
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but can really be maddening when trying to fall asleep does white noise help?..
Again a different person but my tinnitus souds like white noise - but at a different pitch so not much use. Unless I put the white noise very loud to drwon out tinnitus which is not a good thing to do.
You can modulate the white noise very effectively. I dabble with analog synthesizers which let you use low/high pass filters on white noise to get very interesting sounds. I wonder if you carefully matched it, it might alleviate the discomfort. Worth trying I suppose.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#64It's impossible to cure. The 'ringing' sound people hear isn't actually a sound. It is how the brain processes signals produced by damaged Stereocilia. If the 'ringing' is constant it means the cilia are permanently damaged. While it would, in theory, be possible to use surgery on the ear and some sort of lazer to completely remove all damaged cilia to avoid them outputting a damaged signal, this procedure would be i…
> The 'ringing' sound people hear isn't actually a sound. Sometimes it is, apparently? "If you have pulsatile tinnitus, your doctor may be able to hear your tinnitus when he or she does an examination (objective tinnitus)." https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tinnitus/symp...
I'm not a doctor but I have good hearing, and heard a friend's tinnitus. Apparently they had a constant muscle spasm that was causing a "buzzing" sound, and if you listened carefully, you could hear it. They eventually got it botoxed and that fixed it (injections 2-3 times a year I think, ongoing).
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#65I don't have tinnitus, so I can't verify, but I stumbled a long time ago across this reddit thread https://np.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3l3uri/these_guys_light...
The url looks weird, I'm not talking about the video but the comment this links to.
It looks like ... his method makes it stop for 10-15minutes, so it's not permanent.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#66I have had very mild tinnitus my entire life - since as early as I can remember in childhood. It's never been particularly bothersome but in a quiet room I can clearly hear it. However, when I received the second dose of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine in 2021, within a day I had a substantial increase in tinnitus in both ears, particularly my right. I also had a persistent sensation of "fullness" in my right ear. I went to…
Anecdotally I had a similar experience but much more short-lasting. First and second dose caused pretty severe flu-like-symptoms and ringing in my ears for a few days. I'm prone to ear infections and it was very much like that. Thankfully both times it went back to normal in a week or so.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#67I'm not saying this will work for everyone, but I just lie to myself.
I know this isn't true, but I've told myself that having tinnitus is a normal thing, that everyone has.
The "fact" that it's normal and that everyone has it has removed the suffering for me.
Weird, but maybe it will help someone here.
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#68Close family member experience: https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...
It helped surprisingly soon. My family member had Tinnitus for 6 month, super high pitch, appeared as burnout reaction.
We were told by the doctor that this treatment might take several rounds and has a high chance of not working at all if physical damage is involved.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#69I have mild tinnitus on one side. It doesn't cause too much discomfort but it's there. I am pretty sure it is caused by something pressing on a nerve on my neck so it's probably not the kind that most people have. I am hyphotizing that it would go away if I fixed the neck issue but that itself isn't so easy to do either.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#70At least for me, ignoring it seems to work as well as ignoring eye floaters seems to. They're there, but I can filter them out to the point where I forget that they're there.
That's it. It's not permanent, but I can forget it's there.