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Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by zelphirkalt »

mrtksn wrote: post #75

I have tinnitus which I managed to cure(almost. In complete silence I still can hear a teapot-like sound but the original single tone high volume sound is no more). Turns out it’s about my neck. I religiously paid attention to my neck position and fixed my posture, and as a result, my tinnitus gradually disappeared. If I sit in a bad position or sometimes do some weird move, my tinnitus can return but I immediately s…

Can you describe in more detail how you adjust your position? You move your neck back, I guess, and anything else?

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by radicalbyte »

jader201 wrote: post #96

I 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…

Same here! Mine is in one ear, mild, started with a sinus infection and changes depending on whether I have a cold or not.

I initially assumed it was caused by babies / children - we have three and they are loud. Plus my kids have screamed directly into my ears on occasion (and been punished for it).

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by jaeckel »

metafunctor wrote: post #161
jaeckel wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone doesn't know how to do it, they could still learn it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver

That’s not the same thing, I believe.

It's not the same thing, but it would allow them to

> "[...] relieve your ear pressure without moving anything else"

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by tudorw »

nsxwolf wrote: post #97
jader201 wrote: post #96

I 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…

Oh Internet, so maybe I can do that, thought we all could! Sounds like roaring wind...

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by COGlory »

jader201 wrote: post #96

I 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…

Do you have TMJ?

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by carlsagat »

My tinnitus started in 2009 during an anxiety period (the worst period of my life) and basically due to an ototoxic drug for dizziness.

I had already experienced it after going to a nightclub when I was a younger but I never thought that this problem would remain forever due to a doctor prescription drug.

Not only that but in the next years I got two more ringings and now I (don't have anxiety anymore) I can live normally with tinnitus but I'm always hope to get a cure. I was a silence junkie previous to the tinnitus and now I miss the "sound" of the silence so much.

I believe that once a year I can hear again the silence but it's my brain tricking me again.

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by jaeckel »

jaeckel wrote: post #173
metafunctor wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not the same thing, I believe.

It's not the same thing, but it would allow them to > "[...] relieve your ear pressure without moving anything else"

And I just realized that I meant the Frenzel Maneuver, which I always forget the name of. OK you need a nose clip, but besides that it's hands free.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenzel_maneuver

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by KomoD »

nobrains wrote: post #167
painted-now wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

My symptoms started along with my jaw crackling. So it seems they are related. Putting my symptoms here: - Constant noise in ear - Also seems like noise / tingling sensation in the brain - Is higher just when I wake up - Started along with an infection that went to the ear. Infection cleared up. Tinnitus didn't. - Been on for a year and a half. - Its terribly unbearable. Not suicidal level but very close to it.

> - Its terribly unbearable. Not suicidal level but very close to it.

I feel that, it sucks. For me it started with like a "blocked" feeling, now I'm at the point where it's constant static which makes it impossible to sleep on my side, sometimes my left ear goes "deaf" momentarily and a sharp ring starts and it makes me "zone out" but ends after 15-30s

It's living hell.

Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

doodlebugging wrote: post #30

I 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…

It's a great idea - and a more detailed diagnosis compared to what some professionals do. I had no idea audiomoths were a thing by the way! Will look into that.
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