I keep foam ear plugs in my backpack. You never know when you might need them. They can be useful in the office too with noisy coworkers. ANC is good too, but sometimes it's not enough. Of course it takes much stronger events to cause tinnitus.
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which I sometimes call “silence” I've had mild tinnitus as long as I can remember; my earliest memory of it must have been when I was about four years old. I suspect I've had it my entire life. When I was a child, I thought it was just something normal that everybody had. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence", I thought that was what they were talking about.
Are we talking about that thing you hear when in absolute silence in the dead of night? Is absolute silence even a thing?
Having tinnitus for a couple decades at this point, I can tell you for a fact "absolute silence" is definitely a very clear memory for me. I would lie in my bed before sleep, and enjoying the experience of complete silence was almost part of my go-to-sleep routine. I'm quite surprised people in this thread seem to assume everyone always has some low-level hiss. I certainly didn't.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve had it since I was a kid. One day I just noticed how strange it was that silence sounded like this. I was maybe 6 or 7? Eventually just got used to experiencing silence like this. However, I usually only become aware of it when I’m alone - more so indoors at night time.
But that isn’t tinnitus right? I noticed mine right around the same time and I call it the “aether noise”. To me, regular tinnitus (which I also had for a few days after concerts) could be matched and recreated with a tone generator, and is much more “in your face” despite being the same volume by the end of my ears healing. Aether noise on the other hand sounds multi tone, not a buzz or a hum. I have not yet managed…
Aether noise is a great name for it. Just really quiet broad-spectrum noise.
I remember reading a long time ago that it was caused by "the neurons in your ears occasionally randomly firing" but I cannot find any source for that, so assume that it's untrue :)
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
saying "the way i write is correct. the way they write is signaling (and that's implicitly wrong)" is not a stance any serious linguist will support. it is an interesting point to take, to claim that lowercase makes reading difficult. 12 year olds have no problem communicating this way and it's very easily understood. same with 30 somethings such as myself. it's not really the responsibility of the youth to limit the…
>> “it’s not signaling!” > continues to provide reasons why it is signaling
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#175Think you mean plugging, not plucking, your ears, unless sirens make you remove hair, in which case they did you a favor. I got some nice ear plugs designed for concerts (Loop) because I go to a concert and I already have mild tinnitus and don't want it to get worse. I do not know why concerts have to be SO LOUD. Loud, sure. Permanent ear damage loud, why? It should tell you something that the guys on stage wear ear…
Concerts have to be so loud because audiences are loud. As in the band members on stage wouldn't hear anything but the audience levels of loudness.
Not necessarily because of the band members, but yeah, you want to cover up the noise of people chattering away in the back.
Music can also sound better when it's louder, up to a certain point - if you're recording and mixing a piece of music, you want to do so at a very moderate volume, because if you crank it up loud some of the imbalances in the mix become less obvious.
That said, there's 'loud enough that the music sounds good and you're mostly hearing music and not audience', and then there was the Prodigy concert I went to, where I was wearing earplugs and my ears still hurt. Amazing concert, but holy crap, probably the loudest situation I've ever encountered. I've also been right in front of the speakers at a festival dance tent, and my earplugs rattled due to sound pressure, which was unnerving but quite funny.
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#176I have been to a lot of very loud electronic music shows in my life. For most of it I was young and foolish and did not wear hearing protection. Later in life I started to wear earplugs. I occasionally get waves of tinnitus in one ear. It comes on randomly and only lasts about one minute. I’m always afraid it will not go away. One day the wave will decide to just stay? I haven’t been to any loud shows in over a decad…
I've been told that sometimes this is one of the nerve endings in your ear dying. Your brain doesn't know what to do with the signal and you interpret this as a steady tone for 10 seconds to a minute. I have taken pretty good care of my hearing and I still get them occasionally.
As another commenter posted above, this seems to be known as 'sudden brief unilateral tapering tinnitus'. It seems fairly normal.
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#177I feel terrible because I never did anything wrong. I never went to a concert. I never worked around loud things for prolonged periods. I never listened to music too loud. I have tinnitus. It seems to go up in intensity when my TMD acts up, but it never goes completely away. Mine isn't nearly debilitating, but I worry that it's going to get worse with time.
In my twenties, I was slowly developing tinnitus, it was driving me nuts.
I work with computers a lot and my spine was paying a price. In my late twenties I started working out and doing yoga and later pilates to strengthen my back and straighten my spine. My tinnitus went away. Something was being pinched in my neck, causing the tinnitus.
I'm not sure this is your problem, but it might help someone out there.
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#178I have it for 3 years already, I feel so sad, I got this after my middle ear have infection because I cleaned my ear with cotton bud.
I think the doctor have done some malpractice to my ear.
I cleaned my ear because my sony xm4 in ear keep clogged and dirty
if I know, I would change the eartips to silicon since beginning instead foam, fuck the redditard who ridicule me for asking about tips to reduce the dirtyness of sony eartips
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve had it since I was a kid. One day I just noticed how strange it was that silence sounded like this. I was maybe 6 or 7? Eventually just got used to experiencing silence like this. However, I usually only become aware of it when I’m alone - more so indoors at night time.
But that isn’t tinnitus right? I noticed mine right around the same time and I call it the “aether noise”. To me, regular tinnitus (which I also had for a few days after concerts) could be matched and recreated with a tone generator, and is much more “in your face” despite being the same volume by the end of my ears healing. Aether noise on the other hand sounds multi tone, not a buzz or a hum. I have not yet managed…
I have the aural version of this. Buddhists might liken this to a nimitta, a qualia of your consciousness
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#180There was an earlier thread on tinnitus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21572827 where people had some techniques for relief. Maybe this could be useful.
Several! In this one I shared what I did to deal with my case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905368 For those with unilateral tinnitus that seems influenced by neck stretches or TMJ issues, try sleeping on your back or on the opposite side to avoid pressure on the affected ear. Also, consider getting an MRI to check for possible causes; in my case, a vascular loop was found contacting the vestibulocochlear n…
so how is ur tinnitus is it completely gone or just reduced?