I’ve had tinnitus for years and I simply got used to it. It’s unnoticeable unless im in an extremely quiet environment. Most of the time when I hear it it simply fades in the background. Now that the subject is tinnitus Im noticing it again and it’s just a little bit troubling. Im just in my 40s and I suspect it may get worse. Can anyone with tinnitus who is older confirm?
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?
#162I’ve had tinnitus for about one year now. There is no permanent relief or treatment. Lots of snake oil. My hearing was tested by an Audiologist and my hearing was normal. The “sound” I observe is high pitched. Using a tone generator I matched it to around 16,500 Hz. Interestingly, if I play that tone I get temporary relief on the order of 2-10 minutes. As far as I understand my tinnitus is the result of something goi…
It took me 6 months as well, noise-canceling headphones give me some temporary relief, not full though. My tinnitus came after a night out during a time in my life where I went out a lot.
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#163I've developed tinnitus in my early 30's for no apparent reasons. I don't think I ever even abused my ears that much. It just happened... Initially, I found it very annoying but you get desensitized over time. Now, I hear it all the time, but it does not bother me much: I have better things to do that going crazy about something I can't much about.
I've noticed a few things though: the pitch is always the same but the loudness vary noticeably over time and it seem very linked to my level of stress. If I'm very relaxed, say peacefully hiking in sunbathed forest on a cool summer day, it can become so faint I can hardly hear it. But most of the time, unfortunately, it's pretty loud. When I still cared, I also noticed I could drawn it out with white noise, either natural (ex: a waterfall) or artificial.
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#164My tinnitus is only 2 weeks old, and I went into overdrive finding a cure or a solution, because I read that speed is the primary differentiator for success or not. I tried a lot of stuff and some helped a bit, but: I actually just came back from physical therapy where my jaw muscles get massaged inside and out. There was an immediate tinnitus relief, like 80%. Look up TMD (Temporomandibular joint dysfunction). Ibuprofen helped, too.
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#165I've had tinnitus since I was around 20 years old, got it on new year's eve when some fireworks exploded very close to my left ear. Was deaf for two days and got an 8kHz tinnitus in that ear, permanently, after those two days. It's not very loud, but I always hear it unless it's noisy. I've had it for many decades by now.
However - I'm lucky in that I'm not really bothered by it anymore. In fact I didn't notice it now until I saw the HN headline and thought "tinnitus". And now I hear it. It's not very loud, as I said, but still loud enough to hear it over the traffic noise outside. And still, somehow, I forget about it a lot of the time. A guy at work is so disturbed by his tinnitus that he sometimes have to take the rest of the day off. I'm lucky I guess. I don't know if there's any mental method which can help with this.
Edit: I remember now that when I still traveled at lot at work the tinnitus would get worse after long noisy flights, and last for a while (up to a month) after that. I started using good noise-cancelling headphones and that definitely helped. As someone else said, protect you ears. It's even more important if you already have some hearing issues, I believe.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren’t in ear headphones with noise cancellation better than not using them and instead raising the volume to overcome background noise?
If the “sound” is an internal perception, then noise cancelling headphones would not help at all. They might make it worse by quieting any background sounds that could otherwise help cover up the internally produced sensations.
It depends on your tinnitus itself. My tinnitus gets crowded out by a loud environment, I don't tend to hear it. I only hear my tinnitus when there's no sound. So for me, noise-cancelling headphones do give some temporary symptom relief.
Wearing a Bose QC 35 is so important for me when I go to sleep, because the ANC also blocks out sound and blocks out my tinnitus to some extend. It's a bit of a skill to sleep with them (you can get audio feedback of the ANC mics) but I've mastered it and improved my sleep game a lot because of it.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#167I have it for 4 years and got almost completely desensitized. It is a relief. It’s still there (and right now it rings). But it doesn’t create colorful reactions anymore. During the day, at night, before sleep, it rarely bothers me. Sometimes I even feel comfy about it. In my case the secret was a sort of a therapy. At the second year I’ve become quite suicidal about it. There was a point in time after collecting all…
> My key insight is that you suffer while the hope lives, not that you have to lean over the edge to realize that.
Same insight. I never got quite down to the deep end as you did, but I recognize the despair. I'm glad you're okay with it now, life is wonderful even with tinnitus :)
I once got a 10 seconds full temporary relief using the Wim Hof Method (probably due to lack of oxygen in the brain at that point, lol). That was a mystical experience. It was really tough to replicate as I had to not breathe for at least 2.5 minutes and I was doing this with doctors (for a WHM experiment conducted by the Radboud University) and I was almost at the point of passing out. I consider these 10 seconds as a gift, I never chased it.
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#168I'm a physician with lifelong bilateral tinnitus. Multiple pitches, quite loud, and acutely worse on the right side for the last 1.5 years or so (with some slight hearing loss). I've spent a lot of time on PubMed, but so far I've not found anything that helps mine, even partially or temporarily. I've consulted with close friends that have significant expertise is relevant fields, which has not been fruitful. Thankful…
I don't have tinnitus, but i put my head into ice cold water everyday for an hour. I would be very surprised if ice cold water for an hour, does not treat tinnitus successfully in a week.
Mind you, ice cold water, not just cold water.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#169I’ve had tinnitus for years and I simply got used to it. It’s unnoticeable unless im in an extremely quiet environment. Most of the time when I hear it it simply fades in the background. Now that the subject is tinnitus Im noticing it again and it’s just a little bit troubling. Im just in my 40s and I suspect it may get worse. Can anyone with tinnitus who is older confirm?
Same but 36 and it never really got worse for more than six month (say, if you do exposure to loud sounds). Real minor concern for me.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
#170I'm a physician with lifelong bilateral tinnitus. Multiple pitches, quite loud, and acutely worse on the right side for the last 1.5 years or so (with some slight hearing loss). I've spent a lot of time on PubMed, but so far I've not found anything that helps mine, even partially or temporarily. I've consulted with close friends that have significant expertise is relevant fields, which has not been fruitful. Thankful…
I don't have tinnitus, but i put my head into ice cold water everyday for an hour. I would be very surprised if ice cold water for an hour, does not treat tinnitus successfully in a week. Mind you, ice cold water, not just cold water.
Wait, what? Why? So you just come up every minute for breath or something?
It sounds interesting! Not as a tinnitus relief, just the practice of doing this.