its diabetes in disguise is what my doc said
Hey, this is very interesting. Do you have any pointer?
Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
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#122Wow! Just tonight I had a dream that my mild tinnitus had worsened at later years. My brain has adjusted to ignoring the noise the past 20 years or so, especially when doing physical or mentally challenging work. But it’s always there as a companion in the background if I choose to “tune into it”.
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#123I don’t know if this is a clue, but I can do muscle movements in my head/face/jaw to make the tinnitus worse (only as I make the movements, immediately reverting back to “normal” tinnitus as soon as I relax). Some examples: - jutting my jaw forwards - moving my ears back with my face muscles - pushing downward on the top of my head with my hands Another possible clue: this has been true since I can remember — even as…
It took me a long while to figure out that I can make my tinnitus better by pushing by jaw backwards (using my hands).
As I understood it, the ear and the jaw muscle are delicately close. "Pressure" on the ear can somehow cause the nerves to send such signals.
I got prescribed some special training to relax the muscles in the neck and jaw area; still need to start it.
I read that being able to modulate the tinnitus to also be quieter somehow is a good indicator of being able to improve it with therapy.
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#125Got mine very recently as a side effect of taking Bupropion (Wellbutrin). At 150mg I had no side effects and it was working well (for ~12 months). Then Doc upped it to 300mg and with in 2 weeks silence no longer existed. Went back down to 150mg but Tinnitus is still there after 2 months lets see.
Kinda gotta say that if it doesn't get worse its worth the positive effects of Bupropion still annoying to be in that 1% group with the side effect
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#127I don’t know if this is a clue, but I can do muscle movements in my head/face/jaw to make the tinnitus worse (only as I make the movements, immediately reverting back to “normal” tinnitus as soon as I relax). Some examples: - jutting my jaw forwards - moving my ears back with my face muscles - pushing downward on the top of my head with my hands Another possible clue: this has been true since I can remember — even as…
Interesting. I can “play my eardrums”, which I describe as the ability to consciously control something in my ears that causes a loud fluttering, ringing sound that is something like wind entering my ear canals combined with a bell. After some research I’ve found some people can control something called the “tensor tympani” and generate sounds described as a “roar” but being a subjective experience I am not certain t…
I'm pretty sure that's the tensor tympani. I also think your description sounds closer to what I do. For me it sounds like wind, but only lower frequencies.
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#129I recently bought a couple of audiomoths for monitoring or tracking birds passing through my area. It records up to 192kHz I think so it can pick up ultrasonic chirps from bats. Anyway while passing the recorded data into Audacity to search for bird calls I was able to finally nail down the bandwidth where my tinnitus overwhelms all other signal and to begin to understand the depth of my work-related hearing loss. I…
Honestly you should probably just get a professional hearing aid, they do a hearing test and adjust its frequency response to your ears.
The longer you wait with getting it, the harder it will be for your brain to adjust to processing the full corrected sounds.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, this is very interesting. Do you have any pointer?
The inflammation in your body can be picked up by your ears if you are sensitive to it
Yes, a quick search through Pubmed shows that 25% of Diabetes patients have Tinnitus.